Wick Fowler

So, I'm quite far behind on all of our projects, but this Wick Fowler has been taking me forever! I just can't make it look the way I would like. I'm truly battling with making the food look appetizing and filling the space on this project. It's really difficult to get all of the designs to match, but I am at least working on it. The only problem is I'm going over my time limit and losing time on all my other projects. I feel a big problem with me is I'm not creative when it comes to coming up with catchy slogans or phrases. I'm ready for this project to be done, but for now I need to share what I have a get some feedback so maybe I can come up with something better.

Don't mind that you cannot see the entire design, it just cut off a little bit. Just use your imagination to fill it in...Sorry they are slightly small as well

Update

So, I think I'm gettin somewhere on the brochure, but as for the chili project, it is still SLOWLY coming along. Having to use my own pictures is a struggle, and it's hard to come up with an original design for something that has been done over numerous times. I've been trying to think of things, but I seem to have no motivation for this product. I am still falling behind on work but plan on coming up with some designs for the posters tomorrow. I plan on doing something simplistic, because Iknow when I walk by or flip through magazines, it's the empty spaces that don't require a lot of readying that grasp my attention. As for the label, I'm still figuring out how I want to manage it. The biggest struggle for me now, 1 finding a concept and 2 bringing that concept throughout all the designs. Do work.

Back into swing of things

I've struggled getting into the school mode this week, but am slowly getting there. I haven't touched my brochure since we went on break, but started working on the "red pen" adjustments this week. That project takes so much time even just to change one simple thing. If you you move one item the whole design is thrown off! Talk about being a pain. So that is what I have been battling all week. Today, I think I may become closer to an "ok" than before, but I'm sure I have a lot of corrections to do still. I just took a small baby step forward. I redesign the cover and back of the brochure to simplify the look of it all and make it more visually appealing. I simply used a photo and turned it black and white and then used a flamboyant color in the background to contrast with the photo and catch the viewers eye.
As for the chili posters and stuff, I have barely touched a finger on it. I took the time tonight to do some more research for ideas, and then drew up some quick sketches. I'm still not sure if I want to go with a humorous design or a more classy one. I feel the product isn't very classy, but I have some ideas if I do go in that direction.
And for the Ramon noodle newspaper article...it's hard telling when I'll get around to that :)

Midterm Stuff...

I'm going to start off by saying already that I definitely know I went over on all of these designs considering concept, layout, and corrections. Making a budget/getting things approved is a lot of time when it's all added up!

With this stress poster, I began with completely different pictures. I started out with a very plain design, but struggle coming up with a way to make the design capture the viewer and yet not be too simple or too overpowering. My first designs were definitely overpowering, so I simplified the design and added in dominate colors that would capture the viewers eye while flipping through a magazine. After figuring in the concept. layout, and adding in all the numerous corrections I had to make I would say this project took me about 13+ hours. Finally got the "OK"! If I were to recreate this design I would probably make it more colorful and playful. Something that would jump off the page at the reader. I learned in the assignment how much of a struggle it is to deal with so much text in such a small work document. I struggle making the piece appealing because of the lack of space. 

Oh, Native American Heritage Month....I definitely had my go arounds with this project. I stayed with the same layout throughout this whole assignment. I changed my concept throughout the critiques, because the first one was as meaningful. My biggest challenge with these posters were finding photos to fit the resolution I wanted and take up the spacing I was needing without pixilating. I found numerous photos, but a lot of them didn't fit the composition I was needing or were cut down too far and wouldn't layout on my poster correctly. Filling in the negative space was also a huge challenge I came upon. I fixed this by enlarging all my text and aligning it differently. I learned from this project the importance of having a concept that can be carried throughout a series. Even, though, I just changed photos throughout the designs, it was a challenge to find photos that linked with one another and had a continuing appearance. This project took me forever! Struggling to find photos was the most consuming part. All around I would say I spent about 9.5hours on this series. :( went way over. 

The next two food designs are separate designs, but I am going to talk about them in the same paragraph. 

The first one was a challege, because we had to manage to find a way to shove all the information into such a small layout. The sidebar was a scary task for me and was super nervous to figure out how I was going to stick it into the design on top of all the other text too. I decided to use the picture of the pills so that I could carry out the imagery into the other page by using the pills on that page as well. I wanted to stick the the two colors, blue and orange, inorder to have a continues color scheme in the layout. I started the box on the right side of the layout, but was suggested to move it, and I agree, because adjusting it made the layout more visually appealing and gave me more space to to work with. I oversized the title hoping it make the reader stop on the article, because the title caught their eye. I tried putting myself in the shoes of the reader and thought about what caught my attention when looking through a magazine, and what it came down to was bright colors or oversized objects/images. I really learned from this project how to work with too much text in a small layout. On this project I was actually close to making time. I knew what I wanted to do, but it took me awhile to get everything just right, therefore, I spent about 5hours on this layout. I actually made my budget!

On to the next one. The How Safe layout actually didn't take me as long. This was definitely a struggle, though. Compared to the previous layout it was hard having to fill the space using such little given text. I decided to use a full image on one page, because I knew it would for sure take up space and then just leave the other page for the text. In order to utilize the space on the one page, I enlarged my text and made certain parts of the text stand out more that the others. It was hard to make it visually interesting and not overpower the text with the intro paragraph, but to capture the readers eye, I made the title oversized and put the text into two even columns. I also used bright colors in this layout as well so that the readers eye would be drawn to it. On this project I would say I made budget again, giving the amount of text to work with. I'd estimate about 4.75 hours on this design.

This jazz poster, was one of the first projects we were allowed to use color on. I decided to use yellow, because jazz is a very classy and flamboyant known genre, and when I think jazz I think of New Orleans were bright colors are used everywhere. We had to use a silhouette of something, so I chose to use this singer because she utilized the spacing of the page and her expressions expressed the feel of jazz. I struggled with my illustration on this layout, but worked on it to make it better. The microphone was the hardest to render and make look decent. I feel the eye flows down the poster the way it should to the reader. It was challenging to make the poster stand out without being overpowering and that is one thing I learned when creating this poster.  The illustration took me the longest on this project. I would say in total the whole design took me 8hours. If I were able to redo this I would probably change my illustration and make it more appealing and add more variation of color to it.  

Stupid Midterms...

So, as you all know we have midterms this week :(  I dread this week every year. I've been trying to make the tweaks on my booklet that need to be done, but this project is SO time consuming. It's neat to see them all assembled but it's a huge pain in the ass to set it all up. I have yet to produce a good smokey poster that I really like. I decided to go with the "WANTED" design, because it was all I could come up with. I wanted to try to make it appear old fashioned, but I also wanted to bring humor to the poster by posting a picture of a young child on it, because obviously the justice system is not going to prosecute a young child compared to an adult for a wildfire. I'm still working on the other two that go with the series, and wish I had time to make some more tweaks to the first one, but not only does my computer ability lack, but I don't have time to experiment with photoshop or the design during this busy week. I'm praying Rusty will be in a good mood all week and give out some approvals or even the little red mark, "ok" will be a answered prayer for me! Whata ya say Rusty feeling nice this week :)  Lets do work this week and get this poopy midterm week outa the way! Do good, don't suck.