Channels with Patterns

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One Piece At A Time

Check this out!!

http://www.jonathanbrand.com/images/projects/car/paper_car.htm

Paper Folding Patterns

Love the leaves!

Folder Design

Logo I made for my classroom folder :)

The Grand Finale: Mustang Alley

So after a week or so of editing the "stock" car, here's the end result:

...Okay, not restored yet, but that was the idea. I took an already ugly car and made it worse, live-tracing the template in grayscale for that "primer" look and putting some images of rust on a couple fenders and other places. Then I decided that wasn't enough to make this car totally hideous so I pulled in an image of shattered glass, traced it in its simplest form, and put it on the back window. And there you have a completely unrestored '74 Mustang II...icky.

Then the real fun began, and I'll admit I got carried away in detailing this car to make it look just like the picture in my head. Here's where she is now:

Put a red overlay on the original template to get that nice Coca-Cola color. Added color to the taillights and headlights. Traced an image of modern chrome rims and shrunk them down to cover those nasty stock rims and added some louvers to the windows for a sporty look. Added some Coke decals to represent my parents' restoration business and NHRA license plates for the "present" part of this project. Oh yeah, and the hood opens...I guess the surprise is there isn't an engine in this thing...just words! The hatch also opens.

Then I put together a stand for both cars, with a racing checkered flag base and an NHRA logo (which also flips open).

Here's how it works:

The icky car is slightly larger to fit snugly over the restored car. The idea is that the client would pick up the gray car and find the nicer car underneath, examine the restored piece, and read about how each part is relevant to either my past, present, or future.

I'm overall pretty content with the design :)

Here are the art boards, pre-folded.

Template from mustangattitude.com

Self-Promotion Project

Brainstorm Map: Thinking of the aspects of my past, present, and future, as well as my main interest...I came up with this map.

Then I found this! A free template for building a paper 1974 Mustang II Mach 1...not my favorite body style for a Mustang and far from my favorite car (couldn't find a Firebird pattern) but it will definitely work for this project.

So I built it...here's the prototype! Definitely not a good looking car but I can fix that :)

Then I decided to sketch a side view of the car to lay out my basic idea. I ended up scrapping the half-restored look, and decided to built two different cars which show a "before and after" restoration.

- To be continued -

Final Bag Design

1. How does the design of your bag relate to the meaning of your logo?

The color scheme is neutral colors (black, grays, white, browns) so the bag is dark like death. The blowing pages represent a passage of time. One of the skeletons is underground reading (after death) and the other is reaching up to write, symbolizing a book that is published posthumously.

2. How did you use color, shapes, lines or other elements of art to get the audience's attention and lead them around the bag?

The gradient brings the audience's attention from top to bottom of the bag. The bright white blowing pages, along with the letters underground, are different shapes that lead the audience's eye all the way around the bag and back to the front.

3. What was the "surprise" you added to keep your audience looking?

The pages lead the audience's eye around the bag to the back, where the skeleton is hiding underground reading a book. I also hid the logo on one of the pages. Additionally, a quote is arranged underground that the audience can search around the bag to figure out. The quote is "I'm only really alive when I'm writing" by Tennessee Williams, a famous author/playwright. His name can be found on the bottom of the bag.

4. What is the best part of your bag design?

The flowing papers in combination with the quote make my bag design much more interesting than it would be if they weren't on there. They cause the audience to look at all angles of the bag more than once.