A Color Story (book pages)

Final Book Pages

More photos...

 -These top ones are my favorites that I have weeded out so far

put together some thumbnail sheets real quick for the rest of them

-more pictures from the shoot for my color book that I edited a bit, wanted to share. 

Thank you Lauren! 

Second Color Book- photos

Analogous

Complementary 

Cool

Shade

Tint

Warm

Theses are the six pictures I will be using for my final color book. I am thinking of adding either some type of background element or illustrations of some sort.... 

Updated and Fixed ColorBOOK

-This is my Color Book fixed with the correct column placement and layout.

COLOR [book]

New Blog Banner

[before]

[after]

After talking to Kelly she pointed out some things about my first blog banner, mostly some minor changes that would help. I think this does work better; the typeface changed, which affected the layout of the type as well. I still kept all the colors and image I wanted but took the round corners out and some other small details. The new one is clearer to read and still has the 60s retro vibe, but I have the ability to add other vintage eclectic elements if I want to. 

Skylab Field Trip

Today we ventured to  Skylab Letterpress and it was a great experience. Being able to see everything up  close and really experience how such beautiful things are made was really interesting. I like how even being a designer I will still hopefully in the future get to work with a letterpress. The paper, ink, letterpresses, and design are wonderful along with the owner Bob Atkins. We got the chance to collect some of their gang sheets, misprints, and work for other businesses. The physicality of a business card or invitation is the greatest part of letterpress. Bob explained that the physical touch is what is so moving about having something letter-pressed, being able to feel the relief of the letters and the quality of the paper and its texture. It makes me want to design something just so I can get it letterpressed! 

BLOG DESIGN TIME

I have learned that designing for yourself is the hardest thing. I feel as if I have many different styles and like many different things, so trying to figure out what do or simple the colors to use were difficult. I went to many different design, fashion, and blogs to get ideas from.  I decided to go a really clean line route. (the line studies in VISCOM have probably rubbed off on me) but I wanted something simple, but finding inspiration for this was crazy hard. I just started looking through pictures that I really like that I have saved as inspiration, and found a living room that I love the colors in, and the design. It is simple, feminine in places, funky, bright, and a bit eclectic in some areas. I think in the future, this will be easy to manipulate if necessary.  

INSPIRATION

Trying then to come up with a font and layout for my name was fun, but I have never designed anything officially just for myself. It was great experiementing with different designs and typefaces. Another layout I had was this one. I ended filling the whole black space, I just didn't care for the kind of dead space in the center. I think it works, but after moving things around and experimentation, I ended up going with the one at the top. 

This was another design I did, but I don't like it! It just didn't turn out how I wanted to. I wanted an old feeling using photo. I do like that all of the background pictures are pictures that I have taken, but I didn't like the busyness of the composition and my type. I would still probably make many more changes and alterations, but I knew I wanted to do another banner and then choose between the two. I feel that it kind of traps me if I ever decided to go into a more modern classes approach. I think this shows how different my styles can be, which is why designing my banner was a bit difficult. 

Now it's time to redesign me blog! Colors, and typefaces to match my new banner.