Digital Art and Design: Advanced

I decided to change the main idea of my poster from the one I had originally chosen to this design as someone had suggested to me for a few reasons. It is more simple to understand and get the point of the poster, it suggests something that can be done to directly help save the planet, and I'm not entirely sure if I would be able to complete the other design I had. I'll admit that this design looks so much more boring than I had envisioned in my head and took way to long considering that. I used photoshop to prepare the images and adjust the colors of the beetle and the planet, as well as remove the text from the bicycle, and I used illustrator to actually put the poster together and add text and design. Here is the final poster: And the images I used to create it:

https://graphiccompetitions.com/graphic-design/poster-for-tomorrow-2018-call-for-entries http://www.posterfortomorrow.org/en/projects/a-planet-for-tomorrow I chose a competition called, “A Planet for Tomorrow,” aimed to spread awareness and help save our planet. I had a few potential designs in mind, but have settled on one where a person is walking along a road, abandoning their car, to a part of the road that is overgrown and bustling with nature and peacefulness, trees along the road, a beautiful bright sky in the distance. The foreground will be dark and dreary looking in comparison and I think I'll put a relevant logo of some sort on the side. I'll be using illustrator to draw necessary images, such as the trees, and Photoshop to merge a few images and color the drawings for the final poster. I apologize if the image is a bit hard to see, as the pencil wasn’t quite dark enough in some areas for my scanner. I’ll be sure to make it a bit darker next time around. ...

I'd like to point out first that while doing this project, my hard drive is starting to fail and I've had a lot of trouble loading adobe apps. I would try to open a new document and the page would just flash, my hard drive would go to 100% usage and photoshop, illustrator, or indesign would not respond and I'd have to close them out. I did manage to create each of the individual pages, but was unable to group pages 2&3, 4&5, and 6&7 because of the above issue. I have already ordered a new hard drive and it should be here and I'll install it early this week and this should no longer be an issue (I sure hope so at least). I have no issues with modifying the project once I get the new drive to fit the projects guidelines, but nonetheless, here it is. I tried to stick to my original plan as much as possible, and I feel that I did a fair job in doing so. I particularly like the way the pages with the images behind the lyrics look, as the other ones looked a lit...