{"id":563,"date":"2021-06-10T20:01:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/?page_id=563"},"modified":"2022-05-11T20:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T20:25:39","slug":"my-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/tobineckstein\/my-work\/","title":{"rendered":"My Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TOBIN ELIAS ECKSTEIN<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3RD YEAR CAPILANO UNIVERSITY (IDEA) STUDENT<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DESIGN | ILLUSTRATION <\/em>| INTERACTIVE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heart & Hearth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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100 Projec<\/strong>t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My theme for this project was 100 Renditions of the Same Drawing<\/strong>. I wanted to explore different techniques of digital illustration to broaden my own style, as well as improve my efficiency in the iPad program Procreate. Featured below are just a handful of the squares that I illustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the themes featured in Tobin’s 100 drawings include (Top left to Bottom Right) his original drawing, Castlevania, Tearaway, Ukiyo-e, Realistic Painting, Attack on Titan, Caricature, Cel-Shading, and The Boondocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Service Dog Fabric Design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My dog, Salix, is a psychiatric service dog in-training (sdit) and it is very helpful for him to wear something plainly stating this in order to mitigate the number of people distracting him. Below is an in-progress fabric pattern that will be used for Salix\u2019s vest, which will feature patches such as \u201cservice dog in-training\u201d and \u201cdo not pet\u201d. Although the characters are generic, they are representations of me and Salix enjoying our days together as a team!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tobin has depicted a ghost and his dog hanging out at the park, cuddling in bed, going to school and sharing an ice cream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Book Cover Design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purpose of this assignment was to design a book cover and spine that uses typographic expressionism as its main point of communication. With my chosen title being \u2018Blindness\u2019, using an eye chart was an obvious thumbnail sketch, and yet one of my least favourites to start with! My instructor pushed me to explore this idea further, and I’m very glad that I did! I’m very proud of my execution with this design and it\u2019s given me a lot more confidence in my conceptual ideas and design ability moving forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tobin’s cover design for the book Blindness by Jose Saramago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Documentary<\/strong> Premiere Poster <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was commissioned by Sean + Steve to design an alternative poster for their documentary, Someone Like Me, a film that follows a group of queer strangers who are tasked with supporting the resettlement of Drake, a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Vancouver, Canada. I didn’t want any aspect of Drake’s identity to be placed as more crucial than the other, and so I featured a sort of rainbow flag through South African foliage to help to soften the hyper-masculine image that all men, but especially black men, are expected to maintain. The gradient in the background goes from black, yellow to red; the colours of the Ugandan flag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drake is shown walking thoughtfully through a field of native African flowers in this alternative poster Tobin created for the Sean + Steve film, Someone Like Me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Psychedelic Album Cover<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not especially knowledgeable on the \u201960s…my parents were teens in the grunge era. I had Beastie Boys and Tool, not The Beatles or The Doors. So, all of the 1960\u2019s education I received was from the grooviest man himself: Austin Powers. My vinyl cover imagines \u2018The Fembots\u2019 from the films as a chart-topping girl group, spreading radical love through song and their aphrodisiac spraying nipple barrels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fembots are looking groovy in this psychedelic album cover, Baby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Swissted Style Band Gig Poster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our brief for this project was to design a band poster in the Swiss Style AKA National Typographic Style. I chose to represent Beck, for his convenient bright colour usage, and Tool, simply because they are a favourite band of mine. Swiss style features minimalist geometry, sans serif typefaces and asymmetrical layouts, all to support the key purpose of simplicity, objectivity and readability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Left to right) Tobin’s designs for Beck live at Commodore Ballroom, Tool live at Rogers Arena v.1 and Tool live at Rogers Arena v.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grunge Album Cover<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The classic grunge-era band, Alice in Chains, was a major influence in all heavy metal that came after it. Their highest-selling album to date, Dirt, received critical acclaim, but I’ve personally never LOVED the design. I decided to help out with that by redoing the album in a way that, I believe, the late Layne Staley would approve of. The model in the original cover had to hold her bladder for six hours while she was buried in clay and dirt then photographed. As soon as the camera was put down, she further crumbled the environment around her and ran to the bathroom. My design imagines a more blasphemous situation, in which she did not make it in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The alternative cover Tobin designed for Alice in Chain’s chart-topping album, Dirt, centres on a bound woman on the cross relieving herself. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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International Shopping Bag Design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always held immense respect and interest in Polynesian culture, so I decided to expand my knowledge of their customs by designing a shopping bag for Hawaii. I wanted the focus to be on K\u0101kau, the ancient art of tattooing, as well as fire dancing. All of the tattoos featured on this figure are real designs from native Hawaiians. He is also wearing a malo and grass adornments at the knees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A mocked up paper bag version of Tobin’s Hawaiian shopping bag design.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Conceptual Movie\/Show Poster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a metaphor, analogy or pun, we were to encompass the essence of a show’s plot through a poster design. I chose to represent Ridley Scott’s HBO Max sci-fi drama, Raised by Wolves, which follows two androids raising human children on Kepler-22b after Earth was destroyed by a war between the Mithraic and Atheists. The visual metaphor of the mountain range morphing into a wolf behind mother expresses not only the title but the emotional and physical changes she goes through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mother and all of her late children walk hand in hand on this conceptual poster design for Raised by Wolves, designed by Tobin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Improved App<\/strong> Prototype<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was tasked with improving Pinterest’s current app design. The frustrating aspects of the existing app included a busy\/clunky feed, unreliable sources, and ads that looked like regular posts. These are the main changes I implemented in my prototype: <\/p>\n\n\n\n