Assignment 2

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So for this project we had to make a Vote Poster. To have more people vote for the election. So what i wanted to do, for my poster I decided to go with kinda of an Attack On Titan style, but also using the 2016 election in it.  The reason i chose this because of what he said, that he wanted to make a huge wall around Mexico, and have Mexica pay for it. SO thats where my idea came up from to do this. Since i thought it would be a funny idea to do. So just like in the posters for Attack on Titan, i decided to make Donald Trump the titan behind the wall. With also the wall being the mexican border. SO i did that by making the word Vote the mexican flag colors. SO to keep the same attack on titan feel, i decided to still have the wall, smoke and even the cracks in the wall with it. To make it still seem kinda the same, but with a different feel. I also decided to make his hands really tiny, since people always say he has tiny hands.

 

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/lbattle-eportfolio/

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Get Out the Vote Poster

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For my piece, I wanted to incorporate the same concepts from this  poster into mine.

Get Out the Vote: Bomb

I used both red and blue, allowing room for contrast and also to symbolize democrats and republicans in some way. I used hand drawn type, the New Century typeface specifically, and made a fusion of the earth being a bomb. The reason why i chose a bomb was because with all of the global and international crisis going on today, it was very hard to choose just one.

Hyejin Song_Project2

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For this project I had to encourage and inform people, especially college students to vote for Election Day. At first, I focused on the out -of -pocket costs related to the Health Care issue ;so that, I read several articles of it. But, I decided to change my target audience: most of college students who have the first and last chance to experience the election. Then I got three concepts for them: steps, a stair and life plan, then I chose to go with floating stages which evoke images of steps. Between the college and the graduation stage, there would be the participation of the election which is their first experience. For the design, to make the student figure as the first focal point, I put intense pinkish red on it, and put tinted blue on the ballot paper to make it as the second focal point.

Article Link :

Process Book(PDF) : hyejin_project2-process-book

Final Work : hyejin-song_get-out-the-vote

My ePortfolio Link: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/hsong-eportfolio/2016/11/01/hyejin-song_project2-process-book/

Root Remedy- Professor Layton

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The Process

So for this project, the mission was to make a redesigned beverage illustration for, you guessed it, a beverage. We had a lot of time to think about this. I thought it was A OK to ask my professor if I could do something different and do a beverage that I had seen from a movie or a game. Mind you, there is NO PHYSICAL beverage that I could just get up and go buy. Brilliant me, right? I was broadening my search of drinks I had seen and ended up choosing a tea from a game I used to play when I was little. The game you ask?

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.

This game is part of a whole series of games, each one more exciting than the last one. I have the pleasure of still owning 2 out of the 7 that were made…. I should probably get back to playing them. They were so good, they made me cry.

Let me not get a head of myself here. So for the process, I chose my beverage.

CHECK!

In the game, Professor Layton and his apprentice, Luke, set off on a long adventure to find the truth behind a box that was said to “bring death to anyone who opened it”. On this journey, you solve different and very challenging puzzles and get the option to do the mini games that are tucked away in Professor Layton’s trunk.

Professor Layton's Trunk

Professor Layton’s Trunk

One of the mini games is called “Tea Set”.

Tea Set

Tea Set

In Tea Set, you get to make various types of tea recipes from the different ingredients you get from solving a few of the puzzles throughout the game, and give them to anyone in the towns that you happen to be in that need a remedy for their illness.

Stachen Needs Tea

Stachen Needs Tea

12 Recipes

12 Recipes

There are 12 recipes:

  • Belle Classic
  • Cherry Boost
  • Oasis Berry
  • Sugar Smoke
  • The Layton Elixir
  • Cinder Flower
  • Clover Quencher
  • Radiance Blend
  • Dream Spice
  • Cayenne Twilight
  • Root Remedy
  • Bitter Fruit

Some people get lucky enough to make all 12 teas. Me, on the other hand? THREE.

