Nightmares

Because there is always a building falling down or a boat that is sinking and someone is always chasing me. I hardly remember any fun dreams. But I had fun with this layout.

DIY Astronomy Pictures

Alright, so the top picture is from astronomy picture of the day, but I thought I would give a point of comparison. The rest are prints made from Sunprint Paper. It is a kit made by Toysmith; I used to sell it at the toystore. Many teachers use it to teach about shapes. Anyway, you lay objects down on the paper and expose them to sunlight for one to three minutes. After the paper has been exposed, you rinse it off in cold water, and then your image shows up. Of course, these colors have been altered a bit.

I am using a couple of these for Chuck Loeb's cd packaging. Now I just need to figure out what kind of type I want to use...

Portfolio Revisions!

I was told to punch up this poster and push it to the limit. So I made everything bigger and overlap, and in general interact more. I want to keep the white background, because I don't have many things with white. I'm not sure if I'm done with it yet though...

This poster is pissing me and my computer off--there are soooooo many layers. And right now I'm not really sure what to do with it. I like the juxtaposition of the vector images with photography, but it also feels right to make it more vector/illustrated looking. I just need to stop looking at it for a bit.

No more illustrator stroke around the edges of the photo. And I turned it on it's side a bit and made it much larger to try and make it look more interesting.

Cause for Paws: Billboards

Lizzy Revisions

Lizzy and Chuck CD Packaging

My First AIGA Event. Woo!

Thank you for signing up for this AIGA Atlanta event. Your registration information is below.

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Shauna Perry
Atlanta, GA

Event: Student Portfolio Day 2010
Date : Saturday, April 17
Time : 11:30 AM
Cost : $30.00

See you there!

Business Card/Sticker

Just a bit of explaining: These business cards are solid craft paper with a sticker/label wrapped around the side.

The image on top will be the sticker, and the part that is hanging off on the left will be wrapped around to the other side.

What do you think?

Portfolio Website Interface

This is the home page. The image in the center would change each time you visited the page or reload the page. (The image now is just a place holder; it would be much more polished/finished looking than this.)

The contact info, navigation bar, and logo would stay in the same place at all times.

I am going to use an expanding navigation bar. For example, if you were to click on Identity, Logos and Branding would show up underneath. Once you click on Logos (or whatever) thumbnails or a gallery would appear in the center.

Potential Site for Billboards

Free Association. Names for Lizzy's CD

Here are some words that I'm thinking about:

idependence

sovereignty

sustain

self

autonomy

I'm thinking about using "sustain." It could have lots of meanings; sustain as the music term, sustain as in environmentally friendly, sustain as self-sufficiency...

Drawings for Lizzy Loeb CD Packaging

These are some rough drawings for Lizzy's cd packaging so far. I'm going to clean them up a little bit. This was my first time using a wacom tablet... lots of fun. The color palette will be very muted: pastel purple and teal, cream, and brown or black (not sure which one yet).

Now I need to figure out the construction of the case...

Periodic Table of Typefaces

Portfolio Website for an Illustrator with an Interesting Layout

http://www.sbritt.com/

Portfolio Website. Woodgrain.

http://iso50.com/iso50.html

Very Fun Interactive Website

http://www.also-online.com/

Nice Website with Great Work and an Explaination of Why She Doesn't Do Website Design

http://jessicahische.com

Style Guide for Self Branding and Resume

Foolishly, I though I knew what I wanted to do for my branding, but I don't. So I've been doing a bit of research and decided to put a style guide together to help gather my thoughts. I am leaning towards neutra text, twentieth cent mt, or century gothic for my type choice, and I know I want to use craft paper and vellum a lot.

As far as the resume is concerned, this is not the layout I want to continue to use.

It is very boring. Also, the wording needs some finessing.

Concentrated Control Booklet/Poster

I wish this was in Atlanta...

http://sumiinkclub.com/

I really like this; it might be my favorite so far. (As far as home pages are concerned.)

http://wonderfair.com/

This one is just kind of interesting...

http://gable1.free.fr/

This is an example of what I don't want to do. It's so boring and done and done again.

http://www.tim-barber.com/

When you first go to the site, the type is there and the color slowly comes in. It is simple without being boring.

http://www.toddhido.com/

A Short Film Comprised of Nothing but Logos

Logorama - il était une fois les marques (trailer) from sophie spreafico on Vimeo.

Logorama,” which won this year’s Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, is a movie made up entirely of logos. Remarkable in itself, this award is testament to the fact that logos have risen beyond tools for brand marketing and have become the most recognizable images of pop culture around the world. Written and directed by H5’s Francois Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain, “Logorama” is a 16-minute animated crime story that takes place in Los Angeles (where else?). Brand logos not only comprise the landscape, they are the heroes and villains of the film. The plot, which has shades of Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” gone seriously awry, revolves around a curvaceous Esso girl, a sinister Ronald McDonald, Michelin men cops and a dapper Mr. Pringles, with cameo appearances by more than 2,500 logos and corporate brands. At a time when brand advertisers pay huge sums of money to sneak their product into the scene of a feature film, even for a few seconds, “Logorama” turns the concept of brand placement on its ear.

Cause for Paws: Final Signage and Schematics

Booklet/Poster

I'm still working on the background. I've been playing with different color shapes to go in the back and those will help separate the different conglomerates.

Also, the colors aren't finalized. I'm using a darker yellow so that it is easier to read, and I can't decide if I want to use orange or not... Anyway, that's what I've got so far. There are still four more tree/maps that I need to fit on the poster.