Snow Balls
I’m working in a illustration series, based in sports, generated using my genetic geometry technique, something highly inspired in Percolator and Tsevis style. My main goal was to have something useful for tshirts, but as usually I ended with something that needs a big size if you want to see all the details it has.
Here you have some of then, focused in winter sports. I think I will publish soon more about different sports.
Click to enlarge, but remember that all these are vector based. If you want to see all the details of first sample take a look at it in zoom.it.
Anonymous names
Are they villains?, are they heroes?… I don’t know, this time you have to think for yourself. But I love the David Lloyd’s mask for “The Doll” (read about V for Vendetta), and how it mix with the idea of an anonymous group of people.
In order to translate this concept I took the top 1000 most commonly used baby boy and girl names in USA throughout 2010 from this website and spread them over an image of The Doll. The bigger are the most commonly used.
You can also take a look at the same illustration without legend or download wallpapers, 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×800 1280×1024 1366×768 1440×900 1600×1200 1680×1050 1856×1392 1920×1080 1920×1440 2048×1536.
Another one.
Also with legend, and wallpapers, 640×480 800×600 1024×768 1152×864 1280×800 1280×1024 1366×768 1440×900 1600×1200 1680×1050 1856×1392 1920×1080 1920×1440 2048×1536.
One more.
Last one with legend.
Flying Carolina
My daughter Carolina in one of her super-jumps. She is three years old, but the photo was taken some months ago when she was only two… I took a nice set of photographies during a country day. She is as beautiful as her mother…
Another one…
I’m just ending my “generative geometry” spread options to my tools. Here you have some samples using the Nadal illustration. I tested different approaches, including some similar to percolator and tsevis techniques. But some of the best shots appears when I combine all those techniques together. Now I have too many options so it’s hard to select the right one…
Finally an explosion of geometry…
Rafa Nadal
I want to share with you a little experiment about Rafa Nadal, created with a kind of generative geometry function I’m working on… super abstract but fun.
Download the vector PDF file: JO-D-110518-RafaNadal
Singin in the Rain
I want to share with you my last crazy experiment. One of the most wonderful moments in the motion picture history… a funny Gene Kelly letting us know clearly how happy he is.
Here you have the vector base PDF file: JO-D-110303-SinginInTheRain
And may be because I fell very happy (I’m going to be father again in a few days!) I’m singing this song in my head again and again. Curiously I don’t know how did it get there.
I spread the lyrics of this song over an image of Gene Kelly on a lamppost. It’s so abstract that could be difficult to really ‘view’ it… just get some distance and it will be clear.
Another different version of the same scene.
PDF file JO-D-110303-SinginInTheRain-02
Lady Agnew
One of my favorite paintings, John Singer Sargen’s Lady Agnew of Lochnaw. The words are the most relevant words of his wikipedia article.
You can read more about this painting here.
Haiku of the Atomic Bomb
Haiku is a interesting form of short Japanese poetry. One of the most famous haiku writers is Yasuhiko Shigemoto, who has a book, “My Haiku of Hiroshima”, about the Hiroshima bomb. He has a first hand testimony because he was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. Remember, about fifty thousand people died in a second.
This form of art caught my interest so I took some of his haiku, from this webpage, and spread over a photo of the Nagasaki bomb.
Sorolla
JoaquĂn Sorolla is one of the best spanish painters ever. I like the color and the sunlight of his paintings, especially in his impressionist beach scenes.
I took one of his works, Menina (actually in The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana), and spread the most relevants words of the spanish Sorolla wikipedia article.
I know my sister will love this one. So Raquel, this one is for you!.
Honore Daumier
This all-in-one man was a French painter, sculptor and printmaker but he was best know because of his caricatures. Take a look at this wikipedia article about him. I love some of his paintings. So for this work I used the most representative words of his Wikipedia article and one of his beautiful paintings.
Flamenco
An abstract image of a flamenco dancer (hi Melody!). The words from the flamenco Wikipedia article, I counted only the capitalized words.
Download PDF JO-D-100909-Flamenco
No Words…
No words … they are the champions!
This is my point of view … some kind of explosion of happiness.
Download PDF JO-D-100826-Campeones01
A different one.
