Final Comp of Marceline Pamphlet

After going back to the art building and fixing my first print, which got cut off by the printers no print zone, I finally finished the Marceline Project.  I think it turned out fairly well.  The only thing I would change would be the paper type.   I used glossy photo paper which sounds clean and professional but in this case it made it extremely hard to fold neatly.  Despite the paper problem the folds were not as bad as they could have been.  Looking at everyone else's project I'd say mine fits in nicely.

Social Dancing Marker Comp

Today we put our opposite sex magazine spread up on the board.  We examined everyone's briefly and gave a quick overview of any problems we might have.  Professor Nelson said mine was pretty solid and I would have to start working on it before I could really identify any problems.  I'm most cautious about the header as I'm not sure if I want to add a photo backdrop or not and if so whether or not to add cut outs of dancers along the sides.   Also the peach color in my marker set is absolutely horrible.  Both the people in my marker sketch look like they went tanning for about 2 days straight.  Anyway I was satisfied in my fairly solid design on this project and I look forward to having a smooth transition with the digital version.

Marceline Marker Comp

Today our class was told to give a presentation of our design that we had made over the week.  My design was pretty solid, I felt but the marker job could have been a lot better.  There were quite a few people who had very impressive marker comps.  Quite a few people had some very unique designs usually with some custom illustrations they planned on using.  I need to examine my design and see if I can fit in another picture somewhere if I can to make things a little more interesting.  Over the next week we will be working our designs into Indesign and getting the whole thing printed out for next Friday

Social Dancing Magazine Thumbnails

Our next project is all about designing a composition for a audience of mainly the opposite sex.  The guys, myself included were assigned an article on Social Dancing, in essence any type of ballroom dancing.  The girls were given an article on fishing.  I had a few different main ideas with my layouts.  They are supposed to be a 2 page spread for a magazine so I have to keep in mind how much I can fit into those 2 pages while still having enough room for all the copy.  I really like the idea of the couple dancing across both pages, as seen in the middle but I think it would create quite a mess with all the copy that needs to be fit in.  I think the bottom left layout is the most efficient and clean.  I'd like to go with that and perhaps add a more decorative header with a picture dropout of a ballroom behind the title to give it some interest.  There would also be a box near the end of the article housing instructions or specific information about dancing.

Marceline Pamphlet Design

Our next big project is a pamphlet for Marceline Missouri, the town in which Walt Disney was born.  The first step was to come up with some inked comps from our sketches and then share them with a fellow classmate.  We were to discuss each other's designs and help pick out which one we thought would look best.

My partner had a few sketches with different Disney cartoon characters present in each.  In the 

end we chose the one featuring Pinocchio, his trademarked nose would have a leaf shaped like the state of Missouri with a star to denote Marceline's location.  This would be the inside spread of the pamphlet while the out

side would feature a picture of Disney and some personal information and a map with direction on the back cover.

My sketches were a little more general,  I didn't have time to

 add in color but I spent some time coming up with some different layouts, making sure to have room to fit an essential map in to all of them.  I also had to make sure there was enough room for a description of each of the attractions as there were quite a few in the list.  My Partner and I settled on the comp you see below.  It's a foldout design tha

t features a picture of Walt Disney on the front with a picture of Marceline layered underneath.  On the inside 

you have a large foldout map with detailed information of each attraction on the 

sides.  On the back it will have some additional information regarding tours and travel information.  My inspiration for this layout came from the pamphlets you pick up at theme parks, those that contain a big map of the park with numbers associated with each attraction located on the map.  I thought it would be nice to have all of this if you were visiting a new area.

If you like to see my other designs here they are.  The rest of these are all booklet layouts meaning they are only folded once down the middle as opposed to my foldout pamphlet that I chose for my final design

 

Criark Paints Final Design

Here is the final version of my Criark Paint advertisement.  I think the paint effects turned out surprisingly well.  They were all done within Indesign using the pen tool and then messing with the opacity.  I created the paint bucket from scratch, adding a label and shadow to make it look a little more real.  For the company logo I used the Casual Apple font which look fairly unique but I tried to add a little reflective quality of paint to it by giving it white highlights.  It didn't work quite as well as I had hoped but I think it gets the point across.  I think the design I originally had translated to the computer really well.  The parts that had to be added in don't look too out of place and everything seems to fit together which is all I could have hoped for.

Criark's Paint Marker Comp

Here is the final result for my car promotion design for Criark's Paint.  Criark's is a made up paint shop that will be advertised by this poster.  Essentially the poster shows my dreamride project having paint smeared on it with what looks like a paintbrush from a regular old paint can.  In the copy it says "Leave this job to the Professionls"  to kind of imply that car painting is not a do it yourself kind of job.  

My next step will be to recreate this on the computer using illustrator and indesign and then to print this off as a 13x19 poster.  I'll make sure to post the final print when it's completed.