Public Service Awareness Poster Project

For our third project, we are to design a poster for a public service awareness.  One topic I feel strongly for is the benefits of sustainable design and more importantly the effects that come to our environment.  This poster is to demonstrate a use of mixed media: our pictures, scanned images, books, typography, etc. to create a poster that informs the public.  Below are a few images I have captured that might be used for this project, images I have found from books, and a list of a few books I've been looking for inspiration from.

Books: Typography Workbook

Vintage Text Styles

           

Typography

Name Representation Final

For our second project, we had to represent our name and self through images.  We were to become familiar with Photoshop and the tools that the program offers.  I felt the images were strong enough to stand alone without too much going on in the paper space around the pictures.  By overlapping images, a simple shadow added to the back of the images allows the viewer to define the difference between each shot.  Also, I scrapbook in my free time and enjoyed the idea of being able to try electronically scrapbooking images through this project!

Picasa Link

The link below goes to my Picasa site which features the images for our second project. Feel free to post comments on those pictures as well!  Also, I had a friend take the pictures-so feel free to check out work by Dan Feehrty because this would not have been as successful without him or my other friends who set up the letters under my direction!

Picasa-Name Project

Final Logo Design

This is my final logo project that I designed!  The logo has changed quite a bit from the last post, but visually the graphic is much easier to understand the concept I was trying to represent.   To me, what really works is there is a story that comes behind the design so there becomes something for the viewer to discover.  As well as the mix between white and solid black spaces that adds interest to the viewer by not having a predictable process for this design.  For example, the top hat is not a solid object, but an outline for the general shape with white positive space and black outlines for the cheese indents that helps to create an illusion of negative space within this top hat.

Graphic Name Project

For our second assignment, we are taking the letters of our first and last name and arranging them into images that are directly related to us.  We are to direct our friends and family on how we want these images taken and then we can touch up if need be.  A few ideas for some of my letters are to take a yellow softball and cut a letter out the ball.  Then for the photograph, the softball will be placed next to a bat out on the grass.  Another idea is to glitter one of the letters and then for the picture-make the image appear as if the glitter was blown across into that letter form.  Another idea I have is to take Christmas lights and form them into the shape of a letter.  Then for the picture: take on a black board and turn the lights out (for the lights to shine more in the camera).

Stay tuned for all the images and the final project!!