One Toke Over The Line

Right. Here it is. I'm gonna put all the stuff I've been doing up here in one massive post. I pray to god my computer doesn't crash. Right, I've been going over the work I've already done, and for the colour project the final pieces I came up with ended up coming out pixelated and lame, so I've just spent hours tracing them in Illustrator so that the print quality is higher, and here they are in all their vector-based glory:


Right, I have no idea why it keeps inverting the colours but it's really starting to piss me off. Anyway yeah, these are the 5 characters that make up half of my solution to the Colours brief. They're meant to be orange.

Anyway, the most recent brief we've had has been the 'No News Is Good News' one, and I researched into the subject of the current recession and global financial crisis, for the last brief I created a Financial Crisis version of the monopoly board to use as a mail spot to highlight the current situation. Here's my edited version of the monopoly man:


I've really been going overboard with the Illustrator work lately, I found the classes we had to be really helpful and I've been incorperating what I learned into a lot of my work. Anyway yeah, here's the monopoly board itself:


Nice eh? So yeah, I'd send a 'travel size' copy of this, along with a letter explaining that due to the current financial crisis all the pieces had been reposessed. And yeah, when I printed it out this was in two colours as the brief dictates, but I made it in full colour originally. Before this, we had to create a set of posters along the same lines, so I created these:


Again, going all out with the vector work here. I'm gonna try and upload more stuff tomorrow when I come in because I'm sure I've got more work on the college macs.

Safe.

I've come about the shoes.

While I was searching through my files for the images in that last post I stumbled across some random fings i dun before. So, without further ado, here they are in all their glory: [For some reason, the colours are coming out all wrong. Still.]

This is a website mockup I did for my friends' vending machine business...


Before I got into my last college, I made up a few briefs for myself to add to my portfolio and bring to my interview, for one of them I decided to design the layout for a CSS album, this was my initial idea...


But in the end I scrapped this idea and decided to go with robotic arms...







For the front cover, I tried to be innovative and thought of using an etch-a-sketch with pre-installed designs, so that the user could make their own front cover. I was inspired by that Beck album, can't remember the name...





Oh yeah, I forgot the other part of the inlay. For some reason the last image on the right isn't there, but it was robotic arms playing drums.



Ta daaaa.

Trust me, I'm a stomach.

Right, time for that update I'd promised. First up, the 'Orange' project. We were all assigned a colour at the start of the course when we were given our magical plastic portfolios of power, I got an orange sponge. We had to gather 10 other items that were orange, so I got an orange rubber skeleton, some plastic knives, air fresheners, a glow stick, a scarf, and a few other things. Thank Christ for poundland.

Anyway, we were grouped together in order of colour so in our group we were told to organise our items in different ways, darkest to lightest, reddest to yellowest, etc.


So we spent a while trying different combinations, layout the items out differently and so on, and then as a class we pooled all of our resources to make our own colour wheel around the class, sadly at this point my camera broke...



Anyway, after this we were set a brief to create ten 150mmx150mm 2d images, as i explained before - and here are some of the images I came up with...




Not bad eh? But these are hand drawn, and for that reason the quality I got at the end when I printed them was quite poor, very pixelated. So now I want to re-do them in Illustrator so that I can scale them to any size I want and get a decent printout, plus, given that they were scanned at quite a low resolution on a home scanner, they are quite grainy.

More soon. I promise. :P
Much Love.