Last week Dora and I went to Salt Lake Design Week. I decided I need to design more outside of work to keep my creativity up and to improve my skills. I figure the more I’m designing, the stronger my weaknesses will become.
We bought a book earlier this year that has 80 or so different design projects to help keep you creative. So we decided to set a goal to do one of these projects a week. And we will do it together and make it a sort of friendly competition.
This first project we did was to take a vintage ad and make it modern. Well, I kinda strayed from this one a little and decided to mix a modern ad/poster design and incorporate a vintage album cover design. I love the Coke Side of Life posters and decided to create one similar to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album cover. I had fun with this and think there is room for improvement but the overall concept fit together nicely. It was a fun quick project.
I like it. I really like all the black space and the way if feels like the rainbow is bursting out. Was the book that you bought similar to the one that I gave to you for your graduation? You all make me really want to take some graphic design class so I can do my posters here. They aren’t as cool as yours.
Also, if you ever need subject material…I have “in house” things I need designed that never see the light of day at the service center… 😉 Like posters for book displays and things like that. Just sayin’ if you need to keep up with other projects, I could send some your way.