After that research, I chose my tea to design; Root Remedy. The description for it states,”Refined in flavor, this tea warms the body and improves circulation. Drink it at the start of a cold.” From there, I started thinking about formulas and concoctions and medicine. I started making a vocabulary list of the words that I thought about when thinking of “root” and “remedy”. Words like “science” “potions” “lab” and “experiment” came to mind. From that, I made this draft:

Rooted Lab Table

Rooted Lab Table

This was just the first of many that I thought about when all of those words were put together. I decided I go with it. Moving right along, I started making one… two thumbnails… 3… 4…

Thumbnails

Thumbnails

5 thumbnails…

Thumbnails

More Thumbnails

Even More Thumbnails

Even More Thumbnails

17 thumbnails of the rooted lab table in different perspectives with different arrangements of beakers, bottles, books and other things of that sort on each of the different views of the illustration. I drew out what the beverage package would look like if it were to manifest into a physical thing. I took a turn with the multiple lab table thumbnails and tried some illustrated writing. Instead of the lab table, I just wrote out “Root Remedy” in the form of very curvy tubes that made some form of script. After trying that out first hand, I had the idea of putting the tube script on the outside of this “pretend” beverage package and put the illustration on the inside so that when the customer opens the box, they would be welcomed to the drawing on the interior lid.

Exterior and Interior

Exterior and Interior

After that, I had to draw out the whole illustration as the drawing I would then make very little altercations on but wasn’t all that happy with the so called close to final piece, so I went back to the drawing board and searched and referenced like crazy.

Forest Spirits, Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki

Forest Spirits, Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki

Tree Roots

Tree Roots

Lab Table

Lab Table

Tree Bottom

Tree Bottom

Art Nouveau Branch

Art Nouveau Branch

I managed to create tiny creatures in the process of drawing out everything else and then decided to cultivate the actual look of the tiny mythical things walking around.

Tea Sprout Trial and Error

Tea Sprout Trial and Error

I call them “Tea Sprouts”.

Almost there. Time to incorporate!

Lab Table

Lab Table

With a little help and critiquing from my professor, I managed to add more to the final piece before, along with adding more to the tea cup and tubed line work.

Lab Table Critique

Lab Table Critique

Tubing Critique

Tubing Critique

I had to practice some value sketches. I was a little uncertain of what I wanted to be highlighted, so I made created three different valued pieces.

Root Remedy Value 1

Root Remedy Value 1

Value Sketch 2

Value Sketch 2

Value Sketch 3

Value Sketch 3

With the chosen values, I made my final piece. Root Remedy was long and tedious, but SO worth it.

Death Wish Coffee by Giulia Bentoglio

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  1. Writing Progress
Ideas and thoughts for Death Wish Coffee

Ideas and thoughts for Death Wish Coffee

2. Thumbnails (#1)

Quick sketches for Death Wish Coffee Ideas.

Quick sketches for Death Wish Coffee Ideas.

3. Thumbnails (#2)

thumbnails-2

Quick sketches for Death Wish Coffee Ideas.

4. Favorite Sketches (#1)

Narrowing down all ideas into 2 final drawings. Only one will be selected.

Narrowing down all ideas into 2 final drawings. Only one will be selected.

5. Favorite Sketches (#2)

final-sketch-2

Narrowing down all ideas into 2 final drawings. Only one will be selected.

6. Final Drawing

Project ready to color and be edited.

Project ready to color and be edited.

7. Final Inked

Project is inked and ready to be edited in illustrator.

6. Final Inked  Project is inked and ready to be edited in illustrator.

8. Final Edited (Illustrator)

Edited in Illustrator

7. Final Edited in Illustrator

9. Final Mockup

Mockup of final product.

8. Death Wish Coffee Mockup Mockup of final product.

 

Assignment Two

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Hello Class! 

  • You are designing a poster as part of AIGA‘s Get Out the Vote Use the power of design & illustration to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2016 general election, as well as local elections to come.
  • The strongest posters will be featured in the student gallery as part of an exhibition of original, nonpartisan posters created for printing and public distribution.
  • Poster Designs can be general calls to Get out the Vote, or can reflect One Specific Issue or Speak to a Specific Demographic and its importance in this election year.
  • Posters will be 11 x 17 vertical and will be completed using a limited palate. Black, White and 2 other colors only.

Look at AIGA’s Get out the Vote Poster Design Campaign. Look at some of the entries.  Choose one entry that you feel is effective and innovative.  Explain why in a short blog post in our Open Lab discussion page

http://www.aiga.org/get-out-the-vote