I’ve worked on a lot of collaborative projects. To be honest, almost all my work is like that. Most of the work I get is usually done by the designers. I do resizes and fix layouts. I’ve gotten to do original stuff here and there. One of the original things I’m doing now is most likely the biggest collaborative project I’m doing. It’s actually still going on today. We’ve been working on it for a month together. I worked on it for 2 months alone. It is a fence that is going to wrap around a ballpark for kids during all star game week in D.C. It’s called Playball Park. I’ve worked on it since the beginning, so everything is originally from me. The designs I did played the foundation.
The fence will basically be a team collage but the boxes done in a contemporary modern twist. I used many clipping masks, cutouts, boxes with generic baseball photos and action shots, plus white lines. After we had presented it, the higher boss liked it a lot, so they assigned the designer, Greg and I to work on it. The cutouts I used are key to the layout, the portrait and action shot of an entire player add life to it. To push it to the next level, instead of boxes and straight lines, he used a chalk stroke. He also used an offset path to place a solid object behind it and used a brush stoke to really bring it all together. He then used the team logos as another graphic element. We also convinced the higher boss, to make the actual fence look like a grey brick wall instead of a grey solid color. The other interns are now working on it as well. We’re cutting out the portraits and action shots currently. The designer is helping us. He is also setting up the templates for the chalk boxes, so we can just drop in the cutouts, action shots, and portraits.
