Digital Art and Design: Advanced

For my album, I decided to take 8 very guitar heavy songs that have inspired me throughout my life. I've played guitar for more than half my life and these 8 songs were some of the biggest influences on my style and even starting to play. The album name I think should be “Guitar Greats,” as it is a simple name but tells what the album will be about and still being catchy and memorable. The design for the cover I plan to make is simple. I plan to have an image of a guitar at roughly a 45 degree angle with the word Guitar above and Greats below it. The back will have the titles and durations of the songs. The inner 6 pages of the booklet will feature the 6 songs which have lyrics and their lyrics and relevant images and credits. The 8 songs I chose for the album are: Nothing Else Matters by Metallica, Lewis and Clark by Tommy Emmanuel, Classical Gas by Tommy Emmanuel, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin November Rain by Guns N’ Roses, Beggars and Hangers On by Slash and M...

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd - The album shows a white light entering a prism. When pure white light goes through a prism, it comes out showing all if the colors in the color spectrum, as illustrated by the rainbow on the other side of the prism in the album. The background behind the prism is very dark and draws a lot of attention to the prism. This album is incredibly successful and is what people think of when they hear “Pink Floyd.” Under the Iron Sea by Keane - This album really caught my attention. The cover features water a the bottom and on it appear to be swimming horses. A few of these horses are black with red eyes and the others are a blue or greenish color. They represent the front design of ships like pirate ships that would be used for sailing hundreds of years ago. In all, it's a very unique and interesting album cover. Appetite for Destruction by Guns 'n’ Roses - This is another incredibly famous album cover. It features the band's name at ...

(Read more will display the proper size) Here are my print ready business cards. I wasn't able to export them as an image from acrobat for some reason, I simply did not have the option, so I took a screen shot of the card areas and created a new image of the areas and uploaded them. Unfortunately, it made it so that the image isn't 100% perfectly clear, but until I figure out why I was unable to export it properly, this is what I have. 

I tried a few different things with these logos. For the main Inn logo, I originally thought to make the "n's" in "inn" look like doors to show guests that they are welcomed there, but I ended up creating the word "inn," very large with a roof over it and in the "n's," I wrote the words Hudson and Valley as if looking through windows of the inn. For the bar, I decided quickly on a name, "Riverside Sippin'." I thought this was a clever name and decided to make the "S" in "sippin'" look like a river and put the word "riverside" next to it. For the restaurant, I decided to name it the "Bistro Boat." I took the "T" in "Bistro" and made it look like a sail and put the word "Boat" under the deck of the boat, while "Bistro" was on top. It was definitely fun but challenging to create these logos in Illustrator. I think that the "Bistr...

Here are my hand drawn words. For the noun, I used my girlfriend's name, "Priya", for the verb, I used the word "Dance," and for the adjective, I used the word, "graceful," but for graceful, I capitalized FULL to impose the meaning "Full of grace." I certainly underestimated how hard it would be to recreate this on illustrator as a first time user, but I recreated my girlfriend's name as it was my favorite of the three words I drew.