Icons

This week's project was on creating an icon set.  We were given total creative freedom on this one so it makes the project both difficult and fun!  When I first heard the word icon I immediately thought of social media icons.  This, however, is a creative cap, so I needed to pick a concept and go with that.  I sketched a bit about a few themes and then settled on a Christmas theme since the first snow of the season had arrived.  Funny, I wasn't the only one who picked that topic!

Here are my basic sketches to get some ideas out.  We were able to look at references of good icons on a pinterest board that was linked to our class website.

We were asked to create six logos in black and white first.  These, I will admit, are pretty sloppy and not looking to great.  Lots of work to be done on the forms.  I had an idea in mind so at least it helped me get a place to start from.

The final icons are a lot better!  I wanted to use more negative space and to play with the forms.  They look way more cohesive.

Typographic poster

This project is the typographic poster for my vector class.  We were asked to create a poster using typographic elements by manipulating and distorting words.  Examples were shown in class and, with a few tips from our teacher, we were let loose on the project.

I wanted to do something fun for my poster so I sketched some quotes and fun little things.  I ended up going for a quote from BBC's Doctor Who series that was a lot of fun to work with. 

I came up with a quick digital draft that I really liked.  I used Impact, a thick slab font, paired with a thin sanserif typeface called Arsenal.  The contrast puts emphasis on the more important words.  I also squished the middle letters of the word pears to put the "let me eat" part into a bit of a cool position.

I wanted to try putting the words in a pair shape, but I found the attempts to be quite difficult and I didn't have a lot of time for it.  These are some of my simpler digital drafts.

I ended up staying with my original draft with a few alignment and spacing tweaks, as suggested by my teacher, to put on the finishing touches. 

Voila!