Woah, cool! Check it out, my first animated photoshop file! I’m so excited I learned how to do this! And this was the easiest thing to learn ever. Intimidating, but it took me roughly a few minutes to create the .gif once the 6 different files were completed. Maybe I’ll be able to incorporate animation into some of my designs at work.
(So apparently you have to click on the image to see the animation)
Oh, and here’s the poster with the grids. That’s cool too I guess…
I spent longer on this assignment than I normally would because I found it interesting. I’d love to go to Yellowstone as a credit course! So Alan was feeling nostalgic and missing Illustration, so he helped out with the tagline(s) for this poster. “Dear Ladies: We Have Hot Guy-sers” (get it, like geysers?), and “Dear Gents: Check Out the Curves”. Puns, gotta love em. This was the original layout, and I agree with Rusty that it needs to be horizontal. So that will be reworked.
Poster:
IPad layout vertical and horizontal:
… catching up on Vis. Comm. homework! Here’s my happiness layout. Tabloid size, 4 of 6 columns, 2 color. I love working with 2 color; it’s not as overwhelming as 4-color but not as boring as black and white. I actually enjoyed reading this article. This is my original layout, but suggestions from Rusty included: adding more variety, especially to the 7 steps at the bottom, rearranging the columns into a more interesting layout, etc.
Remember this one? The typeface poster specimen. Oh yea, forgot about posting this. Better late than never! These are the reworked versions.
This was a four-page spread of a newspaper article on the expansion of Highway 63. Pretty self-explanatory. I find it hard making a black and white generic newspaper article eye-catching. But I think the front page would attract the viewer’s attention. The highway dotted line leads the eye around the page nicely. I didn’t anticipate how much work it was spacing the body copy out so there were no orphans or widows (not to mention looking for typos). Budget: 6 hours. I took roughly half that time. Room for improvement!
Without grid structure:
With grid structure:
This assignment took me longer than I thought it would. Although we were budgeted 10 hours, and I used roughly half of that time. But I still felt I could’ve worked quicker. The part that I spent the most time on was thinking of a striking illustration. The concept is always the most important part of a piece (at least I think so anyway), and I didn’t want to do your typical guy-playing-a-saxophone image. I knew I wanted to create something similar to the illustrations of early animation, such as a Looney Tunes episode called The Three Little Bops (below). I was going for the wonky shapes of the jazz period. I decided on a spotlight hitting a stage, and instead of it highlighting a musician, it depicted an array of jazzy music “notes”. Since jazz musicians are usually only concerned with the feel of the music instead of “making it big”, I thought it was important to highlight the music itself rather than the musicians or instruments.
Here’s another jazzy picture I drew inspiration from. 
Here’s the final poster:
The web pages:
Here are some freelance and work-related things I’ve concocted lately.
Poster for the Truman fountain design contest (with student senate):
Assumption Parish School Logo (another one) :
Career Week Advertising; Flyers (2), Brochure (inside and outside), Table Tent, Poster
M.A.E. Poster Design #1
Poster #2
Poster #3
M.A.E. Truman web banner
