WEEK 8

CRITIQUE:
This past week I finalized my cover design for the Nicotine feature, as well as designed an Arts department page. My cover originally was going to run tomorrow, but has been changed to next week. I have decided to not post the design until after it is published in order to keep you all in suspense :) But it will be up on my next post! Overall I am very very happy with how it turned out. It took a bit of playing with fonts, sizes and colors but in the end I think turned out just how I had hoped.
What I can show you, however, is my Arts department page. I got to play with the pen tool and do some fun cuts. Pay no attention to the wonderful ads at the bottom.























In other work, I have been cleaning up my logo designs for a group called Eat For Life. Here are two of the three I am working with (and just for kicks I played with them both in color and black and white)




Upcoming work:
I have a website! It is not fully functioning yet with buttons....but you can check out my beginnings of it at http://web.missouri.edu/~casfg4/solbergdesigns/
I am excited to keep working on it and get my designs posted as soon as I can.
Otherwise, next week is SPRING BREAK (finally)!! So I will be taking a bit of a hiatus from ACTUALLY designing....I will, however, be thinking up ideas for the Criminal Justice feature that I will be designing with Abbey and Jena when we return from break!

RESPONSE:
This week in lab we continued to talk about our logo designs for either "Eat For Life" or "Show Me Dharma". We had our class rate each person's top 3 logos and will turn in final designs for those 3 on Friday. It is really cool to see how many ideas all of us are capable of coming up with for one group. Design is interesting because none of the ideas are wrong; some just work better than others. As the semester continues I have been getting a sense of everyone's own style and am able to point out certain people's work according to that style.
In other news, I completed and sent in my application for the art internship through National Graphic Magazine (dream job, anyone?) and have been researching other potential summer employers. For those interested, Esquire has a position open for a graphic arts intern! I found out about it here: http://www.spd.org/job-board/2009/02/esquire-magazine--graphic-desi.php
I apologize for the short post, but basically I can not stop thinking about London since I will be there within a matter of days! Talk about an inspiring city.....I will make a giant promise to you all that plenty of pictures will be taken and posted upon my return :)

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Are Music Covers Graphic Design? Not according to Peter Saville.
Saville is most known for his punk graphics, such as this one:
Peter Saville's guitar cut-out giveaway for the UK PSP launch; detail of guitar from Arena magazine August 2005

He also created this poster for a 1978 music festival called The Factory:
The Factory eventually transformed into a record label, in which Saville became the art director. He became the main designer for album covers; one of which he even convinced the band to leave off their name and any sort of title. This was for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album, which can be seen below:
The most shocking thing that Saville said in reference to album covers was, "‘No one should be designing record covers after the age of 30’, and ‘Music covers are not graphic design, they do not communicate anything, they have no purpose in that respect." And, mind you, he said this to a room full of designers.
For more information/graphics of Saville check out http://www.designmuseum.org/design/peter-saville

END ART:

Have a great day!
~Christy