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Kieron Lewis:
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Adobe Live. I'm your host, Kieron Lewis:, a freelance graphic designer, and today is part two of creative director Alex Lazaris stream. Alex, how you doing, bro?
Alex Lazaris:
Fantastic. I'm so stoked to be back here with you for day two.
Kieron Lewis:
Day two. Where has the time gone from yesterday? Man, it's gone way too quick. A massive welcome to you lovely people coming into the chat. I can see you're coming in nice and thick and fast. Hello to Carol. Katerina, we go. Steve voodoo. And yeah, I can see you guys coming in thick and fast. So a massive welcome. If you're tuning in on YouTube or Behance, send some love in the chat. Where are you streaming from? We'd love to see. Show us an emoji form. If we could do it via dance, we could, but we can't in this case, so we'll do it via Emojis. Let us know what you're thinking and before we get into the real thick of it, if you've missed the previous stream, you can view the replay on behalf and YouTube. Check out our photographer and digital artist, Becca Bjork, where she will be showing you guys how to create some awesome worlds from 3D models and photos using Photoshop. And on a final note, today is even more extra special because we have our artist spotlight. So if you're quite new to what that is, that's basically a segment in our stream where we show a bit of love to some creators in the community. So definitely stay tuned for that. But now we are Alex Man, take it away. Who you are and what you're about and what you'll be working on for our lovely audience today.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, absolutely. So, hello, everyone. I'm Alex Lazaris. I'm a creative director and owner of Lazaris. It's a creative boutique design studio. We were located in Portland. Now we're kind of all over the place. Portland, San Francisco, New York, La. Whatever it is, that's where we're at. We work on kind of translating brand experiences from small, medium, extra large companies and translating across all types of media, whether it's print, digital, web product, you name it, we can do it. Interior design, all those things. Lots of fun. I see a lot of my besties here in Chat today. Annika. Steve voodoo Val. Voodoo, you missed out yesterday. We had so much fun early on, making some memes and some memes love me, some Memes Comet Papyrus. It was delightful. I know you've missed out on so much. Thank you for coming back. Voodoo. I thought I scared you.
Kieron Lewis:
Val. We missed you, Val.
Alex Lazaris:
We did. But so, in case you missed yesterday, no worries, we'll get you all caught up. Essentially, what we're working on today is a kind of tech, futuristic brand design type thing. It's completely a personal project. I love my chat. I need you all. I need your ideas, I need your brains. Help me be a better designer. Better creative director all the time. So what we did was I kind of came to the table with some ideas around a name chat, helped make it even better. The original name that I have is VIX. I wanted it to feel like kind of like ambiguous, very tech, very just like, what does this company do? Think about? I don't know, crypto bitcoin? NFTs metaverse. All these companies with random made up names that are worth millions of dollars. That's what I wanted to make. So that's what we're doing. Yesterday, Chat said bix VIX nix vox everything.
Kieron Lewis:
There was like an adaption on top of the names. It was like building blocks, right? We had that kind of almost Tetri Qubits like vibe going on the chat, which absolutely.
Alex Lazaris:
So then we started off with VIX. And then quickly, I think Steve or Sean yesterday said something around like, Vox being Latin for voice or something like that. So we incorporated that and we started running with Vox on the left side. You can see a bunch of just like type things around. Some initial ideas that I wanted to bring to the table to kind of inspire it. What we ended up doing was taking this original one from Panogram Pangram. It's a type foundry called the typeface specifically is called Newbit. If you are just starting off on your design career and you're looking for types that's not found on the Adobe Creative Suite, which is a massive repository for you, and you're starting to familiarize yourself with type foundries that you might be able to work with or be interested in, sometimes it can be pretty expensive. What I ended up doing was downloading their Starter font pack. It was like $30. I believe it comes with some billboard mockups and things like that. We'll be working through some of their billboard mockups today as well. It's all included in that pack. It gives you a bunch of some of the files within that. You can see a bunch of the ones on the left are actually from that Starter kit itself. So highly recommend it. $30 is not too much for design files, for fonts and stuff, especially with you get like twelve or 20 fonts or something like that. So check it out. Pangram kept Pangram, and then we ended up taking that type that they had. I didn't like how tall it was. I wanted for a three letter word, wanted it to feel and fill that space a little bit more. So we ended up working with our own cubes based off that typeface, and then creating our own custom built VIX. We ended up doing some half measures, half steps. That's kind of how we aligned all these for the diagonals. And then we were like, okay, if we're going to make the X, what does it look like? Made it look like a jumping jack emote without a head or a shrugging person.
Kieron Lewis:
That was the vibe we're going for.
Alex Lazaris:
I love when personal projects just feel like you just shrugged halfway through. Just kidding.
Kieron Lewis:
Even more so when you got like the chat sort of highly interactive. Ryan and throwing things at you. That was awesome.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, absolutely. Chat was throwing things around. We ended up getting down to here. It was pretty great. And then kind of moved it up into this space here. I ended up adding just a little extra filigree on the tips of the O, putting kind of like a crosshair. Maybe this is a video gamey type company. I don't know. It's kind of working. And we ended up making a badge for this as well. We made a bunch of patterns so you can see where the V starts to work. We ended up actually taking the V, the O, and the X and making patterns store directly out of them. But there's like so many patterns we can make with this. I think with the pixel patterns, you can have so much fun with it. I love patterns. I love making things that either yourself or a client could leverage as an additional element. Maybe it's a tile in a store or the studio or whatever. I think that's really cool and I think it lends itself really nicely to that. A lot of this work is heavily inspired by the tech futuristic, trend stuff happening right now on Behance and even some asset kits and things like that that you might be seeing around the market. So I love this neon gatorade, vibrant yellow and lime colors. So we started to pull that into the collateral system. Now today is all fun and games. So now we've got our logo and we feel pretty good about it. Now we're just going to start hammering out assets. So chat again, highly collaborative today. If you have copy that you want me to include, if you've got mockups specifically that you're trying to see, if you have questions, let me know. Let Kieran know. We're happy to answer them in. So let me just recap sorry, teasers of what's going to come today.
Kieron Lewis:
Fire treating us early on. Alex I love that.
Alex Lazaris:
So excited. We got so many mockups today. So yesterday we ended up going into dimension and then I ended up finding this orb, shooting it, rendering it off the stream. But let me see if I can find the actual mockup of the screen that I did yesterday. We ended up making a football club. Let me show you that first. So we jumped straight into not even collateral system yesterday we worked in straight into very soccer or football oriented design, almost like we have already sponsored our own team. If you're been around the block with Adobe Creative Cloud, you know Nick Longo, we threw his logo on there that I made him one stream on there. Just as a sponsor. We have additional sponsor placements. So if anybody in there wants to throw some money at me to put your logo on there.
Kieron Lewis:
I mean, I already read about Promoted Scene anyway, so it's all good.
Alex Lazaris:
Exactly.
Kieron Lewis:
Yesterday.
Alex Lazaris:
So, yeah, I ended up off stream. I just ended up adding some black socks and stuff just really quick. But this is where the jersey is at now. Now we're moving into a little bit more of the Collateral brand system. We ended up taking this orb, shooting it in Dimension, showing you how instead of buying a 3D asset or a PNG of a 3D asset from somebody else, you can use Dimension to shoot it yourself, light it and render it, bring it in your own projects. I ended up playing with this a little bit more last night and then having a couple more in situation mockups as well that we might be able to use. But we might dabble a little bit more in Dimension today. And Annika says, sponsored by the Meme.
Kieron Lewis:
Bros. That's a great I love that. I've been seeing the Chat's been super in like, literally the first five minutes. Everyone's been on it. And that's what we like to see, you keep those kind of interactions coming. Yeah, because yesterday we played through a lot yesterday, and almost we almost had, like, sweaty thumbs where it got to that point where we wanted to make sure that Collateral done them, and we did. So, like I was saying yesterday, you guys, obviously, hopefully you didn't miss it, but if you did after this, by all means, definitely check out the replay. But today it sounds like we've got a nice mountain to climb, man. Exciting.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, it's massive. And I'm going to need help with copy and all those great things that Chat is so good at. So definitely help out. This is the updated render in the piece. I think it's cool. It's ambiguous. Also, I realized afterwards, kind of feels like an old nostalgic soccer ball a little bit in this specific mockup. That's a good show. I'm just pointing at things now in the air. It's very helpful. So it's fun. I think this is cool. Now let's start to get into some more mockups, some in situation, and then maybe start talking about our ambiguous tech project. But first of all, we need a fire extinguisher because I have this mockup. I think it's so cool. I've never been able to do a mockup for a client. So do it.
Kieron Lewis:
Definitely. When are you getting a chance to have football, a kit, and a fire extinguisher all in the same window, bro? Never happens.
Alex Lazaris:
Exactly.
Kieron Lewis:
Except for today, of course.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah. This is what Adobe Live exists for. So I can finally use all my mockups that I have. Look at that. That's so cool already.
Kieron Lewis:
I even love the sort of the top part. I know that's part of the mock and that came with it. That sort of like aluminium I don't even want to use. I just want to put it in a glass cabinet and just marvel at it.
Alex Lazaris:
The hose is so aggressive. I've never seen one that aggressive, but I'm here for it.
Kieron Lewis:
Awesome. That's awesome. And yeah, I mean, yesterday was awesome because I think a lot of people are quite especially the 3D part as well. They were very new. We had a lot of questions about mockups, which is actually quite awesome because especially if you're quite new to Adobe Live, it ranges, right. The people we have on here, whether it's people who are senior creatives, been doing it for years, or if you're just starting out or if you're just curious about design, these are the best places to kind of get that inspiration and also ask questions if anything seems a bit strange or we jump into student programs at multiple times. Definitely slow us down and throw those questions in. There no such thing as a stupid question if you don't know the answer. That's my motto.
Alex Lazaris:
That's a great motto.
Kieron Lewis:
Got me for uni.
Alex Lazaris:
Let me try to move it around. Whatever. All right, let's see. I just have all the mockups open right now. I cannot wait to get further along in the stream and not have all my tabs open.
Kieron Lewis:
I've got like a hard drive of just filled to the brim of just emergency mockups. You just never know, you might need a mockup for a stationary pack or a leather sofa, which you might I don't know, just a random thing. Why would I say that? Do you have like sort of emergency archive of just like a saved up stuff where you get things from?
Alex Lazaris:
Absolutely. But the issue is that I keep making those and I keep losing and I have a million of them now and I'm lost cause on that now.
Kieron Lewis:
The worst is when you I don't know, I think maybe some designers are dumfus, but you get a mockup where you think it's a good mockup, you open it and actually they've lied. It's a flat. You can't even edit, dude. There's no Clipping Mask. You gave us false promises to the people who ever put that online.
Alex Lazaris:
That is true.
Kieron Lewis:
You won't get that on Adobe stock.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, one of the things that I thought you can edit and you just can't. Such a disappointment. See, it's kind of fun, but I think we can have a little bit more fun with this. So I'm going to make like Aim here sign or something like that might be helpful. Aim here.
