Monday, November 28, 2011
This assignment was to create a graphic descriptive of a dinner I would have with someone, (not living), of my choice. I set the image up as a tri-fold hard-cover menu. I used the emboss effect in the layer blending panel for all three panels, and the pillow emboss for the photographs. I believe the center page was promotional copy for Cafe Society, the nightclub in Greenwich Village where Billie Holiday's reputation as a jazz vocalist really took off. I used the style and colors of this image to inform the opposing pages. The background for those pages was created with a watercolor filter and reduced opacity to compliment the table cloth on the center graphic. The photo on the left page is of the inside of the club. I adjusted the hue on both that image and the photo of Billie Holiday to create the duotone effect, and used the multiply blend mode on both layers. There are a couple of things I integrated from my research for the menu. I found some programs for the shows, (lists of the songs that were going to be played), so I decided to integrate that idea into the menu. I also noticed that many menus are dated as the offerings change. I found a font (Sachiko) that was very similar to that of the tag line "The wrong place for the right people", and used that for the fixed parts of the menu text. I found a menu for the Cotton Club that appeared to come off of an old typewriter. I downloaded an old typewriter font, but when I tried it on my menu it didn't work with the script I had used for the rest of the menu, so I compromised with Didot, a cleaner type.
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