workshops Adobe InDesign and Illustrator

Todays Tuesday was divided on 2 parts: before lunch – InDesign workshop and after lunch – Illustrator workshop. With given briefs to try unknown things and practice them.

InDesign task – to design a typographic double-sided card promoting a lecture ‘Sorry Trees’ (book) at the Design Museum by Vince Frost*. Free to use any imagery, must use given text (size 164 mm x 164 mm). After making research about Frost design I found that his works are simple and font is always sans-serif. Thats why my first attempt of design with serif text and sans-serif text failed (inspired by Me Collectors brochure), but the second one was only sans-serif. This type of grid in the back of the card was inspired by Design Museum Membership card, I used 5 columns and lines under text. My purpose was not to repeat Frost* style and try to tell about artist as simple as possible. The main character I think should be an asterisk, because it is very recognisable thing about Frost.

Frost* logotype

cover of the book ‘Sorry Trees’

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Example of Frost* work, I used this black lines in the back of card 

Design Museum Membership cards

Imagery is a png picture of tree from the Internet. I cut it diagonal to make impression of cutting tree.

There are 2 versions of cards. First is black and white and another one is colored and a little bit changed.

I prefer second one more because of asterisk in the middle and usage of only sans-serif typeface.

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Works of others.

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Illustrator workshop. The task was to make some pictorial sign for one of contemporary messages, the style should be the same, so it looks like a series of icons. This workshop was usefull for me because I didn’t know about outline view before (cmnd+y).

‘date rape drug risk’

 

 

Close-up. There is smile face on the pill in the bottom of glass, which means acid pill.

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‘environmental art area’

These are works of others that I liked. First one was done by Saci and second one Berrun. First one attracted me in terms of visual contrast between hand, pills and glass. The second one is just unusual (‘conserve water’), you can clearly see that slopping or waisting water is prohibited.

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‘date rape drug risk’

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‘conserve water’

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