Business Card before and after.

The original business card is one the left, as you can see on the right I improved it and made the typefaces a lot more contrasting rather than conflicting like it was before. I also changed the tracking of some of the text and changed the alignment from left to centre. I also adjusted the proximity.

NME magazine cover

After placing the image of NME's magazine cover in InDesign I made guides from the headlines (top and bottom) to help me place all my text in the correct places.



Next, I focused on the main text on the cover which is "Bombay Bicycle Club". So I opened up FontDoc and typed in Bombay and looked through all the different fonts until I found one similar. The font that I chose to use was Abadi MT Condensed Light. I also altered the tracking, the width and the height of the text.



After adjusting the text until it was similar to the one on the magazine cover, I typed in the rest of the title. Added a drop shadow and made sure that it was the same size as the text on the original cover.



After taking some photographs as similar as I could make them to the original. I edited them also to make them more alike with the original. I altered the colour of the front mans jacket to match the colour of the original magazine in Photoshop (original photo on right).



I did the same for the person on the right, changing the colour of his t-shirt from white to blue.



Here is the text completed and looking as similar to the original cover as I could make it. It was quite easy to complete all the text because most of it was the same typeface apart from the text used for the date and price.



Here is the magazine nearly completed.



And here is the NME magazine completed.

Camera manual

These are the tools I used to ink in my drawings: black ink and a dip pen.

I drew quite a few different styles of cameras. Here's a picture of a drawing that wasn't very good.

After drawing all my symbols in pencil I then inked them to make them bolder for when I scanned them in.

After experimenting with lots of different styles of cameras, I eventually decided to use this one for my manual.

After scanning in my inked drawings, I adjusted the levels to make them black and white as the scanner made my drawings look quite grey.

I then arranged my front and back drawings of a camera so that they would be the front and back page of my manual.






























Next, I started adding in all of my hand drawn symbols, changing the opacity of some of them.

Next, I added text which was information on all the camera symbols I had drawn.

This is the text I decided to use for my manual, it's called Linowrite.

And Finally I added colour and was ready to print.

After cutting out my manual using a cutting board and a craft knife, this is the end result:

Business card

First I started off by creating a draft, I decided to use black and white stripes for the background to add contrast to my design. By making the text a bright red/pink colour it stands out very well against the background. I then found a black and white striped image on the internet and copied that into Photoshop. After doing that, I drew a circle in the centre of my business card template and added text in the middle. On the back, instead of drawing another circle shape and filling it white, I drew a recatangular shape and filled it black. This added more contrast within my design. I added text in the black shape (contact details etc.) and then printed it off.

After printing it off I then cut them so they were the right size and shape.

Here is the finish piece.