This week we had our meeting regarding RipeTaste. We discussed several topics and I was informed of upcoming activities. I presented my client with batch of edit photographs she had not seen yet prior. She was satisfied with the outcome and told me to continue editing more for the site. I explained to her that some of the images taken needed to be reshot because a few had poor lighting and some were out of focus. She told me reshooting would not be a problem and informed of a photo shoot she’s planning on setting up next month. My boss presented me with a logo option she requested from an artist she knows. I explained to her that the rendering of the logo was great but felt the logo was more urban then she wanted her company to portray and it’s type treatment would be hard to read once its minimize. I was told that logo was still being fine tuned. My boss and I set up a casting call online for the photo shoot we have planned next month. We are looking for makeup artist, models, and photographers. My boss will forward me any applicants we can so we can interview and decided together who will make the cut.

Since last week, I’ve continued retouching and editing different sets of images for the client. I’ve discussed with my boss what needs to executed in levels of importance. She explained not to waste time on editing one category only, to edit several from different groups. In reality, she just wants a few products from each section so she is able to make the website for the time being. We have set a meeting to discuss what I’ve done and so she can update me on what she has been doing for the last weeks we haven’t seen each other.

On October 18, 2013. I continued working on my t-shirt design. I used the pen tool to manipulated the shape of the nuclear bomb explosion on the Illustrator, I tried to dragged the shape to fit into the red circle and make it looked like a whole, instead of separate elements.

I sent to my supervisor after I finished the revised, but he said I was not there yet. There were few things I need to make change. First, the shape of a Fukushima map needed to be smaller. Second, removed the drop shadow. Third, make the shape of the nuclear bomb explosion more round because the current one I had looked too straight, it didn’t feel like a whole. Fourth, the shape of the drips didn’t connect to the shape of the bomb.

On October 21, 2013. I came to my internship site, and I found out my supervisor was not in today. But I still had to continued working on my t-shirt design, so I chose to stay. I had to solve the problems my supervisor had pointed out.

I did some research on the shape of drips, I found out by adding drops to the drips really help to make the design looked like a whole. I sent to my supervisor after I finished the revised, now I was waiting for his feedback.

On October 11, 2013. I had showed my design to my supervisor. He had approved it, but he said it looked too cartoony. I had to make my design looked more realistic, instead of cartoony. I saved my design as a PDF first, and then I dragged my PDF file to the Photoshop. Photoshop gives better quality and effect on the drop shadow, brush strokes, layer filter, and other effects.

On October 14, 2013.  I signed in from home again because my supervisor was absent. I continued working on the shape of a nuclear bomb explosion, and played with the effect on Photoshop. However, it didn’t worked out. I sent to my supervisor, and he said it looked too busy, and he asked me to simplify it.

I kept all my graphic elements: red circle, shape of a nuclear bomb explosion, shape of Fukushima’s map, and shape of drips to show the leaking. I had to re-draw and re-arranged all the graphic elements, and placed them in different directions, and tried to find an interesting layout.

I found out the shape of the original nuclear bomb explosion didn’t match with the new drips I just created. I re-draw the shape of a nuclear bomb explosion to match my new drips design. I added shadow and effect to both shapes, so it looked more in depth and didn’t look cartoony.

I created more than ten designs with different styles of a nuclear bomb explosion with different direction of leaking and sent to my supervisor. My supervisor had picked the best one out of the ten designs. He told me to tweak on the shape of a nuclear bomb explosion because the top of the nuclear bomb shape looked too big. The shape of a nuclear bomb explosion must fit into the red circle along with the other graphic elements.