MYLES THOMPSON
versatile, cinematic, cultured, experimental
print — digital
portfolio vol.
1
01
WELCOME TO MY
portfolio vol.
1
03
FEATURED PROJECTS
information architecture, web design, UI路UX
PG, 11 PG, 5
print design, photography
environmental typography
a bit about me
PG, 13 PG, 9 PG, 7
motion, UI路UX,, narrative
MOTION
WALL STREET JOURNAL HOMAGE
MEND
MYLES LAMAR THOMPSON
1015
c.e.
The Camera Obscura was created.
1675 ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ possibly painted with a camera obscura by Johannes Vermeer.
evolution of the camera | retrospective of memories
Most popular camera of the 70’s Canon AE-1.
clothing design & craft
digital art, collage
print, time line, information
advertisement, digital art
packaging, branding, print
1970
1837
Frenchmen, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre creates the first Daguerreotype.
1984
1840 First photo of the moon ever taken.
1861 First permanent color photograp.
1878 Muybridge used High-speed photography to make the first animated image sequences photographed in.
Polaroid Film Cameras.
1988
1888
First Digital Camera.
The year Eastman Kodak, Founded Kodak.
2011 Salt Grain Camera.
1900
Kodak Makes the first N.1 Brownie Camera.
1902
GINSENG UP REDESIGN PG, 15
PHX AM AD 2015 PG, 17
1946 First photo of earth was taken.
Camera Obscura
1015
When light is passed through a small hole or into a dark space it creates the image of what is shown on the outside of it. This creates and upside-down image. Many painters used this optical invention to sketch their paintings without any flaws. Some think the eye was the first real camera because it works in the same way. Light is passed through retina projecting the image on the wall of your eye; your brain does the rest of the work and flips it right-side up for you to view.
Arthur Korn devises practical telephotography technology.
CAPTURING A RETROSPECTIVE
GLORIFIED SNEAKERS + GLORIFIED PAINTINGS
1913 First 35mm Camera.
PG, 19
Daguerreotype
1837
This camera was created by a Frenchmen who goes by the name of, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, He began experimenting with the effects of light upon translucent paintings in the 1820s. The Daguerreotype takes about 15 minutes to fully expose a photo. This is why people in most photos taken by daguerreotypes have a straight or frowning face. Moreover, This camera also created the first wet plate printing process, which heightened the danger factor of photography. They used harmful types of acids, which were corrosive to the skin and lungs.
Brownie Camera
1900
The Kodak Brownie Camera was the first camera that was affordable to the general public. It was made by Eastman Kodak The most simple Brownie started at a price of about 1$. It held the basic premise of a point and shoot camera. It was released in February 1900 and brought photography to the masses. Now anyone could easily take a photos anywhere and anytime Their slogan was "You push the button, we do the rest."
PG, 21
35mm Camera
1913
13mm was the original size of film for movie cameras, but in 1913 Leica came out with the first 35mm camera. This camera revolutionized photography, it was small enough for one to carry in their hand and around your body. It was also used a lot in WWI and WWII. Most of them were made out of solid metal or mahogany wood. Although these cameras were made to perfom, they were not made to last. There are only a few original 35mm cameras left in the world to this date.
Polaroid Film
1984
This was the first camera that allowed you to instantly create a photo without the use of the dark room. This camera is know as the first real WYSIWYG camera. The function of light in the camera worked the same way, but the film that it was exposed on to work better than the 35mm film. This made this camera revolutionary in the way that anyones could now develop film just by simply taking a photo. This was mostly made to adhere to amateur photographers much like the Brownie
Digital Camera
METAPHY LIFESTYLE.CO PG, 23
1988
Electronic sensors were made, this allowed one image to turn into millions of little pixels. This type of technology allowed everyone to delete photos and take new ones at the click of a button, this changed the way we saw the world and it still does today. SLRS are what most people use today, forever changing the way we look at photography in todays captivating world.
