Project 04 - Book Cover

I have chosen Dracula for my book cover.

Here are some covers of this book already...

So many available for inspiration!

My thoughts on this are lots of red, black, and white. I also like the simplicity of a few drops of blood (5th from the bottom). So... let the sketching begin!

Project 03 - sketches

Project 03 - Event Poster

The guidelines for this project are to create an 11x17 poster for an event recently attended or happening in the near future. Some of my ideas for an event are:

• Cheetah Girls (TOO OLD)
• Gwen Stefani (TOO OLD)
• No Doubt
• Blink 182
• Grant Park Tour of Homes
• Wicked

As much as I want to do Wicked for my event, I worry that I won't be able to get away from their current, and very successful poster. I really like the poster they have now and it is a bold move to try to make a new one, especially when I see nothing wrong with the first.

I really enjoyed the Tour of Homes event also but I was NOT a fan of their program. I did not like the look of the poster, and I even remember wanting to offer to make their posters and some imaging for them next year if I decide to volunteer for this again.

Grant Park Tour of Homes:
KEY POINTS-

• Sept. 24 (10a-6p) & Sept. 25 (12p-6p)
• Tickets $20, $25 day of
• 36th Annual
• website

 VISUALS-

• candles
• cozy porches
• rose bushes
• pretty stairs
• old, pretty windows
• bees
• half-starburst (the Grant Park donation sign that a lot of homes hang with their house number on it)
• columns/pillars
• mirrors
• clawfoot tubs

COLORS-

• pale yellow
• pale blue
• pale salmon/pink
• pale green/sage
• black & white
• tan/brown

I will try to find my old program to scan in, but here is a tiny image I could find on the web that is similar to the program....

Project 02 Critique

Positives:
-good idea making it appeal to both genders
-easy to recognize the company at hand
-good contrasting colors
-interesting that the faces are the least "real" looking, and so the focus becomes the Sim in the game.

Negatives:
-the 3x10.5 is a little weak; could have more at the bottom
-the 3x10.5's text is less significant; lose the impact of 'other self' as it gets smaller (possibly use the same text from the 5x5?)

Project 02 Final Images

The idea of this project was to take an actual company and create a collage ad campaign.  The ads are meant to go together in one series like you would see in a magazine or on a billboard, hence the variety in sizes. We were allowed to change the tagline, but were to keep the logo as it was. I chose to change the tagline for Sims to "Be Your Other Self". I stuck with the Sims in general, rather than the Sims 3, although I do like their tagline, PLAY WITH LIF3.  Here are the final images of my ads:

Project 02 continued...

I am thinking for my ad, I'm going to design a huge plumbob as my collage. I'm going to take lots of shiny, ice, hard-candy - looking images from magazines and pack it all together into a plumbob. Then in order to go with my tagline, Be Your Other Self, I am going to add a very generic head under the plumbob. This should help all consumers and viewers be able to identify with the Sims. They can picture the top of that head, as them, being their, "other self". I don't know what image I'm going to use for the head yet but I think I just want from the eyes up or at least not the whole face or head. Oh and in case you guys were wondering what a plumbob is... here's an image of one: