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■Book Cover
Original format: Photoshop PSD, 12½x8 inches, RGB
mode, 300 dpi
Assignment: Design a book cover in either Photoshop or
Illustrator. Must be created the way professional book covers
are (with the back, spine, and cover altogether as a single
image).
Ramblings: I scanned a whole bunch of old photos from
my grandmother's archive, so I decided to have the book cover
based on that. So yes, that's some of my family from the olden
days of Cuba that you see there. In the group photo, the little
girl is my mom, the woman laying down is my grandmother, the man
is my grandfather (died from lung cancer, he smoked), the old
woman to the left wearing black is my great grandmother (died
from old age, 104), and I have no clue who's the old woman in
the middle. The woman in the fancy dress on the back cover is my
grandmother again. Why is she dressing like a queen? Well, from
what I could gather with her really strong accent when she
attempts to speak English, that's what women in her woman club
did whenever they won some type of vote or contest, which took
place once a month. This book cover was, of course, one of the
best in the class. ^_^ The book covers of most people were
really bad. x_x Poor use of text and graphics galore. I drew the
two logos and the Cuban flag in Illustrator. |
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■Letter Poster
Original format: Illustrator AI, 12x18 inches, CMYK mode,
300 dpi
Assignment: Design a poster with the letter you're
assigned with.
- It must display your letter in at least 5 different fonts, upper
case and lower case. You need to somehow put the names of each font
in such a way that the viewer can understand which font is which.
- It must display at least 3 different older versions of your
letter. You need to somehow put the name of each in such a way that
the viewer can understand where they came from.
- It must include body copy of 50-200 words of the history of your
letter.
Ramblings: In other words, we had to design an educational
poster for the letter we were assigned with. The teacher assigned
each student with their own letter of the alphabet, so at the
student art show he can put each poster side by side to have the
whole alphabet. My poster was the only one that got a "Oh! Who drew
that?" reaction. Everyone else did the same bland cookie cutter
design based on the example the teacher had on the assignment paper.
I stepped out of the box and did a semi-complex drawing in
Illustrator! =D |
