Communication Design 2 - Project 3

Part 3 of the Festival Identity projects in Communication Design: the infamous festival brochure.

I used similar images in this to match up with the poster.
But instead of the gent playing the trumpet there are: a saxophone player, upright bass player, and trombone player. It gets boring having the same images on everything. I wanted to have a little fun and see if I could do more guys in that style.

I have to say the saxophone player is my favorite part of this entire thing.

The booklet is pretty small: take a regular sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper, fold it in half, and you have the size of this pamphlet. It's double-sided, so when you flip it upside down you get the french portions.

Once again the internet has destroyed the colours of the poor image. That saxophone is really a nice VIBRANT gold yellow, and the browns are MUCH richer in real life.
The schedule, I realize now, has a bit of a salt and pepper issue (the bold is too bold - it looks like someone literally sprinkled pepper) but at the same time it really does highlight the concert headliners.

Felicitous, from the November Project

She has absolutely nothing to do with the word assigned to her. But I couldn't care less.
She was inspired by it, and that's all that counts.

I had so much fun looking at flapper dresses to put her in!
Google. How would I EVER survive without your image search option?

She makes me giggle.

Drawing for Design - Project 2

Another one bites the dust.
The apples from the previous post are some of the process work leading up to this project.
We had to take the fruit or veggie we drew in class and continue the sketching process at home. When we found three styles we liked we had to do a series of sketches as we either ate or cut apart the fruit.

Out of the three styles we had to pick our favorite, and choose four of the sketches to show the progression. One poor guy ate something silly like ten apples before he got all the sketches he wanted.

A prelude of things to come

Since it will be a while until I post the next bunch of finished projects I thought I should tide you over with some of the latest work from my Drawing for Design class.
We've since moved on from buildings and geometric shapes to organic shapes.
For the past couple of classes we've been doing a lot of sketching of fruits and vegetables - we had our choice of which kind. The only rule was that there had to be two of the same kind, so we could see some variation.
Pretty funny: you could tell which of the students in the class had to live off meal plans or on tiny grocery allowances - we all brought things to eat after class was over! Needless to say the small army of apples and bananas was decimated before the 4 hours were up.

We started off with realistic sketches, and moved on to more abstract representations as time wore on (or as you started to get bored of pencils)

Sommelier, from the November Project

Another November project piece.
I tried to do something really different than my usual style, and you know... I really like her.
You'll probably see more of this kind of illustration in the future!

sommelier

\suhm-uhl-YEY; Fr. saw-muh-LYEY\ , noun;

1. A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings.

Communication Design 2 - Project 2

Following up the posters for the Harvest Jazz and Blues festival with a ticket design.
The idea was to keep the feel of the original poster - I chose to work with the trumpet player - while using only TWO colours.

Two colours is a real pain, but I did it.
I switched pantones at LEAST six times while test printing this bad boy.
All the yellows I chose printed pumpkin orange, for some inexplicable reason.
Although I should have known: pantones are infamous for not liking anything with orange in it.

In the end I liked having to work with so few colour options: you don't have time to get bogged down in all the options. You have two, you make them work, end of story.

The very thin yellow line at the bottom is where the perforation would have been had this been an actual ticket. I wanted the ticket holder to be able to keep most of the imagery as a memento of the concert.

Truculent, from The November Project

I gave myself a little challenge for this month: a drawing a day, based on a "word of the day" option on dictionary.com
Partially to stave off that horrible artist's block I had all summer, and partially to have just one thing a day that isn't class work - it will be a good rest for my brain.

I've already done two, but this is my best one.
The other is the usual big-eyed, emotionless face that I seem to be so good at.

The word for November 2nd was TRUCULENT

truculent

\TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\ , adjective;

1.Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous.

2.Cruel; destructive; ruthless.

Call me crazy, but I just REALLY wanted to draw creepy crows.

Better yet: this baby is a vector, so I can make it whatever size I want.
I forgot over the summer just how much I loved that about illustrator files.

Drawing for Design - Project 1

This is quite possibly the only project I've ever had that nearly gave me hypothermia.
We had to go out over our October reading week and draw 20 sketches of a building of our choice: easier said than done when the weather that week decided to dip into the minuses, with wind!

I drew the Church of the Holy Trinity. It's this adorable little church jammed in between the Eaton Centre and the Mariott hotel downtown.

We then took those 20 sketches, chose at least 3, and combined them to make abstract compositions as the final piece.

There are only a few sketches included here, but they're my favorites.
They're also not the ones I used for the actual composition: the general consensus was that the one-point perspective drawings I had done were better suited to be combined than the two or three-point perspectives.

Stone Photography

It's sad that I can't remember what kinds of stone these are.
All I remember is being on a tour of Waterloo U with Miranda, in the Geology department, and desperately having to stop to photograph them.

It's things like these that make me miss science... and then I think about it and realize I'm much happier taking pictures of them than studying or digging at them!

I'm DYING for a chance to use some of these in a project.
The right topic just hasn't come up yet!

Pink Photography

Some nice potted Mums and some naturally hot pink leaves.
Talk about a successful day.
The bushes with pink leaves are all over the place in North York.

WARNING: the browser doesn't do the colour of these babies justice.

Sweet Photography

Remember the old cake project?
I found some of the original photos today and decided that some of them were too pretty not to post by themselves.

One is the rows upon rows of delicious little cakes from La Patisserie Cigogne, and the other is the delightful icing on a mango cupcake from the Cupcake Shoppe.

This is making me hungry all over again...