Logo ad

If you read the post below, just ignore it. I opened Illustrator about half an hour ago and it decided it wanted to work. YAY! And here is the ad I created.

I think it looks rather traditional in the layout with a few twists. The only thing that is center aligned is the heading and you can't really tell because it's off to the side. For the heading I used um . . . not oldstyle but . . . modern! And for the rest I used uh . . . I want to say sans serif with a decorative style both bold and regular. The body text is left aligned with the little bars to break up the text. And as I go down the text gets smaller and smaller but I kept the bars the same size except the first one. It's not outstanding or anything but it's simple and I like the fact that it's simple.

Illustrator hassle!

So . . . making the second part of the logo project has been a hassle. Illustrator didn't want to save because my laptop had been worked on to get some bugs out. I took it back and now Illustrator saves but the text isn't working. It was working before when it wouldn't save! I guess you win some you lose some.

I'm thinking I wont be able use Illustrator for the project even though that's the program I'm supposed to be using. The alternative is Word.

I know I could just use the computer lab but my parents are coming into town tomorrow (Sunday) and I don't even know if the lab is open on Sunday. And then, if it is, what if the building is locked? I know it locks after 5 pm on weekdays but I've never tried getting in on the weekends. If it is locked my card doesn't get the door open.

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

Complain, complain, complain.

I'll get it done. I always do.

High School Logo part 2

The new logo for Grafton High School! I didn't use the school colors (red and blue), well, there is blue but there's no place for the red. I chose this design over the others because I like the look of it. It's straight to the point: school name, mascot name and a picture of the mascot. The other designs either weren't strong enough or the design didn't work or both. This also has a very traditional feel to it and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for a school this new.

I'm very proud of myself as this is my first project using Illustrator. I thought I wouldn't get it but finally today it just started coming together and I pretty much did all of this today. Except the rope, I did that a couple of days ago.

High School logo

My ninth grade high school logo. Oh goodness, I'm so happy to be redoing this thing. It's bad enough it's a boat but it looks like they didn't have enough time or money to make a proper mascot or logo for the school. I mean, it is only ten years old but still . . . I have my work cut out for me, eh?

Here's my four drafts for a new logo.

I'm partial to the first two but I've been persuaded to create the first one. We'll see how it goes!

I made a button! I did one of those easy tutorials. Actually, the one I made was orange and when I uploaded it here it 's blue. Which is ok. It's probably in CMYK.

Part of the coloring didn't work. The white elipse is supposed to be more transparent on one side but Illustrator didn't do like the instructions said it would. I also had to save it in Illustrator but then save it again in Photoshop because Illustrator doesn't have JPEG options.

Self Portrait take 3

I changed a couple of things in this picture. I had to redo the background because I did something wrong with the layers. I made the figure smaller and the note she's hanging onto. I made her shadow going the right direction. Some people didn't like the shadow on the sheet music but I really like the way it looks. I added a couple more notes so the figure wasn't by itself floating away. Oh! And the gradient of the background.