Dog Ads

For both ads, I wanted to make the dog the dominant piece. It is what conveys the idea of wrinkles to the viewer. the difference between the two ads is the background. I personally favor the first one, that has the background. I think it makes the dog and the words pop more. The one with the white background is a little disappointing. I think an ad like this needs a background to help the ad as much as possible.

Book Layouts

These two layout have completely different aspects going for them. One, I made just as a regular, straightforward chapter starter page; I also inserted a subtle leaf to go with the theme.

The second I added color, and a branch. To have the branch text wrap, I made a custom outline with the pen tool, and added a text wrap to it.

And The Winner Is...

My client, Chelsea Naso, chose this logo for her Krusty Burger company. She liked this one the best because of the colors (mustard, ketchup, the bun). It originally was two dimensional, but I added the 3D effect to add some depth. I can see this as a sign outside of a Krusty Burger (if it was real).

Krusty Burger

Coffee House

For the icon project, we were assigned into groups with our row. I took on the task of the coffee house. We needed to create it as a vector graphic so it can scale with no problem.

I found this to be one of the more interesting projects because we had to only use vector lines. The hardest part of this was the liquid in the cup. Trying to create that was a hard task. The actual cup was pretty easy to create. I just used the curved line tool and started from the top, and curved to the bottom.

Originally, I was going to have the coffee in a house, but I decided to make the coffee the more dominant object. The vector graphic is placed into a 500x500 pixel square.

Child Rights

For this I wanted to show Child Labor laws. I cut the boy out using photoshop. For the rest I used indesign and illustrator. I had trouble for a little while and ended up using illustrator for the gradient background, and indesign to put it all together. Indesign seemed very awkward for me to use because using the background for the gradient wouldn’t work like it did in illustrator. Also it was easier to do other things in illustrator like rotate objects. I would have used illustrator for all of it, but when I would export it as a jpeg, it would never come out the way I would want it.

Self Portrait Collage

For this I took a picture of myself, and made an outline. I then took it into a new document, made a background and put the pictures in the outline. The pictures are of me, my girlfriend, family, and some good friends. Placement of the pictures took somewhat longer then expected, but I had the most trouble with finding a suitable background. I created a clipping mask to have the outline filled with pictures.

Bouncing Ball

To show movement, I wanted to show a ball bouncing around in a confined rectangle. To represent the movement, I added three lines to the back of each ball. About the color, I made three different shades of red in some of the boxes, and the color of the balls contrast with the red (three do this, one does not).

Twisted Twister

I chose the word Twister to...well, twist. I'm not that fond of this one. I like how the word is twisted, but the pixelated edges annoy me, and doesn't make it seem that smooth.

Beowulf Poem

I chose Beowulf because for my senior year of high school I had to read this, so I was familiar with the type of font that was used. I chose the font Lucida Blackletter because it is the closest to the font I remember seeing all the way back in May.

This didn't really come out like the way it looked in my thumbnail. I decided to change it at the last minute. It is somewhat of a traditional layout; the title is the largest font and in bold, with the poem being centered because it is to be the focus of the texts. Underneath is the summary about the poem, followed by the source. The pictures present in the picture are two different versions of Grendal, one has a much darker and creepier tone and the other is fighting Beowulf.