05
myles lamar thompson
A BIT ABOUT ME Myles Thompson is a versatile graphic designer and creative thinker from Brooklyn, ny. Growing up In New York City, Myles was surrounded by a plethora of cultures and color which is highly reminiscent in his design work. He admires and takes to heart the amount of people who move to the city to create something of themselves and ultimately give back to the community through that creation. When Myles moved to Arizona in 2005 he developed a passion for skateboarding. To Myles skateboarding became an artistic outlet to anything he could put his mind to. He created skate videos, took photos, and painted his old used skateboards to create work. Myles gives a lot of credit to the skateboarding culture because it opened the doors to graphic design.
ME & DESIGN
I was really into painting before I got into design.
Inspired by film and photography much of Myles work is made to captivate a viewer while still creating a clear message. His bold use of color and cultural awareness can be found in his work, which comes as an influence from his home, Brooklyn, NY. Myles Thompson enjoys graphic design due to the endless possibilities that it entails. One of his largest passions is skateboarding and he feel thats design and skateboarding share interesting parallels in the way of progression and possibility. According to Myles, design and skateboarding never really has one complete totality. He thinks it can always be pushed or reshaped to created a new form that feels natural. Myles enjoys that design is a way of communicating with other people; there is always collaboration to be held. According to Myles, a conversation in graphic design can be him talking and collaborating with a partner, or having a silent conversation with a passerby. To him it is about the conversation and instilling a connection. In addition, Myles thinks that these connections through design can be a catalyst for a positive change in the world. To Myles, design involves just as much thinking as it does creating. He enjoys the fact that design uses philosophy, psychology, and art to form a message.
key words: versatile, cinematic, cultured, experimental
I LOVE TO SKATEBOARD
Tearing my acl put me in a place where designed became everything I did.
07
mend
“GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENTS GO BEYOND THE PRINTED PAGE.” ARTNotes —Brian Spano
MEND PROJECT STATEMENT environmental typography We used "Mend" at a variety of closed schools in Kansas City, Missouri. Our goal was to raise awareness of the unspoken youth that are affected by the recent shutdowns of schools in the metro area. Using the typeface Clarendon we constructed the word out of foam-core, moss and synthetic flowers. Our main idea for using these materials is to symbolize growth and rejuvenation in the school system. We hope that once the complex issue of these schools are mended then growth in the minds of the youth can occur.
Collaboration between—Samantha Yates, Patrick Stone and myself.
key words: rejuvenation, growth, rebuild
Switzer Elementary School — Closed 2006
09
homage
HOMAGE
print design, photography
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.
key words: transparent, grity, duality
011
wsj
WALL STREET JOURNAL REDESIGN PROJECT STATEMENT
information architecture, web design, UI路UX The is a hypothetical redesign for the Wall Street Journal's website. The overall goal was to increase the users interactive experience. Organization of all the sites information was key in bring the site together as a whole. Below you may see some of the most important pages on the site and their key functions.
market watch page This is the Market Watch page were the user can have a more in-depth understanding of their stocks via Google. Like the home page the user will see stocks that pertain mostly to them and if they'd like to; they can simply tab over to other stocks. The user may also search for stocks if they cant find what they are looking for. These functions will allow the user high accessibility to any stocks they need to look at.
key words: accessible, sophisticated, modern
Something like this might be perfect for those business men on the go, who need to check stocks or get the latest updates on the new stories. The WSJ Apple Watch app would allow for something the like that. The user will have glances modes, notifications, this is something Apple stressed most about due to the functionality of the watch.
013
motion
“EXPLORING MOTION INFLUENCED THE WAY I LOOK AT DESIGN AS A WHOLE.”
