The Voice
He triggered his arm back and immediately began stabbing his victims eyes. If you were there, you would be able to hear his flesh being torn open, one puncture at a time; the sound was very similar to the morning Billy savagely ripped through all his Christmas presents at the prime age of six, yes, kind of like ripping paper. Being stabbed 60 times isn’t an accident. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you cry.” The other man is now dead. “Happy Holidays!” he eagerly shouted..except nobody heard. This was the voice and you’ll meet him later.

color pencil & pen, 2 to 4 dimensional portal

It was a very rough term. This is merely a placeholder for an overdue post. Please hold my hand as we wait. Thank you!

More images I created for David Tillinghast’s Illustration Design Lab. 

Designed_1, Pen, Does anyone still think of me?

Designed_2, Pen, Where hast thou fish gone? I do smell that pescado smell.

Designed_3, Pen, Because I had nobody else

Printmaking_1, Stamp , Normal Bondage

New short song called Chocolate Truffles. I do hope you enjoy.

Printmaking_1, Footprint & Xerox Image Transfer, Danny Remix

The following paintings and drawings are some of my first week exercise assignments in David Tillinghast’s Illustration Design Lab. We were to paint, printmake, photograph two images. We were also assigned to draw 2 images that expressed designed lines, expressive lines, and intuitive lines. The criteria for each category were collectively defined in class with distinctive specifications.Expressive_1, Pen, Therapist

Painting_2, Watercolor, Man’s Soul walking Non-existing Physical Man’s Dog

Intuitive_2, Pen & Ink, The Soul Stuck in the Telephone Wires

Painting_1, Watercolor, Dilemma’s

The sky is actually red. The only reason why it turns blue is to reflect our mood. The sun decides when to rise and when to set, but when it does make up its mind, the world is breathtakingly beautiful.

Her face is round, meeting at the most subtle point of her chin, as if the marble would roll down it’s entire life, only slowing at the end appropriately so. The light that reflects off of this marble glitters all its life and is proud of itself. She sees the marble’s colors and is proud of herself as well.

Her eyes. Look at them. They are placeholders for almonds. Roasted almonds, unsalted. God accidentally ate them and now she only has dark brown eyes. She doesn’t mind. And her nose is like a rabbit’s tail, soft and lucky. She has never had sinus’ or congestion. Her ears are pale, but quickly flushes a soft red when she thinks of unspeakable matters, like kissing Harrison and the fantasy continues.

Her name is Olive. She is sweet like one. If you were to ever find a sweet olive,
it is Olive.

For Sean Adams’ Communication Design 4 class, we were given the assignment to take a company or establishment and give them a new uplifting identity that’ll push them in the right direction. I chose to rebrand LAX; it was definitely a challenge, but incredibly enjoyable.

Above is the identity poster that will go out in the real world. LAX does not need to advertise themselves, being one of the most busiest airports in the world, but a compelling artistic poster would really engage the people of Los Angeles. It would stop people and have them appreciate the beauty of the painting and the building and have them appreciate LAX for putting something worthwhile into the streets of Los Angeles rather adding to the noise of advertisements. I used a beautiful photograph of the Encounter theme building at LAX taken by Bruce Aleksander & Dennis Milam, and overlaid a gouache painting that I painted. 

Below is the entire rebranded identity system, from the logo, to the website, to the collateral, to even the architecture. The big shift for LAX’s new direction was to take them from drab, boring, inefficient to comfortable, but fun. The new LAX will be a combination of Apple plus Disneyland because the experience should be seamless yet enjoyable. I took inspiration from the ambitious beginnings of aviation in Los Angeles. The jet age had such immense potential to be classy yet fun, but the demand of air travel for consumers took priority over design. Bringing back the aesthetics of astroburts and wild color palettes, the new LAX becomes a modern jet age experience. In a future post I might individually explain each section, but if you have questions, feel free to ask.LAX rebranding system

Danny_1 , 2011, Color Pencil

Danny_2 , 2011, Pen

Danny_3 , 2011, Pencil