Jankosh Logo

Jankosh Logo

After 6 years I decided to recreate my personal logo so that it reflects more of who I am and what I am doing here. Logo that I used since 2008 felt a bit outdated. Currently I am not sure what I meant by it, but I guess it had to do with complexity of the human-mind labyrinth. Initially I wanted to use the so called sacred geometry principles but in the end I found it would be just a pose. I realize that this geometry deeply connects not only to my body, atomic structures or everything in existence, but I also learned not to insist on something just because I like it. I decided to create something that will more reflect the person who others call Tomáš Jankó or Jankosh – this body that I currently inhabit. This logo is a certain typographic play of letters that form my nickname and it depicts the wholeness of the male and the female principles we all have. Nobody is “pure male” or “pure female”. Integration of these principles assisted me a lot in understanding of what is going on inside of me and in further expanding my consciousness. Plus, supposedly, my new logo looks like a smiley...
Jedno.Duchost Logo

Jedno.Duchost Logo

There is a beautiful word play going on here. Translation of the word “jednoduchost” from Czech language is “simplicity”, but word-to-word translation would be something like “one-spiritness”. Creation of this sign was an interesting challenge. Main principle of this project is to spread both “materialistic” and spiritual information and to do it like from higher perspective (that we humans lack sometimes) and – most importantly – to put things SIMPLY. Also, there is an emphasis to remind every individual of his/her uniqueness, power and responsibility and what it means to be a human being on planet Earth. Part of designing this logo was exploration of sacred geometry and certain mathematical sequences and ratios, such as Fibonacci’s sequence or the golden ratio. However, after tens of hours of experimentation I found that some designs were way too esoteric and complicated.   Even though I came across some interesting designs, I ended up with two simple forms – triangle and circle. These have various spiritual meanings on their own, but main intention was to depict Unity Consciousness that will be the basis of the age we are heading to, even though it may not seem like that at...
IBCIP visual style

IBCIP visual style

IBCIP stands for International Breakdance Camp in Podivín and it is name of dance weekend camp that takes places twice a year in Podivín. Its main goal is to unite streetdancers, b-boy, b-girls, parkourists and gymnasts among others while generating interesting experience, ahem. So far, last addition to original logo is the word Battle. I did that because of first officially publicly accessible battle. This logo is base for whole visual style of everything that surrounds this event – promotional graphics, video invitations and animations used in IBCIP videos. First IBCIP took place in January 2009 and since then we make documentaries from each one. Then, when next comes up, we have a movie projection and remind ourselves about what was happening last time. We also create a variety of video-invitations each time. After five years we have quite a lot of material so we’ve made a DVD from it: I created initial design in boring class at highschool in my paper notebook. Then I redrawed it on A1 format size (colored with pencils!). After that, I created a 3D version in Blender so that I can make intro animations and finally I vectorized it so that we can print it on...
Carricatures tableau

Carricatures tableau

Believe it or not, high school graduates are very playful and creative people, ahem 🙂 My sister‘s class asked me to create tableau for them, where they would be depicted as carricatures. I did this together with my schoolmates Tomas Jajcik and Michal Vacek. Hand drawings are combined with digital...
Absinthe brochure

Absinthe brochure

Work from graphic design class at Multimedia College of Arts in Jihlava. Combination of bitmap graphics, watercolor painting and ink drawing. Our task was to create a brochure about arbitrary topic and by that time I just loved the Absinthe. And I mean the real one – with old ritual of dripping icecold water through sugar cube put on holey spoon right into the Absinthe which caused it to change its colour from transparent green to milky white. The new ritual of setting sugar sodden in absinthe on fire is fabricated to boost up the sales, just like the process of creating this strange substance that has not much in common with the original recipe. Just for the record, I decided to stop using such substances in order to gain “altered states of consciousness” more organicaly. Very interesting experience to remember all the parties and feeling all right the next...
Alien metamorphosis

Alien metamorphosis

Final work for Art subject at College Of Multimedia Arts in Jihlava. Our task was to choose our favorite artist and to create some art according to his style. Choosing mr. H. R. Giger was sure choice! Initial sketch made with pencil on A4, then redrawn with tablet on A1 size and finally, silk-screen printing. I lost the original data so the picture below is photo of that final print, hence the glitches – sorry...
Carlos 2D animation

Carlos 2D animation

Semestral work for Graphic Design 2009/2010. A story about mexican slug and Deepwater Horizon oil refinery. Animated in...
Graffiti

Graffiti

My attempts to create graffiti. Time span: 2007-2009. Every piece started with small sketch on paper. Top left (Monča, for Monica) and under that (Bart) were then hand-drawn with graphic tablet. Below that (Zuzi, for Susan) is recreated and rendered in Blender. Top right says “AlkoClub” and is like 2,4 x 1,8 meters big, painted with tempered colors mixed with alcohol. And the last one on bottom right (Týňule, for Christine) was vectorized in Photoshop. I just now realized that I used only yellow color for letters, that’s not much original,...
CD booklet

CD booklet

This was a school task – to create a CD Booklet with our top 10 most important life experiences. Again, combination of techniques – initial sketches made with pen on paper and then sacanned and finalized in Photoshop to create sort of a memory feeling. 10 memorable experiences Life is like tonic. If you can’t relish it, it feels bitter. The beginning There was no Word in the beginning. There were cells. And they were two. Fascination Who was here before? Whose are those giant skeletons? Universe Star Wars Universe solved the final moral question: good or evil? One day I’ll have to get my own spaceship! Upside down I know of no greater joy than to relish the landscape from different perspective. Blender The Magic of some small things lies within their MAGNIFICENCE. Change of attitude Physics teacher – she could turn the lesson into hell but she would make you think RATIONALLY. Some things just force you to change your approach. The Green Fairy Sometimes I wonder how little you need to be happy. The green in the glass – recommended by 5 of 5 doctors! Rebirth There came the need to change the world – by changing myself. Was that change for the better? Dark thoughts You’ll find the other side of the coin just after you hit the bottom. The New Era Suddenly, everything was fine. But what comes tomorrow? Just a note: today I do not hold the same beliefs as I did back in 2009 😉 All that previous experience was interesting, but life is NOW and worrying is mind stuff, not that of Heart. So I choose...