Here's the other 3/4 of the service learning project.

A project for the band 9teen a soul/rock Steely Dan tribute band:

I gathered photos from the website and facebook page and after working on different arrangements and research began illustrating them. The soul albums I had looked at largely featured a one color background and seemed to very often be painted. I thought it best to stick with their logo colors, so it has the pink background to add the general color with white and black for shadows and highlights. Blues albums are typically black and white "monochromatic" pictures, thus I fused these two ideas. The illustrations will be couched around the logo and the brass instruments are on the bottom, depicting how they are foundational to the band's sound.

Update of the Magazine Design, with new images and
some new layout, particularly on the spread.

Here are the color ranges of the logo:
One color, Two Color, and Four color.

Adjusted One Color G logo:
Adjusted Above, Original Below
Getting that angle is tricky without being a little thick.
It cuts the top off my head, but it seems the weight is balanced..

Service Learning Tshirt Design Edits

I had thought that possibly an issue in the design was that the front and the back were too similar.

I have chosen to look up how this camera equipment really looks when directing light.

The back now reflects what it looks like when attempting a vertical light beam.

The Front Tshirt Design 

The Back Tshirt Design

This was the piece from Motion Graphics, the only part I really had any desire to have in the portfolio.
It is now a complete illustration with all the line drawn in illustrator. I used much pencil to keep that sketched feel, I added highlights as well. It is meant to have an inked feel, with color painted over the ink.
I hope you enjoy it,
Tom G

The final one color logo.

Here are three options, I have chosen A, which returns the center graphic to black
and leaves the texture yellow and blue. I feel it hints at mixing, given the textured type is green at the bottom.
B turns the back text texture to green, alternatively.
C has the text texture background in black, with the center graphic in green,
which was originally suggested at the end of typography by Coni, I believe.

A

 

B

 

C

Here is how I would include the Tshirt design in the portfolio.
I would include how the design looked in the program and how
it appeared mock up.
I chose this scenario to give the feeling of a dark film environment
with a slightly yellow orange light coming from the light source.

This magazine design was created for Publication Design, a quarterly magazine about taking a day for relaxation. What was suggested for changing was the blue background color on the cover and the spread.
I have also brightened the color on the yarn. I didn't have any other notes for adjustment written down,
if you have any suggestions please feel free to say so.

The Original Drafts

The New Adjustments

This was the poster for typography, it was decided that I could use a little more color.
Following the idea with the martini glass, I used yellow and blue with green at the mixing point.
I thought I could use color for the text texture background because that is also used in the lower right corner.
With the addition of color the balance of color vs. black and white is quite balanced.
Let me know if you think the color use becomes excessive.

The Original

 The Portfolio Version

Here's the new poster for the MWCC GID program.
It's a bit of a different approach, but I tried to unify the piece with line.
I also made the header a pretty much singular unit created with different elements.

Here is the new psa for Design Theory. With this project in general, I was intrigued by the idea that according to the statistics there had to be a large number of people at the college parties who had no desire to be there at all.  I informed the viewer of the image in the subtitle/body copy to reinforce the idea provided by the title and image: an emergency situation from which no one breaks away. The title is also a metaphor for refusing alcohol abuse.

Here is the updated logo:
What I took from the review is that, maybe the redo doesn't minimize so well.
I did discover, however, the letters or initials I wanted to use and their arrangements.
The name of my business has also been typographically designed.

This was a single page psa website which adapts for mobile, done for advanced web.
These are drawings that I had done used in the site, and it tells the story of the character.
In the second to last frame there is some tension because he is gone, and along with the
subject matter that could mean a number of things. In the last frame we find that he has
found help.  Let me know if you see anything worth changing.

This was a project for the second webdesign class, it is a two column page.
It was meant to be a sort of travel site with information about the areas with a working form at the end.
The NAV bar has brown text which highlights and then changes dark green when visited.

Hello All,

These next few uploads are going to need feedback before re-work what can be improved and changed.

This was an illustration I had done for Motion Graphics, it was originally drawn in pencil then inked.
I scanned it and brought it into Illustrator and using an low opacity "inked" over it like a water color.
The original drawing shows through the layers.

This was a psa poster designed for Design Theory about College Drinking.
The data suggests that some of the people involved in drinking at college must not want to be there.
They realize they have a problem, but do not wish to become uninvolved. The psa's aim was to
suggest this issue, the idea of questioning what is really going on. The new psa is a complete redesign,
which hopes to better suggest the idea of questioning the situation and images.

The type has been integrated further into the design. To fit the type, a good deal of the design had to be adjusted; this is visible in the comparison. I created emphasis with color, and chose to reflect the journals of Thoreau with a handwriting styled font. Please let me know how you think this has turned out.