Serifs

I felt like a graphic design nerd this weekend.  I watched the Font Conference youtube video with some of my friends. They all laughed at most of the jokes but none of them knew what serifs were. So when Ransom threatened to make courier and culz mt sans serif, I was the only one who laughed. After the show, I had to explain to them what serifs were and it was pretty enteretaining. A lot of them go to MSOE and are engineers so they were like "who knows that?" ha ha

My book covers

This is the work I have done for this in-process critique tomorrow. I like these designs, but could be a little bias because I put over ten hours of work into them the last two days. I am looking forward to the critique tomorrow though. I am interested to hear what everyone thinks and hope it goes well.

Rotaract Milwaukee

Last semester I started working with the Rotaract Milwaukee club to create some designs that they could sell as a fundraiser. I worked with Austin Gundlach on this project and we created five designs that were then engraved into wood using a laser engraver at MSOE. This semester I worked with them again to create a brochure to market the designs. It was really cool to work on something outside of Stritch and gave me good experience on working with clients. I had a lot of fun. These are the final engraved designs and the brochure.

William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design

http://www.eisnermuseum.org/visitor/faq.shtm

This is a link to the William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising and Design which is located right in the Third Ward. I found it one day when I was walking down there and really wanted to go in, but it was closed. I am glad they have a website though, because now I know their hours. I really want to visit it this semester. I think it would be really interesting. Maybe it is a place we could even see as a class?

Drawing Lightning in Indesign

I live in the Mac Lab  . . .

So yesterday I was in the mac lab from 11 am to 8:40 pm. There was a little 15 minute lunch break in there but that is besides the point. It started with Desktop publishing, then 3 hours of Graphic Design 2 and finished with 4 and 1/2 more hours working on Graphic design homework.

A friend told me that she couldn't ever sit still that long and that is usually very true for me too. This time, however, I was having fun. I was drawing lightning in Indesign. I should let you know that this lightning is for the book cover project I am working on in Graphic Design right now. I am creating a Frankenstein cover so I wanted lightning in the background.

I started by looking at images on the google so my lightning looked realistic and not just a jagged line. I used the pencil tool to draw my lightning. Then I spent at least two hours duplicating, resizing, changing stroke weight and editing specific points  to create my lightning that now wraps around the entire cover and changes color spark through the text.

I will put up a picture when I finish my other two covers, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, because unfortunately they are not finished since I spent so much time drawing the lightning. I think it was worth it though :)

Book Covers

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• These are just some example book cover designs that i have been looking at off of the Book Cover Archive site, http://bookcoverarchive.com/ There are a variety covers and they provide good ideas of the options for book cover design.