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Graphic Design: Raising Awareness – Buttons

Neil Savage — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:13:41 +0000

One of the ways a culture defines itself is through government communications. We interact with federally sponsored graphic design in the form of money, transportation, signage and nutrition and health labels, etc. My assignment is to design a series of four postage stamps that raise awareness for a particular cause. I was to exercise research skills, further develop conceptual thinking and will understand the importance of visual relationships, stylistic flexibility and continuity in designing for multiple items.

For the final composition, the 4 buttons needed to be 2.25″ in diameter and work as a set as well as individually. The topic I chose to raise awareness for was racism. Here are my buttons.

Graphic Design: Text and Image Part 2

Neil Savage — Wed, 25 May 2011 03:35:51 +0000

Part 2 of this assignment allowed me to use photoshop and illustrator to create my composition. Using the word light, I had to combine one or more images with the text and crop and isolate elements of the text
and image to bring focus to the form and message.

Text and image can be combined by a designer to create an effective and engaging message. Using juxtaposition and manipulation of the typography and imagery, meaning can be created or added. The resulting image/word combination becomes greater than the parts.

Here is my concept:

I hand-drew the word light into the shape of a flame and traced my work in illustrator. Then using photoshop, I created the illusion of the words being on fire and created a lighting effect.

2010 Holiday Season’s Greetings Card: Step Brothers

Neil Savage — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:54:30 +0000

For those of you that haven’t seen Step Brothers, the movie, you should defintely watch it, or look at the cover here. My roommate and I decided to make our card based on the DVD cover. There was no way we were going to find matching sweater vests like the ones seen on the cover, so some Photoshop would be needed. Below is the picture that we took in our apartment before I went to work in Photoshop and also the final product. Season’s Greetings.

New Facebook Layout Profile: Rock Climbing

Neil Savage — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:32:39 +0000

As you are probably aware, Facebook upgraded user profiles with a new layout. With the new layout, the gray header has been removed from the background and pictures were added to the top portion of the page displaying the 5 most recent tagged photos of yourself. Before looking on the internet to see if anyone had already made some creative approach to their profile, I immediately thought of climbing up the wall. Of course, there were already people with the new profile tweeked to their own photos, but I decided I would create one anyway. Here is what I chose to do.

Probably going to do some more approaches, but I thought I would throw one up there since finals are over and I just got some free time. Heres the link to my profile: http://www.facebook.com/neil.a.savage.

I created a photoshop file that has the images cut out, so all you have to do is overlay this image on the picture want and crop the individual photos. Click here to download.

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:

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.

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:

Image Alteration: Brick Wall

Neil Savage — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:06:13 +0000

My first assignment for Digital Concepts: Image was to take a plain image and alter it using just the tools in photoshop. The image was a brick wall. Here is the original image and my alteration:

Facebook Zipline Profile Picture

Neil Savage — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:40:52 +0000

Awhile back, I made a few creative facebook profile pictures that played with the background and layout of the site. Here is another that I made with a little bit of free time that I had.