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

Typography grid

I think I struck some sort of genius.

So I was working with grids this time, you can tell because most of the shapes in the image fit a box, only one or two actually overlap, others create the illusion of overlap. Though it is chaotic and a bit random, you can see certain shapes and characters appearing and reappearing to give a sense of continuity and form, along with the grid. I liked the idea of using a sort of checkerboard pattern to make the image visually interesting to the viewer.

Band Logo

Here's what I made for the "modern punk band" logo assignment. I used a clipping mask and inverted the colors in illustrator, I also used the option key and reflect to get the shimmering effect you see here. then I went to photoshop, pasted the object as pixels, then used the eraser tool to clean up the black lines around the white that touches the edge of the image.