For this assignment, I was responsible for creating a mockup for a teaser page for a new gallery opening in Jester. For the mockup, the Client, Cherise Smith wanted a clean look and feel and something similar to the WordPress Altitude Theme. In addition to the teaser page, a artist page was needed to show the works of one of the artists (Eto Otitigbe) that will be in the first exhibition. I followed the clean look that matched the teaser home page.

The artist page has a clean minimalist appearance with the white background. The font of the page (Open Sans) matches similarly to the font in the theme because it had good thin font weight for the navigation and regular font weight for the rest of the text and bold font weight for the title of the page in the top left corner.

For this self paced training exercise, I decided to do an image trace of two of my photographs. The first image will show the original and underneath the original shows the image traced result. In addition to the image trace, I still wanted to play around with typography. My interest in typography allowed me to experiment with letter spacing and the layout of text. For the first image, the text is curved instead of straight.

The bird in the image is called a laughing gull because they don’t make beautiful chirp sounds like regular birds. Instead, they sound like hyenas except their laughter sound is better and louder. They tend to fly around you in circles until you give in and give them your french fries or what ever you’re eating.

For the next image, because the use of blacks are heavy, I changed the settings of the image live trace to look spooky. I added a very subtle thin font and greatly increased the letter spacing. Because of this great large space, I called it Dark Matter. Dark Matter is something that involves universe which appears like a dark and empty void. The same goes for the image, there is this character (which is made out of hardened Play-Doh) that is standing inside the dark void. The dark matter almost engulfs him.

Working on some training projects for Adobe Illustrator. Instead of multiple posts, I’ll just keep a compendium on this single post.

Live Trace of a photo I took of my dad in China:

More coming soon.

Project: Logo for Clinical Neuroendocrinology Lab
Description: I flipped the logo and added the CNL letters below it, as well as made some adjustments. This is the final logo.

Request: Recreate more graphics for videos.

I communicated back and forth with:

Professor:Rachel Stokes

Project Managers:Suloni Robertson, Mike Heidenreich

Video production:Jacob Weiss

STA’s : Erica Ndubueze

Assignment 1:Remake time zone map

Assignment 2:Make an oxford dictionary style graphic with the definition ofSyllable

Assignment 3:Rework of Color Vowel Chart

Assignment 4:Make color mixing examples

Assignment 5:Remake mouth chart