Also, don't use weird usernames as your actual name.
[QUOTE=Cow Muffins;40860929]Also, don't use weird usernames as your actual name.[/QUOTE]
I agree with this, if it is actually is a weird username. It could also be his real name.
p sure that's his actual name, it sounds russian
Where do you guys get ideas on what to make?
my brain
[editline]3rd June 2013[/editline]
it is a shame it is so vacant
-snip-
Small experiment.
[img_thumb]http://i5.minus.com/iH2QJGP5jBlWz.png[/img_thumb]
Trying to recreate this.
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/96j5SITh.jpg[/img_thumb]
How could I light up the characters?
you could do a basic outline shape of the characters and then do several gradients to make the lighting effects and then do a clipping mask with the outline of the character.
Lost my tablet pen somewhere, might as well buy a new tablet.
Those with the screens are so ridiculously overpriced it's not even funny, so i suppose one without will do.
Which ones are good nowadays? Don't wanna pay more than something than £150
also is this even the right thread?
I quite like my Intuos 4. Bought it for a 100 bucks a few months ago.
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;40960941]I quite like my Intuos 4. Bought it for a 100 bucks a few months ago.[/QUOTE]
i'd rather not buy used
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;40961036]i'd rather not buy used[/QUOTE]
I bought it brand new?
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;40961042]I bought it brand new?[/QUOTE]
intuos 4 for $100? they go for $400 here and on amazon
[QUOTE=Giraffen93;40961261]intuos 4 for $100? they go for $400 here and on amazon[/QUOTE]
Well, there are two different versions of the Intuos 4. A normal one, and an XL one I believe. I have the normal one.
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;40961670]Well, there are two different versions of the Intuos 4. A normal one, and an XL one I believe. I have the normal one.[/QUOTE]
$390.
I guess i won't get that one.
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;40961670]Well, there are two different versions of the Intuos 4. A normal one, and an XL one I believe. I have the normal one.[/QUOTE]
There is more than that.
Small (A6), medium (A5), large (A4), XL (A3).
[t]http://i.imgur.com/QPj5Rtf.jpg[/t]
I'm working as a volunteer at a local art gallery and I was asked to make a poster for some upcoming classes, this is really the first time I've done something like this, any crits? Also are there any good websites to learn about graphic design in general? This seems interesting and I'd like to learn more about it.
Too simple and bland for an art gallery. Also get rid of that silly QR code, nobody actually takes time to scan QR codes.
[QUOTE=barttool;40965279]Too simple and bland for an art gallery. Also get rid of that silly QR code, nobody actually takes time to scan QR codes.[/QUOTE]
I was specifically told to put it there. Also what do you mean by bland? That seems really vague? Do you have any suggestions on what I should do to amend this? Could you point me in the right direction?
He's got a point. You don't want a poster for an art gallery to look so corporate.
One solution could be to show bigger, more exciting artwork from the gallery to do the talking and grab attention. So yeah, my suggestion is to include more of the artwork and let the information more subtly play off of that.
Something to try anyways.
Yeah, sorry for my vagueness, I was in a hurry. What I mean by bland is that it looks like a poster you'd make for a backyard sale. If you're advertising an art expo, it's logical that the art to be exposed should be front and center (figuratively speaking) in the composition of the poster.
Why don't you try using one of those art pieces as the background, then lay some nice, simplistic text on top of it, while trying not to occupy too much space so that the artwork is still visible. Vivid, catchy colors are a huge plus.. Something along these lines (this is just a quick thing I did, you don't have to follow my advice 100%)
[thumb]http://andrescanelones.me/imageuploads/qTsA.png[/thumb]
[sp]I tried making a poster, it ended up looking more like a book cover[/sp]
I really don't understand the need of social icons on a paper poster, though if I was forced to add them I'd probably try to make them look simple.