Kieron Lewis:
I love in the chat Anika's already. She's so sharp of it. I love that. That did happen to me recently, actually, where downloaded a mockup and then it just wasn't the one. Perhaps I didn't read it right, actually. That's probably why it's a mistake on my part. But yeah, that has happened. And we've got a question from Chris and Voodoo, which is similar in terms of where can we get mockups? Where do you tend to going to get your mockups from Alex? Like your resource?
Alex Lazaris:
That's a great question. I typically get them from all over the place, so I'm not really loyal to just one place. I get them from Adobe Stock, I get them from you work for them. I get them from creative market. I make a lot of my own as well. The soccer kit one that I had from yesterday was from Yellow Images. The really cool snazzy ones that I'm using today are from Supply family, I believe. Very fancy, very expensive, very fun, though. What else? And then the billboards ones that I'm talking about are from the Pangram Pangram Starter type kit. And I think they did a collaboration with somebody to make those available. So I can show you really quick.
Kieron Lewis:
Awesome.
Alex Lazaris:
So this one's from supply family. This one's from Supply family. This one's from Supply family. This one is from Pengram Pangram. It even says it right there. PPF font starter template. PPF.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
Dimension PPF and awesome.
Kieron Lewis:
I mean, there's a lot of we've kind of touched on this about yesterday, but there's definitely a benefit to using mock ups with clients and almost allowing them to see that sort of final execution of how that deliverable will look in situ. I can see Chris, he said in the chat he's struggling in terms of trying to find places to get mockups. So hopefully those places that Alex has listed helps you out and also behance as mean. Obviously. Hopefully you may be tuning via. You know, you'll realize there's a lot of creatives who actually add mock ups as part of their projects as well. So you can download, you can credit them as well, and you can see a bit more about who they are as well, which is it kind of gives back into the community as well, especially when you pay for certain mockups as well. Right? So, yeah, definitely have a nice little bookmark selection of mockups because you can't go wrong there.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, I found a lot of incredible typefaces from just like, typing in fonts or free fonts on Behance has given me so know great pieces and obviously check out their licensing and see if you can use it for commercial projects if that's what you're trying to do. But yeah, it's been super helpful.
Kieron Lewis:
Steve's comment said regarding your extinguisher, that extinguisher looks so small it might last for 4 seconds of spray on a fire. I wouldn't want to have that. If there was a fire in my house, that would be scary. Times just don't miss or just have multiple cannons and then adds up from like four to like 40. I don't know.
Alex Lazaris:
I still never I think it's telling how many fires Steve is starting with the normal people that this is getting darkness. Where did it go?
Kieron Lewis:
Okay, it's going so well. Brilliant. No, we love those kind of comments. Keep those coming in, definitely. And like we said, guys, this is a very highly interactive stream, so definitely kind of get any suggestions you guys might have if you see something. Oh, that could be quite cool. Font we could use. Definitely get those in. Or if you also know about Alex and his know, creative background, creative upbringing, definitely throw those in there. I'm sure be happy to ask them.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, absolutely. All right, there we go. That typeface is a lot nicer. It's always funny whenever you have very T's and H's and I's that are all very just linear, and then you've got breakdown on the other side.
Kieron Lewis:
It knows you're afraid.
Alex Lazaris:
Boom. Aim this way. This kind of feels like an off white thing where it's just, like, overly explaining what's happening. Not mad about it. All right, aim this way. Vox chat. What else should I add to this? I feel like need something else.
Kieron Lewis:
What would you guys need in your vox cannon? If you had one of these little bad boys at home, what would you need? Direction of how to use it, maybe? I don't know. I'm just throwing things out, but I haven't, I'm sure. Maybe.
Alex Lazaris:
Great idea.
Kieron Lewis:
Don't want to use that as deodorant can. And then you realize it's the wrong kind of.
Alex Lazaris:
Fires.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice. There we go. Steve, I hope we haven't singled you out there, but here we go.
Alex Lazaris:
If fire starts, run, don't panic. Three unpin. What is it called? Pen unpin.
Kieron Lewis:
Dude, I know what you mean.
Alex Lazaris:
The stopper. Step four, aim at fire.
Kieron Lewis:
Step five it's not your first rodeo, dude. I can tell you. You're playing like you noticed stuff already. Like, you've already made that's what I made earlier sort of thing.
Alex Lazaris:
Oh, no. Step five oh, squeeze handle. Step six, continue holding handle down till fire is I don't want to write extinguish. It's too many letters.
Kieron Lewis:
That's okay. To make it easy for the canon so you can get enough work, do it in, like, a moji language. That'd be quite funny.
Alex Lazaris:
Tweet about your experience. Boom.
Kieron Lewis:
See, Christine's already ahead of you. She's super streamlined. It pull pin, aim, spray side to side, I think. There we go. I mean, that's like a dance move, but also you could work in this.
Alex Lazaris:
That's a good point. I didn't think about that.
Kieron Lewis:
You might just bring one direction all around you.
Alex Lazaris:
Am I missing something now? Okay. You would think I would know. I've gone to so many fire briefings, I should know. Let's see here.
Kieron Lewis:
I'm loving how this conversation has turned, man. We've gone into design to fire safety, but I'm down for that. Safety first, then teamwork.
Alex Lazaris:
Exactly. Might be too small. Now let's see how this type goes. No, I feel like that's useful.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
All right. Let me just adjust the spacing on it. Cool. That's fun.
Kieron Lewis:
My brain has been thinking as well. Like, if there's, like, loads of things you need to do on the canon itself, you could even just by number. So, like, number one is on the sort of handle part. Number two is like the pin part, just literally by number. So you just know, follow the steps. Because my brain would just be like, there's too much thinking. The fire is getting quite hot in her. I don't know why I should stop. Dolan run.
Alex Lazaris:
Let me see if don't. Okay. All right. Doing a thing. Thank you, Google. I don't know if this is actually fake or not.
Kieron Lewis:
So everyone gets their phones out and.
Alex Lazaris:
Just goes to, like, don't do that. We don't know what this is. You're on your own for this disclaimer.
Kieron Lewis:
We have no idea where this leads to.
Alex Lazaris:
Image trace. Let's just make up trace remove on.
Kieron Lewis:
That topic of what we're doing now for you guys. If you've seen any this would be random, actually, but any objects where you've seen some really cool way of how text is displayed on object, it's quite vague. Not by object, I mean basically instructions for how to use something. It could be on packaging of food. Have you seen anything that you thought, I actually like how they've done this. Put it in the chat. Love to hear it. I mean, it could literally be food packaging and just step over how you make a dish and just, like, visually how you interpret that. Or a fire cannon.
Alex Lazaris:
Love that. All right, let me just make up some additional elements on there just so it's not an actual QR code of any sort. All right, peepoo Boop, look up.
Kieron Lewis:
You know what's weird? My brain just pulled up because I saw I think it was online, like a quick it was like a gift, but it was instructions for how to deal with a heat wave. So we had a heat wave in the UK, which probably the world knows about.
Alex Lazaris:
I was there during that.
Kieron Lewis:
Great. Yeah, let's not get, I mean, Sweaty Betty on my end. And it's like it's literally steps of how you deal with the heat in the London. It's either yeah, you just put your feet in cold water and have a cold drink. Pretty much, that was it. But the way they'd done it and visually interpret it was quite clever. So, yeah, that's kind of unobstructions of visuals, how you interpret it, it's quite cool.
Alex Lazaris:
That's awesome. Oh, no, it's white still. All right, fix that, boop Boo. So what I'm doing here is just throwing a color in the background behind this object so I can find all the white pieces and then delete them. So I have transparency. Could also just select similar and delete that, but that would be way too efficient. Steve says I'm immortalized on a list of things to do. I love it.
Kieron Lewis:
So you got a question while you're doing that from Val? Do you have any advice for us? Kieran Alex for Dynamic text.
Alex Lazaris:
OOH, dynamic text. Dynamic.
Kieron Lewis:
My brain's just thinking like a very cool way of, like, how a text would lock. I mean, by all means, delve deeper vow, if that's what you mean. But I'm thinking, like a cool way of how you would display it. Yeah, there we go. Interesting ways of how you would do it. Organize text or any pro tips.
Alex Lazaris:
Interesting ways to organize text. Okay, so this really comes down to personal preference in terms of I'm probably not even answering what you're going to ask, but I'm going to give my best shot, in my opinion. I personally think that whenever you're working with type and try to figure out hierarchies and things like that, you can do it in a variety of different ways. I think you're probably seeing how I did it. I personally like to do a lot of my type building in Photoshop first, just because I'm sorry, not Photoshop, in Illustrator. I feel like I can move things around a lot faster, even in InDesign. I prefer to do type hierarchy first in Illustrator and then bring all my type styles and character styles in InDesign. Eventually, Photoshop for me is I don't know, it's an extra friction point for doing it. You can absolutely do it that way. Some people prefer it that way. But as you can see here, I'm just typing it all out in Illustrator and then bring the SmartShot object in. But you said, like Karen was saying, text or instructions displayed in unique ways. Maybe if you have any tips as far as you try to do it. In terms of that, I would say I always try to print it out and see what the minimal size is. So especially like, packaging, nutrition calories, all that stuff that's also going to get scrutinized by the government. So you want to make sure that it's adhering to the local jurisdictions and all that stuff.
Kieron Lewis:
That's a very good point. It's funny because it's almost like TV commercials and they give you the whole massive pitch, and then at the end, it's like the super quick TNCs, which is almost the equivalent of, like, the T's and C's or tiny small print on a bottle, which is still very much important. Right, you mentioned that hit the nail on the head. Legibility needs to be key. So kind of feeding on from what Val said, from my definitely you want the design, obviously, to look great and to shine, but you still need to have those things that kind of are set in stone where it's still really important that are functional as well. So things that need to be clear needs to be legible, like Alex said as well. Printing out and testing, because I think it's one thing to do on screen, and then when you print and you put it on material or anything like that, or different stocks, nothing worse than it looks great on screen and you print and it's like yeah, it's like 0.4.5 or something. Like that. And it's way too small. Not even ants could read it. It's not great. So, yeah, it's kind of crossing all corners, really, and just testing and the lockup. I kind of want to echo what you said, Alex, as well. I think it's weird because when I do maybe say, for example, branding, I actually draw as well a lot. So I kind of draw my hierarchy and way things might sit. If it sits on top, if it's tessellated or rotated, I'll draw those out first and then maybe scan them in and just work off that via Illustrator. Alex said as well, I'm the same. I prefer Illustrator because bit more freedom. You can kind of move around as you see wish and then obviously take it into whichever platform, say, that you want to work in InDesign or Photoshop. But Illustrator is probably the baby that I start with first, just for flexibility. So hopefully that gives you guys some tips of how you can do your lockups.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, like you said, you can use any tool that you feel the most comfortable with as long as you're delivering the right files at the end of the day.
Kieron Lewis:
Exactly.
Alex Lazaris:
It doesn't really matter what you start with, especially in the concepting phase.
Kieron Lewis:
Definitely. So it's probably a good time to say. So about half an hour into our stream already. So if you have just joined us, whether it's on YouTube or Beharts, firstly, welcome. Good to see you guys here. And you can see right now we have the awesome, talented creative director Alex Lazaris in Illustrator right now, working on his personal project, which is taking inspiration from tech, Sci-Fi, all things digital. And we did a bit of branding. And you can see we're working in between Illustrator, a bit of Photoshop, and we're just creating some instructions to sit on a few mock ups. So if you have just landed here, welcome and get those questions in the Chat.
