Yet another mockup

Mockups, mockups, mockups... seems like that is all we do sometimes, but the practice certainly pays off. I'm quite pleased with how this mockup of a Philips fluorescent mini turned out.

sorry

I have not been very diligent lately at posting, school has really gotten intense with final projects. We're down to the last 5 weeks of school and we're really being swamped. Anyway, I'm sorry about the length of time between postings here. I've completed another image for my illustration class. This time the theme was "mistaken identity", enjoy.

Finished

So, here it is, the final piece. My magazine cover for my print media class. Very pleased with it. Has a nice clean look, but also edgy and makes you want to open it up and take a peak inside.

Mockup version 2

Not the final piece yet, but here's a second version.

Mockup

Did some work today on a magazine mockup for my print media class. Here's the rough copy, I'll post the final version when it is done. I used a photo I took of an orange and apple that I blended using a masking tool. The idea was that the orange and apple were reintegrated wrong after being translocated (beamed).

The Spark

As day flows into night and creative sparks are loosed flaring into nothingness, one must seize those sparks and blow them into flame. Nurturing, encouraging, protecting it from the elements, in hopes that it will blaze in fury and sear the mind with it's pervasive ideas.

It is those ideas, born of flame and care, that designers must grab hold and exploit. It is the establishment of this process that must be pursued, to duplicate it again and again, that is the goal to be achieved, that is what a designer craves. Designers are more than just extensions of the tools they use, it is not enough simply to know how to use software and manipulate files. Designers must interpret a problem to the best possible solution, submitting it to the flames of creativity that it might be purified to base elements and processed into a simpler, purer form. These ideas, mixed with other ideas, create an ebb and flow that continues the process of refinement to the betterment of the solution. All having started from a spark.

School

School, in a word - rough. Don't take this the wrong way, or think that I'm complaining, because that is not my intent. School can be hard, as I said before I'm in the second semester of my second year of Graphic Design at Cambrian College and it is a difficult year. Which is bitter sweet because I am doing what I think is my hardest... but possibly not my best... work and sometimes the grades just aren't there to justify the time I put in. Which gets frustrating. 

I suppose if I was pulling off 80's and 90's in everything than maybe the course wouldn't be challenging enough, but since lately I've been in the mid 70's I'll say that it is definitely a challenging course. I love it though, I'm having the best time, I enjoy the rest of the students, the faculty is great and the environment is awesome... but I still can't wait to be done and released upon the world. Watch out, cause it's gonna happen :)

Here's a mock up of a webpage we had to design for a favorite book.