Chili Cook Off!

• Use of a large graphic of a chili pepper as an attention catcher and as a means of creating a theme.
• Chili based theme shown in title and furthered by the chili graphic.
• Large heading with all caps, clear, simple, readable font.
• Use of diagonals to move viewers eye created by the chili pepper and the block of color in the bottom right.
• Body text at the end of diagonally placed chili leading the eye right to it.
• Two blocks of color run to the end of the page. There will be no bleed so possibly make the color end early creating a natural border. Unless the intent was to allow the printer to create that border with its lack of a bleed.
• Not much negative space.
• Will chili be white/black/grey? 1 color design. Thumbnail shows no indication of a fill. Just curious.
• Left justify the "OFF" in the title to fit in with the rest of the text.
• Good breaking-up of the "blocky color" with the curved line at the top to ad visual interest and keep the viewers attention.
• Watch the text positioning. With no bleed, it could get a little to close to the edge in the final comp.

Banksy

The below link is a website dedicated to the works of Bansky, a semi-anonymous street graphite artist. He is pretty cool so that's why you should support him.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html

Magazine

These are the original two pages.

These two are the remake. I have too much space between the graphic and the text at the bottom. I also couldn't find an exact match to the header type.

I think the columns are the same width-wise and the photo is the same size as is the header.

Midterm

This was the musician wanted ad. I chose this because it shows the use of clipping paths, objects with drop shadows, and work with font and letter spacing. I added the drop shadow to the clipping path image as well as adding the grey box behind it with a shadow to create depth. I also scaled up the font in the header and the body. The last thing I did was to add a bleed and add the partial underlines to the headline to add emphasis but without using the typical text underline.

These two pages were from our stop smoking pamphlet. I chose these because they are the best example I have that utilizes everything from changing fonts and font sizes to using spot colors and text wraps and pull-quotes as well as using character styles for sub headers and importing pictures and using a grid. I made some minor changes to the positioning of the sub headers and text boxes as well as scaling up the newsletter title.

This is my photoshop fix project. I chose to make some slight touchups around the neck area before posting but that was all I changed.

I chose this for my first illustrator choice because it was one of my most successful attempts at recreating accurately what we were given. The things I chose to change include removing a few outlines around specific shapes, adjusting the colors to resemble the original more, and reshaping some of the color shapes.

This is my second choice from Illustrator. I was able to match the outer color on the gradient of the circle with the background color in the original version but one of the things I changed before using this in my midterm portfolio was adjusting the background to a darker color that more resembled the original. So I also changed the outer color of the circle to match the new background. After that I went through and rearranged the berries a little bit and lightened the inside of the circle a little as well.