Alex Lazaris:
Wow. Lots of illustrator buffs in Chat.
Kieron Lewis:
Great illustrator crew today.
Alex Lazaris:
Cool. So I feel like let's go back to it real quick. How are we feeling about this Chat?
Kieron Lewis:
Can we zoom in a little bit? Maybe my eyes a bit like no. Come on, let's go into the matrix. Let's see how deep this rabbit hole.
Alex Lazaris:
Really make sure I guess it is centered. It's just that one line is so weird. All right, so we got safety instructions. It kind of wraps around the bottle. I'm going to change this. The stacking is bothering me. All right, hold. Continue holding down handle. Continue holding handle. Down. Squeeze handle. Okay.
Kieron Lewis:
I guess as well, like adding the word step because it's all about space right on the bottle. You're so limited to what you can do. My brain, we just go with numbers, right? Just so you save four extra characters. Dude, I mean, I write this stuff down. I'm not that smart. My brain is like, what is. The most simplest way of seeing information, especially if I'm in a fire as well. I just want to see what I'm doing, get in and get out. Get in.
Alex Lazaris:
I want to get into the fire.
Kieron Lewis:
I just realized who does that? So, Becca, what will you say if it needs to be graphics, heavy photoshop, but if I'm exploring fonts and shapes, illustrator awesome. Yeah, that's cool. And it's also nice to see what you guys in the community, what do you guys feel more comfortable in using with your craft, with your line of work? The beauty of Adobe programs is that there is a lot of different programs with different things, but also they integrate with one another, too, which is why these kind of tutorials are awesome, because you get to learn and create new things. But we would love to know what's your go to program or what ones you really like doing as well. Actually, Illustrator seems to be a bit of a winner, but I'm also a sucker for InDesign, too, so we'd love to hear what you guys think.
Alex Lazaris:
I forgot that I didn't tell people to stop squeezing the handle. It feels important.
Kieron Lewis:
Just continuously eventually. My thumbs hurt now. All right, so rotmy seven is missing. We're missing number seven. That's eagle eyes.
Alex Lazaris:
Wow.
Kieron Lewis:
Thank you, chat rotten me. Thank you very much. That's sharp.
Alex Lazaris:
That makes me so much happier because I did not want to get into eleven. All right, 1234-5678, 910. Okay, cool. Good. Thank you, Chat. All.
Kieron Lewis:
It's funny, I remember when QR code started to first appear. Like, I don't know how many long ago, years ago it was, but I feel like when you just started to see it everywhere. And I'd always remember a story that my lecturer told me at uni where they saw a QR code when they were driving. I can't remember where they were, but they were on the motorway. Or I guess highway. Was that what you call it in the US? Yeah. Tomato tomorrow. And there's a QR code on the billboard on a motorway. But who in their right minds would ever need how could unless you broke your car down. Maybe actually, that'd be quite smart if it was, like, for a breakdown coverage.
Alex Lazaris:
Right. Next. But it was you put a bunch of nails on the road and you're.
Kieron Lewis:
Like it was all part of the master plan. QR code phone. I guess it's all about the smart places where you might see them or even places that you might find annoying.
Alex Lazaris:
I don't know if I need the aim this way anymore. What do you think, Chat? Remove aim this way or no? But yeah, the QR codes felt like they fell off, and then all of a sudden COVID happened, and everybody's using them again for the restaurants.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, it's funny because my brain always thought you needed a QR reader, and then now it's just a camera, right? Just picks up on. Has it always been like that? I've always thought, oh, I have to download an actual QR reader, which I always found a pain because I'm like, I've got too many apps on my phone. I'm not going to make way for Spotify to put in this and other entertainment apps that I have on my yeah, you're right. Yeah. QRS made a bit more of a comeback during the lockdown period.
Alex Lazaris:
Whoever made the QR code idea locking their way to the bank now, sitting.
Kieron Lewis:
The giant QR for, like, a castle sort of style.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, exactly.
Kieron Lewis:
This is getting weird. Anika, keep it. Humans need instructions.
Alex Lazaris:
True. I love that.
Kieron Lewis:
So logical. Yes, they do. Animals no. There we go. No, they do. Humans do. Yes. Anika. Thank you.
Alex Lazaris:
Look at that. Wow.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice. What vibes. I'm quite curious for you guys in the chat, what vibes are you getting when you're seeing this? Especially if you maybe missed yesterday and you're seeing for the first time, what is your vibe when you first see Vox? Are you thinking tech? Are you thinking something Sci-Fi related, something digital related, or just none of the above? Let us know. It could be anything. Do you get pizza vibes? I don't know why I said that, but I don't know. All gaming vibes. Let us know. Be awesome.
Alex Lazaris:
Let me export this really quick.
Kieron Lewis:
That's actually a really cool mockup.
Alex Lazaris:
Actually, it's a great mockup.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, I'm just giving more time to actually digesting what we're looking at. It's different to different styles of mockups you might get.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, it's so good. Come on, load. All right, cool. All right, so that's one more mockup. We'll knock that out. Easy peasy. Clap save, I guess. Save that real quick. These mockups are so good. Yeah, they're awesome. They're all family. Double check them out. I feel like I don't like how the aim is right now. Maybe I need just lower steps down.
Kieron Lewis:
It's interesting seeing the vibes everyone's getting. So we've got carol said, so the energy that you're picking up when you see this is Pac Man tech. Yeah, I guess it's I mean, that's kind of what we did with yesterday, but the idea of the kind know, block, it's almost cuboid kind of shape where they're stacking on top of each other. That's the kind of almost, like, eight bit sort of style visuals that you sing back in the 80s or whatever era it was. So, yeah, that's the kind of vibe, perhaps, that you'll see almost retro like, as well. So hopefully they're awarding that same kind of that same headspace.
Alex Lazaris:
Absolutely.
Kieron Lewis:
Becca said I do not miss paper menus. Yeah, I kind of know I want to geek out here, but I remember going on my first day of my partner and checking weird. When you go to restaurants, I love because I do editorial design. I love looking at design of menus, especially if it's been done in, like, someone actually took time to create this. It looks cool. It's branded well and a nice paper stock as well. I mean, I got to order the food, too. I'm not going to be sat there for 20 minutes looking at a menu. But I do appreciate a good design menu. Yeah, I do. But nowadays, yeah, like Becca said, it's all online. People may not miss it. Do you miss it? Let us know in the chat. Do you miss print menus? If they're still a thing?
Alex Lazaris:
I miss a good print menu. I miss holding menus physical. As somebody who's struggled with battery life on their phone for a lot of my adult career, I get a sense of anxiety when there is like 5% left on my battery and I have to now go online or borrow my friend's phone to check the menu. I'm like, Why are you taunting me?
Kieron Lewis:
You don't have like one of those utility belts where you got like, little portable chargers all stacked up like Batman, sort of just rip them out and just you need power. I got you. I actually have like two. It's so sad. I feel like you can live without the phone, but, yeah, I need to have a backup for the backup when it comes to wood chargers. But these days, I guess a lot of places have actually ports already, so you're not probably too far away from the nearest charging port. If you have a USB cable.
Alex Lazaris:
Do people let you charge places?
Kieron Lewis:
I mean, it's like do we talk about it? Kind of thing. Maybe on the trains in the UK. I don't know if it's in the US, but.
Alex Lazaris:
There'S a lot of trains.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, there's a few ports you can.
Alex Lazaris:
Just charge up, especially all the fancy new ones you guys have. Oh, my mean, you're flattering us now. You're flattering Queen Elizabeth line. Yes, I'm a train connoisseur.
Kieron Lewis:
You know about that? I haven't been on that line yet and I've heard good things.
Alex Lazaris:
The Gatwick Express is pretty good too.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, that's actually on the line here, actually. Yeah. You know about the London way of living and rubbish. I don't know anything about La and my brain is we have no trains, you don't need teleport.
Alex Lazaris:
The traffic situation in La is missing a lot.
Kieron Lewis:
Just a smog in the air just would have put no, I'm sure it's not like that.
Alex Lazaris:
No, I'm sure. I've lost a lot of my life to pollution.
Kieron Lewis:
Why am I laughing? Yeah, we got a few people. Yeah, I'm not the only one. People do miss menus. That's nice to see. We've got Izzy, who misses the menu, and Nika. Yes, this I'm sure they are still there. The old school restaurants, perhaps, but yeah, most places now seems to be and I get it. I guess it's a much more easier way to just have information. Everyone's got a mobile phone, I get it. But print is still our friend too, right? So it's all good.
Alex Lazaris:
All right. I think I feel better with the pattern up there.
Kieron Lewis:
That looks cool. Yeah. It kind of goes at the motion as well of what will come out, potentially, when you do spray, if it does come out, like, just loads of success. Cartoon like.
Alex Lazaris:
I realized why I didn't like the Aim this way. And I think it's because it was a serif, virtually.
Kieron Lewis:
This is so random. Is it ACDC that walked this way? I'm hearing aimed this way.
Alex Lazaris:
Sorry.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, I feel like it is. Anyway, I just had aim this way, and I'm just thinking of music, actually, on that topic. I'm quite curious. When you're in the full fledged mode of, like, I say, a deadline, do you work in silence? What's your vibe? Are you working in the music in the background? How do you kind of get into that place of I'm focused mode? Do you need things around you.
Alex Lazaris:
Man? Typically, it depends on where I'm at in this stage. I think if I'm writing strategy documents or copy and stuff like that, I need just kind of more ambient music. Something that's a little bit more flowy and no words. But if I'm just riffing on stuff, I can have a podcast up or a twitch stream or music with words and stuff in it. Pretty much just depends on my mood that day.
Kieron Lewis:
I'm sure it might have been a vowel stream, but I saw a stream the other day. Well, a while back, we touched on the same topic, and I think Mensa mentioned about musical soundtracks. You've got, like, interstellar, and I'm down for that because I guess it's more instrumental rather than is lyrical. And you can just otherwise, I'll just be singing along, which is not good for anyone. But I think it's the idea of just having the background beat and you're kind of moving emotion. Yeah, I'm down for, like, a handsome interstellar soundtrack whilst I'm in the mode of a hardback publication. Metallica. There we go.
Alex Lazaris:
Anthony's.
Kieron Lewis:
Metallica. Aerosmith. That's it. There you go, Steve. Thanks, man. You got us covered.
Alex Lazaris:
Steve just trolling.
Kieron Lewis:
What about you guys in the chat? When you're working, do you need a bit of music in the background? Is it even Adobe live. Is it one of those streams in the background, too? It's nice to have sometimes in the background, people are working whilst you are. Are you doing that right now as we speak? Let us know. What is your thing? How do you like to focus and work?
Alex Lazaris:
Where did my box look? It's almost like I should be labeling my files.
Kieron Lewis:
Or color code, man. I color code. Is that too much effort? I don't know. I always find is that too much?
Alex Lazaris:
I feel like when I'm trying to sprint through things, especially on Wi, I become everything that everybody's teachers always tell them not to be like, don't pull in, Alex. You need to actually label your files and things like that.
Kieron Lewis:
You're that cool kid in the back. He's just like he's not listening. But then when it comes to exams, he's getting an A star. It's classic.
