History Poster

In the future I would probably incorporate more geometric shapes to see if it adds anything to my poster.

The font that I used was created by Herbert Bayer, who came up with a mostly lowercase, san serif font, that was to be used for all Bauhaus printing. The font's simple lines and graceful curves further reflected the intended modernism of the Bauhaus. I also decided to use the red and black colors from the Joost Schmidt poster with a neutral background. However, instead of using an orange-red color I decided to use a darker red. 

For my comp. I was inconsistent with my spacing throughout the poster, which disrupted the flow.

I decided to research the Bauhaus movement and picked the designer, Herbert Bayer, from that movement. I discovered that the Bauhaus movement was very structured, cleaned lined, and geometric. One of their posters, designed in 1923 by Joost Schmidt, had tilted rectangular and circular shapes. I wanted to incorporate all of these design elements into my poster. 

Form Matches Content

I decided to give the background an old western feel that ties it with the word cowboy. For the edges I used the burn tool and decided to use the burn tool for my name as well. Using the burn tool on my name tied it into the design.

I think I did a good job creating a design for the words cowboy, migrate, and opulent. However, I had a bit of trouble figuring out what kind of design or texture to give my name. I think coloring my name in red and giving it a purple pattern made my name stand out too much from the design. Also, I think the design needed to have some kind of background.

For this assignment I had to create a design using four words: cowboy, migrate, opulent, and my name. The four words need to be designed together residing within a single picture plan.The overall look needs to take place at the beginning of the assignment not the end, so I started sketching out different ideas for each word.

For this assignment I had to create a design using four words: cowboy, migrate, opulent, and my name. The four words need to be designed together residing within a single picture plan.The overall look needs to take place at the beginning of the assignment not the end, so I started sketching out different ideas for each word.

Cut Out

Next I took the eraser and adjusted the opacity in order to erase the details while zooming into the picture to see the details of the hair. I pulled the eraser away from the hair. When I was done erasing the background I added a drop shadow in the back and used Gaussian blur in order to soften up the drop shadow.

Then I created a path in order to turn the line around the person into marching ants. Then I hit ctrl+alt+I to invert the path and hit delete to delete the background.

 

In order to extract the person from the background I first used the pen tool to draw around the person. 

Book Cover Redesign

I was still not convinced it was abstract enough so I came up with his design. The design stayed true to my sketch however, I felt like there is something missing in the design. In the future I would play around with more color, create another abstract camera, and play around with the abstract pencils.

However the camera was not abstract so I played around with the different filters to turn the camera into something that was abstract.

It was my first time designing with Photoshop so in order to learn the program I researched different tutorials. I found a tutorial that taught me how to create a camera.

  

. I liked the idea of creating an abstract camera and pencils since that is what stood out to me the most about the book were all the pictures that showed different examples of graphic design. I wanted a camera to represent that and I wanted to make the camera abstract to show that there are different ways that you can do to change a picture. I wanted the pencils to represent that in order to start a design you have to sketch it out first. Also, in order to come up with a good design you need to know the basic design principles, which are covered in the book. 

I started sketching out different ideas about what was in the contents of the book.