Old School Type Poster

I picked up a copy of Computer Arts Projects the other day and low and behold it was the 150th issue and it was celebrating typefaces.  In this specific issue of CAP you got a disc (as usual), and on this disc was 150 fonts and Computer Arts Projects 150 fonts you cannot live without, which is fantastic.

I was reading through and came across a tutorial which was to design a classic Serif poster I was interested so tonight thats exactly what I did, using the typeface 'Baskerville' I let rip in Illustrator and this is what I came up with.  The poster was made up of using a Serif font and one of your favourite quotes, not knowing that many quotes off by heart I hit our dear friend Google and found this Albert Einstein quote that caught my eye.

Baskerville Old School Type Poster

I quite like this, the only thing that puts me off is the 'A' between Made and Mistake it just doesn't seem to fit properly.  

I would advise anybody interested in Typography to go and get this magazine (even though it is a ridiculous £7.50), did I mention the price of fonts on the disc comes to £450?

Cheers folks

JT

How to Be Nang!!

This year at Sunny Wolverhampton University I attempted my first ever Magazine Spread.  Ever.

The spread was for a magazine article called 'How To Be Nang'.  I found the article in The Times newspaper in 2006 by Ross Anderson.  The Inspiration from one of my boys from London, James Luisis and his brother Andrew (West Ham fan).

I tried to make the spread to look 'urban' and something that would be considered to be 'down with the kids'.

As far as magazine spreads go I think this is 'OK' for a first attempt, I think it's safe to say that as a creative magazine spreads are not my strong point but you know what they say.  Practise makes perfect.

I chose a bright yellow due to the simple fact that the colour is eye-catching and keeps your interest.  The two typefaces I have used are 'hit the road' and 'Baskerville' which work quite nicely together, Hit the Road is an Bold typeface where Baskerville is easy on the eye.

Opening Spread for 'How To Be Nang'

Spread 2

Spread 3

Thanks for reading

JT

Shakespeare!!

Bloody hell.

Meant to upload a few of these the other week, my apologies.  Anyway now that university projects are over I can finally get down with my personal projects.

Any way this project was to create 10 double spread images (20 pages) of 10 of the 156 Shakespeare Sonnets.  A big mistake.  It was the hardest project, in the world.  I am happy with some of the results but am a bit... meh on the others.

Feel free to praise and bash me folks!!

See ya soon

JT

Major Project Covers

Think its about time I uploaded my Final and Major Project Images.  Don't you?

I will Upload The images in drips and drabs because there is approximatley 50 odd pages, I'll start with the front cover for American Idiot (Major Project).

I produced multiple covers for this project with the same basic feel,  I gave each character in the novel his or her own cover.  All the covers are pretty much the same, the only notable difference is that the characters have changed and the colour has also changed to give the feel of that particular character.

Feel free to rip into me in the comments...

Thanks

JT

Johnny/St. Jimmy Cover for American Idiot (Chosen Cover)

Tunny Cover American Idiot

Will Cover American Idiot

Whatsername Cover American Idiot

American Idiot unused Front Cover

Hand ins... And BEYOND!!

So, the time has come, handed in final (Shakespeares Sonnets) and major projects (American Idiot: The Graphic Novel) and now I play the waiting game.

I'm strangley confident I will get a decent grade (I'm hoping for a B) I'm no where near as nervous as I was for hand-ins in past projects and considering that these two were arguably the most important projects in my Further/Higher education span.

Considering I put a shed load of hours into these two projects alone (nevermind my dissertation, video, magazine spread and CV one) I can't get a D, I'll take a C at lowest.  I think the nerves just kicked in now talking about it.  Nevermind I have faith.  I feel the Graphic novel grade will be higher but I hope they are about the same.  Anyway just wanted to post about how nervous I am!!

And now the project Creative Industries and How to be Nang magazine spread:
The Creative Industries is basically self promotion i.e. CV, create a postcard image, portrait, Letterhead, write a letter to a company for a Job (do not have to send it).

And the Magazine spread is pretty much done, I have the basic type down however I need to mess about with composition and type.  It's really frustrating sometimes when you can't figure out how to make it look OK.

Keep ya updated folks,
I'll post some images soon
Cheers
JT

Print (cont.-ish)

Panic Stations!!

After yesterdays moan about the extortionate pricing of print (£10 of the £45 I payed for the print of the book was to get it here... FAST!!) and I got an enote today saying that my book has failed 'pre-flight'.

Why!?
 I double checked and triple checked and probably knowing me quad-rouple checked it and apparently the front cover was only 145dpi, have I mentioned I my get charged £5 for another proof check? No? well yeah that might happen, uber horse-s***.  Seein as though I've just been ripped off in the first place and this is making me absolutely be scared for it not to be here by next tuesday (12/04/2011) I may have to resort to submitting a dummie book, which wouldnt be too bad but it would have to be printed on some high quality A4 paper with some rather excellent binding.

Just wanted to let ya'll know how stressed about deadlines looming.

Much Love

JT

The Extortionate Prices of Print

Now...


I'm all for caring for the high quality of your printed work, having just paid £45 to have my American Idiot Graphic Novel printed in a book form with no confirmation it will be here in time for hand in!! (12/04/2011), I have asked for pretty much the best cover quality paper and the best possible insides paper which if I get a good grade will be worth it, which leads me to believe that the job will be a good en.


However....


having just paid £53.98 (yes... 53.98!!) for a CMYK collection of cartridges for my home printer that is where I draw the line, I mean seriously? 53.98, I'm not knocking the quality of the print work because its a good printer but I don't think I can warrant paying such an extortionate price for it.  I may as well sell my printer and go the local print shop down the road.  An inconvenience but I reckon sooner or later, it will start to pay off seeing as though when I finish Uni I will probably have to do 10 times less home printing as I do now, might of contradicted myself there with a massive personal project I'm planning (more info later this year).  


In conclusion, it just really annoyed me that I nearly knocked up £100 on print and half of that wasn't even final piece.


Anyway guys
Have a nice day
JT