THIS IS SERGIO

I kind of want to get a tattoo of something like this. It's inspired by a book that I read this summer titled "flow." Hence, the design. Flow is a theory developed by a psychologist named Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and it describes really well what passion is all about. Highly recommended, read more about it here.

bored/at/work

Two recent prints that I designed as gifts for the people at two of the places I work at.

I used to have a job that consisted of requesting money to alumni for my school's fund. Most of the refusals blamed it on the economy and how the current financial crisis has changed their philanthropic priorities. While listening to their reasons I sketched what it was in my mind about their economic problems. Then I vectorized it.

Exploring minimalist design.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

During the period of political liberalization of early 1968 Czechoslovakia an unknown artist created a print with now legendary protest phrase: "make art not war" which illustrated a kid holding a protest sign marching towards a soldier. Later on the artwork was first used as a source in the print Dis Obey (Phenomenology, etc. check them out here) which now does big propaganda campaigns based on street art.

Anyway, after seeing the print this summer I really liked not only the work, but the idea and meaning behind it. Stimulating and questioning are key reactions to Obey campaigns, and it inspired me to do some good old playing with photoshop. Enjoi.