Wednesday, December 10, 2014

GREAT MINDS







I chose Alvin Lustig for my Great Minds project. He was a jewish american Designer that introduced many modern principles to american graphic design and had an immense impact on modern american graphic design. I really enjoyed researching Alvin Lustig and his works.

CONCEPTUAL IMAGE

Here is my mind map. I ended up doing a poster design on the idea of corporatacracy. Here's oxford dictionaries definition if your unfamiliar with the term: A society or system that is governed or controlled by corporations: in this age of corporatocracies, the money goes not to the inventor, but to the company.I named the the piece is 'Corportocrazy'.
I started with a simple picture of the lincoln monument.




I started off making the image more and more complex to explain the concept of corporatacracy. I realized the graphic was to busy a left little to conceptualize. 



I ended up on this final version that is more simplified. Its showing a businessman slipping money under the lincoln monument as a metaphor for big corporate money paying off the government. 

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

GRAPHIC TRANSLATION


This is the font pallet  I experimented with. I ended up using HaulinHouse Solid for my main logo.

Original image used for threshold.



This is the translated image that I ended up using for the final logo.



Heres another translation I did but ended up not using as the final logo.








I Made these logos but was not as into them so I started over with another graphic translation below.

I was more pleased with the outcome of this logo. I went for the double registered transparency look. It also has that 80's funky, fun feeling that I was going for with the brand. I also had some cool fonts to use courtesy of professor Sean Bacon.