Open Door Designs

        I chose to do an inspirational CD.   I used my own photographs that I took myself on every page.   I used Adobe Photoshop on some of them.   I chose photographs that had a lot of light in them in keeping with the theme and title, Out of the Dark…Into the Light . The CD was created in Adobe InDesign.   I used a font called Segoe Script as I thought it was soothing and easy to read.  The following are the places that I took the photographs I used for this assignment.   Front Cover – Camp Huntington, Raquette Lake, NY in the Adirondacks.   I recently went to a residency class there through Empire State College. Page Two – Inside the Tower of London.   London, England. Page Three – Lake Lucerne in Lucerne, Switzerland.   Page Four – White Flowers taken at New York State Fair Horticultural Show, Syracuse, NY.   Page Five – Up in the Swiss Alps on the way to Stanserhorn Mountain Pea...

     I decided to do an album filled with inspirational music.  I will be using all of my own photos so I will be working in photoshop first.  I think I have my grid pretty well set, but nothing is set in stone. I have all my photos picked out.   I will be adding some quotes and some poetry.  I am not sure what text I'm going to use and am still looking.  I want something soothing and energetic at the same time. Don't know if that's possible, but I'll know it when I see it.  My only concern is that it might be a little boring.  I might have to add others things to my design if the photos themselves don't end up having good design elements.  I'll see when I get there.

        My three choices for album covers were chosen by me because the music they contain are the most meaningful to me and are the kinds of music I listen to most often.   I think the designs of the covers are most memorable.         My first choice is an album by Earth Wind and Fire.   It features the song That’s the Way of the World.   It debuted in 1975.   The song was used in a movie depicting the music business featuring the members of Earth Wind and Fire.    The images on the cover are of some of the band members.   On the left hand side it shows only part of the body of one of the members of the band which automatically makes you turn it around (as you wonder where the rest of the body of the person is) and you find the rest of the members of the band.   More area to promote the album.   Designer is forcing the viewer to view not only the front but the back.   Brilliant.   It...

     Here are my three logo designs and my business card.   I thought that because most likely the Inn is in the woods, I would give my design  a rustic feel, but at the same time be somewhat classy.   The idea of the deer is that the antlers serve to the public whatever is above them.   I hand sketched my designs and turned them into vector’s which took a very long time.   A lot of what I did was trial and error and hopefully I will be able to produce something more quickly with practice.   I learned so much with this assignment.        As far as the colors I used, I naturally made the deer brown and per our assignment I wanted to show a highlight of the Inn during the fall season, so I added the leaves and colored them with fall colors using the gradient tool.   I added the river at the bottom of the main logo because the Inn is on the Hudson River and I also referenced that on the business card w...

Here are my preliminary sketches for the main project. Wasn't quite sure how to use this idea.  Just some ideas running through my head. Another idea. Decided I liked the logo on the right and am going with the design for my project.  I thought the deers antlers presented or served (almost like on a tray) whatever was on the top of them.  I thought it would be good for the bar and restaurant too.  See below.   The restaurant and bar designs.  I thought I would carry the deer through all of them.   Here is as far as I got in Illustrator turning my sketch into a vector path after I scanned and placed in Illustrator to work on using the pen tool.  More work to be done for sure.  

Here are my sketches for the words I chose. Noun:  Flamingo Adjective:  Broken Verb:  See These are my completed words:      I choose the word flamingo to re-create.  It was the first time I used the drawing feature on my Surface Pro.  I had to get used to the correct pressure to use while drawing on my monitor.  I used the brush tool. It took me some time.  Here's what I did in Illustrator.   

       "As a visual artist, my world is an ever-changing collection of interesting shapes, colors, values, and textures. Everything that I see is either consciously or subconsciously broken down into elements that I might use as the inspiration for my next painting. It does not always have to be grandiose or breathtaking but rather a suitable collection of shapes and values that I can build upon or rearrange to my liking. The colors that I select are a personal choice that I can alter or exaggerate depending on the subject and my feeling at the time that I paint it.        My audience is for both fine art collectors and for a commercial design client’s via product packaging design.   A well-designed product package is as crucial as the product itself.   The design should be visually appealing which is where I use my artistry, and with my knowledge and use of industry software technology I will be able to ...