Wedding invite

Wahoo my friend got married. Nice job dude. he also needed wedding invites. And I felt inclined to help. I was nervous at first because most of my art as you can see lacks the elegant qualities that many would want for a wedding invite. So I strained my brain tried to draw like roses and things but It ended up that I had no choice but to rely on my new found love of type to accomplish the task. I figured if my drawing skills lacked elegance then I'd have to try a medium that embodied elegance within it before I got to it. So I searched the web and found an elegant font and set to work. It was pretty rough working through my ideas being as i hadn't thought in this realm of design ever. But once i made the monogram this started to fall into place. I used it as a the background pattern and then it was just a matter of organizing the technical info to fit the elegant pattern. Thus the wedding invite was born. Yeah it may seem pretty average to most graphic designers but comparing it to the rest of my work I feel I grew a lot on this project because it was so far out of my comfort zone.

Thai Food

Our last assignment in typography was to make a menu for a restaurant. it took no time for me to know I wanted to do a thai restaurant. Not only because their food is one of the greatest things I know of, but also because I had been watching a lot of thai movies and I was interested to look study their art style. So I started by doing just that. I looked at a lot of thai traditional art and realized they had very elaborate line work and it included a lot of elephants. Elephants holding a good deal of significants in thai culture. I also looked a lot at the thai alphabet. I liked it a lot! I think it has tons of amazing shapes. So I went and found a downloadable font that made the english alphabet take on a thai alphabet look. After I decided to make the menu look like an elephant standing on your table it was only a matter of seconds before i decided to use that same thai font replicate in a small way the fancy line work and pattern that ethnic thai art had in it.

Like I said earlier I meant for this to be a standing menu so these images are actaully from the side. when it was printed out I cut it so it was only the orange elephant shapes and removed the white. Then I folded the menu into a triangle shape that stood very firmly on the table. I'll see if i can dig it up and get a photo of the physical piece for the blog.

SoniKicks Final

I finally ended up trying to incorporate sonic the game into the ad. I made this by taking a screen shot of sonic 2 and then copying the track itself I then tried to imitate that 16bit style brick pattern with type. I found a font on Dafont.com called "BM tube A10" And used it to Type sonic the hedgehog over and over then varied the position and it ended up looking like the bricks. I then used a 8bit arcade styled font for the words you need to read.

Sonikicks

Later on in my type Class we got the challenge to make a shoe ad using 1 picture and just type for the rest. I of course turned to the man who relies on his shoes for his very life, Sonic. I named his shoes Sonikicks and figured it would be cool for like a free running or a soap shoe type of thing. these were 2 i deas i had to get out of my head when we first got the assignment. But I felt neither of them portrayed Sonic's stylish attitude. Also I think that the Speedy letters in Fast are too gimmicky but I couldn't find a solution that didn't seem gimmicky, other wise concept wise I liked it the most.

Bird in a tree

In this project I used a Font from DaFont.com called a charming font. It had really exaggerated serifs which makes good for making things other than letters. In this project I challenged myself by trying to make Each thing out of it's own name.

Black Letter City

So after the cellist I went with making this here city using the same alphabet. The city itself is made out of the letters from the name "Lucida Black Letter" then the characters are made out of the names of one of the other characters. Don't know if that makes sense but that is how I did it.

Typography

So after trying a few design classes I found I had a huge need to learn about Type because I was terrible at it. Which is kind of a sd considering my mom also being a graphic designer and being a type nut it was amazing i lacked so much of an eye for it. At the beginning of the class we were encouraged to look at Letters as shapes instead of letters and so I did a few projects trying to use The letters of font to make different things. This cello player and friends was made in Lucidia Blackletter I liked the font because the letters all had very unique and exaggerated shapes.