Sunday, October 6, 2013

Art Deco Cover/Spread


          For my ArtDeco themed cover and spread for Digital Arts, I spent an embarrassing amount of time researching and trying to properly draw using typical ArtDeco typography and fonts as well as geometric designs to accompany them.  I used AdobeIllustrator to help vector trace my preliminary drawings so that they would be noise free and black and white like the example used in the tutorials.  The first image which is my cover sheet, was not initially my cover sheet.  The first part of my spread was initially my cover and you can see if I didn't get carried away with the title that should have read "Digital Arts,"  I could have put "Arts," where the word "Design," is and used the space in between for a photograph and title placements for possible articles that would hypothetically be in this magazine.  Instead I decided to use it for a very graphic part one of the spread next to its more simplistic counterpart on the right.   To continue with the actual cover, I would like to make the word "Arts," much smaller and move it to the bottom of the page and fill the page with color so as to draw the eye of a potential viewer.  I also like the typography I drew for the spread as opposed to the cover, but decided to use a more cinematic font for the cover.  I have a few more drawings to add but just wanted to get this in here for peer review.  I also intend to add vibrant colors to all of these images to help better reflect the ArtDeco style.  I want to use bright primary colors because the ArtDeco style is a staple of the 1920's era and "Digital Arts," magazine should incorporate that.  The black and white will not be part of the finished product.




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