Challenge 4 – Brouye Magazine Cover

Challenge 3 is over and even thought a lot less people voted this time, it looks like Jeff eeked out another win!

This week…err, last few days… our new challenge will be to design a magazine cover! And what better name to call the magazine than Brouye!

Magazines have always had a special place in my heart because of their ability to combine wicked creativity with a strict, structured text aspect. My childhood was lined with various magazine subscriptions like Wizard, Highlights, ESPN, SLAM, GQ, Men’s Health. As the years progressed, the magazine creativity kept upping the ante! Article titles were done by respected artists and covers were filled with beautiful typography that could easily double as a wall poster. Even the advent of infographics and hand drawn guides make everything look a little more appealing.

Until recently, I had no idea how a magazine was made. I mean, I had a general idea that you have main stories and then fill out the content around them but that’s about all I could determine. Last week, I saw this awesome video that really gave me a quick summary/look at how a whole monthly magazine issue is created.

Its so awesome to see how they map the entire layout on indesign and kind of assign pages to each writer and artist.

For our challenge, we are definitely NOT doing an entire magazine (although, maybe one day.. and digital, not printed) but rather just a kick-ass magazine cover! I think we discussed that the main front image didn’t have to be anything in particular but both agreed that when it comes to magazine covers, sex sells.

So lets get to it! Vote on the winner next Monday morning.

 

Wine/Beer Inspiration

This is what I’m talking about people!

The beer bottle design has STEPPED UP THEIR GAME! Check out a few of these brand new designs:

Check out From Up North to see more cool designs!

PS. Vote for the winner of our Challenge 3 Design!

Who Won?

Jeff and I just published this week’s design challenge and now we need some feedback.

Who’s do you like better? What would you guys have done? Anything we could have added?

Let us know!

 

Casey

Jeff

Challenge 3 – Casey

Ok, let me preface this by saying that I didn’t watch a SINGLE minute of Shark Week this year…. sadly, I kinda had no time and was working on some other things. However, that did not diminish my love for badass sharks and wine!

I’ve done a few wine label designs in the past and have always tried to do some design that you don’t see out there these days. Lately, I’ve been seeing a ton of beer bottle designs that are super unique and look almost hand drawn (like Jeff’s design actually) but haven’t seen anything updated for a wine bottle. Jenna and I drink our fair share of wine …so we’ve done the research haha.

Check it:

 

 

What do ya’ll think?

It’s not exactly as I imagined it and I would have like to add more highlights…but it’s still pretty cool!

Challenge 2 – Casey

When you think of Usain Bolt, you think electric, powerful and exciting. I want to evoke all those emotions and more in this weeks design.

Usain Bolt is a freaking physical specimen! 6’5″ with a wingspan of a falcon and long long legs that travel faster than anyone else in the entire world. He has the body of a superhero. That’s where I went with this design…I wanted to take the idea of the Flash and incorporate that energy and speed into my design!

Check it: He is …. The Lightning Bolt!

For this project, I chose to only use the pictures that I found online combined with Photoshop.

Be sure to check out Jeff’s and vote on who’s is the best!

Bye bye London

The 2012 Olympic games came to a conclusion last night and it was sad to say goodbye to some great entertainment. There’s nothing like watching the best athletes from your country duke it out with the top athletes from other countries. It evokes pride and happiness and overall patriotic feelings that can make you feel good about yourself again. I’m sad to see them go but am happy to have created an awesome Usain Bolt tribute piece to remember these games with.

Unfortunately, you’re going to have to wait until tonight for us to unveil our designs because Jeff won’t be able to get to a computer until then.

Meanwhile… enjoy some nice images of the Spice Girls from last night…. I felt like we were back in middle school… haha

 

 

Bolt!

I need to get pumped up for this next design challenge. I want this thing to scream and excite! Someone find me some more Usain Bolt inspirational stuff!

Challenge Two – Usain Bolt

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Who won this round? Casey? Jeff? Honestly, the designs are so different that it’s really hard to compare them… but you have to! haha.

 

So for the next design prompt, we are going to stick with the Olympic theme (because, well, it’s awesome!) and because I just watched Usain Bolt kick some ass in the 100m sprint!!!! If you wanna talk about fast, you watch these Olympic sprinters. You watch the replays and it’s like they literally have motors propelling their legs and bodies forward! And it’s even crazier that most of the guys have monstrously buff bodies yet use them to pump their bodies forward even faster! With all due respect to the USA men… Usain Bolt is the FASTEST MAN ALIVE!

Let’s do a design honoring the Human Lightning bolt! Make it fast, make it electric and make it flash! And once again, next Monday, Jeff and I will both submit our designs for everyone to check out and vote on!

GO!

Challenge Design 1 – Casey

Alright, alright, alright! It’s the start of another week and that means our Challenge One is due! I already know that  I have this one in the bag!

Just a reminder, this past week’s Design Challenge was to design for the Olympics.

I chose to do a design based on the rings. The rings are globally recognized and signify the different countries coming together to compete for their homes. I chose to ‘Tronify’ the rings and bring a little excitement to the colors and overall feeling of the rings. Most of the time, the rings look heavy and stuck in space. I used different neon colors and shapes to make my rings move and come alive. It’s like they’re flying right at you!

SOOOOO… whaddya think?

Winner, winner, chicken dinner? haha

Can’t wait to see what Jeff cooked up….

Olympic Inspiration

Last night, the Americans dominated in basketball, swimming and gymNICEstic with crrraaaazy performances from Carmelo Anthony, Phelps and Gabby Douglas! Big ups for them for representing our country! Those performances got me pumped up for this week’s design challenge. I hope Jeff’s working on something cuz I’m coming with a strong design!

Melo’s 37 points in 14 minutes (!!!!!!!!) is absolutely ludacris…..

I wonder if Phelps would have won if Lochte hadn’t done the 200m backstroke race only 30 mins prior to the IM.

Wow. Gabby absolutely dominated.