The four images shown below are my thumbnails for the project. As I said before, I tried incorporating the required colors with a harsher tone to create a logo that would appeal to the intended audience. Each of the logos are a different style, which I had done purposely to account for the image that would be inserted later. Some of the thumbnails consist only of differently colored text, while others use line and shape to make a memorable logo.

The images shown below are the two final components of the project. The piece on the left was made by another student in his/her art class, then presented to my class to be used in our logs. To make my final, I completed removed the right side of the image and cut out only the head. I then used the the third thumbnail from the above four images in the final of the logo. As shown below, I placed the head to left of the text and connected the line separating the company name and the motto to the head, to provide some kind of interaction between the image and the text.

The final wedding invitation differed greatly from the original. Tweaks were made to the placement of stars, star and sky gradient, type of font, and overall layout of text. The final product resembles a wedding invitation the most, being legible, pleasing to the eye, and much more uniform.

My main idea for this work was to use the spiral shape present in Botticelli’s Map of Hell (the painting being a prominent part of the story) to draw in the reader’s eyes to the cover. The shape would guide them throughout the piece, first from the title to the city and then to the city and water below. Because I included the city in which the novel takes place in and also the painting that was a big part of the story, I feel as if this is a better representation of the novel as a whole as I incorporated both the modern and historic elements of the novel.

To improve from my rough to my final, I followed criticisms that were offered to me by my peers. I decided to eliminate completely the bag at the bottom, which was supposed to represent the vector virus that presents itself as a major threat in the novel. I also changed the background to be more reminiscent of a night sky as opposed to the original dark blue to light blue gradient. Instead of drawing waves to represent water, I instead photoshopped the reflection of the city to have a water texture, effectively representing the ocean. Finally, I shifted the title and author to the top of the cover, so that the bottom of the cover wouldn’t be so busy and instead create effective movement from to top to the bottom.

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Because I was pressed for time while making this cover, I did not go through the regular process that I do in my graphic design class for making a digital piece of art. Despite this, I was able to successfully create an appealing CD cover, which is an even bigger accomplishment due to the fact that it is one of my very few projects made outside of my graphic design class without any instruction from my teacher.

My rough initially started off being different from the actual measurements of the box, so I experienced difficulty transitioning my ideas from my rough to my first draft on Illustrator. I primarily worked on the front and back, so here is my progress.

*The planter box back final has the incorrect font, it should look similar to the font of the logo on the front of box final.