#10 - Sleepwalking Comic

This piece is a comic strip that is inspired by the song sleepwalking by bring me the horizon.

#9 Logo Design

This is a logo that I made a while back for a pet groomer. I'm trying to think up of good design ideas that this could be a part of. Please comment some ideas for this piece.

#6 Woven Design Magazine

#8 Oats and More Cereal Box

I changed the colors to fit together better and give a more sophisticated feeling along with the text. Along with adding more content to the cereal box cover such as nutrition information and texture at the bottom.

#4

#4 Drug Abuse PSA

In this design I changed the textured typography in the lower right side and made it one color. I also changed the subtitle to fit under one word instead of being broken up by the two. I moved the fire further up and away from the logo.

#1-2

#1 Doane's Falls Brochure design.

#2 Attack on Titan DVD design

#3 - Gunpowder Treason Plot Website

These are the four pages I have created for an informative website on the history of the Gunpowder Treason Plot.I'm still pretty amateur when it comes to websites, so I would love more feedback on this piece. Thank you.

#1 - Doane's Falls Brochure Design

This is my reworked design for my #1 "most favored" piece of work.

Changes:
My original design had very flat and blocky structure, so I created new textured topic boxes to give the design more of an earthy look. Along with that I created a vector of a leaf to use instead of having arrows everywhere. This compliments the outdoorsie topic and helps direct the audience from subject to body text.

Instead of having solid colors throughout the entire page I decided to try a gradient, but also kept the dark green dividers that are used on the front and back of the brochure.

Any and all feedback on this would be helpful and please don't be light of criticism, its a wonderful part of the learning experience and I would love to hear what you truly feel would make this a stronger design. Thank you, Christopher Gordon

#2 - Attack on Titan DVD cover

This design was voted as my #2 "most favored" piece of work in class. Now I did not have the file for this design so this is a remake from complete scratch that I created. However, I did make a few changes to it.

#1, I added more texture to the titles words to help enhance the unity it needed with the foreground and background. This make the title more static which generates more appeal when combines with such detailed artwork.

#2 The original text on the background at the bottom had a red/maroon stroke under it before and i changed it to black. Now i did this for a few reasons. One being it hid that text too well and make it much more difficult to read than intended. Two being all the other text is white/grey with a black background of some sort so i wished to continue with that pattern.

#3 All other changed are very minor or random. Due to it being a completely different file I could not recreate the exact same random streaks as before, nor did i intend too.

Any and all feedback on this would be helpful and please don't be light of criticism, its a wonderful part of the learning experience and I would love to hear what you truly feel would make this a stronger design. Thank you, Christopher Gordon

Online Portfolios

One of the first portfolios I've ever browsed for fun would be http://www.cylehowe.com/
My connection to this portfolio would be that the creator went to my high school and I've asked this person for advice when deciding to get into the graphic design in college. This portfolio is a big inspiration because this student comes from a similar background to mine, coming from the same high school as I did. From T-shirt designs to posters I enjoy viewing new creative ways to design things. I especially admire his logo and how he has created a brand for himself in such a cleaver way.

This second portfolio I found while browsing the internet and right away I was intrigued by it. http://charlottetang.com/ What has drawn me to this portfolio was its unique use of shape in its overall layout. The use of circles instead of rectangles made it stand out from others and has a much smoother feeling to it. One of the many examples that I admire this portfolio is "Munchkinetics" which takes a fun and artistic idea and still keeps it very professionally done.

http://rsj.prosite.com/ This designer's portfolio has a very simplistic and animated feel to it but the other topics on the page are different but do not cause the design to clash or cause chaos. What I admire about this portfolio is the designers ability to make fluid designs that require little to no detail, without taking away or reducing the impact of the design.