MORE INDY!

So I have a few screen shots of my process here, I cant really attach part of my thesis because the file is too big even if I only render about 30 seconds worth, I've already tried over and over..so everyone will have to wait a little bit to see the end result which is coming in at around 3.30 minutes! yikes! still awesome though...heres a few screen shots!

I've been photoshoping a lot of images because I had a string pull indie's "whip/headphones" around and so I have edited about 40 images of string out of it. A very long tedious process to say the least but it looks sweet because it makes the illusion that the headphone is just shooting through the air. A thankfully very successful part of the beginning film. =) So far I am really happy with what I have, I have also been working on my process book, trying to incorporate some design that I didn't get a chance to do for my actual thesis. I am comparing the map that The indian jones original posters use as well as recreate in my own way my own movie poster for this piece. I have added on a lot to my original idea and can't wait for the turnout!!

-LD

Newest Layout!

Blog 5?

I have all my tshirts finished on the computer and updated two of them. The website is coming along, will update as soon as I finish it all.

Here are a few of the updated tshirts. I'm not sure between the first two and the third tshirt is the updated one to the older one (forgot save it as another document so I don't have the first draft of it). Then the last one is to support Japan. The Japanese text says gambatte (do your best).

home stretch

Can't believe we don't have that much more time for thesis and just senior year in general! My thesis is moving along quickly and now that I have established this penguin beach theme my work seems to be easy to produce since its just the same thing but adding different elements each time. I changed the design slightly of my letter head and business cards. Now my main focus is the cup design, the flavor board, and merchandise (tee shirts and bowls). I've started my process book and thats sort of scary. I'll post what I have completed later this week, but for now I want suggestions on the Tee shirt design. As of now I am doing iron on instead of screen printing and the shirt leaves white around the font. I don't mind the back having white around the foot prints but the front it looks weird. Erich suggested making ice drip from the text so the white doesn't look strange but I wanted other suggestions. Cutting it out each letter will take forever and ill lose the crispness of the text. (ps the tee shirt is going to be either white, light blue or cerulean blue)

Hey Everybody...

Been working hard on the thesis lately. Finished taking all modeling pictures for my magazine last weekend. I have them all cut out and ready to be placed into scenes and put into the layout. I've been trying to come up with some names and have been working on a ton of cover ideas so far. I hope to have the scenes done this week so I can start the layout by next week.

basic site layout

The top image is what my home page is going to look like. The REACT is actually going to be a flash piece, where the 'ACT' changes colors.

The second image is my 'about' - pretty simple. I'm going for mimimalist for my whole site, I've just been playing with layout ideas. If you have any more suggestions, please let me know!

For the 'donate' page, customers can make free form donations, even if they decide to not purchase anything. I will have links to all the charities I support along with a 'donate' button.

'events' will have links to charitable athletic local events, as well as REACT-sponsored events. One event I will be promoting is "RECREATE", where anyone can submit an entry on why they think their community deserves to be "recreated", or beautified based on the actual doings of the community (aka how they give back to each other).

Also, just started my process book....YIKES. Still can't believe I'm actually graduating.
Stay tuned for the collection, etc. Will be posting later in the week.
PLEASE let me know any thoughts or ideas you may have!!!

thoughts?!

what are your thoughts on colors and font choice?

Post II

Okay, so here's a screen cap of my digital build for my first poster. I still have to choose a color palate, and add in my guitar/people illustrations.

Makin' Strides, Takin' Names

I've been meaning to blog since we got back from spring break, but as always life gets in the way. So I'm blogging now.

I sketched a LOT over spring break, and I finally feel like I have some ideas to work with. My biggest problem until recently has been the task of getting out what I want my posters to look like on paper - whenever I sat down I got really overwhelmed, couldn't process anything, and whenever I tried to sit down and draw some elaborate idea my hands felt as though they'd been smashed with hammers. So I would chain smoke and play Sudoku. Then I just decided that instead of over-complicating these posters, I should just sit and then draw down my gut instincts. So I did, and I like 'em. There's still a lot of developing I have to do - maybe rework a few things, pick out a color palette, and draw in the figures (performers/bg references/guitars), but I'm on my way I guess. Here's the layout sketches for 01 (early rock n' roll), 03 (blues/psychedelic... folk might be combined as well but I haven't decided), and 04 (punk), respectively:






















Yeah, something like that. Sorry for the shitty quality of the sketches. I had to use Photo Booth because I don't have access to a scanner where I am.

















So I also started building the digital layout for poster 1 in Illustrator - I plan on combining traditional and digital building methods for all the posters. So here's a quick preview (a lot cleaner than the sketch): I've still got some details to work out - and I'm also working on the people sketches. I should have those cleaned up and ready to go at some point this coming week.

Okay so for some reason the thing won't let me upload another image. Prepare for blog #2!

long stretch.... need help!!

Hey Everyone,

So I accomplished a lot this week. I took advantage of my time off this week from my internship due to my ankle so I did a lot for thesis. So far I've completed most of the branding for the identity aspect of Little Blue Creaming including the following: Logo, Business Card, Letterhead, Envelop, Gift Cards (everyday/summer *note- i figured since my everyday looks like it could be summer id call it both*, winter, spring, valentines day) and frequent buyer punch cards I have done as well.I have also completed a tee-shirt design and have posted the diff color shirts on this blog post.

Things I need to complete next are the following:
Figure out if I am going to purchase tee-shirts and screen print myself or just buy them (which will need to be ASAP!) or print on the iron on sheets and do it that way. Depends on time and cost. Also I have a white bowl that I need to figure out if i want to paint it with the logo or stick on the logo. (any suggestions, screen printing on the bowl seems to be too much of an investment since I don't know what I am doing. I gathered the cups to measure as well as a cone sleeve from ice cream places and I am starting to work on that design aspect.