PROJECT STATEMENTS A Piano This is a cinema based motion interpretation of one of Gertrude Steins poem. Using captivating visuals of a piano, both on macro and micro scales. As well as, typography, which was used to integrate Stein’s messages seamlessly with her videos
Fred Hersch Trio —Save The Date The second collection of motion strips (on the right) are from the Folly Poster projects. This video functions ad a ‘save the date’ for the Fred Hersch Trio Performance. The video only uses elements from the ordinal poster design.
key words: narrative, immersive, dynamic
WANNA SEE THESE THINGS MOVE? mylesthompsoncreative.com/motion
015
ginseng up
key words: healthy, modern, fresh
GINSENG UP PACKAGE DESIGN PROJECT STATEMENT
packaging, branding, print This is a hypothetical rebrand/package design for Ginseng Up. The Key words I chose to help guide my process through this project were: healthy, modern, and fresh. In edition, I used logos and ethos by showing what the fruits actually looked like as well as, showing the ginseng leaf and berries. I used the typeface Big John & Slim Joe as the primary typefaces because they are Geometric Sans. They can be broken down into simple platonic shapes like fruit can. I also made the the healthy aspects of the drink more important on the package by making it larger and changing color. Lastly I created I 4–pack carrying case. The function of the cause to maybe have more people by them once since they are pretty cheap. In theory this would further that sales of the company. On the case I pushed the brand of Ginseng Up through the typography, color and image.
017
COWTOWN SKATEBOARDS PHX AM 2015 print design, photography
DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.
these a some of the parts I designed to the 2015 PHXAM ad in collaboration with Ed Cox.
019
capturing a retrospective
—THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, HAS SHAPED THE WAY WE SEE THE WORLD.
CAPTURING A RETROSPECTIVE PROJECT STATEMENT
Print, Photography, Information architecture
35mm
This timeline captures the progression on the camera as well as the progression of my own personal photography. I wanted chronologically show the history of the camera while also showing the gritty process of photography. The imagery conveys the message that photography is also a compilation of memories; hence the name ‘Capturing A Retrospective. Capturing is blurred to communicate the sense of focusing a camera. The large ring that occupies most of the space around the image is a abstracted camera lens. I got this idea from thinking about how complex the lens is and what parts make it up. The dates follow the lens on the outside and move in as the viewer gets closer to a present date. Moreover, I wanted to logical tell some of the key points in photography’s history and how it has shaped the way we see the world, through having small but informational snippets of text at the bottom. I also did this around the timeline by marking sub-landmarks in the cameras history. In addition, I wanted to show that photography hasn’t always been a clean process, thinking about origins of it a used a 35mm photo I took which has a lot of texture, grim and grit, for the background.
key words: intricate, gritty, recollection
1015
c.e.
The Camera Obscura was created.
1675 ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ possibly painted with a camera obscura by Johannes Vermeer.
evolution of the camera | retrospective of memories 1970
1837
Most popular camera of the 70’s Canon AE-1.
Frenchmen, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre creates the first Daguerreotype.
1840 First photo of the moon ever taken.
1861 First permanent color photograp.
1878
1984
Muybridge used High-speed photography to make the first animated image sequences photographed in.
Polaroid Film Cameras.
1988
1888
First Digital Camera.
The year Eastman Kodak, Founded Kodak.
2011 Salt Grain Camera.
1900
Kodak Makes the first N.1 Brownie Camera.
1902 Arthur Korn devises practical telephotography technology.
1913
1946
First 35mm Camera.
First photo of earth was taken.
Camera Obscura
1015
When light is passed through a small hole or into a dark space it creates the image of what is shown on the outside of it. This creates and upside-down image. Many painters used this optical invention to sketch their paintings without any flaws. Some think the eye was the first real camera because it works in the same way. Light is passed through retina projecting the image on the wall of your eye; your brain does the rest of the work and flips it right-side up for you to view.
Daguerreotype
1837
This camera was created by a Frenchmen who goes by the name of, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, He began experimenting with the effects of light upon translucent paintings in the 1820s. The Daguerreotype takes about 15 minutes to fully expose a photo. This is why people in most photos taken by daguerreotypes have a straight or frowning face. Moreover, This camera also created the first wet plate printing process, which heightened the danger factor of photography. They used harmful types of acids, which were corrosive to the skin and lungs.
Brownie Camera
1900
The Kodak Brownie Camera was the first camera that was affordable to the general public. It was made by Eastman Kodak The most simple Brownie started at a price of about 1$. It held the basic premise of a point and shoot camera. It was released in February 1900 and brought photography to the masses. Now anyone could easily take a photos anywhere and anytime Their slogan was "You push the button, we do the rest."
