Blog Assign. #2 - Good Design, Bad Design

Cool New Design:


artist known as "Blu"






Justin LaFontaine






Kristina Collantes




Swampdonkey




Edward McGowan





Silly Bad Design:


Look at the Shadow on this Time cover.



Awkward drop caps.




Funny Fedex/Kinko's sign with Comic Sans. Seems out of place!

Blog Assign. #1 - Some of my Favorite Pieces

Earth Day Poster!



"Hardware Store" candle packaging



Top Flr logo




Top Flr ads



Top Flr website

Self Portrait DPS drafts

This is one of my self portrait project ideas. Still playing with it trying to make it look cooler. I feel like im good at basic shapes but i have trouble adding details that add to the design, without going overboard. Because of this I feel like some of my stuff still looks "unfinished".

Anyway, I thought it would be funny to use my FAVORITE blue color. And i decided to do a funny picture of me because most people I know know that I love to talk and make people laugh and I thought it would show my sense of humor. I'm having trouble incorporating the other designs, but I'm sure everyone is. I've tried some other ideas, but this is the only one i felt reallly good about.

Anyone reading this, please leave a comment/email with any critiques or suggestions!

Almost Everything

My personal logo.



Poster relating to the Iraq War for an imaginary rally.



Book Cover for Lester Beall. For this assignment we had to design a book cover that was "inspired by" a famous graphic designer. I might make an inspiration board to show what I was going for, but I think it looks cool even if you haven't seen his poster series'



Candle Packaging. The goal of this assignment was to pick something out of a hardware store, and redesign the packaging. The hard part was to make it have appealing design, but still give off a "hardware packaging" vibe (and most hardware packaging is NOT that pretty)



Earthday Poster.



The rest of this is Top Flr stuff. At the very end there is a webpage design that I've been working on, tell me what you think.
















This is a mockup of a website for Top Flr. Any suggestions?

I really didn't care for the stuff I did in my Typography class with Jeff,
so I might try to steal some of Paige's assignments from her Typography class' blog.
I'll come up with SOMETHING cool either way.

Any comments/suggestions on any of these? PLEASE lol

Matchbooks

An alternate color scheme I'm thinking about doing.

Final Ads!

My final ads!

Cool Stuff

New stuff from Steven Harrington -- http://www.stevenharrington.com/

Google Maps Alphabet

I thought this was pretty cool, finding an alphabet on Google maps.
This was done by a graphic designer/art director named Rhett Dashwood,
check out his site, it's pretty cool. http://rhettdashwood.com.au/

Earth Day Poster

My Earth Day poster, a little late. What do you guys think, any suggestions?

GSU juried show

So on thursday when the submissions were due for the juried GSU art show, i was in the computer lab i was emailing them, and I was sitting next to sarah kim, and she was like, "you know the deadline to email your stuff its at 5 pm, right? And i was like oh crap, because it was 5:30. So I emailed these in at 5:30, hoping they would still take them, but I didn't get an email back! But oh well. Anyway I thought I'd share what i attempted to submit, haha

the first one is a picture of Michael Alig and DJ Keoki from the 80's, that I pulled a "Shepard Fairey" on. The second one is from one of my own photos of my friend Saam. Did these mostly with the pen tool.

Ads

What do you guys think about these? Can you tell what all of the objects are in the second one? Does the sizing look alright, think anything would look better if it was smaller or bigger?

Ad idea

This is my ad idea, I think I'm gonna use this as a theme. I'll post the updated version in a lil while.

Final letterhead ideas

So the letterhead had me kind of stuck, I'm not sure why. I'm feeling better though with these, I think they're more playful and play off my logo more. I also wanted to have it cleaner looking like my business card, because I really like my simple business card. I still think I'm going to have my wallpaper pattern on the back, to make it look nice when it's folded up.

stationary

What do you think about these?
I like the white background letterhead. are these too boring?