[QUOTE=kaine123;40964987]Also are there any good websites to learn about graphic design in general? This seems interesting and I'd like to learn more about it.[/QUOTE]
You mostly learn by practicing yourself (that's what I had to do at least), or by using other works as inspiration, I don't really know any GD websites to be honest apart the ones posted in the thread.
ello chaps, just thought i'd pop in and say hello.
so i finished my degree three weeks ago and got a job a fortnight before that, hurray! i'm now the junior/in-house designer for a company up in preston that deal nearly exclusively in fresh food packaging/branding, and if you know me personally you'll know how perfect it is for me. i started last week and it looks like it's going to be a crazy good job, but i'm the first (and only) designer they have, they've primarily been a marketing/strategy company before but now they can offer design services too (so no pressure...) and they do stuff for some pretty big players over here, so here's hoping it works out!
also just a little more of some work i posted before, i don't know if any of you know about D&AD but they run series of live briefs each year and at our uni one of our modules is to complete a competition brief, and this was my project. ted baker basically wanted you to "take ted travelling, to a country of your choice" and come up with some sort of solution to this. i chose china (as i love the country, the styling etc.) and i knew i would enjoy the project. to be fair the brief was an advertising one and not a design one so it didn't really answer it, but i really liked working on it and i like it in my portfolio, which is all that mattered. the last time i can truly work just for myself!
the idea essentially was for ted baker to host a series of tea parties, introducing british tea culture to a chinese audience, as we both have distinctly different but still culturally integral tea cultures. so i guess this is sorta promotional material for it.
brand mark
[img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/401895c02bf94036e08e41f5d6b9e585.png[/img]
pattern + invitation
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gNPMkBG.png[/img]
promotional gift bag (with contents below)
[img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/3f0dcc97305bce07ef9c22b51d4d56da.png[/img]
'little red envelope' - containing invitation, making the wax seal was super fun
[img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/4213b2a01f5dfdc955f6c344b4478d67.png[/img]
'little ted lookbook' - a crappy photoshop but hey ho
[img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/3c4bf3d1786b1d5f89b10995b32df49c.png[/img]
chinese [url=https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=chinese+papercut&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=cVC2UeKYKYHCPMSggLAF&biw=1270&bih=702&sei=clC2UaSuMIWx0QX-qoDQAg]papercut[/url] style doily, for said tea parties
[img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/da92a8136d448213e66ed30dbb9b51b3.png[/img]
[img]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/463d62493bc1895a2a768c09c38429d3.png[/img]
You really like making patterns and complicated structures, especially aztec-inspired ones at that. You're pretty good at it though and it looks pretty so I don't blame you one bit for that.
The logo is very nice, looks fantastic on the bag and wax seal. The deer papercut could probably do with some more white, the face looks quite mangled because it has these thick lines all over it, but really good job making it blend in but still stand out once you see it.
I really don't get why you went with a circus-styled invitation though, can't say I fancy how it looks in any way really. The mixture of gradients and not gradients, everything being stroked and drop-shadowed differently and having different combinations of those effects. Very unconsistent and seems to just miss at the style it tries to emulate. Ted Baker's seems to have been warped just for the sake of it because they tend to do that on those kind of designs, rather than doing it because it would look good.
Poor photoshop indeed on the lookbook, but I like it, not hard to understand that it's china related when you got a golden sun like that on a red book.
well the book is meant to be akin to [url=https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=little+red+book&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=i1q2UbuDGuSd0QWxrYDYDA&biw=1270&bih=702&sei=jFq2UeOiI6m90QXBr4CYCA]the little red book[/url]. i have actually made one, cover printed on vinyl and bound but the pages are empty.
i'm curious as to how any of it is aztec style though, and as for circus for the invitation i guess the typography is a bit but otherwise i genuinely don't see it. maybe because there was also a circus brief and so i've seen a lot of very circus-y stuff, but it's not a comment i've received yet, the overwhelming response was "very chinese"
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might be worth noting the gradients (aside from the background ones) are meant to imitate gold, since you can't show it on a screen, but i'll admit it's something i need to finess. and i like the background one, gives it a little more depth than without imo
[editline]11th June 2013[/editline]
what kind of style do you think i'm trying to emulate? if i'm honest i think 'generally chinese' is what it gives off, and that's indeed what i was going for
That is very nice, especially that pattern there with the deer. Wish I could do that sort of stuff. My only gripe at it is that the font you used for Ted Baker looks kinda stretched and not very bold (figuratively speaking). Other than that I really like your work! Congrats on the job
[editline]11th June 2013[/editline]
Also, mind telling us more on how you did the wax seal?
