Chili poster series revised. These include mild, extreme, and fatal. Looking at them now I realize that I need to change the color on the orange poster to yellow instead of orange.
Tags: advertising, art, chili, fire engine, graphic design, poster design, smoke
It’s been awhile… guess I should buckle down. I’ve been photographing stuff for use in spreads and such. I particularly like the orange pepper. Here’s a poster design for Wick Fowler’s chili advertising. Been playing around with free Photoshop brushes, and I used some in this poster. It’s pretty abstract; I usually do very structured designs with grids, so I thought I’d try something very different.
Tags: art, chili, food, graphic design
Here’s a poster I finished for my grade school, Assumption, when I should have been working on Vis. Comm. assignments. I prefer doing design work for real organizations than design homework for classes. Just because I know it’s serving a purpose and people are counting on me to make it look good. Now if I could just channel that dedication into schoolwork.
In other news, it’s Greek Week! Go team Russia! And I just got back from a lovely week in Panama City Beach, Florida. Highlight: concert on the beach. Under the stars. RIGHT BY THE OCEAN. Other than that, the rest of the week was pretty calm (wink). It was a much needed break, and I’m back and ready to hit the books. AND as if things weren’t good enough, I left Kvegas as it was snowing, and when I got back the trees were blooming and it was 80 degrees. I’ll take it.
Tags: art, graphic design, greek, panama city beach, poster, school, spring break
I’ve gotten caught up on my sleep, I’m sitting on my couch at home with my family, and I’m surrounded by food while watching tv. Tonight I made my family a delicious dinner of lasagna (which took forEVER), salad and wine. God I’m such a good daughter. After dinner my three brothers and I played some guitar hero, which I sucked at of course. And I finally rented that movie, ‘The King’s Speech’, which was actually pretty good considering the entire movie is about stuttering. All in all, a great start to spring break. What more could one want? Well of course I can’t go a day without using some sort of Adobe software. So I decided to update my blog header. Here’s the new one, followed by the old ones. Also, here’s a neat post about unique headers.
Tags: art, graphic design, headers, illustrator
Okay, the title was morbid. My apologies. Well, let’s dive right in, shall we?
***You have to CLICK ON THE GIFs in order for them to work***
1. Monotype
Poster and webpage
Time: Budgeted 6 hours for the two layouts. Spent 3 hours initially, and 4 hours on reworks. They were pretty crappy originally..
This reminded me of being in Matt’s class again… oh the grids. Cambria. A classic font. I kinda enjoyed doing these, though. It was relaxing to not have to deal with color or illustrations.
2. Happiness
Newspaper layout
Time: Budgeted 6 hours. Spent 4.5 hours on an original layout, including reworking. But that looked awful, so I scraped it and completely redid it within 3 hours. And you know what, I’m really liking it. I’m a big fan of having huge margins. Negative space is myyy favorittteee. (forgive me, it’s 3 am)
3. Detours
Two Magazine spreads
Time: Budgeted time was 10 hours. I spent 5 hours on the original layout, and 4 hours reworking it. This is the only assignment that I WASN’T over budget on.
The target audience for this is both women and men adult Midwesterners. So I decided to go with a more simple layout. I had originally mad the spread with 5 pages… not sure why? So I had to redo that. This is the only one that I didn’t get approved, so I’m hoping it’s up to par!
4. Herpetology
Poster and Rotating banner
Time: Budgeted 6 hours. Spent 4 hours on concept, design, layout. 3 hours on reworking and doing the banner. Only 1 hour over budget. Not too shabby.
I had trouble thinking of a good concept for this one. No one got that the chameleon was camouflaged in the background, with the period being it’s eye. So I had to change it and add the faint chameleon. And no, I didn’t catch the Valentine’s day hint for the concept. Wish I would’ve, might have saved a few hours.
5. Yellowstone
Poster, iPad vertical and iPad horizontal
Time: Budgeted 6 hours. Spent 4 hours initially. 2 hours on reworks, and for some reason it took me 2 hours for the iPad graphics. WHYY did that take so long?
When given the choice, I usually tend to make assignments with illustrations rather than photos, so this was new for me. And I’m please with the result. I always feel like I’m copping out with photos; cheating almost. But hey, it worked.
6. Red Barn
Poster, KAA web banner, and Truman web banner
Time: We were budgeted 6 hours. I spent 4.5 hours on original concepts, layout, illustrations, etc. and 4 hours on reworking. That equals 8.5 hours, over budget whoops.
So inches does NOT equal pixels EVER. I accidentally created my Truman web banner as inches. Then by the time I wanted to open it in Photoshop as a jpeg, it took a million minutes to rasterize. And I finally realized what was wrong at that point, so I had to recreate it in the right sized document. Other than that, this assignment turned out pretty well in my opinion. The grid structure and hierarchy make the simple barn background work. The concept was difficult to come up with for this one. How does one make a barn look interesting?
7. Stress
Magazine layout
Time: Budgeted 6 hours. Spent 5 hours on brainstorming, layout, and cutting out all those godforsaken pieces of head explosions. Then I spent another 5.5 hours on revisions. That thing was a piece of work. I’ve never been so tired of looking at my roommate’s face (not that I stare at it normally?..) Anyway, I finally figured out what to do with those pull quotes. And if I do say so myself, it’s lookin goood. Also, I love that little black square at the end of the body copy. Don’t know why I love that so much.
8. Smokey
Three ads and Animating rotating Truman web banner
Time: Budgeted 9 hours plus 3 for banner, spent about 6 hours on everything initially, and spent 3.5 hours on revisions. Then 2 for the banner. This one was pretty close to budgeted time! Yay!
Overall, I’m pretty please with my work. I feel like I’m getting better at this whole design thing that I’ll be calling my job in a few years (scary!). By the end, I got way faster. That might have been because I was working on only reworking (which took me way less time than concepts). And I’m really glad we’re doing this budgeting thing. Before, I had NO idea how long I was supposed to be spending on things. I couldn’t really compare to classmates either because most do their work at home. So it sucks, but budgeting is a good thing. Now the question is: do I go to sleep for a few hours and risk not being able to wake up, and *gasp* MISSING my exam? Or do I stay up to make sure I won’t fall asleep? Decisions.
Tags: art, creative, graphic design, herpetology, magazine layout, time, travel, yellowstone
Woah, this was from a long time ago. Brochure for Mizzou Vet school. Not too proud of this, hence the not-including-it-in-my-portfolio deal. It seems like the swirly thing is pretty generic for brochures. Oh and apparently I did the layout wrong… it was supposed to have 4 columns? Woops, trainwreck. 
Tags: art, graphic design, mizzou