Alex Lazaris:
I've spent so much time on this mockup already. All right.
Kieron Lewis:
It's looking good though, man. Do you know what's funny? Because the QR code is it quite close to the X. I don't know. My brain looks like a little Asterisk.
Alex Lazaris:
Star probably is now. Yeah. I'm going to move it up just a smidge. I'm going to get rid of the aim. I'm forcing Aim again. Aim hasn't been a thing for like, since what, early 2000s. So we don't need to bring you're.
Kieron Lewis:
Trying to bring it back. You're trying to revive the Aim, trying to bring AOL back, rekindle the aim. And it's actually cool to see everyone's vibe when it comes to this, the music. I can see a lot of people have different vibes. We've got k here. You said smooth jazz on YouTube. That's their jam. I'm liking that. And also Takudi, I hope I'm saying it correctly, music all the way as well. Jazz, jazz, jazz. Bit of BB king. Nice. I like you guys style. Good question from Ms. Val speaking on color coding. Any advice for Project organization? I love these questions.
Alex Lazaris:
Oh, you're going to make me go first? I was just going to say ditto to whatever you said.
Kieron Lewis:
It's not fair if you answer because you answered for. I'll throw it in there. It's funny because uni, I was quite organized. But I think for me, the real time I became really organized and knowing how the importance of color code or even just reading a structure was when I worked in my first job as a junior designer ad agency, and it was the art director there who was very particular of how organizing should be. Almost annoying, but to a point where I just wouldn't get it. I really wouldn't get it. I was frustrated because it seemed too much. And then I realized when I couldn't find things well, that's why. And I've adopted that ever since. And we're going about eight years ago. And every time any job comes in, I literally do like folder design and then break that down into IDD, PSD, AI, like, every single thing. Because even more so when you say send to a client or send to whoever's, maybe continuing it on, if they do, for them, it's a lot easier just to have everything nicely structured. There's no back and forth emails. No one needs that in their life. So it just makes your life easier. And also the client, too. Yeah, I do mine by color code as well. And just by folder structure. And also desktop. Dude, I'm not a desktop. No pressure. Are you a desktop? Like everything's on there? Are you like sort by order or there is no judgment, I promise. Maybe a little. Just a little everyone's got their own way of working, man.
Alex Lazaris:
No, it's fine, man. It's fine.
Kieron Lewis:
After Poll, you quickly sprush up your.
Alex Lazaris:
Desktop before we go on desktop, I've got definitely not a bunch of multiple desktop for this project and a desktop cleanup folder.
Kieron Lewis:
It's totally screenshots, screenshots, loads of screenshots.
Alex Lazaris:
I have no idea what you're talking about. The screenshots thing is not fair, okay? Because that just default goes there.
Kieron Lewis:
Okay, I've got a screenshot folder especially for the screenshots. Yeah, because that's too many.
Alex Lazaris:
All right, now I'm never going to get hired anywhere. No client is going to be like, I want Alex's organization skills.
Kieron Lewis:
But they're like thinking, no, he's honest. So I get it. It's like, no, I want a guy who just there we go. So they're coming out from two angles, man. They're like, he knows this stuff, he's honest about it. Let's get him in. Let's get him in the door.
Alex Lazaris:
Real talk, though, I do adapt pretty much any of my clients folder, structures and stuff because that's kind of just the way you have to do it, unless they're needing specifics and then I can bring I feel like for me, it's always very project basis for this. I'm not going to have a bunch of After Effects folders and things like that because I'm not going to go work in After Effects, but I would make a dimension folder and things like that. I just didn't realize that I was going to be doing that and then just started sprinting around making random things in a two hour window frantic mode.
Kieron Lewis:
I love that Steve has a screenshot folder, too. Boom. Yes, that is definitely a thing, isn't it? Surely. Because even on your mobile phone, everyone's on the go, you just want to quickly I don't even sometimes send an email. Like, you know, on Instagram, you see a visual, you like, you can even send it to yourself, like via an email. I just screenshot. Or I'll just make it, I'll just bookmark it, maybe. Because then when it comes to the crunch and you actually need to kind of look back, you're like, oh, I can look back at all my wonders when I was en route to the bus stop and just quickly look for a quick screenshot. Does anyone else do that? I'd be curious to know. Throw it in there. Screenshot connoisseurs.
Alex Lazaris:
Love that.
Kieron Lewis:
Screenshot kind of says just came to mind there. Just felt the right thing to say. It's also a nice time to actually mention as well. So today is also our Artist Spotlight, which you kind of mentioned at the beginning of our segment. And this is a part later on which we'll do very shortly, about 45 minutes or so. And it's basically a segment where we just build a bit of celebration in the community. We pick out an artist or studio or creative collab and just check their workout. So stay tuned for that because we've got that coming up. And you will also see above in the chat in the Bahans, a nice little tab up there, the spotlight. And you can also add in your own suggestion or even put yourself forward as well. And potentially you could be on the next one. So stay tuned because it is a good one. But we won't say who because we want to keep you guys in the suspense.
Alex Lazaris:
Of course, the suspense. I'm hyped.
Kieron Lewis:
You hyped, dude. I'm ready for this. It's just hard not to tell people who it is. We will keep it a secret. We will. But we promise it's a good one. It's always a good one. To be honest, it's nice to sort of share a bit of love in the community, right? See what people are up to.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, I love it. I don't know what to put on this. A four. I feel like if you have any ideas of what to put here on this white piece of paper.
Kieron Lewis:
What would you like on your stationery?
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah.
Kieron Lewis:
What would you like to see on your it's funny because I always find with even, like, letterheads and things like that if it's, like, in the background, but like, super low opacity, like enough that you know it's there. But enough that you could write in the middle. And you're not going to get a ball or something like clashing with your character with letters.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, I miss when do you remember when people used to send you like, watermarked, paper, you know what I mean? Where did those days go? Yeah, nobody's sending mail anymore.
Kieron Lewis:
Actually. I got a mate of mine who sends whenever they go away. I mean, postcards, and that counts. They do a postcard to me everywhere they go. And I love that because it's old school. No one really writes a letter and posts anymore. I don't have to think of postcards. But even having stamps, that always feels like a pain to do as well. You can just send an email. No one has like a collection of go out your way to get like.
Alex Lazaris:
A first gloss stamp. Stamps are so expensive now. Yeah, there is a couple of dollars. It's like, whoa, come on, man.
Kieron Lewis:
I'm sending an email, dude, with an attachment on top.
Alex Lazaris:
I'm already paying for my email.
Kieron Lewis:
Exactly. We got some people just tuned in, so hi, Lissandra. I can see you just joined in as well. So massive. Massive. Welcome. And if you have just joined us, welcome. And you can see right now we are working on a bit of stationery with Alex Lorez.
Alex Lazaris:
Lores.
Kieron Lewis:
Alex Lores. My brain is going to think of that the whole time now. Sorry, dude. Alex Lazaris. Alex. Alex Lores. Does anyone call you that?
Alex Lazaris:
No. I think when you just make that a thing now I'm running with it.
Kieron Lewis:
Pretty awesome. I completely lost my trailer for there we go. Yeah. Why you're actually here. So if you have just tuned, you know, Alex Lores, you're Alex Lazaris, and he's working on a bit of mock ups right now, working on a personal project, taking influence from futuristic Sci-Fi and all things digital. So throw some advice in the chat of what you guys think could be on these business cards, envelopes, letters. Good to know what you guys think. It could even be a bit of patterns as well taken from the type who knows what is your oyster? Let us know, and Alex Lores will happily promise.
Alex Lazaris:
I'm in for it. Can't tell. Let's see how this goes.
Kieron Lewis:
Do you know be cool like that? I know if it would tell me material, like a screen print. I haven't done screen printing in years, but like a nice because it's got that already pattern like design, which would just work. Awesome. That would be cool. Have you done much screen printing before.
Alex Lazaris:
Or have you worked on yeah, I love screen prints. I think it's awesome. I love when you can do not just screen prints, but pressed pieces or embossed pieces like that. Letter press. There you go.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
Nice. Alex, do you go stand in bank lines still too? Okay, man. All right. Get out of my life. All right, man.
Kieron Lewis:
He knows too much.
Alex Lazaris:
Honestly. Okay, man. I'm not even to answer your question. Yes, I still do often. Okay. I'm just like, going to keep digging myself.
Kieron Lewis:
We need to know now. We need to open that door because.
Alex Lazaris:
I never carry my debit card on me, and so I always have to go to the bank teller to be like, I don't have my debit card. It's me. I need money.
Kieron Lewis:
How does Steve know that I love that fly on the wall.
Alex Lazaris:
Exactly. He knows too much. Steve's getting his own business card today.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice. Get mocked for wearing bad Christmas. Can you wear a bad Christmas sweater? I think the worse is the better, though. We used to have a competition. The worst worse. One that wins your grandma niche, and you're like, oh, granny, what are you doing?
Alex Lazaris:
Chat. You guys are popping today. I love it.
Kieron Lewis:
They are? Yeah. We got such a mix. If you go all the way from the right top right to now, we've gone from, like, patterns to all sorts going on. It's even awesome when you guys interact with each other as well in the chat, which is even more sweet. So definitely keep this coming, guys. We'd love to see it. Always do.
Alex Lazaris:
I think the business card might just be a little too loud with that, so maybe we'll do. Hey, wrong color. All right, throw that on here. Double click that. Boom. All right, we're going to make another pattern. Real quick. Chat. Nice. How do we want to do it? That's the question. Do we want to do add some.
Kieron Lewis:
From what do you guys see when you see the pattern of the design that kind of reads into your soul because it's so engaging. The visuals. Like what do you see? The patterns maybe like being tessellated rotated. Different things kind of happening from it. Get those ideas in the chat. We would love to hear. I feel like with the visual that you've got as well, Alex, it sets itself up for just you just dissect it continuously, right. Until maybe even just the cube itself. My brain just thought like a square business card more than an actual rectangle to kind of be in. Keep with the shape of the lettering. My brain.
Alex Lazaris:
I love that.
Kieron Lewis:
There we go. We've got easy in the chat. You also send postcards still. That's nice to know I'm not the only one. Should I even send them? I received them. That's even worse. Yeah, I made it realize, like, no, I'm not the one. Just the NDA. I'm not just clarifying. I don't send them out. I like to receive them. And I've got a nice collection from friends. I should probably start sending some out now if I'm mean but it's great to see that everyone else is still people still do that. Steve is ripping into the business cards, man. It's all love. All love. I'm sure, though, Steve a triangle business card. Is that a thing from Val? Is that a thing?
Alex Lazaris:
It could be a thing.
Kieron Lewis:
I'm sure use that space wisely.
Alex Lazaris:
I love that. Steve has called me bankline boy now. Like, what a nickname.
Kieron Lewis:
Bankline boy and Alex lores. Today you get some t shirts, man.
Alex Lazaris:
I'm just like, I'm so excited. I'm finally becoming who I needed to be in life.
Kieron Lewis:
All it took was two Adobe Live streams and then you know who you are now. You found yourself.
Alex Lazaris:
I'm going to rebrand my entire agency to Bankline Boy and all I'm going to take on is financial tech clients.