My big dilemma is now what to do for the flavor board. My idea was to get printed a design of 3 panels and hang them from the ceiling. Another idea I had was to build it out of wood and paint on it or again print it out and staple gun or nail it into the board and then put polyurethane to coat the paper onto the wood to seal it into place. (that idea seems like a big project but thought I would ask what people thought.

HELP!

Can anyone think of any ideas for the name of my magazine?! It is a feminist magazine friendly for both males and females and I want it to have a very strong/bold name. And ideas?!

Creative tees web and shirt designs

This week and last week i have been making my t shirt designs, i have 10 so far, and this weekend i plan to be in the mac lab to begin my website! i think i want to go with the background below!

my tshirt ideas are:

The Creative Mind Animated

Hey everyone,

hope the break was good to you all.

Over the past couple weeks my original idea of a Flash self portrait dramatically developed into what I'm now calling a flash piece about the 'creative mind' with regard to design and the mind of a graphic designer. The piece is interactive where you are initially introduced to a brain and will be able to navigate by clicking on 4 different sections of the brain.

These 4 sections are: Analytical, Curious, Expressive, and Sensual.

The Analytical section for example will animate the structure and organization that goes into design. This will animate concepts such as research, HTML, Action Script, CSS, grid systems, etc. This idea came to me when a friend of mine gave me an article about practicing mindfulness for a solution to a lot of anxiety I've been having these past weeks. The article was talking about how sucking on a raisin is somehow a technique in which you're supposed to focus on stuff like the taste and texture of the raisin while "letting your other stressful thoughts float by". I was ready to crumple this up and chuck it when on the other side of the page was a really cool illustration of a brain and explained each section, which inspired me to restructure my idea.

I think as graphic designers we often get stereotyped as people who just sit around and doodle (maybe it's just me) but I think this will be a cool way to show how much goes into design and how the entire brain is used when creating our work.

Attached is the directory of my Flash piece. The yellow section is 'Curious', red is Analytical, blue is Expressive, and green is Sensual.

I hope this all makes sense just reply if I'm not being clear.

Thanks and let me know what you think.

-Kristen

Indie Jones Stop Motion

So I have a rough rough definitely to be changed in places put together video of my thesis, which at this point is going to be about 3 minutes long. I need to cut the song differently but I really like the ending. I need to work on the timing because its choppy in some places and I am re-shooting this weekend with all the fight scenes with the bros and I will film the beginning sequence as well. I'm thinking of adding kinetic typography to this as well as a "how its made" video separately. Again this is a rough put together of some scenes for my stop motion. I tried to Post what I have but I had to condense to maybe 2 scenes because it wont upload the 2 minutes I have. This Scene is of Indie and Short Round playing cards and Indie catches him "cheating" then the fight scene I am re-making. This isnt all I have this is only 2 scenes out of the 4 or 5 I have. I need help with a name, i want it to sound like "Indie Jones and the _____ ____ ____ ____ of the bros"?

new creations and need advice....

hey everyone!
Hope everyone had a great spring break. I had an amazing time in Arizona despite finding out I sprained my ankle and re-injuring a previous fracture in my ankle that I don't remember doing. But anyways I did not have time to sketch or design but I had visions in my head going on how I can execute my everyday gift card, letterhead and envelop design. I took into consideration what Erich said at the last thesis meeting about making the everyday gift card be a variation from the business card. So below you will find the variation between the two. Also the updated letterhead and envelop designs.

Over break I gathered a ice cream cone sleeve to measure and start designing and this week I plan to go to either coldstone or berryline and ask them for cups so i can measure the different sizes and start designing those.

Also you will find my spring giftcard mock up designs.

Within the next week I plan to meet w Brian about screen printing my logo onto a tee shirt. I spoke with megumi about screen printing on a bowl and it seems like its a lot work and with the little time that I have I may just go with plan B for my screen printing on bowls and either paint it on or get a clear sticker and print my logo on that and place it on the bowl.

My next project is to figure out how I want to approach the flavors board. Does anyone have any ideas for that. My idea was to take 2 or 3 poster boards and design a sheet and get it printed and put it on the boards of the flavors. Anyone have any other ideas. I am kinda stuck

Blog 4?

Along with my peace sign t-shirt, a new logo...























(Which logo out of the 3 do you prefer? I personally like either one of the new logos more than the old one)



And new t-shirts...































































(This will be in halftone. Also I realize this one has no text or is in anyway related to cardboard wings. I kind of wanted to show where I came from with the whole idea. Any suggestions on what other pictures that I could use for this would be appreciated too!)

Business Cards

Let me know what you think.

Logo

After creating all of the palette designs for Zodiac Cosmetics, I wanted to edit the logo to go with it. I really liked this font to start because of the feel it has. I can't explain it, but I get an astrological, starry, and outer-space, BUT modern sort of feel. The wheel, which is in place for the O, represents the 12 signs. I had a lot of trouble figuring out what to do with this. Like how thick I wanted to keep the stroke of the lines and if I wanted to add color. I figured black and white would keep it clean and simple for the most part, since the palettes will have a variety of color to them. Let me know what you think.

Creative Tees Webdesign and shirt

Here are some web designs, i was going for textures of clothes, fabrics, patterns...
I am thinking on going with the company name called creative tees. (if you can think of anything better name that deals with teeshirts and being creative please let me know)
ALSO, below the web designs I have posted a final of a shirt idea i finished today! let me know what you think of it!

Knittin Kittin