Comments on: Student Project: Alex Cornell http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/ The blog of Scott Hansen (aka ISO50 / Tycho) Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:38:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: myspace 2.0 layouts http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-162285 myspace 2.0 layouts Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:15:04 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-162285 seriously, this blog is splendid . I think im gonna stick around and read about 5 of your posts. Yours sincerely seriously, this blog is splendid . I think im gonna stick around and read about 5 of your posts. Yours sincerely

]]> By: ISO50 Blog - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Blog Archive » The Graphic Design Thesis http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-155278 ISO50 Blog - The Blog of Scott Hansen » Blog Archive » The Graphic Design Thesis Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:20:38 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-155278 [...] class than those that I’ve written about previously. Rather than creating a series of graphic design based projects, we are spending all of our time researching and strategizing how we are going to go about the next [...] [...] class than those that I’ve written about previously. Rather than creating a series of graphic design based projects, we are spending all of our time researching and strategizing how we are going to go about the next [...]

]]> By: Anthony http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-145639 Anthony Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:27:55 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-145639 Interesting work.A bit fervor, a bit nostalgia that it is necessary! Interesting work.A bit fervor, a bit nostalgia that it is necessary!

]]> By: Shane http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-109246 Shane Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:27:02 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-109246 I am a current Academy of Art student Online in the Computer Arts: New Media program. I also have this constant pressure from our instructors in pushing us further in what they expect from us. I think it's great to have that in any education institute. I think without that pressure and critique from them we may or may not get the same end result with big impact. I am really impressed with Alex's project and how Scott put this all together. It's great when we are able to relate in this creative progression in our art. I am a current Academy of Art student Online in the Computer Arts: New Media program. I also have this constant pressure from our instructors in pushing us further in what they expect from us. I think it’s great to have that in any education institute. I think without that pressure and critique from them we may or may not get the same end result with big impact.

I am really impressed with Alex’s project and how Scott put this all together. It’s great when we are able to relate in this creative progression in our art.

]]> By: anna http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-45923 anna Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:25:00 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-45923 I would definetely buy this poster; looks so cool!! When will we see a tutorial? I would definetely buy this poster; looks so cool!! When will we see a tutorial?

]]> By: Azure http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-43209 Azure Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:30:07 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-43209 Scott, great post! Thank you. Alex, love your work! Very clever, from the "palette cleansers" play on words, to using the old school Pantone layout coupled with an aged look , as if this poster had been around for years. Great overall aesthetic too! Thank you so much for going into detail about every aspect of your process. I especially enjoyed reading about how you aged the paper in Photoshop. I have always wanted to know how to do that. Do you think you could explain a little more in-depth how you went about distressing the pink boxes? You made it look very authentic, which I have never been able to achieve... Great work! Scott, great post! Thank you.

Alex, love your work! Very clever, from the “palette cleansers” play on words, to using the old school Pantone layout coupled with an aged look , as if this poster had been around for years. Great overall aesthetic too!

Thank you so much for going into detail about every aspect of your process. I especially enjoyed reading about how you aged the paper in Photoshop. I have always wanted to know how to do that. Do you think you could explain a little more in-depth how you went about distressing the pink boxes? You made it look very authentic, which I have never been able to achieve…

Great work!

]]> By: Woke http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-34471 Woke Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:15:49 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-34471 The poster looks cool and interesting line of thought. It is fairly consistent with PMS as a product, but what about Pantone as a company? And would it sell the product as per the original brief? Everyone wants to buy the poster, not the 'palette cleansers'? The poster looks cool and interesting line of thought. It is fairly consistent with PMS as a product, but what about Pantone as a company? And would it sell the product as per the original brief?

Everyone wants to buy the poster, not the ‘palette cleansers’?

]]> By: frank http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-34094 frank Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:40:41 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-34094 Great work! It looks nice and I'm sure you'll get a good grade. But I have to agree with some of the other comments here that this poster doesn't really sell the product well and it really doesn't read well as a poster that would be hanging around town to advertise a product launch. The tiny detailing would make more sense on a CD cover or product packaging, but not a poster. An interesting idea might have been to depict the product itself (as in version one) and have it scraping down the center of the grid of pantone swatches. The dirty swatches could be off white, greyish pinks, even hints of green, and then the "cleaned" swatches down the center, in the path of the scraper would be the nice warm, tongue-pink colors. Then each swatch could be labeled with it's proper pantone number. For detailing within the swatches you could have done something like little flowers in the clean, pink area and onions, coffee, beer, etc in the dirty, smelly swatches. This white/cream issue is also messing with my head once again. I totally understand mimicing print artifacts for an on-screen design but there's something strange about printing it out that way. It always drives me crazy when I see a poorly reproduced movie poster that's obviously printed from a blurry photo of another print rather than the original plates. This kind of style reminds me of that. I think your original illustrator work (as in fig3), printed on some nice, subtly off white paper would have been beautiful. Great work! It looks nice and I’m sure you’ll get a good grade. But I have to agree with some of the other comments here that this poster doesn’t really sell the product well and it really doesn’t read well as a poster that would be hanging around town to advertise a product launch. The tiny detailing would make more sense on a CD cover or product packaging, but not a poster.

An interesting idea might have been to depict the product itself (as in version one) and have it scraping down the center of the grid of pantone swatches. The dirty swatches could be off white, greyish pinks, even hints of green, and then the “cleaned” swatches down the center, in the path of the scraper would be the nice warm, tongue-pink colors. Then each swatch could be labeled with it’s proper pantone number. For detailing within the swatches you could have done something like little flowers in the clean, pink area and onions, coffee, beer, etc in the dirty, smelly swatches.

This white/cream issue is also messing with my head once again. I totally understand mimicing print artifacts for an on-screen design but there’s something strange about printing it out that way. It always drives me crazy when I see a poorly reproduced movie poster that’s obviously printed from a blurry photo of another print rather than the original plates. This kind of style reminds me of that. I think your original illustrator work (as in fig3), printed on some nice, subtly off white paper would have been beautiful.

]]> By: Grady http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-33590 Grady Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:56:13 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-33590 an academy of art student, huh? I literally just got back from a 6 week summer program there. :] and the poster is sick. an academy of art student, huh? I literally just got back from a 6 week summer program there. :]

and the poster is sick.

]]> By: Ray http://blog.iso50.com/2008/08/01/student-project-alex-cornell/#comment-33557 Ray Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:32:20 +0000 http://blog.iso50.com/?p=2243#comment-33557 yes thats the problem i think, style is getting in the way of communication visually i think this is a beautiful piece, but as a poster thats trying to sell a "new" product, in my opinion it doesnt work pantone isnt that laid back a company thats gonna like their product faded and aged.... as a matter of fact, they recommend you throw away their chip books within a certain amount of time or the minute the chip book has been faded...due to sunlight exposure. just my 6 cents :) yes thats the problem i think, style is getting in the way of communication

visually i think this is a beautiful piece, but as a poster thats trying to sell a “new” product, in my opinion it doesnt work

pantone isnt that laid back a company thats gonna like their product faded and aged….

as a matter of fact, they recommend you throw away their chip books within a certain amount of time or the minute the chip book has been faded…due to sunlight exposure.

just my 6 cents :)

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