My Final Illustration

This is what I finally went with for my Concert poster for Illustration class. I did the band Mates of State based on their one lyric, "Cool your politics for a while, let the color schemes arise." The American flag and newspaper background is meant to represent American politics, while they are being transformed with flowing colors. I made this with newspaper collage with gel medium onto canvas, the paper sculpted flag on watercolor paper and painted with gauche, and the Mates of State name created with newspaper cut out on watercolor paper and gauche. I sculpted the paper by bending it and gluing it to the canvas with hot glue. The Mates of State lettering is elevated with Styrofoam blocks underneath. Then Stephen, our illustration teacher, had the photographer at his studio take a photo of my piece and I pushed the background contrast with Photoshop. Overall, I think this is my favorite piece I have ever done.

The Coolest!

This is the coolest package design I saw. The box holds two bottles too.

Final Decision

So...I think I've finally decided to go with Bohemian Highway for my wine redesign. I want to do this with all type, it's gonna be awesome. I think I'm going to do a rub down and paper label combined.

Image from Side Walk Shoes blog.

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Nate Williams.

New Bohemia Signs

I came across some really beautiful, looks like, hand painted signs that this company does. They're called New Bohemia Signs.

The New Design

This is the new design I'm going to turn in tomorrow. I chose the white background to show off my illustrations. Anything else in the background took the attention away from all the color already in the typeface. Instead I just decided to keep the focus on the drawings and their colors.