Zakki Mokuroku

A Cork Toilet Seat

 

The poster ad I designed in a group project for Writing Design Concepts last year. It is the ad for Footwise, a local shoe retail shop in Oregon.

This poster was designed to be posted on the back of toilet stall, where people will definitely stop their feet. The striking phrase "If only that seat was as comfortable as Birkenstock" is the idea of my group member.

Mostly Done

 

I could add some more props like salt & pepper shakers or more dishes though...

On My Way To Go

 

The illustration I'm working on right now.
As it shows, I usually scan the rough sketch and trace it on Photoshop.
Also, I think this is pretty rare so just to say it, I use only mouse for these images including the ones I already posted before.

Disecting Microsoft

 
My classwork "Brand Disection" from last year. I remember the main goal of the assignment was the analyzation of a company, but It seems like I focused too much on graphic designing more.

Pamphlet

 

The cover page of the pamphlet I designed last year for a concert in Osaka, Japan. It is a memorable work because this was my first experience to design the whole pamphlet itself, including its content and layout.

 

 

 

The parody of the well-known whale and birds image from Twitter and Gegege no Kitaro, a famous yokai (Japanese folklore spirits and ghosts) manga.

 

The characters use bunch of crows like above for their transportation.

By the way, this is not my original image, but I googled "Twitter is overcapacity" and found this kind of black but funny image.

 

Geez, I never had that idea.

Anyways, have a great trick or treating!

High School Works

The part of series of 12 works that I created during my high school years for AP art (although I didn't get a UO credit from this). The theme is "Railroads & Japanese Culture"

This is the time when I started to see importance on color in order to control the viewer's eyes.
It is also the time when I only had less than a half of Photoshop knowledge that I have now.

 

 

 

From America To Japan

I'm currently working on a group project that contrasts Japanese ads and American ads.
We are starting off from comparing how the products sold both in Japan and America are advertised in each country.
Starting the research, I noticed one unexpected point about products that came from America to Japan. That is, American industries do not seem to change their main advertising concept even in outside countries.

Here are some examples I found.

   

 

   

 

   

 

I will present the ads of products that moved from Japan to America next time, but I can say that advertisers usually change the strategy when they promote Japanese products in America.

When I first thought of this topic, I thought that there would be no difference between products that moved from America to Japan and vice versa, but it seems like this could be a key point of our research.

One of My Most Favorite Work

 

This is an illustration I made for the same music video I designed the logo posted before.
It's the collection of characters from 30 animes related to Starchild, a Japanese anime record label.
It took me about three months to complete the whole work.

Logo Designs

I sometimes work on designing just the logo of the work.

 
The logo I designed for a certain music video. The main design concept was "stars and space".

 

 
The logo I designed for a shootime game created by my friend.