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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Typographer Poster Final
This has been a long semester filled with long hours in the lab and leaps in my designing. As the semester comes to a close This is the last thing I will make for this class.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Punchlist
Maggie
Ed Beguiat
1. Very Legible
2. Easily Identified at top of poster
3. Typography very strong
4. Grid is strong and easy to read. Wonderful inspiration.
5. Great positioning works well with grid
6. Working palette is splendiferous. Works very well with the time period designer gains inspiration from.
7. Excited for finished product used for portrait. It will very much make sense with the grid.
8. Style is a wonderful blend of accuracy to time period of designer and his work.
9. I recommend more fairy wand.
Ed Beguiat
1. Very Legible
2. Easily Identified at top of poster
3. Typography very strong
4. Grid is strong and easy to read. Wonderful inspiration.
5. Great positioning works well with grid
6. Working palette is splendiferous. Works very well with the time period designer gains inspiration from.
7. Excited for finished product used for portrait. It will very much make sense with the grid.
8. Style is a wonderful blend of accuracy to time period of designer and his work.
9. I recommend more fairy wand.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Holiday Tunnel Book

To get started I started with a word list surrounding the new year 2015 and all that involves.

I decided that I wanted to the background to be fireworks. A world wide symbol signifying a new year and a new day. On the list I seemed to stay around outdoors or new years parties. My drawings did as well.
I started looking at fonts on dafont,com to help me get the creative juices flowing. I found several lovely fonts that made me want to use a champagne glass and the New York Times Square ball drop. I had a technology inspired font made with dots I used in a champagne glass. I also found a technology inspired font to use for the ball drop. The letters looked like they would fit perfectly in the triangles that make up the Times Square Ball. (Below are the two fonts in action. I didn't get a picture of the number one alone but here it is from one of my process shots.)

The middle layer was difficult to come up with an idea for. I wanted something signifying a party. In my doodles I had the idea for mistletoe but it wasn't going to work out well. I picked flags when a boarder of triangles was suggested. I had run across some flag banner fonts when I was looking for fonts in general for the project.
I figured lots of parties would have a banner saying "Happy New Year!" but with my final message being that I didn't want to use that. I figured some banners would give that feel without needing the actual text in them. I put the 2 in them to show they would have text without having to put the whole message on them. I picked the longer duel pointed flags because they made a nice frame of sorts.
I finished of the number 2 layer with some color to make it really pop against the firework background I chose for the last panel.

I had difficulty with the background font. I wanted it to say happy new year across the back panel but no font I found worked. Nothing popped. So I broke the rules and did hand lettering. I used the Wacom tablet and used my own cursive to create the final message in my design. I edited the lines a little to clean it up and it ended up looking quite lovely in knock-out white.



And finally the the finished product.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Infographics!
I found this infographic here. I really loved how organized this one was. It is very simple in it's design but gives lots of information. It shows superhero influenced by animals. Created by Tim Leong for his book using infographics to talk about superheros. I couldn't find the year but the article I took it from was written in 2013. A better view of this one is found here.
Monday, October 20, 2014
Quote
"The clearest way into the Universe
is through a forest wilderness."
—John Muir

I then took my quote and put it on the page as is largest font where the whole quote would fit on the page. I worked with natural colors of brown and green at first to bring out the "forest wilderness" part of the quote. I also had the idea of large quote marks behind the text but I couldn't get it to look good. I then chose the font Desdemona and really fell in love with it. I started arranging the words into three sections, "The clearest way into", "the universe is through", and "a forest wilderness." Black and White looked nice but I added Purple, Orange/Gold, and White. The grouping of the words didn't work so well so I decided to put them in a path like through a forest to keep with the forest theme. I moved the words around and grouped a few to emphasize parts of the quote and made them different colors and opacities. I lined up some of the same letters and letter shapes to keep some parallelism going on. At the end I couldn't get the words to show well on the dark purple so I added a 2 pt stroke of the same color to show the word off better. I also turned down the opacity of the background color too. It turned out well I think.


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