Masthead Ideas

Today we worked on our mastheads for our magazine. After talking with a small group from my class we decided that the fish were a good idea. I spent all class starting at the top and working on changing little things till I got to a place that I am happy with. I am unsure about which one to choose on the last page, but I have a few ideas I can choose from and I am happy with what I did today. I also potentially solved my scanned photo dilemma by using a background from a magazine and adding my own pictures of the feet. I'm hoping that will work out okay. 

Sketches cont.

This is a very rough sketch, but I've decided that I like the fish. My audience is towards a young adult crowd who I believe will really understand the analogy. I am also unsure about my photo, I was so set on the feet, but now that I have to find it in a magazine, it could become very difficult. I like my title as is though and the selling line goes well with my main idea, "standing out from the world, for the world." Right now my biggest problem is finding the picture I need. 

Sketches for Mag. Cover

These are my first two sketches for my magazine cover. I really want to use a black and white photo of the same shoes with a focus on the colored TOMS shoes in the center. the main cover line is going to be about the creator of TOMS shoes and how the reader can be inspired by his story. I'm not sure about the fish yet so I'm going to play around with a few other ideas next. 

Magazine Cover Mood Board

This is my mood board for our upcoming project. I decided to create a magazine that is called Against the Current and will be advertised towards an audience that wants to step out and do something good for the world, but maybe don't know how or just need an inspiration. My main focus on this edition of the magazine will be on the creator of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie.

Mind Map for Next Project

our next project is a magazine cover. Today we worked on the wacom tablet to create a mind map in photoshop. As you can see it took some getting used to use the tablet, but it was interesting to try. For my concept I decided on trying to play off of the idea of stepping out of the traditional and starting something new. The title of my magazine is going to be Against the Current and I want to use the illustration of a fish going the opposite way as the school of fish. I want to use the creator of TOMS shoes as an inspiration and the main story. I'm still developing ideas further, but this is where I am so far. 

Photoshoped Ad

Our assignment for class was to take an ad from a magazine (preferably one with a celebrity in it) and use photoshop to place yourself in the image. Once I was successfully placed into the got milk ad, we had to add some text through indesign into the work. I chose to change the tag-line from the original "got milk" to got coffee since I recharge with coffee in the morning (hence my jumping for joy with Ashley Tisdale)

Types of images

Our assignment was to use inDesign and photoshop to recreate this diagram. This is my final product of trying to reproduce the chart with different types of images. 

Google SketchUp cont.

After working most of the period on trying to finish this chair I came up with a pretty successful chair. This tutorial did not tell you step by step how to do things, so I had to search google and find a lot of information on new tools that I never used before. I have a much better handle on this program now.

Google SketchUp

Today we started working in Google sketch up and had the option of watching tutorials on the sketchup website and follow along. The first chair I created was subtractive, meaning I created a block and cut away from it. The second one was an additive approach where I created the base then added the back and the legs. The next chair I am working on is much more complicated, I found these two chairs relatively easy to complete.

Final Mounted Project

Complete Packet

We were required to have one complete packet that could actually hold seeds. So for this one I had to make a back also. I wanted to incorporate the Emerald city in my design and thought this was a perfect place to do so. The idea of the seed is to grow a desire (the three that the characters want in the film) without having to go visit the wizard. It is a product that the Wizard produced almost as if he didn't want to be bothered. The very bottom of the back I added a quote from L. Frank Baum's book the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (the book that the movie was based off of) as a disclaimer saying "the true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have plenty." I feel that this just sums up the seeds perfectly as a product of the Wizard. Just like in the book/movie the characters never really needed the Wizard at all to find the qualities they desired, it was in them all along. The Wizard is just a big show. 

Final Designs

These are the final designs I ended up with. It took me a while to get to where I ended, especially with the sayings. Overall I'm happy with what I came up with and I think it ties all three together nicely.