Had a very quick turnaround with this badboy (two hours!) but sometimes that’s what it takes in the Biz. This was a perfect chance to use my favorite graphic element: the topographic map. Used colors from a previous LAITS graphic for the Geography department, and used photos provided by the client.
I was tasked with creating the banner that will display all STAs for this Fall’s program. It was definitely a task to figure out how to display a bunch of photos in an interesting way, without drawing the eye away or making viewing confusing. I went through quite a few iterations, and much thanks to Jac for adding in the photos and making some text a little more readable. I think my first draft was pretty gross but the end result was really nice. It’s interesting to see an idea advance after breaks between working. Overall I enjoyed the project a lot, I tried a different style than what I am usually making and the design requirements were fairly open to play with.
I made a caricature for the STA banner! I’ve used illustrator and photoshop a lot, but I don’t think I’ve ever made an image of myself, so this was fun to do. I did this in illustrator.
I decided to copy a style created Nigo, a famous street designer/artist. He used this flat caricature style for humanoid designs when working on his brand A Bathing Ape. I’ve always been a huge fan of thick linework and flat design. He grew close to Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, eventually doing Pharrell’s album cover. However, making this blog post… I just realized I forgot the thumbs!! I’ll fix it later.
Project: Butler Opera Documentary
Client: LAITS Studio
Completion status: started October 1st, 2019
Staff guidance: Suloni Robertson, Valerie Tran
STA team members: Abriella Corker
Description / plans: create an intro / outro, lower-third mockup, and rotoscope (tbd) for the Butler Opera Documentary video
To be completed: N/A
Here’s what I’m having right now for the Butler Opera Documentary intro / outro mock-up
I’m super excited to work on this!
I’ve been working on scanning a few different types of documents brought in by professors. One professor brought in magazines from the 50s that needed the covers and pages scanned. After scanning the documents, I opened them in Photoshop to straighten the images and crop out any extra space so that the finished product was a clean digital image. Another professor brought in many small slides, these are scanned in groups of twelve using a film holder insert on the scanner. I color corrected one slide that appeared faded in Photoshop to bring out its natural colors. Through these assignments I’ve gotten comfortable using the Epson Perfection V700 Photo for scanning various kinds of documents like books, film slides, and magazines. I’ve also strengthened my Photoshop skills by editing these scans into polished materials for our professors to use.
Hello there,
Here’s another timely blog post (sorry Suloni, I’ll get better!) regarding what I’ve been doing!
Until next time~