Illustrative Type!

Thoughts

I love this magazine spread!

And also, It drives me nuts when I know what typefaces some store channel letters are using. Usually they are terrible ones, like Hobo for instance. It drives me nuts. However, most of the time i am driving and cant take pictures of them. Cooper sans drives me nuts too. Especially because the companies who use it have "cooper" in their name.....LAME

MODA

Some pics I took at Moda! Such a cool display!

Inspiration

Wine Labels

Also, I browsed through the wine section to find some bottles for our redesigning project:

Spicy typeface!

Here is a pile of some of the items that i searched for at Kroger to make some of my letters out of....after creeping in the produce section and arranging all of the hot peppers into letters and photographing them on site. hah

Trends in graphic design

Some recent trends that i have seen come about are the new Nike shirts and the "keep calm..." everything. Its almost annoying now because Nike has taken their "Just do it" to a million different levels and the "keep calm and..." has been redone so many times. It seems like they just popped up out of nowhere too. I personally don't like either of these designs because now they are overused and the kerning is always off on the Nike shirts.

So irritating.....

 
 

9.11

Here are some other versions:

9.11

While i was designing this piece, I got rather sentimental. I didn't know exactly how many people died until I was using all of their names in my piece. I wanted to incorporate everyones names to remember them all individually. Such a tragedy. RIP everyone. God Bless

Portrait/Timeline posted!

I added these to my graphics tab!

WANT

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=typography&sprefix=typography%2Caps%2C234

I want all of the books

Yay and Nay

Now that I am gaining more experience in the design field, I am constantly analyzing magazines and ads all around me. I have found several that I don't like at all and i will post pictures eventually. I am trying to collect more on my phone before i upload them. My least favorite designs that I have made so far would have to be my first logo and my book cover. The first logo is just really unbalanced and became very awkward when I tried to place it on things. The book cover .... i dont know. Now that I have fixed the type from my portfolio it is better, but it still isnt my favorite.

 

My favorite 2 designs that I have mare are my Dog Days ads and my Dog Days logo. I worked for a whole semester refining that logo and working with it that i am very proud of the end product. I learned so much in GRD 3200 that i really value.

 

Best of the Best!

I feel that these are some of the pieces that showcase my creativity and what got me to where I am. The program has been great so far and I am loving it! :)