You Can't Miss This: Alphabet and Other Things Not Kanye

Wooo for Complex this week!

The first thing I bring to you is a visual interpretation of the alphabet brought to you by The Pompadaur. 

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The next treat I have for you from Complex is a minimal look at Disnet movies. Eat Now has an essence of minimalism to it, so I can appreciate these. Here are some of my faves. Check out the rest here. They're pretty awesome.

Lastly, I have for you some rap stuff because what would a Nick Williams blog be without something rap. Here we have classic rap album covers with comic book characters. I'm not comic buff, but these still make me chuckle. My fave is the Biggie cover. I'll show you the original first.

Its considered a classic design and sonically. Now here's the comic interpretation. 

Here's another classic by Nas. Illmatic.

Aaand here we have the comic remix.

Not as awesome as the Biggie one, but still pretty funny.

Response: Dear John

Presenting these M word projects have been pretty intense. I ran into some last second problems on the presentation side of things last week. Thanks Issuu for failing me. Anyway, The Eat Now design team showed something way more put together than what I presented on Tuesday. There's still some edits to take care of, but Eat Now is shaping up to be super awesome. Dare I say dope.

Impressing John has become a strange obsession of mine. He has an anonymous vibe to him and he's terribly difficult to read. I thought he loathed my first designs I presented to the publishing team. Again, I thought he hated the latest designs I showed. However, as the presentation winded down he said something awesome. He called the magazine, as a whole, "fresh." I might be looking into that a tad too much, but to me that's exactly what I wanted to do with Eat Now. I wanted something new, original all the while not coming off to pretentious but still super "artsy."

Critique: Book covers

This assignment was a pain at times, but it was a nice departure from  the M word designs. I'll talk about some of my faves.

This was one of those star aligning moments. Easily my favorite, I was kind of bummed at first because the bars weren't really lighting up like I wanted them to. They popped like I wanted them too when I placed the silhouette there. It's pretty conceptual, so I don't think conservative minds will go for the whole drunken flag thing. Anyway, I love it.

This was a design I had to get out of my mind a la Ms. Hall. I had the title stuck in my head, so I went for it. I'll switch the title out for the right now and attempt to make some sticker-esque beer cans and women for the helmet.

Low key, this was one of my favorites too. I'm on a morphing photos together kick lately. This kick was definitely an influence from Ms. Landis.  This particular cover didn't garner many votes, but noneless I loved it.

There's another morph job.

These book covers were pretty fun, and I'm definitely looking forward to showing the publishing folks some "atypical" stuff.