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...

Communication Design 2 - Project 1

After a long summer of nothing I have four posters to put up.
For Communication Design 2 this year we were put in charge of picking a Canadian festival and designing a system of posters, tickets, and brochures to advertise it.
The poster project is the largest: we had to make 3 completely different versions (one literal, one abstract, and one symbolic) and then pick ONE of those 3 to carry on into the later parts of the project.

Sadly one of the posters I (and apparently a bunch of my other classmates) loved the most was outright shot down by my professor because of personal tastes. I'll post it anyway because I loved it and will mourn its passing.
(The fourth poster is the unfortunate reject)

I chose to use the trumpet player and continue the further designs for this class around him.
You'll see them soon!