Final Project

Scanned Textures

Creative Exercise

I did tape on plexiglass.

Then I did hole punching and thumb tacks. 

The least creative thing ever done by a human.

I went into a dark room and put a stencil in front of a flashlight, the blur and gradient is really neat

Screenshot Envy

I couldn't decide which one I liked better honestly.

1. The main trick that made this image come out really well in my opinion were filters, layer masks, and both the lasso and quick selection tool.
2. I think my use of images and filters is what makes my piece here maybe possibly stand out amongst the crowd, especially in the second one where you have the two white streaks making the image glow and contrast a little more than most people would, although just having Lain in the bear suit with that lack of expression her face is enough to freak anyone out, I used filters and images of static and a few other sources to give it a dreamy, ghostly atmosphere.
3. I'll just leave the piece untitled.

Design Research (James Victore)

Jame Victore's art is interesting to me because it's so rough around its edges. He doesn't use color all that much, but when he does, it really contrasts with the rest of the image. I feel if 70's punk rock had visuals, this is what it would look like. Just a very edgy, abrasive atmosphere is created here, it's very raw, which is much different than what many of the other designers were doing which looks more clean and professional, and in that way it feels a bit more honest and artful than what other designers are doing.

My Ironic Advertisement

1. The message of the picture was that you should come to the Wacken Open Air Festival to listen to heavy metal music, since it's heavier than anything you'll experience at home, even your actual weights.

2. The important elements to create the irony of the picture are the weight itself being in the corner, seeming to drag the image down, suggesting heaviness. But to say that the metal there in the picture isn't heavy enough creates the humor. What clues people into the idea that the poster is about heavy metal music is the font I used at the bottom of the image, that font is iconic because that's what Iron Maiden uses for their album covers, and they're a well known and respected group within the genre and music in general. Another clue the Wacken logo itself being an animal skull, skull and horn imagery is deeply associated with heavy metal music, which makes the message much clearer to the audience. One last clue is the color choice I used (or lack thereof). Since the background is a dark grey, the white letters of both the logo and the caption are easily noticeable.

Ironic advertisements

I made my first gif aww yeah

1. Main inspiration I had here was from tall structures and monoliths throughout history and modern times, just how awe inspiring and even scary they can be with the right lighting (that goes for anything I suppose)
2. Timing, fading, and panning were my best friends in this project, I was doing all three with this and I like the effect.
The big discovery I made in this project was not only how to manipulate frames and do movement throughout an animation, but how to make it visually interesting too, so I'm pretty happy.

Now here's some screenshots of frames and layers

Little Shop of Horrors Poster

I should probably see this movie before making a poster about it, but whatever.

Finished with Web Design

Yeah, I ended up abandoning the Madonna of Bruges, it's a tragedy, but I think this turned out well anyway, I like the decreasing opacity on the Ophanim rings

Mess With the Web Project in Even More Progress

I don't know why I did the ends first, but whatever I guess I can make it work.

Mess With the Web in Progress

MBV Project Questions

1. My use of images and effects is mostly to attempt to invoke a sense of nostalgia in the viewer, that was pretty much my whole theme, since that's what the song does for me (along with the rest of the album). In some places I used bitmap, which makes the image look similar to that of older computer graphics, the same with a lot of the typefaces. However, some of the other typefaces, I used to bridge the gap between the images and the song, since that's the typeface My Bloody Valentine used for their albums.
2. Much of the time, such as on pages 4, 5, and 6, the text box won't quite fit the grid in InDesign, however, the text itself will. I also used Justify on the final page for variety. I didn't use columns much with the exception of pages 6 and 7, mostly for artistic reasons, I'd mostly rather have things touching the edge as opposed to to having them float around in the center, but that's just personal preference.

Here's the screenshots of what I did (and didn't do) with the grid and columns

3. The best part of the book design in my opinion was the imagery, though I wish I had more time to find some higher quality photos through Google, experimenting with effects such as blurs, gradients, and bitmap were extremely fun. I just wish I could've done this project with pure visuals, too bad the assignment required me to use typography.

My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep

Mr Woodstock Ticket Design

This only took 15 minutes in illustrator, I pray it doesn't show

First magazine stuff I did in Indesign