Download PDF JO-D-100826-Campeones02
Woman in words
This image is based on an incredible picture from Michael Ezra. When I saw it look so pretty I couldn’t resist making a words composition. But which words to use?
In order to choose the right words I read more than 50 online poems focused on women. Then I manually selected word by word among those who struck me as more consistent with the atmosphere of the image.
I ended up with a highly subjective list of over 140 words.
I want to thank Michael Ezra for letting me to use his picture as seed image for my work. On his website you can find tons of incredibly beautiful photographs.
Remember that these images are under this license, so the commercial use of them is forbidden.
Download PDF JO-D-100724-MichaelEzra
This second one is a more abstract version.
Download PDF JO-D-100724-MichaelEzra2
World Cup in Red
World Cup made with portraits of the 23 players of the Spanish soccer team. There is more than 6.000 little portraits.
Due to the shirt of the players, the cup takes a nice color between gold and red. It’s indeed a red World Cup.
Villa=Gol!
My first World Cup visualization, but not the last (I am working on others).
David Villa, the striker of Spanish national team with the word ‘goal’ in more than 10 languages.
In memoriam of Pedro Garrido… because he will probably die if Spain doesn’t win the World Cup.
Download PDF JO-D-100706-Villa
Daniela y el Mar
A very abstract picture of my daughter in the Mediterranean Sea, close to Cádiz. I used the word “sea” in over 45 languages.
Download PDF JO-D-100630-Daniela y el Mar
Peace for all… tastes
Speaking of white doves here you have my serie of compositions based on the peace symbol, made up of more than 300 languages. I think I saw something similar on the Internet but can’t remember where.
For the seed image I recreated the symbol in 3D. Then I rendered it in order to have a seed image with some kind of depth sensation.
I made a couple of variations so you can choose. In the first group of images the first ten highest words represents the most spoken languages in the world. In the last ones the languages are sorted alphabetically.
I took the differents peace words from this website: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace/
Download vector PDF files:
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-01
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-02
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-03
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-04
JO-D-100601-Peace-02-05
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-01
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-02
JO-D-100601-Peace-01-03
The Dove
Just a quick composition with a white dove.
I like this one, but if you prefer a less abstract version…
Take a closer look.
Pablo Picasso
A portrait of Pablo Picasso with words from his pictures.
Download PDFÂ JO-D-100517-Picasso (264kB).
Mom
A bit later… but here is my little gift for the Mother’s day.
The seed image is a shot from summer 2008, MarĂa and her daughter.
Download PDF JO-D-100510-Mom (245kB)
Ten thousand Bens
As experiment I changed my algorithm in order to spread images instead of words, just for fun…
As seed image I took the portrait of one of my favorites Lost characters, the clever Benjamin Linus. For the spread I selected a little portrait of the ‘others’ characters. There is more than 15.000 of this little faces in the full image.
Look at it more closely.
I know there is a lot of image mosaic creators, but I have more control using my own application and also it let me try to explore different creative ways for this kind of images…
If you like this post you will probably like this others:
Kate Evolution
Jack vs Lock
Lost Characters
Get Lost
Warhol’s Revenge
It is time for Andy Warhol to get a little bit of his own medicine.
A portrait of the multicolor artist with the most relevant words in his wikipedia article.
Download PDFÂ JO-D-100428-Warhol-02 (473kB)
Another one…
Download PDFÂ JO-D-100428-Warhol-01 (605kB)
Freedom!
This is one of my favorites images, and probably one of the most impressive pictures of the XX century… a man stood in front of a column of tanks. It happened in at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on 1989, during the students protests.
I recreated the image using the word ‘freedom’ in about fifty languages. The font used for the words are Arial Unicode. For the poster title I chose the nice free font Phorssa, from http://www.junkohanhero.com/.
Nobody knows who are, or was, this man but you can read more about ‘Tankman’ in the wikipedia.
Download PDFÂ Â JO-D-100416-Freedom (5.9MB).
UPDATE.
My apologies. New file with german lenguage included.
Download PDF JO-D-100416-Freedom2 (6MB)
Also a row of testing images.
Breakfast with Words
The most used words about Audrey Hepburn in her wikipedia article.
Download PDFÂ Â JO-D-100407-Audrey-ENG (1.6MB)