this blog is almost over now. the new site is at JustinSpace.com. In a few weeks i hope to have an RSS feed for it available for the few times a year i plan to update it with new projects – and there are new projects, i’m working on a book/TV deal-e-o, the club is ongoing, there’s another potential nightclub job, virtual world gaming stuff I did will launch in a few months and i’ll likely remain involved in that, and early next year a new major gallery installation and related book project appears to be happening. And i still don’t have the apt fully cleaned yet. So i really must focus my efforts on these big projects and not on trying to maintain regular blog postings despite the fact the cat is doing something SO cute right now that u should really see.

that is all.

Back when i started working as a concept designer in the late 90′s this particular company i was at didn’t think i needed a computer, so i did all my rendering by hand. But renderings on black material often didn’t reproduce well (the light would go through the pigment and be absorbed by the dark substrate, as opposed to a rendering on white materials where the light bounces back from behind the pigments). And you couldn’t use markers on black paper obviously – which was a preferred method of coloring.

The solution i found was to illustrate in negative color and then make color copies using the “negative” setting. This resulted in super-dark blacks and great saturated color. To help, i made an inverse color guide showing what each Prismacolor lead would look like when reversed. But boy using photoshop would have been a lot easier.

Also, this is probably my last post.

IdN™ Creators® — Pandayoghurt — Douglas Bowden (London, UK).

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HA! – i just found this online – this is part of a HUGE mall in China I worked on – I chose almost all the exterior colors and materials for the entire project. (I’ve actually done like 3 malls in China I think, and a couple casino resorts.) The blue, teal, and green you see below were always big questions. I never thought they’d do them. Blues are VERY tricky architecturally, it must seem mineral-based to work in my opinion – but i see they did my blue columns and even the teal and chartreuse walls behind and they do look great. I never go to the field on these jobs – i just do it all from my apt and then years later, like now, happen upon some pics online and get to see how it turned out.

I think it’s funny how people roaming around this place would never guess all the colors they’re seeing were chosen by some guy sitting on the floor of his tiny apartment sifting through all these color chips on the carpet as the cat walks through them.