This was an exercise in Photoshop manipulation during my final year at
Algonquin College.
We were required to take at least 8 images from different sources and
combine them into a believable collage for a fictional interactive CD Cover.
All the images were from the Time / Life "Great Ages of Man" series of books.
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This was another school assignment in the final year of the graphic
design course at Algonquin College. The assignment was to create a
striking invitation design for a fictional art exhibition by a real
artist whose work we admired. I chose Dave McKean, a real innovator who
really progressed the artistic standards that many mature graphic
novels now are held to. All the images are from his body of work with
DC Comics. The copy was written by myself and the layout of the images
were done by me.
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During my one-year contract at JetForm Corporation, I was rarely given the
opportunity to design something to my own satisfaction.
When my art director (Brad Steele) was on sick leave, a last-minute splash
screen had to be designed to advertise the JetForm User Conference. Having
been told only that the Kitty Hawk image had to be used and to get across
the feeling of "Hi-tech", this is the design I came up with. The dot in the
center of "register on-line" was a subtle flashing animation designed to
get the viewer's attention without being too distracting.
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This was a final-year graphic design assignment to create a really hi-tech
box design for a fictional memory expansion product.
The only things given to the students was the name of the fictional
product and the text copy.
I took a friend's clipboard which was made out of a real circuitboard from
an old computer and scanned it to use as a subtle background texture.
The idea for the skulls on the back of the box came from the concept of
expanded memory ("More memory means more brain-power. More brain-power
means bigger brains. Bigger brains means bigger heads," I thought).
The skull images were from the Time / Life Nature Library series.
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Another final year design assignment, here we were to re-design the
package for Tetley Tea.
Each student was given the basic graphics that had nothing to do with the
box re-design (i.e.: the Tetley logo, bar code, recycling logo) as well as
the English and French text.
We were also given the option of designing the box to emphasize one of
these two things:
1. Emphasize the fact that tea is a non-fat, low calorie beverage.
2. Draw upon the history behind tea throughout history.
I chose the second option.
The teacup was from a book on tea I checked out at my local library. The
map is a scan of a real explorer's map of Asia from the 15th or16th
century found in a book on ancient exploration. It was changed to a
sepia-toned duotone in Photoshop and used as a background to really bring
out tea's historical roots.
Because Tetley makes a big deal of the shape of their round teabags, I
wanted that reflected in the shape of the container. I found a mailing-tube
container at a Mailboxes Etc. store that was sized perfectly to hold a
stack of teabags. I was also lucky enough to find a brass-coloured metal
top from a Twining's Earl Grey tea container to use as a top for my tubular
package design.
The brass top, along with the sepia-coloured imagery really brought out
the sense of history I was going for with this project.
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