GRA462 Website Mockups: Taken 2

So these are Web mockups I've designed for the movie Taken 2. I'm a fan of Liam Neeson and I enjoyed the first Taken movie.

Believe it or not, these mockups are going into InDesign and an interactive experience will be built using Indesign. Way cool! Had no idea that was even possible. Was certain this was going to be Flash-based or using HTML/CSS. Definitely looking forward to building this project and discovering the interactive side of InDesign. Definitely going to be a bit more ambitious with this project as I have a much better understanding of InDesign as oppose to Flash or Dreamweaver.

Einstein Magazine spreads

For GRA210 (Graphic Design 1), we were tasked with creating 2 magazine spreads for Physics giant Albert Einstein. The first image is a 2 column spread and the second is a 3 column spread. Designing with a grid in mind is great way to balance out the spread and make it much more appealing, design wise. I find that the 3 column grid was much more effective as a layout than a 2 column grid. It was easier to break up the text, in order to make it more readable. The narrower columns made for shorter line lengths, which makes text easier to read.

Here are my spreads.

Contrast project GRA 170

For this project, I was given a list of antonyms. My task was to illustrate 16 of those antonyms using a typeface that we have studied this semester (Bodoni, Baskerville, Garamond, Rockwell, Helvetica etc.) and pick a single letter, number or symbol from which ever font you've selected. I chose Bodoni as my font and the number '2' as my character. Bodoni is a very well designed font; I like the positive/negative space created particularly by the '2'. Here's my layout of the 16 illustrations.

Rough Concepts

Final product

The critique went quite well for my particular piece. None of the illustrations needed to be seriously re-done, just a few minor changes here and there.

Some of my favourite ones are the: large/small, concave/convex, beginning/ending, plain/decorative(especially) and subtle/coarse.