Squeeze!

Divine Dining Magazine Ad
Adobe Photoshop

I have no idea where this thought came from but it makes me giggle. I'm in the process of designing an 8 page (possibly more) food magazine called Divine Dining. I'm probably having way too much fun with it. We have to include a food advertisement as one page in our magazine. I decided to use the wine Darisciah that I had made up for another class. I started with a photo of the grapes that were originally on a vine. I also had a photo of a wine glass. I cut both out and pasted them together in one file. I had to use another copy of the wine glass over the grapes so they appeared to be in the glass. The saying on the right is just a random thought in my head. It seemed to go well with the wine. Now you can't tell me you would never see an Ad like this is a food magazine. I'm quite excited about this. I would love to hear everyones thoughts on this!

(sorry if its difficult to read, it didn't download very well to the internet.)

Whitewater Rafting anyone?

Whitewater Rafting Brochure
Typography
Adobe InDesign

The top picture is a the cover and backside of a three-fold brochure. The bottom picture is the inside spread of the same brochure I recreated for typography. I was given an old brochure that was poorly designed and had to include the same type on my new brochure. (And let me tell you it was not fun typing all of that in there.) Hopefully you can notice where the folds would be, otherwise its quite difficult to imagine the 3-fold. Since there was a lot of copy text in this brochure I wanted to make the pictures much more interesting, hence the big wave. I was pretty happy with the layout and my teacher seemed agree. Obviously it'd be much easier to see in person all folded up, but this works for now. Would you pick up a brochure if it looked like this?
I also have a graphic tech magazine coming up in the next few weeks that I'm very excited about, so keep you eyes pealed!

Ten

Pearl Jam Album Cover
Mixed Media

This is the second piece of my Design Studio series, the album cover. If anyone knows Pearl Jam, they've become quite political. This cover is a silhouetted outline of the band members with the block over the eyes. The outline is intended to be slightly off and appear as if it is one continuous line uniting the figures. The background is watercolor to look like parchment paper. The white outline was then painted on in acyril and the colored blocks were pasted on top. Considering the fact that markers bleed on watercolor paper, I had to place a piece of acetate over the entire cover to include the Pearl Jam logo. It all took a good amount of time and lots of stress, and in the end I'm still not completely happy with it. Attempting to get the acetate to stick to the watercolor paper, and the watercolor paper to stick to the mat board, was quite a hassel. I still think it would all look better if I could have done it on the computer :)