Design Work

This week I did various creative projects. This past week for the first time, I actually executed a few covers for Vox. There was a requirement to do three but I misunderstood. I only turned in one because I just didn't think that my other two covers looked that great. It is as follows:



Okay I finally got my photos up and running again. For some reason blogger isn't cooperating with my computer. So the covers are as follows:



I wanted to use type to try to make the outline of the camera. I was inspired by some of the film festival posters that I found on the web. I noticed a common symbol is the camera for a film festival. So instead I made mine with type. Although after making it, I decided that maybe I should add on the legs to make it look it was a camera. You probably wouldn't have known it was a camera until I told you. That's why I made one without the legs. Plus I was still trying to make sure I used the colors for the festival.





With this cover, I was trying to go for something a little different, a little indie. I gave up on this one at first because I just didn't think I could pull it off since Im still learning how to use Illustrator. It seems like with each project, I'm becoming more and more comfortable with it. I actually uses livepaint and livetrace for each item on the cover. The font that I started out with wasn't the one that actually is on this one. But since I forgot to make a .pdf on the computer I initially created it on, I had to use another computer with CS3 on it and unfortunately it didn't have the font on the second computer. I plan to change that and try to tweak some of the art on the cover. I thought the concept was good though. I was associating leaping forward with metamorphosing so at first I tried to create a cocoon with the True false insignia on it but that didn't look as good as I thought. Then I tried to make it look like it was a garden by adding the flowers but I wanted all of the attention to be on the butterfly. It just didn't turn out quite how I conceptualized it.

I was trying to go for something that would be different and eye catching but it didn't turn out quite as I had planned. I was trying to go with a new concept where we didn't have to have the symbol of the True/False Festival. I was also trying to make sure that a person waling by would understand that the True/False festival was about cinema. The titles in the background are all the films that are playing this year. I made the art in photo shop and added the words in later. I'm thinking about going back in and adding a film strip with the individual sign on a ticket or something else of that nature.

This week in basic photography, I actually took a photo of something that I liked. I'm slowly getting better at taking photos. Before taking this class, I knew the art of photography was somewhat difficult but this class is opening my eyes to things. This week I actually tried to used the techniques we learned in class to execute my landscape photos. Last week we were to take photos of a setting with unique light. There could've been a human subject in the photo but it wasn't necessary this time. It was also difficult to execute this project because every day that I had the camera, it was an overcast day. This is what I thought was my best photo in the batch.




I am also performing mediocre work in flash. I will update you guys when I do a project that is something to be proud of.