New Ideas (Mess With The Web)

Warm To Cool

Mess With The Web Project

10 (8) Page Book [Finished]

I based my project off of the Of Mice & Men album Restoring Force. I used 6 of the songs from the album as well as making a front and back cover. The front cover is very similar to the album artwork: 

The back cover contains the list of songs on the album (not all were used in the book). There is a themes of the aesthetic of the album such as oceans, shells, and movement. I implemented a lot of these into the different pieces of the booklet. Each page for each song represents the song's emotion and relate to the title of the song. I used a lot of motion blurs and text arches in order to express some of the feelings of movement. For the songs that were more aggressive and heavy, I used more of these effects, and the gentler songs had less of them. I also used a balance of black and white and color on the pages (3 vs 3) to express the balanced feeling of the album. I think the highlights of the booklet were the front cover; where a mistake with which layer to put a brush tool on resulted in the interesting shadow effect of a couple of the words, and the 'Glass Hearts' page; which I feel is very balanced and enjoy the overall design of it. That page had two versions originally because I couldn't decide between a lighter one or a darker one. This was the lighter design:

I felt that the darker piece represented the darker feel of the song and also just thought it visually looked better, so that is why I chose it. Overall I am happy with this project and how it turned out, although if I could do it again I would implement the use of the grids in InDesign more.

Mr. Woodstock Ticket

4 Page Magazine Imitation

I recreated 4 random magazine articles in InDesign to test out the program and some of its features.

Grid Swatches

Playing around with swatches while doing the grid project and thought this looked interesting.

Joshua Davis Inspired Large Piece

My contribution to the larger Joshua Davis-inspired group project. I used the lens flare tool, duplicated the lens flare, then created a blend and played around with the pathways.

STS Logo Attempt #2

I played around with the original design I had, added a couple of filters, and came up with this. I think I like it a little better than the original.

Silence The Saboteur Logo

Designed a logo for the band Silence The Saboteur. I took the original image that was given to me, Live Traced it in Illustrator, and applied a pattern swatch to it. I then duplicated it, Live Traced the second one, applied a different pattern swatch, and positioned it to add a shadow effect to the larger one. I was able to find a pattern that presented the illusion of the use of gray when only black and white were allowed.