Kieron Lewis:
I want to see this on your hosting streams, dude. I want to see your clothing, the hat, the shirt, all in the lime green fluorescent and just Bank Line Boy on the cross. And then Alex Lores on the on the hat.
Alex Lazaris:
That's the next Adobe stream I need to do is just bank line boy.
Kieron Lewis:
That's a strong look, man. A triangle business card. Val, would you like a triangle business card? I could see that working quite well. It would work with Val as well because the V actually, you could probably get away with the V and the shape of it being the triangle. We should see this, Val, in one of your streams. Please do a business card stream and then we can see how this will work. That'd be great.
Alex Lazaris:
Feel like I have a little ice cream cone happening here.
Kieron Lewis:
You got like an icon. Is it iconography? That's the right word. Like a whole language dedicated to your visuals. Ice cream cone. What would ice cream cone be in digital realm, though?
Alex Lazaris:
I don't know. What is happening. I thought this were all supposed to be the same width and stuff. All right, I could do let's just start messing with some patterns.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, my business cards are actual miniature tariff cards, actually. That is a cool yeah, I can see that.
Alex Lazaris:
Great idea.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah. Have you guys got in the chat? Any cool ideas or business card? Do you even have any business cards that you think that you would like to if you did a rebrand what they may be throw down in the chat? Sorry, Alex budy, what were you going to say?
Alex Lazaris:
I feel like when you have the skills that Val has, you can just do awesome things like make your own tarot cards. That's pretty amazing.
Kieron Lewis:
When you're born of the gift, the gift, that's what it is. But also if you're not, you can always learn to have the gift. And this is a nice little plug now to definitely keep watching Adobe Live streams because you can get the gift. I mean, it's not even gift. It's just learning, right? It's teaching yourself. It's making things go wrong and learning from them and having fun and practicing. So harness that. Even if you feel like you do not have a creative bone in your body. Because I believe we all do somewhere. Just got to find it to definitely watch some more streams even after we're done.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, big fan. Big fan. All right. I don't know what I'm patterns are fun and there's no real way to make them. Now I feel like I'm.
Kieron Lewis:
Have we like done any fill? Can we do like a I guess no, because it wouldn't be obvious. It's a block. My brain's thinking, like with the pattern if some of them were but I guess you just see the outline, right? Zigzag. But it could have work. My brain's like I need to kind of see it to even believe it would work.
Alex Lazaris:
Could even just take this little element as well. So like the circles I want to take this pattern, make boom and then expand the edges, and that should give us a lot more space. But then I can also take this and create some additional elements with it.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice. I'm quite curious. Where would you guys like to see this? If you was to purchase this beautiful pattern that Alex is working on now, where would you like to see it on? Jacket? Leather jacket? Maybe games console? Pillow for grandma? I don't know. Just putting that there. Where would you like to see this? Where could you see this pattern working? Even more importantly, fro those ideas. I'd love to hear it. I feel like for a bedroom wall, that could be quite intense. Can you imagine a room just filled to the brim? Just like it just reads your soul, man. In each corner of the room. There's nowhere to hide.
Alex Lazaris:
The Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York has. I don't know if they still do. They did. I'm sure they still do have a wallpaper room where you go onto the iPad in the middle, you doodle on the screen and then you can create your own wallpaper and then a projection around the whole room so you can see how some of the patterns can be.
Kieron Lewis:
That is cool.
Alex Lazaris:
Definitely can get pretty intense.
Kieron Lewis:
I love the interactiveness as well, of that. That's a really cool thing to yeah, it's incredible. If you guys have seen that or you've been to it, let us know in the chat as well. That'd be awesome to know. How did you find when you saw that, when you're in a room full of Zigzags, drive your mind wild? Or did it give you more inspiration to create your own Zigzag?
Alex Lazaris:
All right. That's another pattern. It's just so easy to make patterns. So fun. Boom. Now we got little squares. We'll do this like, ugly sweater for Steve.
Kieron Lewis:
I love that you're selling it, man. Just ugly. And then we put it in there just because.
Alex Lazaris:
Yours truly, bank boy.
Kieron Lewis:
Yes.
Alex Lazaris:
Give us any ideas for the stationary? If we're good on that one up.
Kieron Lewis:
There, we need to scrub. Actually, I do apologize so much. Chat's been going on and I've been locked in your design. I think I've been, like, transcendent in your design so much that my brain hasn't realized there's comments on there. But I don't think that's much about the stationary. If I have missed something about the stationary thoughts on there, please do jot it down again. But I don't see anything. Actually, business cards popped up a few times, I guess, like, the different ways you can do business cards. I think that was a comment better, but yeah. Anything you guys have in terms of what stationary, be quite cool of how it could work. The shapes or patterns. Yeah, stephanie let us know.
Alex Lazaris:
Just trying to trim this up real quick.
Kieron Lewis:
Oh, do you know? It'd be really cool. My brain. You know, you have that moment like a brainwave. It's like, boom. Because obviously that yellow and the green that you've got, they're such cool patterns. Like, almost like a nice gradient which kind of bleeds in from one to the other on a black background. I don't know. Maybe. Can you imagine, like, on nice foil paper there? And I'm geeking out. But this is like when the client has budget and he's like, boom, let's just get the world right. Which is only four. It's not that much, but still. Yeah, let's just go out on a lot.
Alex Lazaris:
Whenever you start looking at how many if the client has 2000 employees and then they're all spending another true twenty five cents per card to do foil, that's a lot.
Kieron Lewis:
It's funny. I remember in our final year uni that's the thing, right? When you graduate, you need to get business cards. And I feel like there was almost like a Hunger Games kind of vibe where you just run out to just create business cards and there wasn't much of a digest and take time. What kind of business cards would I really want to reflect to the outside world who I am, right? And I think I just did for my own first one, I'm not even phrased I just did triangles because I like triangles and that's got nothing to do with my branding. I just feel it was cool. It's only till you get a bit more, perhaps experience in your foot, you're like, let's create something that actually feels meaningful to what I'm trying to achieve or what I'm into rather than just triangles because they Tessellate.
Alex Lazaris:
Well.
Kieron Lewis:
Have you had any ugly business cards over the years? Or business thinking, what the hell.
Alex Lazaris:
Have.
Kieron Lewis:
I how long do we have.
Alex Lazaris:
Man?
Kieron Lewis:
That's not a stream in itself.
Alex Lazaris:
I think it's probably on my Instagram from one of my first posts on Instagram back when Instagram probably just came out, was like, I thought I had the smartest business card ever. Yeah, it's bad. I try to do this whole mantra of like, right brain, left brain equals whatever. Okay, yeah, you can imagine we're going.
Kieron Lewis:
To have to, after this dream, all flood to your Instagram and just go down the deepest parts of your archives to try and find.
Alex Lazaris:
Don'T do that.
Kieron Lewis:
Then you get loads of people just reposting. They're like, dude, I actually really love them. Oh my God, remake them again. Actually reprint them on foil. Each single one.
Alex Lazaris:
I got them from Moocards as well, because Moocards is I don't know if you're familiar with them.
Kieron Lewis:
As in moo. As in, yeah, they're awesome rhonda. Yeah, they're big in the UK.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, they're great. I was like spending the big know.
Kieron Lewis:
Trying to making it rain.
Alex Lazaris:
Those cards looking good, the printing boundaries.
Kieron Lewis:
I just see you printing like 3000 business cards, throwing up in the air, making it rain and thinking, oh actually, don't throw them in the air, just I need to collect each one back again. Just like each one is precious. You can't just give them out to anyone, right? You need to give them potentially an end goal.
Alex Lazaris:
Fun fact, whenever I write people's phone numbers on business cards and I'm using them in a mockup or anything that could potentially DOX somebody, I use Mike Jones's phone number or now defunct phone number. So if you go through my Behance post you can see it, it's 281-33-0800 Foe. If any hip hop fans from ye olden days may know that number.
Kieron Lewis:
I mean, where from?
Alex Lazaris:
Houston? Rap. Ah, yes, maybe a little too.
Kieron Lewis:
Interesting. Interesting comment from Robert. And I wonder if actually if you were in yesterday's stream because it hits the nail on the head here. He said nice patterns. The patterns and colors give me the vibe of the Nigerian soccer kit, which I love. Boom. If you were here, Robert, yesterday, that's exactly where we took the inspiration from. Yes, because we had a whole topic of football, and, yeah, I enjoyed it, but not everyone likes football, so it's all soccer. So it's all good. But, yeah, we were definitely checking out some cool soccer kits yesterday. And the Nigerian soccer kit is a beautiful one. If you haven't seen it in the chat, definitely check it out. And you can probably see when you do see, that the linkage that we've got with today, the color scheme today, because we've got that kind of nice.
Alex Lazaris:
Fluorescent yellow green, and we also have the jersey right there. Little thing. All right, Steve, I made your email. Do not contact me ever@email.com. Okay. Hopefully that's not your real email. All right. Sick. I think the stationery is in a good spot. Yeah, let's save it. Mosey on over. What do we have, 30 minutes before Artist Ball? Yeah, about.
Kieron Lewis:
27.6 minutes, if that's the.
Alex Lazaris:
Creatives to do the math.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, that's not my fault.
Alex Lazaris:
Would you do a nine out of ten cat still countdown?
Kieron Lewis:
I do love that. Do you know what? Before I ask that question, you really are embedding the British culture, aren't you? Because you're saying these shows. I wouldn't assume that. Maybe, you know but you know this stuff, man. Yeah, definitely. I love Jimmy Carr, man. Is it? Jimmy Carr? Isn't it?
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah.
Kieron Lewis:
He's inappropriate, but he's also quite funny.
Alex Lazaris:
I'm surprised by how much British like, what you can say on British television over what we can say in the.
Kieron Lewis:
Interesting.
Alex Lazaris:
Not appropriate for Adobe stream.
Kieron Lewis:
No, that's a different segment. That's interesting. I would have thought I don't know, my brain would have thought the US is a little bit more free with that. Maybe more so.
Alex Lazaris:
No way. I think maybe in some regards, but I think in terms of stuff that you can say on taskmaster and any of those I guess even the interstitials that you can do on the nine out of ten cats yeah, you couldn't do that in the States.
Kieron Lewis:
That's interesting. Also, it's eight out of ten cats, right?
Alex Lazaris:
Eight.
Kieron Lewis:
My brain was nine out of ten.
Alex Lazaris:
I always get the number confused. Creative. My bad.
Kieron Lewis:
I love that. Yeah, man. Your knowledge of British culture when it comes to entertainment is strong. You are one with the British culture. If you return the favor, it's all good. Where you guys are streaming from, actually. Let us know which part of the world you are streaming from. We'd love to know. And that looks can you imagine seeing that just walking down the street and then thinking, oh, I need to know more. And there's, like, boom. QR code, top right hand corner.
Alex Lazaris:
You can know more.
Kieron Lewis:
Plot thickens. Crystal said, what about a book cover with this branding? Even, like, the guidelines, right? Or even, like, the do people have a printed brand guide? I guess they did. Maybe a PDF, but that'd be quite cool. It's like a nice cover, maybe. Yeah, something like that. Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
Val says no, British TV has a lot more language wise than American TV. Yeah, you guys drop a lot more curse words than we do.
