Without further adieu--Digital Photography

So, I'm definitely not a good photographer but I really enjoy it. So, I decided to take this digital photography class to get a better grasp on image making. In short, I signed up for this digital photography class as a treat to myself. Little did I know that I would have to sell my soul to the Devil in order to get a little extra time to work on my photos. The pictures I'm posting are a little ridiculous but they were to show technique... not necessarily subject matter. I'm only posting these ones for now because these also happen to be the pictures hanging up in the FAV hallway. Yea! My work has gone from my mom's refrigerator to the hallway in the art building. It brings a tear to my eye just thinking about it... Moving on.

This first shot was to show how to use the shadow/highlight filter:















These next 2 images are examples of composite imaging and blending techniques:





























This last picture is of my dear, sweet Grandma Peterson. We had to use a posterization effect--gorgeous, overly-used effect but awesome nonetheless. I love this picture but I don't have the heart to show it to my grandma because I'm sure she will HATE it but still grit through her teeth, "Kory, it's beautiful..." Granted, it's not the most flattering but that's what I love about it.

I've lost that branding feeling...

So, I haven't updated very much from my Brand ID class... so here we go-

This first picture is the end result of a logo that we had to design for a fake Greek restaurant called Mythos.




















This next logo is for the new department (?) for this grant that was given to USU. It's called IDIAS and they are designing educational games/simulations. This project taught me a very valuable lesson--some people just don't know what the hell they want. This project was so frustrating because the guy in charge had no idea what he actually wanted. To make a long story short, NONE of the logos designed for the project "solved the issue." Here's what I came up with. The first one is the one I turned in but the second one is my revised version. I like both for different reasons.































Last but not least--my most recent project. This time we're designing a logo for the new art studio on campus that's in FAV 102. Naturally, it's called Studio 102. This logo is still "in the works" but here's what I've got so far.
















UPDATED 1/10/10

Here's what I finished with on my Studio 102 project.

Animated Typography

So, we have to do an animation for my Graphic Interface Design class based on a 30 second audio clip from a movie. Needless to say, it's kicking my trash. The first part of this assignment was to design a poster that would reflect the overall feeling of the animation. Well, my audio clip is from V for Vendetta and here's what I came up with:




















I'm pretty happy with the final result but there are a few things I'll change for the animation. I'll try to keep this up to date during the process

HALLELUJAH!

Thank the good lord! I'm finally done with my HTML site for Graphic Interface Design! It's uploading as I type. I thought I would keep this more up to date during the process but there was much to update... after the design was done, it was just a bunch of busy work.

So, here's some info about the site:

I originally started designing this site for a fake concert venue but changed it to a local venue here in Logan called Whysound. It was much easier using their content instead of making up my own. Luckily, the owner of Whysound was nice enough to let me into the venue and take some pics of the venue for the site. The concert pictures were also taken by me from previous shows that my band had played. Overall, I'm happy with the site because I accomplished what I set out to do. The inspiration for the design of this site was my old Crate GFX212 guitar cab. I wanted it to say "music" without being too cliche... So, I used the curved boxes to give that good ol' "cab feeling" and the background texture was derived from the fabric on the front of my cab. So, hopefully it says "music" without being too lame.

Well, if you're interested in what I've been working on check it out at http://fall09-2.graphicinterfacedesign.com/kfenton/html/whysound/

Here's kinda of what it looks like...