Filed under: Potpourri, Print | Tags: Canon T1i, CS4, Design, Event Poster, Full Sail University, Illustrator, Marcin Zeglinski, Photoshop, poduski
Description to follow. Lots of teeny details so be sure to click for the full-res, WordPress also has a tendency to mute the colors in the preview.
Here’s V2:
Filed under: Print | Tags: Digital Publishing, Full Sail, Illustrator, InDesign, Lime Magazine, Magazine Design, Marcin Zeglinski, Nameplate, Photoshop, Slacktivism
Arr! This be my Digital Publishing final. We had to choose a social issue to design a magazine and magazine spread around. So yes, I did design Lime Magazine, mine having no affiliation with the actual, Asian-oriented Lime Magazine. I am particularly happy with the nameplate, though; I think it would stand out in a magazine rack. For the spread, I went with so-called ‘slacktivism’ (wearing meaningless ribbons and lapel pins that don’t make a lick of difference.) There was no actual article written about it, so I had to splice together a few blog posts. I went sort of abstract with the cover, but I think it turned out well.
I then tried to incorporate the illustration through out the article to tie it all together. You’ll also notice the bottom banners as well as page number markers added as if they were the magazine’s proprietary assets.
FYI, those gray borders are only there as a matte for the WordPress post so that you can tell where the images end.
Clearly, this isn’t my best work, but I’ve certainly done worse
I am, however, a bit disappointed that I didn’t get to use my original table of contents design:
I love how the picture came out -made from scratch, I might add- but it had absolutely no business being next to the other images. In the end, it got cut for the sake of cohesion.
Made with (in no particular order) Maya 2008, Photoshop, Illustrator, and (for the first time ever) InDesign CS3.
Filed under: Print | Tags: Fishfly, Full Sail, Illustrator, Jeffrey Eugenides, Photoshop, Picador, Virgin Suicides
What we have here is a cover redesign of Jeffrey Eugenedis’ “the Virgin Suicides”. I borrowed heavily from the previous covers -there are a lot. I immediately knew I wanted an extreme close-up of a girl’s face with her mouth cryptically open. My friend Margie Haag obliged to be the model. I also knew I wanted the eyes covered up somehow. At first I thought of covering them up with a photo or illustration of a fishfly -a prominent theme in the book- but that would’ve looked too much like Silence of the Lambs. I decided to make it look as if the photo of Margie was ripped along the lenght of the book. Underneath I put lined paper and used a very swirly font to connote female adolescence. I used blue and red in the text and illustrations to make it look as if they were doodled onto notebook paper with pen. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with how this came out. However, knowing me, I’ll probably come back to it and change it drastically. Thanks to Ashley Nieves for the photography.
Made in Photoshop and Illustrator CS3
Filed under: Print | Tags: AK-47, Columbia, FARC, Full Sail, Guerrilla, Poster, Propaganda
Here is the aforementioned alternate design. This was my initial idea for the project before I started focusing on my Mars poster. Once that was done, I went back to work on this. The article is about the “terrorist” organization, FARC in Columbia. I wasn’t very satisfied with it during production but it really came together towards the end. I was trying to make it work as a pure photo manipulation with a plain Trajan typeface a la Newsweek or some other news rag; but I think it’s better as an illustration. I ended up mimicking the early & mid 19th century propaganda style (a common trend for my class) with a South American flair. I’m unusually happy about this.
Made in Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.
Filed under: Print | Tags: ADG, Computer Graphics, Full Sail, Mars, Phoenix, Sci-fi
This is the culmination of my Advanced Computer Graphics class. It’s a faux cover for a real magazine article about the NASA’s Mars Phoenix project. I was going for a very ethereal and otherworldly (pun very much intended) slant with this piece. I might shop it around to some cheesy sci-fi publisher. It’s a mixture of digital painting and photo manipulation, mostly the latter. All assets, save for the Martian texture, are hand-made. I have some other designs that I worked on for other articles, but this will probably end up being the one that’s graded.
Made in Photoshop CS3.
Filed under: Print | Tags: Flow, Flower, Full Sail, Hawaiian, Hibiscus, Nokia 6263, Vector
Here we have the end result of my Illustrator project. We created a magazine-style layout (except in landscape [which I think is stupid]). I started with a somewhat different concept including a photo of a friend, but then I rearranged it to focus on the vector work and phone model.
Made in Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.
