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Monday, February 28, 2011

Vis Comm II Updates

Gettin' somewhere with these. Still need tweaking. More updates to come as usual. You can see the study abroad booklet when it's finished, screw posting 10 pages and re-arranging them into reader spread for the sole purpose of posting them on here. 











Vis Comm II Updates

More updates on class work. More to come. 



















Wednesday, February 23, 2011

8Ball & MJG "Life Goes One" feat. Slim Thug

Mt. Eden vs. N.E.R.D. & Lupe - Everyone Nose Sierra Leone (DJ Agana Mash...

Vis Comm II updates

Been a hectic week, however here are some new projects and some updates. There will be a full update probably next Thursday at somepoint since we have our midterm folio due next friday. I'm thinking the herpetology poster, smokey ads, NAHM ads, Booklet layout, and RedBarn poster so far. Possibly my second Goudy poster. I still need to go through all my work and get what I want to use so I can make sure Rusty approves them if they haven't been. Anyways here are the updates.

These are new concepts for NAHM posters. I really like the concept on these and am happy I went a different route. I need to re work the imagery on the Ira Hayes and Jim Thorpe ones to echo the Billy Mills one more, however I think these are strong posters.






This is a new project. 3 series ad for smokey the bear. This one was probably one that I had the easiest time with as far as coming up with concepts. I really like this one and just need to tweak the imagery a bit. 







This project is a booklet design for a study abroad pamphlet. The images below are print spread instead of reader spread (yea yea I know) however when this is fully approved I will post an interactive .swf which has mouse click page turning capabilities (pretty damn cool!). Some difficulties with this one have been printing them out correctly, amount of text layout, variation in type to add interest, and of course I still need to add photos to these, which is the next big step, since this layout has some breathing room.  


















Here is what I hope to be the finished Herpetology poster. Getting a tagline to reinforce the imagery was really a struggle with this one (trying to say it just right), but I think I got there. I'm happy with this poster, I'm normally not an advocate for sex sells, but the contrast between "science nerds" and "the girl they think they'll never get " was just too much to pass up. I'm really happy with this poster, and I will probably use it in the folio. 


Monday, February 14, 2011

B movie - a film about the art of Banksy

Vis Comm Updates and Revisions

Sooo, here are the latest updates on all the posters, layouts, spreads, and everything else we've been doing. The herpetology poster has given me some difficulties with coming up with text to support the imagery that I chose but I think that I got a pretty good concept this time. I also switched it to be a horizontal layout. I think it speaks for itself for the most part.


This is pretty much the finished final concept behind the jazz poster. The idea being that the treble clef is merely a void symbol until one experiences the sound associated with it. Again I would say this piece speaks mostly for itself.  



This is the final version of my Red Barn Arts Fair poster. I am really happy with how it turned out, simple in its imagery,  with a strong textual reinforcing concept. One of my favorite that I have done this semester. The text gave me some trouble over the whole development of the poster, as did the conceptual aspect, however I think I was just in a creative block (which I hope to hell I am finally getting out of.)



This is a revision on a magazine layout that we had to do. Layout has been tricky on this one since there has been considerably less text than before. I have noticed that I am really going with the  "keep it simple, stupid" approach on a lot of the work I have been turning out, trying not to clutter it with excess. I have drawn a lot of inspiration and techniques from advertising spreads and such. Its been helping. 



These are a series of posters we were asked to do for Native American Heritage Month. The concept behind these is that in most cultures, art is reflective of that cultures ideas, beliefs, customs, and traditions. Especially in Native American cultures, where the symbolism bears a lot of weight. Besides that I wanted to avoid indians, bows and arrows, dreamcatchers (even though seeing rusty toss his coffee of the Vis Comm floor could have been worth it), and the usual cliche imagery that comes to mind immediately when begining the initial design process. I feel that these posters are fairly unified, while each has its own dynamism to it. If they were to be displayed as an edition the wolf mask would be center with the blue and red masks pointing in their respective directions on either side, adding another visually unifying characteristic. I also  like how the heading font worked out, where it can be read as either straight across, or staggered. Simple strong imagery, with poignant, meaningful headings were a large driving factor in these posters. 












This is a another revision on a magazine layout that we had to do about how stress is chic now. I'm fairly satisfied with the imagery, layout, typesetting, and color scheme of this layout. It was definitely stronger than my other one we had to do. Some final tweaking and it will be ready to go I would assume (Rusty is merciless with his red pen, and our printing accounts.)




Yet another revision on a magazine layout. Bigger image, some re arranging of text blocks and such. Eh it's alright. Prolly won't go in the midterm folio however. Oh well. I'm sure there will be one or two more revisions of this before it's deemed as passing. 




That's about it. 
More revisions and designs to come, as always in this semester. 

Friday, February 11, 2011

Vis Comm Work

Here's the latest from class. A herpetology club poster, a couple new food magazine ads, and a redo on the stress magazine layout. I have an native american heritage poster on the way too. I'm having some issues coming up with concepts lately. I'm not really sure why, however I do know it's aggravating the piss out of me. Maybe I'm over stretching myself artistically between work, freelancing, and my other classes.  I'm not really sure. Just gotta work through the shit until I get back on top of things I suppose....or stop sleeping all together. Either one. 











Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Dubstep Generator


Clubcreate.com has released a giant series of awesome music generators, this one is a dubstep generator, backed by the car company Scion (of course, they're involved in everything cool.)
Check it out here at: http://remixer.clubcreate.com/v2/dubstep/launch.html?

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Sweet Acapella Generator


Nike Dunk Hi “French Football Federation (FFF)” Collection

Normally I can't stand Nike's but the new Nike Dunk Hi “French Football Federation (FFF)” Collection. The Dunk Hi Premium and Dunk Hi Supreme are the nicest dunks I've seen come form the Swoosh since the customized Channel Zero dunks.