The following images are introductory headers for the main Gas Company Inc. site. Unfortunately I haven't gotten around to making the sections on the site, and in some cases I haven't really done anything but make these header images in the hopes that they would inspire me to do something on the subjects.
Sometimes I just make stuff like this when I'm looking for a way to procrastinate some other task and they have no real use at all.
See some of these examples below
Cloudbank: Photographs of clouds I haven't taken yet
Images for a website I hope to make some day that has pictures of clouds that I hope to take some day.
Take these Cloud/Aerial images for instance. I was on a kick for a while where I was going to photograph clouds... who doesn't love clouds?, bring in the clouds. I looked around for a domain name for my soon to be cloud site and found cloudbank.ca but for some unknown reason I didn't buy it. A few months later when I was back on the topic so I went to buy the domain. You guessed it... it was gone. In those months cloud computing had become the rage and all the cloud domain names were scooped up. Well that just killed the whole project for me, what a disappointment I was, how could I have made such an error. So I bought cloudlab.ca and a whole bunch of other cloud names. But I haven't done anything yet. But I will. Someday.
I made these Gas Digital headers one day. I was going through the Art Gallery of Winnipeg and there was a show on that had art made of discarded circuit boards. I shot them with my iPhone and made these on my laptop a bit later. Problem is that they don't really speak to the digital work that we do. They are kind of cool though so I buried them here in the Half Bakery.
These above images are some headers that I've made for our Gas Company Books section. We make a lot of books so I make a lot of these headers. To see our books section go back to the main Gas blog site gascompany.blogspot.com
This is an animated gif I made for as the main header for the Gas Company main blog site. I really think it's cool and will continue on this when time and interest permits. The file is only 37k and displays on mobile devices really well. The style works well with the Gas Company identity and it's a bit fresh, meaning that I've not seen it before, but I'm sure that it's been done, I just don't get out much
These are headers for the Delicious Inks section of the Gas Company Site. Delicious inks are specialty inks that I make in my basement ink lab at Gas Company. These inks are made from a variety of pigments used in various industries ranging from cosmetics to plastics manufacturing. Peter Welfare of Rycoline, The Printing Ink Company has been a great help in solving some of the problems I have occasionally encountered while making these inks.
This is as far as I've gotten with Astrolab. I know it's a pretty sorry excuse for a project but one day I'll get around to it. All I need to do is get a few little trinkets to allow me to bolt my camera to my Meade ETX 125 telescope. That's actually the easy part because then I have to go out to the middle of a field in the middle of the night and take some pictures of stars. I've done it a few times, it's not that exciting, but I'll get at it some day, promise.
I had this great idea where I was going to feature and discuss my favourite papers stocks. Do you know what?, that's a lot of work. Too much work to put it at the front of my priority list for spending my evenings and work hours on. I know it would be a great resource for clients and is very relevant to the work that Gas Company does, but there are just so many other things I'd rather do. I'll get back at it some day. Maybe I can delegate it out to someone that knows more about the subject than I do, like Guy Poulin from Type A Print. He knows all about papers and which ones are best for which jobs and how to balance the stock quality against the stock cost. It would be great if he wrote that section, then I would only have to take a few pictures and stick it up on the Gas Company site. I'll have to talk to him about that.
The above images are all of my Gas Company logo displayed on my iPhone screen, shot using the snowlab microscope. I like them, they have no good use, but they're cool looking so they've been stuck here in the Half Bakery.
This is the Gas logo all tweaked out in Illustrator using the 3D extrusion and pattern fill functions. I like it, I think it would look cool built in the real world out of laser cut and printed plexi with an illumination source. But I'll never do that, that would be a ton of work for minimal gain.... Hmmm, but you know what? I could UV print the floral pattern onto a sheet of transparent yellow plexi and then laser cut the Gas Company logo shape out. That would be a piece of cake. I'm going to try that.
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