Meghan Taylor: Illustration & Graphic Design

Mural Full of Data

One of my latest murals is an infographic! Read all about it on my graphic design blog.

Gratitude Illustrated

Happy first day of spring! I am starting a new art project today that will last the whole year: 365 Days of Gratitude.  The plan? Each day I make an illustration of something wonderful that I’m grateful for. The point? Well, to inspire gratitude within myself, which definitely has positive ripples into everything else. This project has the added effect of honing my illustration skills. Enjoy!

http://gratitudedrawings.tumblr.com/

Graphic Design: 14 Feet Wide

This weekend I am indulging in a project that marries my two entrepreneurial branches together: murals and graphic design. I will be painting an infographic design onto 10’ x 14’ wall for an office space in Manhattan.

The final design was developed through continuous and compelling communications with the client, and inspired by their own brand identity. The interesting challenge for this mural is  not simply aesthetic, (though it will certainly be visually arresting and exciting). However, the design is also meant to serve as an information reference for staff. The main aspect of the design is a graphically depicted world map made up of tiny dots. The additional directive I received was that it should also represent world timezones. Yikes! Have you ever seen how complex a timezone map is? The sheer amount of data, numbers and pictures, can be a bit intimidating. My main challenge was: how to express this data and keep the mural clean, gorgeous, vibrant, and easy-to-understand?  So I sat down with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil and began brainstorming. I am happy to say the ideas blossomed, and after kicking around my concept with the client for a bit, we settled on a design that satisfies all the mural standards for quality, aesthetics and informational reference. Check back next week to see what I do to their wall!

irish zombie invasion!

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My “I heart Irish Zombies” t-shirt design is up for votes at Threadless.com. Please vote for me (a “5” is best) if you like it!

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Lessons in Beer and Art

Ah, alcohol and paint – to me this is a blissfully perfect union. I indulged in this very pairing last week during an orientation and training for Blue Moon Beer and its campaign for beer-centric Community Created Art. (More updates on this forthcoming. Suffice it to say that soon I will be in bars in NYC helping fellow beer drinkers make art and learn about Blue Moon).

What I got from the training was a wonderful lesson in the history of Blue Moon, and great respect for its founder and master brewers. It is definitely a craft beer, and tasting Blue Moon’s other beer inventions was a delightful and explorative adventure for the tastebuds.

I also met a plethora of other muralists (wow, ever been in a room with 30 other people with the exact same, very specific, interest in common? Its startling how the conversation gets so detailed so fast.), which was completely inspiring. I am excited to start working with Blue Moon on this campaign. yay for art, beer, and murals!

Underground Visual Treats

This is the subway station where I wait after painting class at the Art Students League. As I wait, I always find myself admiring the way the 59s are cropped via the line of black tiles running behind them… and each iteration is cropped differently, leaving different parts of the 59 to bleed into white space. Its a subtle design treat.

Wowsers, Adobe PS!

I attended an inspiring Adobe Photoshop presentation this past weekend at Sarah Silver’s Photography Studio, where we got to check out what’s coming down the line for Adobe PS. As is, Photoshop is sheer magic to me. Well, they upped the magical capacity 10 fold with new and easier to use Liquefy functions and more functional Content Aware fill. I am perpetually in awe of you, Photoshop.

Illustration Friday: Suspense