Designing Magazine Layouts using InDesign

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Joshua Davis Inspired Mural: My Components

These are the designs I created for the mural. The extreme blend was the only one I decided to use. I made the snowflake by creating blends between "1801" and a simple shape pulled from an Illustrator pattern. I then took pieces from that blend and copied them in a circle to create the snowflake. Then I blended versions of that design to get a complex, swirling flurry of snowflakes. The other designs are variations of the snowflake, except for the bouncing 1801...the designs do not look great together. It's also important to note that in the mural itself, the colors of the blend were changed to complementary colors of yellow, purple, orange, and blue. That simple change made the design actually quite beautiful.

Band Logo

This is the hand-drawn logo after being live-traced in Illustrator. I put this on its own layer so I could work off of it without distorting it. On a new layer, I began rebuilding the shape by drawing over it so I would maintain the curves and shapes, meanwhile cleaning up the rough edges.

These are the cleaned up, simple versions. Top is black on white and the bottom is clearly white on black. I think it looks more interesting that way. Then I copied the black version into Photoshop, added a tile texture, and embossed it. After that, I pulled it back into Illustrator and live-traced it again in black and white. It still has clean edges, and it is still in black and white. I think it looks pretty sweet.

This one is kinda sparkly...made just by playing with texture.