Janez Plešnar

New webpage and look for Loudspeaker Alliance

2011-03-30T23:40:00.003+02:00

Praznine

2011-03-29T11:54:00.003+02:00

This is a logo for a magazine about architecture, art and design called empty spaces. The letters are reduced to the bare minimum, so that the enpty spaces between them become dominant. I made this logo together with Kaja Kisilak

NWS poster

2011-03-02T08:54:00.003+01:00

The blue sea is left for words

Ctr identity manual

2011-02-12T12:49:00.007+01:00

A fable on Scribd about how their logo should be used: Ctr priročnik

Illistrations

2010-07-01T15:26:00.004+02:00

Illustrations made for articles about reading, human nature and kids.

Hänsel und Gretel

2010-07-01T15:20:00.004+02:00

Two different takes on on the same story.

The Selfish Giant

2010-07-01T12:31:00.007+02:00

This two illustrations are based on a short story of Oscar Wilde - The Selfish Giant. I made it so they can be used in Communist China.

Logos and visual identities

2010-07-01T12:23:00.006+02:00

Here are a couple of logotypes. The first Cheap Tunes Records logo that wasn't chosen, but I still like it. It was done in a harmonious collaboration with Žiga Artnak, the second Chep tunes logo with Rok Pezdirc and the third, but not least Penhas Douradas logos with Kaja Kisilak. For Penhas Douradas we made also an visual identity with the unifying component of the rock/ heart shape and the combining of the patterns of three logotypes into the main one. But for this post the logos will do.

Portret

2010-04-16T13:53:00.004+02:00

I was thinking what is a portret and I came up with with this answer, that with portrets you always trie to depict, more or less, some layer of human consciousness. I than used an onion as a metaphore.

Agenda Cultural

2010-04-15T21:59:00.004+02:00

This is a cover for the monthly portugese magazine about culture. This months theme is books, reading and a book fair taking place in Lisbon.

Literal CTR Badges

2010-04-03T18:05:00.004+02:00

Here are a few badges for Cheap Tunes telling you how it is. Photo made by Rok Pezdirc.

Cheap Tunes Party posters

2010-03-22T17:45:00.005+01:00

Cheap Tunes records, a diy netlabel for which I am doing a redesign right now has an anual party in Ljubljana and this are the posters I made for the occasion. The first one is entitled Cut Trough Crap, then Hooked on Music and finally Saved by DIY. Nice titles are nice.

Loudspeaker Alliance, 2 people left

2010-03-22T17:22:00.004+01:00

It came to be that the original trio became a duo. In the spirit of Stalin I started a falsification of photographs removing Tomažič from all the pictures, thus altering the history of the band. I also magnified the heads of two remaining members, one of them being myself making them look more inteligent and powerfull. The result can be seen here.

New Wave Syria

2010-03-22T17:01:00.004+01:00

With my good friend Žiga Artnak we did a new look for the electronic duo New Wave Syria. The webpage was programed and put together by Domen Kostič. Here are two links: newwavesyria and myspace . More stuff coming out in the future.

No Way Serious

2010-03-22T16:42:00.004+01:00

I've been really lazy with posting on this blog - he last post i made was in september! So here are a couple of new things that I am working on, some of them finished, some of them not, but that's the beauty of blogs, getting away with work in process. I came to realize that this can't be an online portfolio. I should get a webpage for that. For all three of you out there reading this, get ready for some posts.

Loudspeaker Alliance 'Continuous Error'

2009-09-13T22:27:00.000+02:00

A digipac cd package modified so it can contain a polyphonic module that plays a melody when opened. The cover and booklet are made in the early 90's slovene pop music esthetic, that is close to the melancoly feel and irony present also in the music. The apple on the cover and interior of the cd is the forbidden fruit, an object with whom comes knowledge that should not be obtained. I used this metaphore of fruit being knowledge and I inserted gigantic fruit in old album photographs of band members as kids feasting on knowledge but finding as adults that the knowledge that is forbidden holds the key.

Billboard

2009-06-20T19:52:00.012+02:00

The billboard is now put up.

