Month: May 2018

Tony Pierce’s 7 Eleven Spending Adventure

7eleven-map-final-draft

Tony Pierce’s 7 Eleven Spending Map illustrated information was based off an information packet Tuan gave us containing past spending data on a seemly fictional person.

Confused at first, I decided to choose one topic to convey a map using a graph.

The graph was easy, I just edited the way I wanted it to look; colors; fonts; sizes etc. The seemingly easiest part was actually the toughest for me; the large 7 eleven symbol. I just looked at a seven eleven and tried to make a replica of it, which I think I did successfully.

This is one of my least favorite pieces I have made because it simply does what it has to; portrays information in compresensive manor. That being said- I achieved one of the most important Graphic Designers’ jobs!

I used illustrator.

Symbol Methology

When creating a a symbol in graphic design 1, I was inspired by grapes.
I ended up making a serious of designs, but had to narrow it down to make our stickers.
I learned how difficult is it to actually make a sticker- how what you want to see could be so difficult to peal it is nearly impossible.

Process work and research

creative part of process: finding location mascot

making a mixtape that represents bridge

 

personal notes throughout project research

RESEARCH BASED  ESSAY ON BRIDGE

my favorite part of the process was allowing myself to get silly with the mascot.

The research taught me a lot of cool facts and about secret events that have happened at the location.

Bridge Mark

bridge mark

 

The final bridge mark was chosen from a series of differentiating ideas and it was no easy choice indeed. I stuck with the full name of the bridge because it gave it a sense of elegance and illustrated the majesticy of the bridge if you will. Playing around with weights, changing sizes of the actual mark was one of the hardest parts. I did this in a series for the application part of our project in GDES II with different colors and made them into oval stickers.

I used graphic design and Old Book Font type.

match box

A copy I was able to recover of the matchbox I made in VISU 1.
I chose to make a matchbox inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. Not only has it been one of my favorite movies for years, but it expresses every single kind of art.
The music, dancing, creating of costumes, sets, writing, emotion, and finally romance.
This was a rather difficult piece to make because there were a lot of phrases I wished to add in, though I ended up deciding it was the most aesthetic when I created images.
I formatted the demensions on Adobe Illustrator and well is playing with colors to express the movie.
The elephant was one of the harder parts; I wanted to express the actual materials from the elephant room in the movie and I felt I did well making the gold look shiney, using various adaptatinos of a broze and gold color I composed from the tools. The blue is like in the movie, and has a gleaming affect as well. I chose to express the lights dangling throughout the film with the textured part of the box used to strike the matches.

Type Specimen Book

my type specimen was Gill Sans TD.

I varied porportions, type size, and type direction.

I showed the different ways in which the font can be used; bolded, italicized, morphed even! Finding recognizable posters and movie titles using the font was fun as well as learning the different ways to express the entire alphabet in short words.

Overall, I believe this project is not one of my best, though it shows the best transformation between this book and my Ryzograph Zine.

Processing Final Assets

images:

  1. the band
  2. white light
  3. explosion
  4. galaxies
  5. the Logo

This assignment had several stages of unmasking an artist (band in this case) which I felt strongly towards and was to represent in a visual manor. Not a single song of theirs fails to make me feel emotion. I chose to depict and re-illustrate things that were crucial to their music.