Today I have to show a set of zombie illustrations I made throughout the year. These are made for a private event as the invitation poster to give to a select few friends. I wanted to demonstrate first the posters then go in a little deeper and review the two different printing companies I used, shutterfly.com and docucopies.com.
The posters:
I was recently sent a design image to be critiqued from Renier. This will be the first design critique posted to the blog, so a big thanks to Renier for sending it in. So to start with, here is the original image:
First of all, there is a nice layout of elements with the fresh vegetables. Even the direction of the vegetables is nice, as the pointed top of the onion and the direction of the spoon make a nice movement through the photo. Even the garnish on the top of the casserole adds to this. Personally I probably would have gotten closer with my camera and had less table around, but this composition still shows the product nicely. My main issue with the photo is that it needs more contrast and higher saturation. This would make not only the red of the dish better, but it would make those tomatoes really pop. Here you can see a comparison with just a simple S-Curve adjustment layer.
Just a quick post here. This is from an abandoned series I am working on. This from the Carl’s house sub-series.
This photo is available as a print, just head over to my order page here.
This is an explanation of how I work for design. It can generally be applied to any sort of design, but I’ll talk more specifically about designing logos, since that is a specialty of mine. So after the project has been discussed and the agreement is signed and the down payment has been paid, this is what I do.
The first step is just generating ideas. I start with the very basic, generally the name of the business or what it does, and think of absolutely everything that has to do with that industry. This stage is very fast moving, with lots of ideas in a short amount of time.
A mind-map is like a diagram of connecting bubbles with words or phrases inside. Here is an example of a previous job for a computer repair company:
I was approached by Large Format Posters to host a giveaway. How lucky for my readers! Up for grabs is an 18″ x 24″ poster print of whatever you choose. Available only to US residents over the age of 18.
So what do you have to do to win some custom poster printing goodness? I’ll give you multiple chances at winning, actually. If you are interested in getting the poster print of one of my photographs (normally fine prints available here) let me know.
For each of these things you will get an entry (do all of them and you get four chances at winning!). I will choose the winner using random.org on the 22nd of June, 2010. So enter now!
1. Comment on this post
2. Tweet this message: ” I entered @chrislanephoto #giveaway for a large poster print. http://bit.ly/CLPwin2 through @Giveaway_Blogs ”
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Good luck! and it would be a good idea to subscribe so that you will see when I have the next giveaway, coming at the end of this month.
