Symbol project

The second project for my design class is to draw an everyday objext. Once we have this object drawn in a realistic style our challenge is to turn it into a symbol. We’ll do two things to do this. We’ll make a hand done drawing with india ink and we’ll make a vector version of the india ink drawing.

The symbol is to be all black and white.

For my symbol I’ve chosen a lamp in my house. It’s the typical shape of a lamp you’d imagine. It has a cylindrical shade, a metal base and a metal pull chain that hangs down past the shade.

At this stage I’ve completed the realistic drawing and will start on the symbol shortly.

My lamp

First Project

Not much This is a blog primarily for my Intro to Graphic Design class. I'll use it to share progress on assignments, roughs, and the finished assignments. Other than that I may also share work from my typography class and work done on my own time. At the summation of my graphic design class I hope to maintain this blog for future years to track my work and help me stay on point with the art I should be doing (at least for my college career).
So with this in mind I'll share the information I've acquired for the first project I worked on. The project was to create a work of art based on a famous graphic designer (or illustrator). Also part of the assignment was to include a powerpoint and paper talking about the artist.
I chose the graphic designer Chip Kidd. He's a graphic designer and writer. He has mostly designed book covers such as the Jurassic Park book cover.

From here my obvious choice was to design a book cover as well. I used a high contrast self-portrait shown only partially with the title of the book and the authors name in the black portion when the face is covered. This was modeled after a cover Kidd designed for one of his own books. He did a self-portrait in high contrast with only the top half of the face showing and the rest being reserved for pertinent cover text.