2013 International CorelDRAW Design Competition entries are in.

[Joe Diaz]

The 2013 International CorelDRAW Design Contest entries are in. Here is what I submitted: http://coreldraw.com/media/p/195408.aspx Check out some of the other entries. Some pretty cool stuff this year. Be sure to rank them and leave comments.


Also, since my entry was kind of designed to be looked at up close (there is a lot of detail work) and the images on the Corel site are kind of small, I figured I'd post some high-res versions of the design(s)


http://diazsignart.com/photos_to_post/Our_Volition_Compassion_High_Res.jpg
http://diazsignart.com/photos_to_post/Our_Volition_Corruption_High_Res.jpg


Let me know what you think.

 

[Pat Whatley]

Incredible work Joe. I love the way with this and the Stella's ad there's enough really good Victorian era sign design (combined with the great concepts and illustration) to add an air of authenticity to them.

Poster time!

 

[Ursta Graphics]

Absolutely Killer!

I'm taking it Bioshock was the inspiration for this one?

 

[Joe Diaz]

Absolutely Killer!

I'm taking it Bioshock was the inspiration for this one?

Oh yeah, that and Iron Giant, Dave Smith, among a bunch of other stuff. Funny thing is though, I started on this before the new Bioshock came out. At the time I was thinking Venice, but after playing through it, I'm sure it influenced the final product. I think that's where the idea of having signs all over the buildings came from.

 

[Joe Diaz]

Did anyone notice the jab at Adobe CC?:Big Laugh

 

[RaptorRay]

attack of the cloud LOL

 

[HulkSmash]

outstanding work.

 

[tattoo.dan]

simply amazing...excellent work Joe!

 

[custom sign center]

I've been using Corel for quite a while and I hate to say I still have so many things to learn. YOU, my friend are an inspiration to learn those things! Bravo!

 

[Pixels Are Bad Mmmkay?]

Those are terrible. Please stop making art. Haha!

Really, these pieces are just amazing. Others may disagree with me, but I think these blow Stella's out of the water. The detail is incredible and although I'm not into whatever game was mentioned, I love the theme here. I would pay top dollar to frame nice prints like these. Can you possibly elaborate on these with some stats? I'm interested to know how much time was invested as well as how many curves are in these images. Maybe you could post a wireframe image?

 

[JP4]

Very nice....

 

[Billct2]

Wow...just wow

 

[JR's]

x100

 

[SignManiac]

Humbled

 

[iprint]

Those are terrible. Please stop making art. Haha!

Really, these pieces are just amazing. Others may disagree with me, but I think these blow Stella's out of the water. The detail is incredible and although I'm not into whatever game was mentioned, I love the theme here. I would pay top dollar to frame nice prints like these. Can you possibly elaborate on these with some stats? I'm interested to know how much time was invested as well as how many curves are in these images. Maybe you could post a wireframe image?

Great work! I enjoy your style. I too am curious how much time was put into these.

 

[2B]

 

[Joe Diaz]

I too am curious how much time was put into these.

That's a tricky one to answer. I anticipated being asked this question, because I was asked that same question a bunch on the design I entered in the last contest they had. So I started keeping track but the farther I got into it, I began to realize how futile my efforts of tracking my time was. The main reason is I would work on this off the clock. 15 min here, half an hour there. Rarely I would spend more than 2 hours on it, and even if I did keep track of all those hours I spent, as you probably already know, you can get a lot more accomplished working 4 hour strait then eight 30 min sessions. Plus most of the work was done at home with the TV on, so I would be distracted by something happening on TV, then hit it hard during commercial breaks. LOL. I'm guessing here, and this is a huge stab in the dark...
maybe 80 hours ???

 

[SignManiac]

The level of complexity in them, I see eighty hours being no problem at all. Time flies when you're having fun!

 

[laserman70]

Joe,
Every project inspires all of us.
Your work is amazing

Thanks for sharing

 

[Marlene]

it was fun to see your FB posts with a little piece at a time. really awsome Joe. you are such a major talent

clicked on the high res and that is a must do! love the way you have part of the neon out so the sign says "HATE". so cool