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Graphic Design: Letterform Combinations

Neil Savage — Sun, 22 May 2011 22:57:10 +0000

For this assignment, I needed to create an interesting form using my two initials, N and S. The letterforms could be uppercase or lowercase and a combination of both. Once I came up with a creative form, I then needed to use french curves to draw each letterform. Using black india ink, I created a solid composition of my initials. Below is my approach scanned in on illustration board. After the assignment, I recreated the composition is Illustrator and created my personal logo.

Philadelphia Eagles Vs. Phillies Beirut (Beer Pong) Table

Neil Savage — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:19:09 +0000

Another table made per request – Philadelphia Eagles vs. Phillies Table. If interested in a custom table, contact me for a mock up design and quote at neil@neilsavagedesign.com

Paul Rabil’s Store 99 Officially Launches

Neil Savage — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:10:38 +0000

Today, Paul Rabil’s Official Store went live today featuring custom items available only at his website. Store was created through wordpress plugin getshopped! as well as other plugins for customization. I use getshopped! because of its simple admin panel, which lets me customize every aspect of the store. The PHP is well-written and allows easily accessible commands throughout the store, all based on a single root. Check out Paul’s Store 99 for yourself:

Michael Godard (Artist) Website Design

Neil Savage — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:36:46 +0000

For my digital concepts class, I was assigned to make a website for an artist that I liked. I chose Michael Godard, the rockstar of the art world. Here is my composition:

Sweet Memories Candy Store

Neil Savage — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:05:23 +0000

Sweet Memories Candy Store opened it’s doors on May 1, 2010; conceived by Ashley Romano, daughter of store owner Christina Utz. Christina and co-owner Doug Chase felt the historic downtown section of Frederick would be a perfect place to open up such a shop.

They offer more than 200 types of candies in our store and they work with candy distributors all over the country to provide for our customers. They pride ourselves on our customer service skills and also provide catalogs for special orders, candy buffets and candy gift baskets.

Paul Rabil’s Official Website

Neil Savage — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:47:16 +0000

Paul is a professional lacrosse player with the Washington Stealth of the National Lacrosse League and the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse. Rabil attended Watkins Mill High School (Gaithersburg, MD) and later transferred to DeMatha Catholic High School and played his collegiate lacrosse at the Johns Hopkins University. Visit Site

Digital Concepts: Fairytale Gone Awry

Neil Savage — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:37:11 +0000

Our assignment was to design a billboard of a fairytale that has gone awry using only elements of our own (scanned it, hand drawn or photographed). My project consisted of the story about The Three Little Pigs and instead of them staying inside their brick house, they kill the wolf and get arrested. Here is my composition: (Click To Enlarge)

How To Make A Grunge Pattern Using Your Hand In Photoshop

Neil Savage — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:19:36 +0000

Here’s how to make a one of a kind grunge pattern using the palm of your hand and Photoshop.

Open a new document with a width and height of 800 pixels, resolution 72.

Next, take a picture of the palm of your hand and import it into Photoshop.

Now, desaturate your photo using ctrl + shift + u or goto Image > Adjustments > Desaturate and set your blending layer to Linear Light.

Create a new layer under the image of your palm and apply the clouds filter by going Filter > Render > Clouds..

Set the opacity of your clouds layer to 80% or to whichever allows the palm lines to show through.

Create a new Color Balance adjustment layer above the image of your palm. This can be done by clicking the black and white circle at the bottom of your layers palette.

I set my colors to +51 Red, -27 Magenta and -100 Yellow, but you may need to adjust depending on your image.

Add an exposure adjustment layer above the other adjustment layer. Again, click on the black and white circle at the bottom of your layers palette.

Play around with the Gamma Correction and Exposure levels. I set my exposure to -0.10 and my Gamma Correction to 0.68.

That’s it! You’re done. Now you officially have a one of a kind grunge pattern.

Digital Concepts: Pattern

Neil Savage — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:20:47 +0000

In class we were asked to draw an object that we had brought into class. In my case, I had a USB drive. With the form drawn, we then had to take apart the shapes and rearrange them to create some kind of pattern. We then traced the images onto the computer into illustrator and began creating our final pattern. Once the pattern was done in black in white, we then had to create three more using different color schemes: two complementary colors, three same saturation colors and one of our choice. Here is what I came up with.

Design My Own Living Room: Image Alteration

Neil Savage — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:02:14 +0000

My assignment was to redesign a basic black and white image of a living room, to reflect my personality using photoshop techniques. Also, a image of myself needed to be placed in the living room as part of the composition. Here was my approach: