Creolization Album Design

In Typography, we had to work with a client and create album art for their first CD release.  I was inspired by their song "Zydeco Brought Me Back from the Dead" and a pre-existing zydeco album with Baron Samedi, and wanted to do a flatter style similar to the restaurant song in Princess and the Frog.

There will be a fundraiser on Sunday the 27th, 3pm-7pm.  2290 Raybrook Street SE. Grand Rapids, MI 49546.  BYOB, food provided, CD Sales, silent auction, 50/50 raffle.

Typography- Type Face (Crowley)

First of all, I realize it's both Neil Gaiman and Sir Terry Pratchett who wrote Good Omens.  I had copy and pasted the quote from GoodReads.com and worked on formatting the quote last-minute.  By the time I realized such a glaring mistake, it had already been printed and mounted to a display board.  Maybe I'll edit it so it gives credit to both authors.  Now I feel terrible.  Both are two of my favorite authors and I wouldn't want to not credit both.

Anyway, Crowley is the fallen angel from Good Omens, a great book about the Apocalypse.  All text is quotes from the book.  Most of the class did caricatures with minimum characters, but I did it with shading.  Photo used for reference from a: Face a Face Legends ad.  I really wanted to show Crowley's yellow eyes but redrawing the image was taking too long.

Typography- Wanted Poster

Typography- Two-Character Design

Our second assignment was to take two characters from any of five fonts (Baskerville, Garamond, Bodoni, Helvetica, and Rockwell) and create a design.  I did mostly logos.

Typography- Letter Abstraction

For our first typography assignment, we had to choose a letter in Futura and turn it into something new.  We could either cut it apart and glue it together, trace it, or do those two things in Illustrator.  I chose the hands-on approach and then traced them in Illustrator when I was finished.