Final: Headliner part

Final: Business card part

By 10:

revised

Adjustments made: lining up text in a more reasonable fashion.

For the third installment for the class, I decided to use the spiedie fest a second time. However, I decided to take a very different approach. Granted, It still is, for the most part, all was created by me (as in I didn't take any pictures or find any online), but the way it looks aesthetically should be different. I wanted the piece to have a more calmer appearance than the stamp I did prior to this project, and by adding cool colors to the picture I was able to accomplish this. To contrast the cool colors, I made the front two hot air balloons and the spiedies hanging from them, primarily warm colors. I positioned the balloons all in different spots to add to the illusion of space, and I made each proceeding balloon smaller than the one before it to add to the illusion of depth. Your eye gets carried from the largest balloon to the smallest, and back down from the text to the Ferris wheel. The text, in the first paragraph, talks about the invention of the spiedie, and the second talks about how the spiedie fest came about. I tryed to make this in the same style as the stamp, which was the new york style.

Final

Thumbnails

Hand rend draft:

Second round:


First round:

Project 3: movie posters

Final Stamp

The spiedie, born in the late 1920’s this popular sandwich is an exclusive cuisine to the greater Binghamton area. This is precisely why this food fascinates me so. Like the Italian gureo, this sandwich was once exclusively made from lamb, but in most restaurants it is served with a choice of steak, chicken, or lamb.
I wanted to create my Stamp in the New York style format, but for some unfathomable reason I can't find any pictures, nor does it seem to even exist on Google. So Ill describe it to you. It is a very stylized piece that still maintains some characteristics of the actual entity. Seeing as my speidie is stylized to the point you can almost not even recognize it, I think I was pretty successful!
At first I couldn’t decide between the speidie and the Phelps mansion as the main focus of my stamp. I decided on the speidie for two reasons. The first being that Speides are only known to the people in the upstate NY area, this means the speide comes from an eaten only by the people in Upstate NY. This makes it a Novelty food. The second reason is because I couldn’t think of any ideas for the phelps mansion.
I made this design to lead you around the image almost perfectly. Starting at the Largest speidie, the vocal point, I made the speidies behind it get progressively smaller which eventually leads you to the second vocal point which is the cost of the stamp- 42 cents as opposed to the normal 44 cents. I gave both meat and the bread texture that is unique to their own look, but I gave visual texture to one other part in the piece- the words “SPEIDIE FEST 2009”. It has almost the exact same texture as the meat. I gave it texture to unify the piece and if I had left the text without giving it texture, I think it wouldn’t look right. I wanted to used mostly warm colors for two reasons, it’s still cold outside, and it attracts more attention to it to make people want the speidie. I think that because of the color pallet I chose, this stamp would probably sell pretty well.

Thumbnails

First Ruff

I'll put the thumbnails up here in a minute.

Project 2: stamps

Frank sinatra
Denomination - All the stamps arw worth 42 cents
Country of Origin - USA
Reference to subject/theme - The stamp is based off the singer "FRANK SINATRA
Date of subject/theme - Famous in the 1960's
Date Stamp was Designed- 2008
Significance - He is a very well liked singer
Shape of Postage Stamp - All of the stamps are rectangular, but this one is in the portrait format
Four Color - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Color Dark blue background and mostlry cool colors for the rest of the image.
Type of Central Image - Portrait
Line Detailing - black borders
Typographical Layout - Frank sinatra's signature is below the image of him.
Compositional Devices - If you split the image into thirds, Sinatra's head would be placed inbetween the top and middle third.
Type of Balance - Asyemetrical
Illusion of Space/Depth - Because there is a back glow, there is an illusion of depth
Relationship of Postive and Negative Space -More positive space than negative wieght. It focuses more on the image than the background.

Edgar Allen Poe
Denomination - All the stamps arw worth 42 cents
Country of Origin - USA
Reference to subject/theme - The stamp is based of the famous writer Edgar Allen poe, and it comes in a book with the RAVEN on the front.
Date Stamp was Designed- 2008
Date of subject/theme-1830s writer
Significance - Very popular writer, best known for his cryptic view and writing style.
Shape of Postage Stamp - All of the stamps are rectangular, but this one is in the portrait format
Four Color - Very Warm colors for the entire image. Gives a book like feel.
Type of Central Image - Portrait
Line Detailing - The image goes beyond the border, Raw umber border color
Typographical Layout - Nada
Compositional Devices - If you split the image into thirds, Poe's head would be placed inbetween the top and middle third.
Type of Balance - Asyemetrical
Illusion of Space/Depth - Again because there is a faint glow behind him, there is a sense of depth.
Relationship of Postive and Negative Space -More positive space than negative wieght. It focuses more on the image than the background.

Updated Final Draft

Essay for Project #1

The phone was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison who are two of the people accredited with the invention of the phone. The basic principle for the phone is to send information verbally great distances quickly and easily. Using a wire to carry sound waves in between two points, one can hear another even if he is not in the vicinity of the other. The first ever words to be spoken through such a method was from Alexander Graham Bell to his friend Watson exclaiming “Watson, come here. I want to see you!”

Using the description of what a sound wave should look like, I decided to incorporate it into my design by arching the patterns for ‘sounds’ and ‘voices’ giving them a sound wave-like quality. I also placed them around the ‘Telephone’, the primary vocal point, going towards the two people primarily responsible for the invention of the phone. The two people are also located at opposite ends of the page making it look as if they are communicating with each other. I also put the years of which each respective person documented his discovery. I also put in some text incognito which are the first words said over the phone which, in my opinion, unifies the design.

After I created my design, I noticed a few things that made my design interesting. First, is that everything in the design is mirrored in some fashion. This makes it almost perfectly symmetrical. It also gives the image a ‘playing card’ look to it. Then I thought, Inventing and playing poker are really similar, where in both cases one takes a really big gamble. I also noticed that I placed the ‘Sound’ in a complete ellipse around the mirror ‘telephone’, this makes it look like one of them unification ads where ‘telephone’ is the earth and ‘sound’ is the little people holding hands.

This is a picture of one of the more common waves ie:sin wave.

Ruff draft

Some features are unreadable in the tumbnail. Click for a larger version of the image.

Thumb nails

First round:





Second round:


Hand Rendered draft:

Poster Design

There is tons of lines in this poster that all go in diagonals. All are in proximity of two figures in the near center of the poster. However, the Title of the movie happens to be much larger in scale in proportion to the two figures making it more profound than the figures. The rhythm of the posture moves pretty fast considering the diagonals that is. It starts with the title which connects to the earth which leads to the run way which leads to the two figures and then back to the lettering which ultimately unifies the piece.