Kogl

2009-06-20T19:49:00.000+02:00

A t-shirt for Kogl winery made out of their logo

Sexual hair

2009-06-09T04:18:00.004+02:00

My stuff exhibited

2009-06-09T02:51:00.000+02:00

I've got some photos of my posters. On the left there's my poster shown at the Festival International de l'Affiche et du Graphisme de Chaumont , France and the other two are exhibited at the Poster Festival Ljubljana '09.

Reverse self portrait

2009-06-09T02:28:00.000+02:00

I found a way make a nice self portrait on the reverse. put a A4 size paper on your face an copy it with a marker. You will wish you could look like this in real life.
These are some portraits of my friends and schoolmates.

Book covers

2009-06-09T02:16:00.000+02:00

3 covers for a book series.

Our darkest hour

2009-06-09T02:10:00.000+02:00

(100x70)

Missing the point

2009-05-20T16:19:00.000+02:00

Yet another poster on the subject of climate change. This one was made in a workshop under the mentorship of Annik Troxler.

Sleepwalk into surveillance

2009-05-20T15:57:00.009+02:00

This is my illustration for a jumbo poster that will soon be displayed near the opera house in ljubljana.

NO!

2009-03-26T16:38:00.007+01:00

In the spirit of my previous blog post I tried something new and that's to clean up my messy illustrations. I came up with this somehow more "commercial" illustration. The thing that it's missing here is my personal touch. It's more generic with very little me in it. In the future I will try to correct that.

Fresh start

2009-03-25T12:09:00.003+01:00

It's almost a year that I've been posting stuff on this blog and this has given me a good position to look back on my work in the field of illustration. And if I am honest I am not proud on a single thing on it. Nothing really stuck with me when I looked at it as a whole. I would pretty much like to start over, but I'm not sure if this would be such a good idea because here and there I have found some techniques that I like and only by looking back through my blog I've been able to get a perspective on my drawings. So fuck it. But I am more than pleased that this blog has given me a motivation to draw and I shall continue to do so because I enjoy it.

POMX++

2009-03-15T23:38:00.005+01:00

it is random and it is made with paint.

Being 20

2009-03-15T22:18:00.000+01:00

This is my poster for the graphic design festival in Chaumont, France. The title of this year competition was Being 20. I wrote down the things that mattered to me then and I covered them with golden lines that can be removed by scratching. The act of discovering what is underneath makes the poster.

2009-03-09T10:32:00.000+01:00

I did these two posters for the ljubljana poster festival competition. The topic was climate change.

Ljubljana Spi

2009-02-24T19:52:00.000+01:00

It's an artbook about Ljubljana and her neon dreams.

How poetic of me.

+7

2009-02-24T18:46:00.010+01:00

6 new characters and a zombie.

RE

2009-02-16T20:26:00.000+01:00

Bunch of quick random sketches. I'm drawing whatever comes to mind.

Crowning

2009-02-01T22:21:00.002+01:00

I used acrylic and oil paint on the same canvas. The oil colors were still wet when I took the picture.

Slipping away

2009-01-30T14:17:00.000+01:00

I left parts of the painting blank because I tought this painting should look as decomposing and some parts beeing washed away. It could be better.

+3

2009-01-22T18:04:00.005+01:00

I couldn't decide which color I should use for this one. But at the end I did.

2001: A Space Odyssey Remix

2009-01-11T21:55:00.001+01:00

I've mixed Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey with the song Analog Worms Attack of Mr.Oizo.

RoboTech3000

2009-01-06T20:05:00.002+01:00

From the time of Macross, Gundam, Transformers and other mecha anime comes my not so advanced version of a robot. There is also a beautifull grid behind the robot if you haven't noticed already.

Cover for Print

2009-01-06T20:01:00.001+01:00

I've made this for Print's student cover competition.

Tech support

2009-01-06T19:50:00.002+01:00

Some brutal photography.

Cubes

2009-01-06T19:44:00.002+01:00

Cubes of jibberish going up in flames. I'm not shore if this sucks or not. The ones at the end look fine. This can be classified as an experiment.

