Wednesday, October 21, 2009
315th post
When the Dove of Peace comes--guess who has to clean up after it?
This quote and design, prepared on Adobe Illustrator, just won a bumper sticker contest held by the right wing grassroots political organization Mattot Arim. I got nationwide printing, 1,800 NIS, and a daylong of Happy :-)
This was my first ever practical application of Adobe Illustrator and as such the first time my just-completed Computer Graphics course paid off--may it continue to do so for ever more!
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Bronze King", by Suzy McKee Charnas ((c) 1988)
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
280th post
These were logos I had to design for Illustrator homework. The top row are miniature black-and-white generic computer logos. The colorful one is an independent reworking of Adobe's Illustrator program logo.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Lonely Mound", by William Campbell Gault ((c) 1967)
Labels: graphics
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
275th post
Two different Illustrator homeworks now--the first was about using the 3D Revolve tool, the second was 3D Extrude & Bevel, symbols, and gradient meshes.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland", by Jim DeFede ((c) 2002)
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009
273rd post
Another piece of Illustrator homework. This one was about crop marks, multiple page artboards, and Tab. And yes, I know now that's not how you spell Cappuccino or Frappuccino. Whatever. I had my fun.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Last Templar", by Raymond Khoury ((c) 2005)
Labels: graphics
Saturday, April 18, 2009
268th post
This is actually a combination of three different Illustrator homework assignments. First we had to make the room, then the carpet and wallpapers, and finally the furniture (in 3-D). Not too shabby, all things considered.
TODAY'S BOOK: "There is No Such Thing as Coincidence", by Baruch Lev ((c) 2003)
Labels: graphics
Monday, March 23, 2009
259th post
Here's the first example published here of my work in the Illustrator segment of my Computer Graphics course. The assignment was to use linked pictures and layer masks, among other things, to create an advertisement. As usual, tweaks abounded.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Da Vinci Code", by Dan Brown ((c) 2003)
Labels: graphics
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
253rd post
And so here we are, the last of the poster mockups. This is my favorite, both because of the subject material and the creativity it drew out of me in the process of making it. You've seen one of the Neogenix before on a couple of occasions, but so far the rest are paper-and-pencil instead of pixelated. The names are from two previous stories of mine (unpublished and unfinished, natch), "Clicky Dark"--a boy and his friends playing sports; original, right?--and "The Torah Tigers", an all-Jewish worst-to-first Little League baseball team. "Neogenix", in case you're wondering, tells of 36 genetically created superpeople blasted into space before they could develop into maturity.
Oh, and props to the Fabrica de Herois site for helping in the creation of the centerpiece image (left to right: Popsicle, Toolbox, Burn).
TODAY'S BOOK: "Crazy--But True!", by Jonathan Clements ((c) 1974)
Labels: graphics
Friday, February 27, 2009
247th post
This is the second of my three end-of-project posters, this one an army-recruitment one. It's the heaviest in size, and the one I finished last. The photos are spliced soldiers and pointing hands, and the pitch and slogan were ad-libbed. Background's a mishmash of patches and symbols. The hardest part was turning the US Army logo into a Pen shape.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Looking for Trouble", by Theodore Levite ((c) 1976)
Labels: graphics
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
242nd post
For my end-of-course project in PhotoShop, I designed three posters. This is the simplest one, for the non-existent End Global Famine organization. I made up the statistic, but it sounds about right, don't you think? (Also, if you squint, there's a bit of a surprise in the background...)
TODAY'S BOOK: "Baseball's Biggest Bloopers: The Games That Got Away", by Dan Gutman ((c) 1993)
Labels: graphics
Saturday, January 24, 2009
230th post
This time I had to follow an online PhotoShop tutorial (here). I don't think I did too bad, all things considered, and once again I let my overfertile imagination run wild with the text.
TODAY'S BOOK: "A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag", by Gordon Korman ((c) 1987)
YOUR HORISCOPE FOR TODAY: Aries - Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo ; Capricorn - Time to choose between your friends and your family. You're bound to make the wrong choice due to Mercury's influence, but what the heck.
Labels: graphics
Saturday, January 10, 2009
223rd post
Also from PhotoShop class, my first ever foray into animation. The assignment was to make a clock reach 12:00 (starting point optional), then have something happen. In my case, as you can see, the bells vibrate, simulating a ring.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Caves of Steel", by Isaac Asimov ((c) 1953)
YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Virgo - Take a little time off, just enough to get fired (if you don't like it, blame the moons of Saturn) ; Libra - Stop being so down on yourself. So 11,000 people got killed including your entire family. So what? Chin up!
Labels: graphics
Sunday, December 21, 2008
213th post
No layers on this baby... we were requested to pick a topic at random and make an A4-sized poster for it. I chose the American Museum of Natural History, and decided to have some fun with the details. The only bit that dissatisfied me was that you can't really tell that the word "BITE" is supposed to look like it's cracking and breaking up.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Red Dwarf", by Grant Naylor ((c) 1989)
YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Taurus - Your future is inexplicably filled with the word "Madoff" ; Virgo - All those years of eating your brussel sprouts are about to pay off for you. You're going to get a $1.20 raise.
Labels: graphics
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
207th post
Hey hi ho, here's another website homepage I whipped up for PhotoShop homework.
We were given three choices: travel, pets, and technology. Operating on the basis that it doesn't count as "work" if you have fun doing it, I combined the last two and came up with, as you can see, Robo-Pets.
The hardest part was trawling the web for suitably robotic-looking animals to use as pop-ups when the menus are selected.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Prime Directive", by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens ((c) 1990)
YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Aries - Now is an auspicious time to go outside, soak up some sun, and develop skin cancer ; Taurus - The next time you forget to compliment your wife's cooking will also be your last, if you know what I mean.
Labels: graphics
Monday, December 01, 2008
203rd post
Ahoy, here's an example of what I do for homework in my Graphic Design course. Right now we're learning PhotoShop, and one of our assignments was to create a website that one could "interact" with via layers. The layers (in this case the drop-down menus) are unavailable here, but you can see the rest.
I wanted to make the background diagonal instead of horizontal but couldn't figure out how.
Please note the symbol for the United Countries of Earth--a combination of the Great Seal and the UN flag--and the Latin mottoes: "In God We Trust" for the UCE and "Faster, Higher, Better" (based on the Olympics' motto) for the Project.
The spareness of the design is due to it being a military site and not accessible for the average user...
TODAY'S BOOK: "Superfudge", by Judy Blume ((c) 1980)
YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR TODAY: Aquarius - Rob Peter to pay Paul ; Cancer - Rob Paul to pay Peter, and piss off Aquarius in the process.
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