PSA - Final 2

The image of the cat and girl took some time to figure out. The updated image will be posted after the 9pm deadline. =( Sorry!

Self Identity - Business Cards More Sketches (NOT FINAL!)

I need to create MOAR!

Self Identity - Leave Behind Final

My bottles have not arrived yet. =( For now, these labels will have to do.

Type Specimen - Final

PSA - Final

Infographic - Final

This has not changed, despite getting feedback. Perhaps info graphics are not my thing at this point.

Self Identity - Business Card - Final

I chose this for the simplicity.

Self Identity - Business Card - Draft Whatever

Business cards galore!

Type Specimen - Draft 4

May be the final version?

PSA - Draft 2

Version 2.1

Version 2.2

Self Identity - Leave Behind

This took me about six hours to do. I updated the labels for The Bunny Products part of my senior project from last year. Six hours to change typefaces, fix the typography, and fix the colors of my bunny. I realized the importance of speed. I must be faster!

These are just the labels. Once I print them out, I will stick them onto bottles, like this:

I am thinking of the Potty Mouth Cleanser (and putting gummies or candy inside) and L'eau de Purite (make my own rose water?) to be put in a basket. If that doesn't work, I can stick with Stress BeGone and Stress Shield. I should stop by Michael's for baskets and flowers and order my bottles online.

Wondering if this is overkill?

Self Identity - Business Cards

Why am I so slow? These need to be tweaked. It looks a bit ungainly.

Self Identity Swipe

I have been quite interested in letterpress recently. Recently as in probably since last week. I was even searching for letterpress shops in New York to see if I could find any paid/unpaid work there to learn. And once I know, imagine all the stuff I will be able to do!

I love the simplicity, elegance, and clarity of letterpress. It also gives that old school look which I love so much. I may have been born in the wrong time period.

New Information Graphic

After some thinking, I decided to scrap my history of design idea. As much as I hated to give it up, I found it to be a bit overwhelming. Maybe I'll try it again later, when I am much more comfortable with info design.

So instead, I decided to draw out graphs for the movie industry. 3D movies are all the rage these days, and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) seem to be on the 3D bandwagon, creating 3D movie screens everywhere.

I had to calculate the numbers for the final pie chart. I'm still waiting for a response from the person in the LA office who might be able to five me the information. Until then, I have numbers based on what information I was already given.

Right now, it seems very corporate. I purposely chose these colors because they the colors of the organization. How do I make this more interesting and fun?

Information Design: Work in Progress

So this is a very very rough, highly unfinished work in progress. This covers only 50 years. I haven't even gotten to "post-Modernist" design. That will mean even more lines going everywhere since so many past movements affected them.

Things I must fix:

1. The arrows
   I drew the arrow heads myself because I wanted the info map to look warm. But now I see that it's making the entire thing look messy. Plus the arrow heads are cluttering everything up.
2. The starting point (from a design perspective)
   I started with a straight line starting from cubism, because that's the movement that I thought that had the most momentum over other movements. After laying out pre-WWII design history, I realized that Constructivism actually had more influence, which makes me wonder if I should create the linear motion of history with Constructivism as my starting point.
3. Icons
   Must have colorful icons!
4. Color Scheme
   I know I definitely want to have a cool, fresh blue. What to pair that with?
   

We'll see if there are any other suggestions in class tonight.

My head is about to explode.

It's Been Done Before! (Kinda)

My information graphic will be on the history of modern design. After doing almost all of my research, I decided to take a break by sketching out on paper a preliminary of my information map. This is how it looks:

(The horror, the horror!)

This was to get a general idea of how I should place pieces of information in relation to each other. I started looking for artistic movements that had the most arrows (therefore, making it a movement that required lots of space around it for all the other movements in spawned and the movements it was influenced by) and I was the Cubism was a pretty big movement when seen in the information map. Then I realized that there was something familiar about this. Was there some sort of information design revolving around Cubism? I searched, and finally, I found THIS:

Arg! Now I have to try to not make my own info map look too much like this.

PSA Posters - Draft 1

I've decided to create posters for the local animal shelter. I've seen one poster for an animal shelter somewhere in Manhattan, and upon seeing that, I realized that I've never noticed any other advertising for shelters. Unfortunately, they are overpopulated, and many animals are euthanized.

The great thing about the local animal shelter here in Syosset is that they are a no-kill shelter. They have practically no promotional materials. They don't even have a proper website. So here is a set of potential posters for the shelter. I wanted to get away from heartbreaking photographs, and wanted to go in a more loving direction. But I think this came out a bit too cutesy...

Type Specimen - Draft 3 - With Color

My instincts seem to have left me.

This is Color Scheme 1:



Color Scheme 2:

Type Specimen - Draft 2

I learned to use my "gut instincts"
When I had my internship during school, I was still struggling with design. When I would observe my mentor working, I would sometimes ask him why he did something one way as opposed to another, or why he would use one font, over another. Why is he doing what he is doing? And his response would almost always be: "I'm just going with my gut instincts."

I was never able to bring myself to ask him what would happen if a designer didn't have any gut instincts, as I thought was the case for me. As he would answer my questions, I would sit there, thinking, "Crap." I would never become a designer.

And now, with the hours I spent working on this type project, I realized that I did have some sort of instinct. I slowly plodded through line by line, choosing a type, laying it out, play around with spacing, and move on. And before I knew it, I had an entire page that didn't look like a disaster.

THANK GOD.

Now I just need to keep it up and apply it to other projects.