Human

2009-01-06T19:26:00.001+01:00

I've modeled this guy in Zbrush. He's guite genric looking. I had some plans to animate him (that's why he has that strange pose), but when i got to the animation part I realized that I had a lot more to learn to do that. And somehow i didn't find the time.

Real life boxing

2008-11-18T08:05:00.000+01:00

I made the design for Real Life version debut album. This is the original design, that in the end people from Real life version changed. They kept the illustrations and changed the layout, font and image sizes.

For the book of memories

2008-10-29T12:41:00.000+01:00

I made this tasteless illustration for my dear friend Žiga Artnak, who is now spending his days in a foreign country. I used a technique of applying hot gold to paper. This peace is now priceless like memories are.

Cankar: Erotika

2008-10-14T17:56:00.000+02:00

Bang Bang

2008-10-05T22:12:00.000+02:00

In this one I tried to find a way to draw or paint quickly anything that comes to mind. I tried doing so in the previous post, but it didn't came out good. I'm far more satisfied with this one. It's a quick sketch with a pencil and in some parts acrylic paint.

When the Cat's Away,

2008-09-30T01:10:00.000+02:00

It's been almost two months since I've drawn anything !!! The two main things that were holding me back are over - student exams and the Sun and I'm pretty happy now. Here it is the new post...

You can loose your head in Arcady

2008-08-08T16:28:00.000+02:00

I haven't done a painting like this for a long time. Working with real colors and materials is an experience of its own. You have more limitations as to how the materials behave (the color dries quickly when working with acrylics), but the results are much more real.

N

2008-08-08T16:10:00.001+02:00

Here are some acrylic paintings I made some time ago.

Gamma Ray

2008-08-08T16:00:00.000+02:00

When I was looking through my previous posts I realized I don't have any nude girls on my blog. I do now. The name Gamma Ray comes from the Beck song I was listening to meanwhile drawing.

Scissor man

2008-08-03T17:32:00.000+02:00

I see this guy as a vilan/hero who cuts people in peaces with his scissors for doing bad things. I wanted to play around little with drawing anatomy on this character.

Liberte

2008-08-03T17:24:00.001+02:00

It's about freedom,
isn't it?

Silenus

2008-07-26T14:06:00.000+02:00

Satyrs are described as subversive and dangerous and often associated with pleasure of all sorts. This duality of danger, evil and pleasure is quite captivating.

Desert sessions

2008-07-26T13:20:00.000+02:00

Here is the sketch and final version of some characters that might be of some use in the comic. I've been randomly drawing so I could come up with something good. The origin and story of these two is yet to be thought of. That's actually the fun part of it. I'm also quite satisfied with the tone and desaturated colors of the colorized version.

L'hommage à le Chevalier Obscurité

2008-07-09T09:54:00.000+02:00

I'm over my head in this hype about The Dark Knight movie. I never waited for a movie as long as for this one. Its been months! To make the waiting more bearable I chose an alternative option to Cryogenically freezing myself - thats mindessly self-idulging in it even more. As you can see in the picture on the left - it's Batman with big gloves.

A king and his horse

2008-06-24T23:47:00.000+02:00

This is a sketch I made a long time ago, nevertheless i stil like it.

Comics are fun to remake

2008-06-11T23:19:00.000+02:00

We made some corrections on the overall feeling of the comic strip. We also made a custom font called Marjanka out of Martin's handwriting with a help from Kaja Kisilak's expertise and my own of course. I think it looks better.

Comics are fun to make

2008-06-06T22:30:00.000+02:00

I'm working on a comic book with a fellow friend Martin Mejak. This is the first page of many yet to come. I hope.

Lopoctopus

2008-05-26T23:38:00.000+02:00

I came across the idea of this head/octopus mix portrait. I tried to make it in detail as much as possible, but I got only half way there because I got bored. I think it lacks in meaning something, but it is always good practice to do this kind of paintings. just for the fun of it.

In the beginning...

2008-05-26T22:53:00.014+02:00

I'll start this blog with the cd cover I did for Loudspeaker Alliance. I made it pretty straitforward. It's a painting of a mouth shouting. That's actually all it is.