I worked on some more of these Christmas things. I am having a lot of fun playing with ink, making this world where every picture frame is slightly crooked and everyone’s eyes are buggin’ out.
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I went to hand-drawing the poster for Graphic Design History Assignment based on Robert Crumb. It definitely reflects the topic, but I wonder if too much. Would it have been more clever to adopt a contrasting style like art deco or Russian constructivism?
Update 11-24:
I wanted to jazz up the poster with a little display text. I’ll clean it up in illustrator. (in ITC Christoph’s Quill™ Bold by ITC found at the font shop)
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Here’s a mood board. What is a “mood board?” Well, it’s a collected effort to establish the tone of whatever campaign you are trying to put together. The one I am working with includes pictures of kitchens, a muted picture of Portland and our color palate. I chose the color palate as well as the Parisian Portland photo to show a life of leisure that can be achieved by buying the product (which in this case, as per the assignment, a fictional one–an app). My group is really competent and skilled in many facets. Being one of two graphic designers in the group, I took a more conceptual role and I was less involved in production for the print ad. I helped come up with the headline “Chaos controlled.” which will be better reflected in the edits next week. Other mandatory components: Interview question sampler (full documents not included), product name, 5 adjectives describing product, targeted audience. Hopefully, for the 30 sec ad, they will take my recommendation on the Amelie soundtrack. It’s just so lovely.
Update 12-8:
Last week, we presented our print ad to the class after receiving some critique from Jill and did some last minute (last hour) editing to make the story of the ad stronger. Jill had a good point about how the ad was really busy and the story wasn’t obvious, which is important for people flipping through magazines, each advertisement needing to catch the reader’s eye in a glance. We beamed as most of the class sat silent as the teacher implored them for corrections or additions we should make to the ad. (A couple of people wished our model was older and more clothed, but considering short notice, the thanksgiving holiday, and other stylistic considerations, our photographer did well.)
With the help of my team mates, I made this story board for the 30 sec commercial for this campaign. It really helped have other people to edit the story I devised to match the concepts we talked about when establishing the print ad. Sometimes, you’re too close to the storyboards to see the forest.
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Today, the class learned how to do portraits. Claire had us make a face diagram for all the suggestions on how to make a face look more face-y, including the tips: shade the upper lip, suggest the lower lip with the chin shadow, the eye line has five eye-widths with the two real eyes separated by eyes on each side– if that makes any sense…– nostrils are dark, and so are pupils, so get those and you’re on your way. The advice came in handy when I was practicing on my podmates. It was really a treat to stare at them like this. We took turns modeling for 10 minutes each. Here’s Pete’s version of me:
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Assignment: assigned topic– R. Crumb. Dimensions– 17×11 in. Other than taking a bad picture of the poster, I had trouble with this poster as it progressed. There might have been an optimal time to start, but after seeing all those movie posters in class, I felt that the collage-y chaos didn’t cut it, but I continued to cut it, hoping to give it more form, but instead, adding to the mess. I will try a different approach tomorrow.
update: 11-19
I did this today. I tried to incorporate the “b” in “Crumb” with the woman silhouette that was already very bad and it seemed like she had a peg leg which would have worked only for a poster on Jack Dawson from Titanic (he drew a one-legged prostitute).
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We watched the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho today. That’s just the kind of teacher we have.
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Here’s a component of my final for my Illustrator class. This will be a part of the motif for the event, whose ephemera I have to design. (Not to mention, make up an event.)
Update 11-21:
Here’s the logo for the imaginary venue.
Where I got this font…
Update 11-22: I reread the assignment and it turns out I need to make the logo using Illustrator tools, so this is out, but I will probably use it for something… maybe.
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Today, I learned how to use the perspective grid. As you can see, I still haven’t mastered the customizable swatch skill, but I like the surreality of the end result. I realize in the future, I should expand the shapes in the grids and walls before slapping them into perspective. I used a drawing from the internet to get the architecture of this, but I had to add stairs, otherwise how will people get into my awesome house?