Kieron Lewis:
Naughty word. I love that. Yeah, Val's all over it, man. Graham Norton. Yeah, there we go.
Alex Lazaris:
Whoa. Steve got really gigantic there. That's wrong typeface. Gilroy.
Kieron Lewis:
Steve. You're trending now, Steve.
Alex Lazaris:
I'm trying to look for like, a San Serif that's a little bit geometric. Gilroy works. Let me see. Proxima nova, maybe.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, proxima.
Alex Lazaris:
Everybody does approximate over. Right. Let's see. What ambiguous random tech thing are we going to do? What's, like our call to action on this billboard?
Kieron Lewis:
Good shout. What are you guys thinking in the chat? Let us know. Call to action. But I guess a billboard, it's somewhere from afar, so you can't be it wouldn't be fair to ask them to do something from quite a distance. And also maybe yeah, I guess you could do a QR code from a distance, right? You can just zoom in your mobile phone, maybe. I don't know. Oh, do you know? Be really cool. My brain is thinking, like imagine you made it into, like, a game of some sort where you have to like I mean, who in their right minds follow different billboards? But if you had time on your hands, you could go to different parts to unlock some sort of, I don't know, Easter egg or where you kind of have to go to different community or go around the areas and try and locate this shape and design somewhere on certain things they do that. A lot of food packaging. Like cabri. I think Cabri's done that a few times where you find different billboards adverts and you take screenshots or you send them to you kind of collect them in different areas and you kind of, like, win something. That's the word. Yeah. Like a scavenger hunt. Yeah. Quite cool for this.
Alex Lazaris:
Can't tell if, like, cyber attack protection kind of works in this. I don't know if it does.
Kieron Lewis:
Scary words there, isn't it?
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, it's kind of a thing. But the balls aren't really that scary.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, they're like.
Alex Lazaris:
Crypto stress ball currency. There you go.
Kieron Lewis:
Like a lightning bolt going from the middle of it.
Alex Lazaris:
Cryptocurrency. Two words. One word, crypto.
Kieron Lewis:
Two, I want to say. Is it what? No, I feel like it is two. It's way too way too big to.
Alex Lazaris:
Be there we go. Boom. Kind of working.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
Val asks, what main mockups do you tend to use in branding decks? Case studies. Like, go to case studies, for example. Do you always use a poster mockup or a T shirt mockup things do you think? Always great to include does it vary from project to project? Yes, it varies from project to project, but I would say that I typically do a billboard mockup of some sort, several poster mockups and then maybe a quick laptop mockup and then depending on the brand project and the client, I'll do like a t shirt or a merchandise mockup as well. But it also depends on if they're wanting a heavy robust design language and design system. If that's the case then I might add additional poster mockups or like pamphlet or brochure type mockups. It really depends but I try to give them a full spectrum to kind of put everything in situation. I think it's really hard to just send them like a JPEG and be like look, here's your brand and this is how it works. So I try to put those JPEGs on something, whether it's a mockup of some sort or whatever it is and.
Kieron Lewis:
Just I mean from my side primarily because I work in editorial with publishers and print, it is usually probably a nice book mock up, maybe a hard back cover and maybe a few selected spreads as well. So again, I probably might send a client a folder with obviously the individual so they can go through the PDF as a spread. And then I might have picked out a few selected pages, which are ones that I would like to be more of a feature, say, or ones that I would love to really, basically really sell the project I'm trying to do to them as well. So I might pick out a few and have a few selected spreads that are opened up but nothing too crazy in terms of orientation. Like quite simple, get loads of them again like an Adobe stock or behance keeping it quite easy and clean and not too many. I probably pick out like me, four spreads and a book cover back in front and maybe a spine if included. If it's a hardback and actually weirdly enough with a lot of clients, sometimes they don't need it actually because it depends on the client and if you're used to just they know what they want to just see and it's just like boom. But if it's like a new first time just touching base they kind of maybe need to sell it, they need to see it in a different light. A mock up does help I find, in that light. Yeah, some clients just maybe just happy with it, just send us an individuals we'll print on our side and just see how it looks very quickly there. But like Alex said, it changed from client to client, I find. But yeah, I think that's your question.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, if I'm doing, like, a packaging project, I'll typically try to get an actual label or something printed and adhere to their bottles so that they can actually see it, or if I can't do that, or if they're super long distance, then I'll send, like, a dimension mock up sometimes or depends on if they're building a bottle or anything like that.
Kieron Lewis:
That looks cool dude. I like the balance of font there as well. It's quite nice. Rocks your socks.
Alex Lazaris:
You know what really missed the opportunity? Just rocks your socks.
Kieron Lewis:
What does that mean? Is that like meaning get excited? Like, is that a saying? Rock your socks off?
Alex Lazaris:
I think it's just yeah, it blows your mind, I guess.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah. Okay, I get that. And I can see we've got Becca saying, you got me guys thinking about business cards now. I mean, we've maybe put that narrative of taking time and looking at your brand and thinking, what could I do to my brand to make it rock your socks off? Yes. That helps. And this stream has given you guys some inspiration, for sure.
Alex Lazaris:
Forgot.
Kieron Lewis:
That is indeed. And this is probably a nice little time to say you probably can see a bit of a countdown on your screen if you watch Revive the Hearts, but got about 15 well, probably even not even that actually, like twelve minutes or so until we get into our Artist Spotlight. So stay tuned because it's a good one. So we'll be showing you guys that very soon.
Alex Lazaris:
If anybody has anything specifically that want to see it, let me know. I think somebody said something about a book. I can also do a book.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, my ears pricked up when you sent to a book. I was, like, speaking my language. It was crystal. Yeah. What about a book cover with the branding?
Alex Lazaris:
I'm trying to think, what other things should I put in this? We got 15 minutes, you said? Yeah, we got this crypto.
Kieron Lewis:
I'll give you 13.
Alex Lazaris:
We got this crypto trading billboard. I got these orbs. I don't have tons of orb mockups. I have these posters. It's a great way to show Val to answer your question around design language and sending it over doing a multiple mockup like this is super helpful to get the client thinking about the posters and even just like something as simple as just like type, color, assets, all those things is super easy to do in a multiple, like three up poster thing. Maybe we'll do this real quick as an opportunity to show all these things side by side. So I'm going to take the soccer kit. I actually already exported a color palette. Weird. All right.
Kieron Lewis:
Interesting. That's an interesting comment from Steve Harris. I didn't have known this before, but he said many years ago in Uni, we learned we could write to stock photo companies, and they would mail you huge glossy catalogs for free, regularly. Like, massive catalogs. That's awesome. Do they still do that anymore? I mean, that would be cool, right? Yeah. Thanks for showing that, Steve. If they still do that, do let us know. Never even thought to even write to my brain would even think to do that, but that's cool.
Alex Lazaris:
I didn't save the PNG, apparently, so I'm going to do that really quickly. Export as? No. Got to turn off the background first. Export as.
Kieron Lewis:
It's.
Alex Lazaris:
All right. Save that. All right. We'll pull that directly into this Carticle mockup.
Kieron Lewis:
Now there's little things like on that mockup, there, like, the texture. You can see the kind of ripple effect. And I love those the tiniest little things that I think is quite it just gives a bit more depth, right?
Alex Lazaris:
Absolutely. It's so helpful when trying to sell the project, even the lighting and the color on this as well. So if we wanted to, we could just look at it and be like, okay, cool. Now let's see what it looks like on this beach ball.
Kieron Lewis:
Color. Well of death.
Alex Lazaris:
Where's Annika?
Kieron Lewis:
I was just thinking that's so funny. You said that my brain went into as soon as I think of Save now. I think that's a nice linkage. You think of saving of Annika. There we go. Annika, if you're still in the chat, well, your ear should be burning because I'm mentioning your name because of the saving elements.
Alex Lazaris:
Funny. I love that graphics. All right, cool. So we can see what this looks like. Cool. Oh, it's a duplicate. All right, I'll figure this out. So what we can do is start to pull in the texture. It's got a poster in the background. See if this is just a color swatch. Yeah. Okay, cool. So we can pull in maybe our black, make it pop, and then we've got our logo. We're going to want somewhere which client doesn't want their logo on. Things mostly. Probably just do this multiple real quick run object. Thanks, man. All right, we're going to pull this behind the kit now. Pull this behind the kit.
Kieron Lewis:
Now.
Alex Lazaris:
Right now. Just make a pattern out of that and realize we also haven't done that earlier. Something we can incorporate later if we wanted to. It's kind of nice. It feels kind of textural, but it's still the logo.
Kieron Lewis:
You know, it'd be awesome in a different world if we had infinite time in the adobe space right now to do another stream. It's like if we did like, an animation of the vox, the o being kicked like a football. I mean, that's if the ball was that is fox was a football team, but yeah, that would be awesome.
Alex Lazaris:
That's a great idea.
Kieron Lewis:
I could just set up for that's.
Alex Lazaris:
Feels like I should just distribute it across this line.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah. And do like, a nice little alignment.
Alex Lazaris:
And line.
Kieron Lewis:
In all one word. Save. Your work is, in fact, Anika's last name. Nice. Please change your if you got, like, a gamer tag or like your Baha'art's name to that, it's gonna have to be Learn. It's funny because I noticed it on InDesign where you can actually type in or you can just like a mutual so if you had one from top to bottom. Right. It just by default in those two on Photoshop where you can distribute evenly.
Alex Lazaris:
Distribute vertically vertical centers. No. Why is it moving? My bottom one? Oh, I wonder if it's because that bottom one is.
Kieron Lewis:
I don't know the order you mean of how it's yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
I'll just do it manually.
Kieron Lewis:
I know what you mean, though. Yeah. It's funny because my brain is thinking, oh, yeah. In InDesign you can but actually probably a different slightly different way.
Alex Lazaris:
I think it's because I had one too many layers. Let's see. That could maybe do it.
Kieron Lewis:
It's like a little win when it happens, isn't it?
Alex Lazaris:
Absolutely. All right, so now I'm going to just group this and then mask out the edges really quick.
Kieron Lewis:
Awesome. No, we're good for it still. I mean, Val's put a lovely little reminder for you lovely people in the chat. We're about five minutes away from Artist Spotlight. We've been teasing you throughout the whole stream about this Artist Spotlight, and it's a good one. So stay tuned and we'll be sharing you an awesome creative in the community in the next five mins streamline. That's what we like to say.
Alex Lazaris:
Wow, those curves got crazy.
Kieron Lewis:
Kev's got game.
Alex Lazaris:
Graphics. Trying to see if there's any, like, hidden layers in their graphics thing. Group colors are looking fine. Maybe you need to just move this down below one of the textures. Textures.
Kieron Lewis:
A lot of designers can relate where you just you sometimes you have to move a few layers to when you group them is awesome, but when you got to move a few rounds to sort of see where things are, where it's been uncovered.
Alex Lazaris:
All right, that didn't work. Let me save that. And then I'll adjust the curves on the actual mockup here. There we go. Gets a little bit more moody.
Kieron Lewis:
Look at that. Digging that glow in the dark vibes.
Alex Lazaris:
We've got horizontal double layout. Okay.
