Jayden Anderson

I'm pretty happy with how my posters worked out this week, If I were to change something, I think I would work on perfecting the balance of colors and boldness of the type, and I would make the knife look a bit better. Regarding the booklet, the image above is a quick example of the idea I have. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to change the gradient color for each booklet slightly. The paper I bought for the sun and the title has a very subtle glitter in it, and I think that would be a nice effect to include. I could also have various designs like above, with different colors. The two top sun designs—which are very rough designs above—I'm not sold on but I think if I do some brainstorming and tweaking, I think I could come up with a good concept. Since the books I'm selecting aren't available through Gutenberg, I'll either have to type them up myself or find them through a different online resource. Tomorrow I'll be typing them up on a fre...

The creative process has been very interesting when it comes to the design of the posters. I've gone back and forth about different ideas that could all work, but I've selected the one that I wouldn't just enjoy the most but the one that could use text best to design the poster and describe the concept in the best way. Topic: I've chosen the TV show 'Psych'. It's a contemporary detective show where this guy pretends to be psychic (he's just observant) to keep a job at the police department. I've decided to use the show's font (American Typewriter Bold). I couldn't find the exact one, but I did find American Typewriter Bold 2, and it looks pretty identical to me. The TV show's color is green, so I think I could use green, black, and white. Poster #1 This one will focus on the main character and include some of his quotes and things that are important. I'll create a pineapple (there's one in every episode, or almost ever...

Magazine Remake Working on the magazine spread remake was very interesting. To start it off, I couldn't figure out the scanner at first, I had to do a handful of photoshop, and I didn't have the exact font I needed.With the photoshop, I had accidentally scanned my spread with one of the top corners of a page was folded over and I did my best to edit it out. Regardless of obstacles, I am still proud of what I did. I selected the spread based off of the colors and the overall aesthetic feel of it. Original Spread Spread Remake  It was a process to figure out the correct spacing between lines, letters, words, etc. I ended up using four layers in the remake of the spread: original scan, a photoshopped version of the scan, photos and other icons (such as arrows and stars), and text. The one thing I would change, if I were to select the biggest issue, it would be the corner of the page that was accidentally turned over when I had scanned it. For a first try at photos...

I had originally wanted to create a cut out of my letter from a book,       but I soon realized how difficult it was to find materials that looked like pages that were a foot by a foot in dimension. I already I went to Plan B and got started immediately. I was talking with my dad about it and he actually suggested that I use my favorite author and pages from one of her books that I own, but I couldn't do that. I would be interested in making this project again and maybe even creating a story or finding inspirational words with the words that are visible on the rolls of paper. This was the inspiration for my Plan B. I started out in the beginning—before switching gears to this idea—by creating a template for my letter. I then traced that letter onto cardstock for further use and cut it out. All went well—thankfully—and I continued on by tracing the letter onto cardboard and then cut that out (coincidentally, we had pizza the previous night and I...

I've been contemplating if I should have my letter be a "J" like my name ,  or something else. I think I'm leaning more toward the letter "Y" because it's my favorite part to write of my name—Jayden. Regarding the typeface, I've been browsing different ones and I wanted something that resembled how I write my "Y"—like a cursive "Y," but I've come to realize that it doesn't necessarily fit with the theme of my design. In retrospect, I'll be using a more classic typeface.  I want to do something that either involves books, pages from books, or sheet music, and I think something more along the lines of American Typewriter or Courier New would work better if I specifically go for the book design.  Courier American Typewriter I've considered taking a book and cutting it into the shape of a "Y" and plastering book pages on the outside of it, but cutting a book into a letter isn't as creativ...