These are a few of the mastheads that I worked on in class. I am trying to incorporate some kind of wooden texture behind my typeface but the words seem to get lost in it. I like the bottom two textures the most and will continue trying to work with them to make the masthead more legible. I think that the bottom right is working the best so far. I also like the top masthead design. I think the orange texture and I like the fact that it is not a known or recognizable texture.

VERY rought sketch. Pretty much the same idea as the last.

This is my first magazine cover sketch using the wacom tablet. My pen was broken and kept trailing lines even when I was done drawing them so it ended up looking very scribbly. Im not set on the title yet, I just added something in there to fill the void.

magazine questions

1. Who will your target audience be?
- My target audience are young to middle aged adults (approx. 25+). I am pretty much aiming towards people who are environmentally conscious and have an interest in furnishing their homes accordingly. Urban homeowners?

2. What is the name of your magazine? Why? Connotations?
-sustainable home, natural home, sustainable living, green wood, reclaimed interior, etc. (I haven't thought about this in-depth, but something along those lines.)

3. What will your masthead look like? Do you have any ideas for fonts?
- I want my masthead to look rustic, vintage, or somewhat destroyed but organic. I have found a few typefaces that I included in my moodboard that reflect the theme that I am going for. I went to dafont.com and downloaded a few free fonts for this project. (Skia, 28 days later, natural log, bright young things, baskerville, mesquite, charlemagne)

4. What images will be on the cover and why?
- I want my cover to be of a piece of natural reclaimed wood furniture in an outdoor setting. I am thinking that I will take the background picture with my digital camera and then incorporate the furniture piece from a scanned image. I want this to be my cover because the magazine is based on reclaimed furniture so I would like it to come off as natural and environmentally conscious.

5. What will be your sell lines to entice your audience?
- Once again I haven't thought about this in-depth yet but they will be on the same lines as the title. "Rethink, relive", "DIY", "Innovative design", "love your home, love the earth" (you get the idea.)

magazine mood board

This is my moodboard for the magazine cover project. I haven't decided on whether I want my magazine to be a reclaimed sustainable furniture magazine or just a sustainable living magazine in general. I think that my mood board tends to lean toward the sustainable furniture theme. 

Magazine mind map

This is my inclass mind map for the magazine cover assignment. I used the wacom tablet for the first time and didn't like it at first. I eventually got the hang of it though and it grew on me. I decided to go with a sustainable living or refurbished furniture/goods theme for my magazine.

Final photoshop composite images

I ended up cropping myself in two different positions in order to determine which one that I liked best. I chose the bottom image because you could see more of the bottle cap that I was sitting on which I thought made it look more realistic. I adjusted the levels, hue/saturation, and the vibrance of the images to make them look as close as possible to each other. I think that the hair against the background looks very cropped, but other than that, it could almost be believable. The quote that I chose was a cheesy inspirational quote. I really couldn't get out of the cheesy realm when analyzing this picture. I am no necessarily happy with how it turned out, but I also don't think that it is terrible. 

original photoshop images

These are my original images for the composite image photoshop project. I am going to crop myself sitting on top of the center glass bottle (which happens to be upside down, sorry!)

Google Sketchup tutorials

This is the first chair that I created in tutorial 4. It is called subtractive because you draw simple shapes and then subtract other simple shapes from them to create the object.

This is the 2nd chair that I created in the 4th tutorial. It is called additive because you create simple shapes and add other simple shapes on top of them to create the object.

I learned in the 3rd tutorial how to create shapes within shape and how to create cutouts. Cutouts can not be created on sides that do not have parallel edges or egdes running through them.

I also learnd how to move edges diagonally in tutorial 3. To move the entire object, I must select the whole object using the selection tool and use the move tool to move it.

The first tutorials taught me the basics of sketchup. Draw a shape, pull into 3D, and repeat were the basic ideas of sketchup. I also learned about the orbit tool, zoom tool, and pan tool.

The second tutorial taught me how to successfully create edges. This was a lot harder than it initially looked because of the different planes that you can draw on. This tutorial was very helpful in teaching me how to decipher which plane that I was drawing on. I also learned that you can only draw edges from one existing edge to another. You can not draw through existing edges.

Final seed packet designs

These were my final seed packet designs. I finished the chalk design, brainy blocks, and seed packet back all in the same day! So technically this is still in progress. I am happy with the results of my designs, it was a fun project and I learned a lot through the process.

seed packet in progress

This is my new seed packet design and the beginning of my next seed packet. I used a tomato vine as my inspiration for the vine that the chalk is growing off of.

Seed packet sketches

After I designed my first seed packet without sketching it out first, I decided to completely omit my first design and start fresh, using the same bubble flower from my original. These were my sketches for my new seed packet design.