Kieron Lewis:
I love Alex because you like to almost Mission Impossible star where you keep us on our toes. Dude. It's good. It's three minutes, but I'll give you an extra four because I'm feeling generous. I can do it in two. There we go. I like it, dude.
Alex Lazaris:
I don't like when the colors aren't working, though. All right. Boom. That's a thing. Put this there and make that a thing. All right.
Kieron Lewis:
Remember as well, we'll definitely be able to, after we've done our spotlight, to come back and definitely refine a few bits and Bobs as well, because I know you like to finish a project when we start. It nothing worse than, like, I've started it, so I will finish. I'm the same.
Alex Lazaris:
No, totally. But I definitely want to just keep making more things. Can't make more things if you never finish.
Kieron Lewis:
Classic designer mentality.
Alex Lazaris:
Reduced. All right, let's do this. Grab that extra texture. Two minutes. All right, let's do it's. Actually kind of nice.
Kieron Lewis:
It's been really cool, dude, to see again, especially if you joined us from yesterday, Robin, till today. It's that process, right? When we did the 3D rendering of the board and the patterns in Illustrator and to sort of see, I guess any project, but something like this in particular, you see it from the start to finish and how it kind of comes out. Hopefully it gives you guys some inspiration in terms of that process. And right now, obviously, this whole time, we've been doing it in a way where we're getting some thoughts directly from you guys. You're feeding it back into us, and we're doing it as we go.
Alex Lazaris:
Kind of sick breaking the poster, to be honest.
Kieron Lewis:
Kind of like it jumps out, doesn't it? Jumping out of the all right, see here, I've got, like, let me out of here. I'm going to be free.
Alex Lazaris:
They are the dreams I see. 1 minute. Okay, you it.
Kieron Lewis:
I think I saw someone a comment. I could be wrong. And if you are in the Chat, please do let us know who you were. But you mentioned this project would be on your behalf, because I think they were loving designs in the process. If this would be potentially one that you would like to roll out or maybe elaborate a bit more on, even after stream, or would you want to use this, maybe take it on even further? Where do you kind of see once this is choice or something coming on that?
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, I think this project has been a lot of fun to work on. I would want to push it a little bit further and add some more mockups and things, but nice. I think it's super fun. I love getting to kind of work on these projects with Chat and post them afterwards. I think it's a really fun process, and I think it's a good way to bring this stuff out to the community and let people kind of look at it on their own and see how I progress it not only just during the stream, but also afterwards. Yeah. Would definitely want to put it on my behance. For sure.
Kieron Lewis:
Awesome.
Alex Lazaris:
All right, let's look at it one more time, and then I'll go to go straight in the hour to Spotlight. Yeah, it's kind of nice.
Kieron Lewis:
That's looking good, dude.
Alex Lazaris:
Man, a little adjustment on that.
Kieron Lewis:
Can you zoom in, like, a tad? My brain just so I can see it, and it's always glory. I mean, I don't know about you guys in the Chat. If I walk past that, how could you not stop by, right, and just be like, what is that's? Going straight on my instagram. If I saw that in hashtag hashtag colors, hashtag cool shapes. Looking good, dude. I appreciate it. Yeah. My people, we've kept you guys waiting long enough, and it's time. I almost want, like, a little mini drum roll. Maybe Falcon did a little mini drum roll in the chat. Boom. So our artist Spotlight today is a visual designer and illustrator, Ajia. satelli. Who. I hope I got your name correct. It's a beautiful name. So today, yeah, we're going to show some love for her work and go through these few minutes. And yeah. Again, when you're seeing what you're seeing now on the screen, please let us know your thoughts. And then myself and Alex going to go through now and pick out a few projects and show some love.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, I'm super excited. Shout out to the La design community. Stop neighbor Six. Let's just jump straight in. Photoshop daily Creative Challenge 2021.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice. You're no stranger to an Adobe Live Daily Creative challenge. We love that.
Alex Lazaris:
Exactly. It looks like photo polish. Day one. Love that photo. Edit using raw camera filter. Wow. The difference is unreal.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
You did a great job with the blending and everything as well. Sometimes it can feel overtouched. I think you did a great job. Auto Masking is day two object selection tool using Clipping Neural Filter harmonization to create this photo composite. Isn't the Neuro filter so cool?
Kieron Lewis:
It is awesome. I think we mentioned yesterday, it's those little things where you got where the L is and just on the bottom where the leaf is overlapping, it just adds and even in between the U and the S, it just gives it that bit more depth right to the overall design. The tiniest details like that makes a big difference. And it's looking great. Really nice, man. Really enjoying it.
Alex Lazaris:
I think these photos are posited in.
Kieron Lewis:
They look like yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
It took me way too long to figure out where did she use the clipping and the object selection and stuff like that. So I think that's a really good.
Kieron Lewis:
You got to take time to find out what it was.
Alex Lazaris:
I love when you can't figure out what people like. That's so cool. So great job.
Kieron Lewis:
Good shout, good textures.
Alex Lazaris:
Gradient enhancements. Nice. That's what we should do after this.
Kieron Lewis:
Yes. That was an idea, right? We said that the yellow and the green gia was already ahead of the gee on the game, man. She said that before and great. That's a great one. Again, seeing how the gradient works quite well. Nice. Cool colors.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, I love the type kind of putting in as well. Type and texture, always fun.
Kieron Lewis:
Tomorrow is today.
Alex Lazaris:
I remember when Photoshop first was, like, hitting the scene. This was like the bread and butter. Going back to game changer files from whatever, 20 years ago.
Kieron Lewis:
Just loads of like this. It was a game changer. Even the motion, you feel like you're just literally beside that person. The motion of just the way, because even the shot as well, like type I'm looking at, but even the composition of the photograph as well, you kind of see a bit of darkness at the bottom. You feel immersed.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, it's stellar portrait painting style transfer to get the surrealist effect back. It's cool.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice. And if you guys are watching, if you how does she do it? Because, again, this is, remember, a daily creative challenge that she would have done.
Kieron Lewis:
Think 2021, it says in there in the URL. So if you're curious, I mean, please always do our creative challenge challenges because you will learn a lot of things just like this, which has done in full blossom. Yeah, man. Looking great.
Alex Lazaris:
That's awesome.
Kieron Lewis:
Keep blitzing free.
Alex Lazaris:
I wonder if these are some of Val's buttershot as a creative challenge.
Kieron Lewis:
Val, were you here in 2021 when you did the what were you doing on that day? I think it was a Tuesday or Thursday. I would rock that on a T shirt. Hundreds. Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
This would be a sweet button up.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
Feels like pool party ready to go.
Kieron Lewis:
That's cool, right? Russian in the left hand.
Alex Lazaris:
Yes, definitely.
Kieron Lewis:
That's cool. The little red hut in the distance.
Alex Lazaris:
Have you seen those, like, wow, words are going to escape me. But people are shooting with different spectrums of light, and the color palette is all, like, crazy and kind of surrealist. That reminded me of that. Really cool.
Kieron Lewis:
Awesome.
Alex Lazaris:
Infrared. There you go. Infrared for photography.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
Sweet. Got some banner ads, some display ads, some collateral for a client. Nice.
Kieron Lewis:
So a bit like we were working before with the stationary, utilizing the mockups, which I think that's the mockup maybe it could have just been an image with a drop shadow, potentially. But either way, it kind of has that it feels more than what it just is. That makes sense because it's not just a flat. Yeah, that's definitely a mockup. Yeah. The underneath maybe could be a little bit of a drop drop shadow.
Alex Lazaris:
Sweet. Awesome work.
Kieron Lewis:
Yes. That was the one that caught my the blink I loved.
Alex Lazaris:
I mean, the crop.
Kieron Lewis:
And I couldn't even blink.
Alex Lazaris:
So strong. Like, really great composition on that image.
Kieron Lewis:
That's a really good shot because actually, people forget sometimes the thumbnails of how important you haven't got much of a space to operate in. Right. And going back to that home page where you had thumbnails, it's just the little things like having a really strong thumbnail before you get into it. Super important. It's looking good.
Alex Lazaris:
It's a sweet logo, too.
Kieron Lewis:
Simple and very clean. Did I have the information, what it was about at the top?
Alex Lazaris:
I don't know if my brain style that moves you.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah. Can't blink and I'm seeing it because it's no. There we go. A little project. There we go.
Alex Lazaris:
My job was to create a sleek, iconic logo that is expandable for a wide variety of products, such as apparel labels, tags and packaging, et cetera. Awesome. Brad. Definitely.
Kieron Lewis:
Should we show a bit of love for maybe one more project and then yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
You have one that you want to see? I want to see this. I think the trade show could be really cool.
Kieron Lewis:
I will stop between that and the 21 pilots, because I like that. No, you go for that. When we could do both, actually, we've got time.
Alex Lazaris:
Do this. I love seeing. Like, I think when you're a designer and you're doing design projects, if you can get trade show photos for your portfolio, or go to the trade show, volunteer if you can. I think it's a great way to get photos for your portfolio, because otherwise you're doing all this incredible work and then you don't get to show it, or you're going to show on a mockup and it's not nearly as powerful. So good job giving Greg a shout.
Kieron Lewis:
And imagine it does wonders as well for how you present your work as well. Right. Because perhaps if you're tuning in and you're going to be a student grad level or just in general. And how could you possibly have these designs at a place like this? The nerves. But G has obviously done it and it's shining. And I imagine that was a learning curve, how you present and how you talk them through. So the more you do, the more you feel a bit more confident showing it events like this.
Alex Lazaris:
Absolutely. And Val says, I love that Blink logo so much. It's simple but very fun. Great icon for a hat or shirt. Yeah, totally agreed. Oh, my gosh, I love.
Kieron Lewis:
Yes.
Alex Lazaris:
That's awesome. Really?
Kieron Lewis:
The muddy DUT.
Alex Lazaris:
That's brilliant. Well done. Ten out of ten. I love puns, I love hockey.
Kieron Lewis:
You've got Alex already. Now he is sold like a good pun. InDesign.
Alex Lazaris:
Awesome.
Kieron Lewis:
It's nice to see. Yeah. Even just different ways you've actually executed the design. It'd be awesome to know how if you're in the chat, if you're viewing today, let us know in the chat how you fought when you had it. Ash, I bet that was probably awesome to sort of see your designs in six shoe and with people actually interacting.
Alex Lazaris:
With it in the community, honestly, you can see how she's brought the designs and the actual printed out version of it and it just tells such a more compelling story by having it in situation. So don't think about always needing to have the top of the line mockup. Sometimes your best bet for your portfolio is like having these pieces actually show up. So, great job. I'll do the 21 pilots.
Kieron Lewis:
You're keeping me sweet. Thank you. It's only weird because only recent I listened to them again. The band. Yeah. Okay. Caught me there for cool.
Alex Lazaris:
I like so subtle.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah. Didn't even she see that when I first saw that. Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
It's a contest. Nice.
Kieron Lewis:
Your interpretation short and sweet, but even just seeing all this range of work, because that's quite a nice collection of different styles, different tools and techniques you've used. Gia, that was amazing work to see. And like we said before, when we started the intro for this, this is Artist Spotlight, we like to pay a bit of love, a bit of homage to creators in the community. And if you yourselves would love to get involved, we would love to see it in the artist spotlight tab in the Bahans Chat. You can add yourself or a friend or family member, whoever you think that we need to see in the community. And then again, hopefully, you could be on for the next Adobe Live stream. So get those submissions in and we look forward to seeing them. But Fajia, absolute pleasure to still see your work in its full force. Yes. My favorite is definitely Blink, though. That caught me from the beginning and I think voodoos as well. But yes. Back in the vox metaverse. What are we looking at?