[QUOTE=Autumn;40981919]well the book is meant to be akin to [url=https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=little+red+book&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=i1q2UbuDGuSd0QWxrYDYDA&biw=1270&bih=702&sei=jFq2UeOiI6m90QXBr4CYCA]the little red book[/url]. i have actually made one, cover printed on vinyl and bound but the pages are empty.
i'm curious as to how any of it is aztec style though, and as for circus for the invitation i guess the typography is a bit but otherwise i genuinely don't see it. maybe because there was also a circus brief and so i've seen a lot of very circus-y stuff, but it's not a comment i've received yet, the overwhelming response was "very chinese"
might be worth noting the gradients (aside from the background ones) are meant to imitate gold, since you can't show it on a screen, but i'll admit it's something i need to finess. and i like the background one, gives it a little more depth than without imo
what kind of style do you think i'm trying to emulate? if i'm honest i think 'generally chinese' is what it gives off, and that's indeed what i was going for[/QUOTE]
Yeah kinda got the red book vibes from it, which is obvious since it's red. Didn't know it did the whole sun rays as well though.
The logo is built up with shapes very akin of the aztec style, although that might just be my uncultered swine head connecting any geometrical shapes that form a lot of white lines with aztecian stone-carved patterns.
Circus dots, gold and red, double-stroked slab-serif type, diddlydoodle border eyecandy. To me it's nothing but circus.
Yeah I get that it's emulating a gold shine, I just don't quite like it personally.
I think the logo definitely emulates a chinese style, helped very much by the bag and the wax seal. Got that mixture of tight rigidness and elegancy that China is so well known for very well down.
The book couldn't be any more chinese and the papercut deer is absolutely something that fits in, although I wouldn't personally think chinese when I saw it, probably because I don't quite connect deers with chinese myself.
The invitation however just goes in a completley different direction than the rest, I really don't see how it fits in with the rest, gradients, slab serifs, text effects, strokes. It's got everything the rest doesn't have at all. Very circusy or british (think tea boxes or luxurious chocolate).
[QUOTE=barttool;40983272]That is very nice, especially that pattern there with the deer. Wish I could do that sort of stuff. My only gripe at it is that the font you used for Ted Baker looks kinda stretched and not very bold (figuratively speaking). Other than that I really like your work! Congrats on the job
[editline]11th June 2013[/editline]
Also, mind telling us more on how you did the wax seal?[/QUOTE]
which one, the Ted Baker Shanghai one? the ted baker logo itself is this, quite spaced out and thin
[t]http://sambaird.com/wp-content/uploads/ted-baker.jpg[/t]
the stamp was pretty easy! we have good facilities at my uni, including a laser cutter (which can also engrave various materials) so you just make the pattern as an .eps where solid black means engrave and lines mean cut, and for this one i just got it etched into rubber. then i bought some seal wax (couple of quid from ebay) and hey presto. it takes a few tries to get your technique down but if you're interested in it i'd recommend getting some and having a go, it's great fun!
[editline]11th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=dgg;40983382]The invitation however just goes in a completley different direction than the rest, I really don't see how it fits in with the rest, gradients, slab serifs, text effects, strokes. It's got everything the rest doesn't have at all. Very circusy or british (think tea boxes or luxurious chocolate).[/QUOTE]
i can understand that, certainly. and actually if you think it gives of a british vibe then i'm very happy with that since the whole thing is a mashup of british and chinese, ted baker being a british brand and it being taken to a chinese audience - hence the tea party, the deer, the bulldog etc. i guess it is a little circusy though
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[t]http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles12/1124023/projects/7971785/534f7f797cc7433c2e524bf6c8868cd6.jpg[/t]
you've got some real attention to detail, but the one thing i would just have to say is that i'm just worried it's too stereotypically chinese with the whole red book thing. i think to deter from that you should stray away from the red-gold tone and stick to the red-white tone i see in the other pictures
[editline]11th June 2013[/editline]
it's kind of funny because when i said that i realized that i accidentally am using the same red-gold tone for a personal project related, to, well, china. although i may keep the tone, idk, it's a context related thing for the project
[img]http://puu.sh/3daY7.png[/img]
one thing that bothers my eyeballs autumn is this
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1482927/corners.jpg[/img]
not having the same radius really throws it off
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