Magazine Cover

This is a simulated magazine cover I designed in the poster style because I prefer a clean, uncluttered format. The cover image is a composite of my face, (several of them, actually), and a photo of Marlene Deitrick, sans Marlene. Once the image came together it was just a matter of selecting the fonts I wanted to work with and experimenting with different fx to enhance the magazine's theme. I kept the cover lines simple and symmetrical to keep the focus on the image. I have always found black and white photos capable of creating the most striking visual effects. The red makes the image pop, and is a classic compliment to the black and white combination.

Masks & Overlay Blending

This was my first attempt at using the calculations tool to blend color channels to create a mask. I used the pen tool to include parts of the image that the mask didn't pick up. Then the overlay brush is used to finesse the selection. This is a very effective method for masking a tricky subject. The air guitar/tennis racket player was lifted from his original background and placed on this green field. I failed to address the shadows on his legs, however, creating an odd lighting discrepancy in the overall image.

Business Card 6/11

This is the design I created for my current business card. I created the ligature on the front of the card from my initials.

Business Cards & Logo Design

This was an exploration in logo design. The top set was for my brother's woodworking business, which no longer operates under this name, (oh well). Below is for my hopefully-one-day-not-so-fictional graphic and website design business.

Portrait 12/10

This is a portrait of my daughter which was created in Illustrator. It is not what would be considered the classic Illustrator style, where the various tones are broken down into more obvious shapes. I worked, instead, with the gradient mesh tool, to create a more fluid, realistic image. This method was extremely time consuming, and somewhat tedious at times, but I was satisfied with the results. Unfortunately I spent so much time on the subject that I had very little time or energy left for the background, and I had a deadline. So the background is very stiff in comparison.

Poster 10/10

This assignment was to create a poster/document about an artist of our choice. The objectives of this project were to wrap the images with text, and to copy the artists style using the illustrator tools. As you can see from the photos, Wodiczko's earlier work was creating the Homeless Vehicle, so I recreated that in the lower right hand corner of the page. His more recent work involves large projections on public monuments, ergo the slide projector in the lower right hand corner projecting his name onto the upper left hand corner.

Vector Surrealism

This was primarily a project to create vector objects in Photoshop using the pen tool. Beyond that I have used various pieces of photographs to create my version of a surrealistic image.