Rickard's v.04

For this revision of my Rickard's website, I was asked to include more content, copy/info, people and though my shadow concept was good, the dark room image had to be changed; for the purpose of my initial mockup, I used a picture of a wall, as a stand-in, that I had found on Google. I kept that concept for my Rickard's Dark ad, but recreated the concept with my own photo and added a Rickard's Dark glory shot. I found a high-quality stock photo of a pint of beer, but had to photoshop it to make it look like Rickards Red.

Discovery Channel v.02

For my reworking of my Discovery Channel concept, first, I dropped the emboss and hard drop shadows, then moved the logo to the left. I noticed my frames were not quite uniform or properly balanced, so I recreated them and moved around the middle ones. While attempting to make the image a little less soft, I determined that the background image was no longer complimentary to the layout, so I found a new, more appropriate one. I personally feel the second version stands out far better than the original.

I should also note that the image is cropped for this blog.

Kensington Market Book for Digital Photography

Our class went on a field trip to Kensington Market a tour guided by our Professor, Michael Visser. We were asked to narrow our images down to produce a book with 6 pages, not including the front and back cover. We needed to create or own captions and theme. My book was composed of 8.5 x 11 sheets folded to 8.5 x 5.5 with staple bindings. I also stapled my pages together, somewhat at random (but not really into the images) to match my theme and just so the book was made, in essence, from double-sided prints. Also, I opted for more pages.

I've cropped the jpegs from my photoshop files for the purposes of this blog, so that it reads cover to cover, from top to bottom.

24...

No, not more Rickard's. Jack Bauer has lost his cell phone somewhere or the internet. There goes about half the show's dialogue. It's probably dead anyways, he doesn't really charge it or have a spare battery.

Banners for DMA234

Granted it's not much...

I have been making a flash animation for a few hours today in a banner size of 300 x 250px. I decided to just mix backgrounds I created in illustrator with some photos I sampled from Google.

I had a background I had already shown (top) that I wanted to show again from further away, but it was barely cropped to fit my frame to begin with. I did some pretty simple photoshopping to place it into another background. The product is the lower of the three images. I know it's not perfect, but it's only seen for about one twentieth of the animation.