35mm Camera
1913
13mm was the original size of film for movie cameras, but in 1913 Leica came out with the first 35mm camera. This camera revolutionized photography, it was small enough for one to carry in their hand and around your body. It was also used a lot in WWI and WWII. Most of them were made out of solid metal or mahogany wood. Although these cameras were made to perfom, they were not made to last. There are only a few original 35mm cameras left in the world to this date.
Polaroid Film
1984
This was the first camera that allowed you to instantly create a photo without the use of the dark room. This camera is know as the first real WYSIWYG camera. The function of light in the camera worked the same way, but the film that it was exposed on to work better than the 35mm film. This made this camera revolutionary in the way that anyones could now develop film just by simply taking a photo. This was mostly made to adhere to amateur photographers much like the Brownie
Digital Camera
1988
Electronic sensors were made, this allowed one image to turn into millions of little pixels. This type of technology allowed everyone to delete photos and take new ones at the click of a button, this changed the way we saw the world and it still does today. SLRS are what most people use today, forever changing the way we look at photography in todays captivating world.
021
glorified sneakers + glorified paintings
GLORIFIED SNEAKERS + GLORIFIED PAINTINGS PROJECT STATEMENT collage art, shoe design
It’s exciting when, people that work for companies you look up to, reach out to you because your work has inspired them in some way.
Creating harmony between two worlds using texture, form, and color a tribiute to classic art and classic senakers. What I liked most about the paintings are the intense amount of detail and texture they hold and I thought it would be interesting to take micro portions of the painting to recreate some of my favorite skate shoes and sneakers with. Matching the shoes with the painting was done through context of the painting or colorway of the shoe. For example I combined the painting of Napoleon Crossing The Alps (Jacques Louis David) with the Nike Air Yeezy 2 because of connotations both Napoleon and Kanye bring, (or at least at the time of his last album). For some of the shoes I tried to replicate some existing color-ways, and for the others I created my own. Lastly, I thought it would be interesting to superimpose these shoes back into the painting to see if the shoe would fit.
keywords: culture, depth, exploration,
The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
COMPLEX MAGAZINE FEATURE “This Artist Blends Classical Paintings and Sneakers Into Dope Designs We Wish Were Real” A great painting is one that has and will continue to stand the test of time, and the same can be said for a great sneaker silhouette. Sneaker designers strive to create shoes that people will actually want (duh), and sneakerheads tend to be loyal to certain styles, long after the 'beasts have moved on to the latest drop. In a new series of artworks, Myles Thompson took his favorite skate shoes and sneakers and paired them with classical paintings that he felt matched the "context of the painting or colorway of the shoe." Thompson applied the artwork to the sneakers, and also found interesting ways to incorporate them into the original paintings. "I combined the painting of Napoleon Crossing The Alps (Jacques Louis David) with the Nike Air Yeezy 2 because of connotations both Napoleon and Kanye bring," said the artist in an email. "For some of the shoes I tried to replicate some existing colorways, and for the others I created my own." —andrew lasane
023
metaphy lifestyle co.
METAPHY LIFESTYLE CO.– SUMMER 14 CAMPCAP LINE PROJECT STATEMENT
print, photography, sewing, All of the following hats were hand crafted and hand made by me over the summer of 2014. I also shot, edited and created the motion graphics for the video below. The summer project focused on the authenticity of hand made products. The video below eludes to that idea by showing some of the tools used to make the products along with the finished line at the end. People told me they liked that they could see the small errors in the hats. There is a nice feeling of appreciation from one human to another when they understand someone took the time and effort to create something that they're attracted — kind of like art.
key words: handmade, stylish, pattern
I made these hats, the same summer I had to get acl reconstruction surgery. It showed me that design be implemented into almost anything you make
025
WANNA SEE MORE?
www.mylesthompsoncreative.com
copyright
Š myles thompson 2015
027
thank you for viewing