Alex Lazaris:
Let's think about it. Well, we got how many more minutes? We got like 15 minutes left in that.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah.
Alex Lazaris:
Try to pull up all the things we've made so far. So we got a soccer kit, we got a fire extinguisher, we've got a screen mockup, we've got some billboards. Somebody wanted a book. What other things does.
Kieron Lewis:
Yeah, book cover came up, didn't it, before? What stuff could you possibly even have it on? That would be quite my brain is thinking, and this is actually something I would love to design. I've never designed it and if there's any clients out there, boom. I'm just punching my shot here. But trainers like to design shoe wear of some sort because those paddocks, I feel like they would work quite well.
Alex Lazaris:
It could work really well. I don't have any shoe mockups on me. I see.
Kieron Lewis:
You just going for your bag of mockups that's on a ruffle around a bag. Like, I'm all out. I'm all out of I got nothing for you. I just want please, sir, I can have some more, sir. Just like mockups.
Alex Lazaris:
Let's see.
Kieron Lewis:
London to la. There we go. That's the banter that we can have.
Alex Lazaris:
These are not compelling to me. I could do something like that, but it would take too long.
Kieron Lewis:
Can you humor me? Can you type in trainers on the chat instead of I'm just curious to.
Alex Lazaris:
Be a personal trainer.
Kieron Lewis:
Classic. Okay. That's how you treat us. Londoners. Nice. Okay. They're cool, man. On the far right. Quite jazzy.
Alex Lazaris:
It takes so long to photoshop those up.
Kieron Lewis:
I would knock you to that would just be mean. Yeah, last minute. Wow. Val's throwing them out there. We got a keychain. Socks tote bag.
Alex Lazaris:
Oh, we got to do the gradient thing, too.
Kieron Lewis:
Yes, that would be quite cool. A tote bag would be quite nice. Or scarf. Scarf. Like the gradient as it wraps around. Slap bracelets.
Alex Lazaris:
Slap bracelets are amazing. I have a feeling this mockup is going to not give me everything I want. Let's see.
Kieron Lewis:
It's funny during lockdown not during lockdown, but when things start to ease a bit more, we visited my partner, like, loads of places and just tote bags, wherever we went. Tote bags. We have a crazy collection of tote bags more. So the ones that are, like, designed really well and it's just nice to kind of rock them out every now and again. Much easier than a rock sack sometimes. Yeah, I am a sucker to the tote bag.
Alex Lazaris:
That's a nice family again. All right. Not so bright, but it's fine. All right, so we'll do a book real quick, then we can do a tote bag. All right, we got ten minutes. My favorite thing to do. Let's do it.
Kieron Lewis:
I feel like you could do this. Moonwalking, dude, you've got this, man. You don't even need to sprint moonwalk blindfolded and you're still going to finish it's all good.
Alex Lazaris:
That's brilliant. I would love that. All right.
Kieron Lewis:
Interesting keychain. Do people still use keychains? Do you have a keychain?
Alex Lazaris:
I don't have a keychain. Yeah, I do. I guess. I don't have a lanyard. I don't have one of the big ones. There's a designer called Benny Gold. I have his little flying logo and it keeps my keys together. It's like a key ring with a hook.
Kieron Lewis:
I'm even thinking now. I mean, I'm just going to throw ideas and please do in the chat. Throw as many. It could be a car, it could be outlandish. It could be a plane. That would be even crazy.
Alex Lazaris:
I have a car.
Kieron Lewis:
Zigzag plane.
Alex Lazaris:
Don't touch.
Kieron Lewis:
I think you say a plane. What kind of say plane now? I was going to say a wristwatch, the wraparound of a watch, but can you imagine a plane with that zigzag on there? That would be outlandish. Can you imagine designing for plane? That would even be crazy.
Alex Lazaris:
Hey, Drake, hit me up for your next plane livery.
Kieron Lewis:
Drake, if you're watching via the Adobe Live now, please, you got a shout from Alex.
Alex Lazaris:
We know that you like to go on people's streams. I was there for the ninja stream. All right, I know you're listening.
Kieron Lewis:
See, we have all walks of life that will tune into Adobe Live. Boom. That is it.
Alex Lazaris:
It's definitely Drake.
Kieron Lewis:
Yes, K. Davis. That I'm loving this for. How about a Vox sports sponsorship with bakery and a key lime pie with Vox written in gray or charcoal frost. Wow. You've done this before? K Davis. You've done this before.
Alex Lazaris:
All in ten minutes. I love it.
Kieron Lewis:
I'm just peckish now even thinking about that. Yeah, that would be maybe for next stream. If we have a bit more time. We can do that.
Alex Lazaris:
All right, smart objects go. Just trying to crush through these. All right, let's see. Do.
Kieron Lewis:
We want Jermaine said? I mean, I know you're not going to do it. I'm just fraying ideas from the we love to hear it. So a lampshade be interesting.
Alex Lazaris:
A lampshade would be a good one.
Kieron Lewis:
Good job.
Alex Lazaris:
Lampshades are fun. Quote of the day from Alex. Lampshades are funny how this goes. Got a mockup, got a cool little book. Kind of fun. All right, sending it, saving it, but a bing, bada boom.
Kieron Lewis:
Save. I like that.
Alex Lazaris:
Save.
Kieron Lewis:
What'S I'm looking for. I'm weak at the knees. When it comes to a good if that's a moleskin book, then yeah, but you know what's even terrible? I have loads, but sometimes I jump in to other ones before I even finish the original. I know. I don't know that's a good thing, but I have a Moleskin book for every type of thing that I'm trying to think about, which is quite a few things at one time. So, yeah, different shapes and sizes of moleskin books. Are you a moleskin lover in the chat? Please let us know. So I'm not the only one tumble.
Alex Lazaris:
I've never finished my Moleskin book, which is unfortunate. I've never completed a full kit from start to finish.
Kieron Lewis:
I think they're there so that you don't have to. You just keep buying. Makes sense for their strategy from a buying perspective. Just keep purchasing more and more and more.
Alex Lazaris:
All right, I'm throwing a whole linchpin real quick. Let's see if I can make a cool gradient with, like, 2 seconds. This color gradient. Boom. Boom.
Kieron Lewis:
This is our first gradient. Yeah, we haven't done this. Yeah. Excited.
Alex Lazaris:
Where's the of course I'm going to freak out and forget. Where the gradient? Mesh tool. Boom.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
And that goes there. This goes here. Look at that. We can throw in another one if we want. We can change these. Actually, let me make this, like, darker green.
Kieron Lewis:
Alex my dear sir, the countdown clock is slowly closing, but I know you got to hate to even mention that. I'll say I'm like a busy bee on the side of your shoulder bothering about four minutes, my friend. We got to do a nice little recap as well of the day, and also even one point how to follow up and catch up with who you are, my good sir.
Alex Lazaris:
Okay.
Kieron Lewis:
I can do it.
Alex Lazaris:
All right.
Kieron Lewis:
You got this. I believe in you, man. You got this.
Alex Lazaris:
I don't want that anymore. Got a van mockup. Throw some gradients on it.
Kieron Lewis:
Look at that. Even just the wheels would be awesome if that the whole thing. Some rims on there.
Alex Lazaris:
Boom. Throw the gradients on it. Boom.
Kieron Lewis:
Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
Kind of is a weird one because of where the gradient is falling. Fine. Everything's fine. All right, we got.
Kieron Lewis:
Looking nice.
Alex Lazaris:
Cool.
Kieron Lewis:
Every public transport should be just like this in this color palette. It would make everyone a bit more positive in the day and happier, maybe. Nice colors invoked.
Alex Lazaris:
Positive vibes. So we got that. We got a logo there somewhere. Okay, throw that on. Two minutes. Go. My favorite part of the whole stream.
Kieron Lewis:
It'S the focus phase that all us Adobe Live hosting designers do. Where the crunch time? It's the crunch time. You're seeing us in our natural habitat right now.
Alex Lazaris:
Yeah, exactly. Me before a presentation. Oh, I could have done this better. Oh, move it over. All right, vox.
Kieron Lewis:
Boom. Nice.
Alex Lazaris:
And then maybe we'll do, like, a quick little bit of that. Just a little bit of that boom. Keep the momentum going forward.
Kieron Lewis:
Keep it I believe we are good for it.
Alex Lazaris:
Cool. Close enough? Good enough. I'm going to wash my hands of that. I think it's strong. We got a gradient in there. I think it's fun. The Van mockup is also from Supply family. Go check it out. They've got some really good stuff. Something about don't tell me something because I'll make more memes in Chat. I know, memes. But anyways, really quick recap. We've made a billboard. Not that one. We've made better billboards. We've got the posters, we did the orbs. I ended up doing a little bit of this off stream yesterday. Got the mockups going, started to lay out some collateral with it. Let me pull out that. We got our soccer jersey that we did. We've got our logo done as well. We've got a ton of patterns, both kind of the V, the O, the X's all kind of making their own. We've also got some standalone patterns as well. Honestly, I had a lot of fun building these. I think we could still explore the gradient stuff a lot more. I think that was a great idea from both you and Chat. I think it was awesome. I want to explore it more. We ended up building or having a secondary typeface that kind of felt a little bit more alive or not as bit e. What else do we have? We did this mockup over here. Read these. Very small. We did fire extinguisher. We did this billboard mockup that was all crypto trading style. We did the soccer screen from yesterday and then the kit. I think I got all of it. Oh, we also did this also.
Kieron Lewis:
I almost forgot about that.
Alex Lazaris:
How can we forget that one in all its glory.
Kieron Lewis:
Dude, it's been an absolute pleasure. I mean, I feel like everyone has kind of seen the nice transition from day one to day two and hopefully you guys have been inspired from what you have seen. Alex, how can they find out about you, man? Just like a quick minute. I think actually might have had the chat already. Foul. Might have even.
Alex Lazaris:
So essentially come on over to my behance. Hang out with me thereance. Net. Alex Lazaris:. Last name is L-A-Z-A-R-I-S. That's where all my stuff is. That's where I'm hanging out. Ping me if you have any questions or need anything or you can go to my agency website which is wearlazaris.com and just keep in touch. We're going to put this on the behance later on, probably in a couple of weeks.
Kieron Lewis:
Well, my lovely people, I think that is kind of time for the time's up now. So just a little wrap up. Adobe Live. We're back tomorrow with our evangelist for a full day of Masterclasses followed by a new episode of Office Hours with Nick Longo and Andrew Hochradel. So you won't want to miss that. My folks. Alex, it's been a pleasure, dude, hosting you, man. I knew it would be awesome. And it definitely doesn't disappoint. Thank you to you lovely people in the chat. Again, without you guys, there'll be no Adobe Live. And of course, to our moderators and team at Adobe Live. So on that note, take care, my friends. Be safe and we'll see you very, very soon.
Alex Lazaris:
Thank you. Bye.
