Final GD 1 Image Layout Series

I’ve been doing some serious revisions lately on my GD Image/Type/Diagrammatic Layout Series.  Here are the final versions of what I’ve done:

I needed to find a way to use an image, but not just “big is dominate” which was harder than you’d think.  I think though, finding a creative solution to problems big and small is what this is class/major is all about… but sometimes its hard to find a way to keep yourself interested when it quickly becomes a process of pleasing someone and no longer yourself.  After several revisions to the project, I did though, do my best to find that happy medium where I could still do my own thing.  So I went back to my basic training type stuff and dressed up a simple concept instead.

My Type Dominate layout most closely resembles my original ideas. I ended up abandoning the robot that I had made and instead refined it to involve only the subject matter and the three image and the information.  The “type as image” fading into the background was an idea that my professor gave to me to explore.  I actually originally hated it, but decided to go with it for consistency with the headline and giving purpose to the color bars at the same time.

My Diagrammatic layout on the other hand, is quite a bit different.  I decided instead to use King Kong to go with the Giant Monster in the Image Dominate layout, and then used the whole “movies being played at the KIVA” idea to bring them all together… even if subtly.

I think my biggest problem right now, is that I’m enjoying Illustration a lot more than Design.  Perhaps there is some significance in that.

Diagrammatic Sci-Fi

I’ve been a bit busy tweaking my designs of the Image Dominate and Type Dominate layouts the last few days.  I had a few suggestions from my professor to change the color scheme a little (“feels too 70s”) so I opted to remove the brown tones and go for something a little more Retro Sci-fi.  I feel like I am a little closer (I’ll post the final versions when the project is due next week) so tonight I jumped on the Diagrammatic layout.  In the assignment sheet, it says “This layout should be developed based upon specific information or qualities of your object/theme.  Possibilities include a timeline, diagram, chart, etc.”  I had a few ideas, but I felt they were a little too illustrative and that I needed to scale it back to the important design elements making it diagrammatic like the assignment calls for.  

So to keep the layouts working like a series, I went back to the little robot guy that I created and decided to build a story around him as an enemy of the world.  If you can’t read the image, the concept revolved around the idea that this robot is radio controlled from the Martian Homeland, sent to earth to conquer by proxy.  It has already taken most of Europe and is currently occupying Moscow and all of Russia.  The new battle is about to begin on American soil and what I am making is a poster for the U.S. Space Patrol Taskforce Delta alerting citizens that they are coming and how to identify the new model (Axion 2700).

Though this one looks a little different, I kept a similar color set as the others I recently modified, as well as reusing the robot.  Keeping these elements, I hope, should be enough to have them work together as a series even though this one slightly departs for the other designs.  I wanted to make the diagrammatic work more directly, but I felt this one provided me with an opportunity to make something as if it existed in the Sci-fi theme I am using.  We’ll see how it goes over in class tomorrow.