I'm taking a computer design class right now. It's proving to be more difficult than I would have expected. After working almost three years at Brotherhood Mutual, I consider myself pretty familiar with Adobe Creative Suite. So I assumed this class would be kind of a breeze.
Wrong.
This class is all about taking what you know, and learning to be creative. It's like the standard or bar for excellence is raised, because you become so much more equipped on the computer. The first six weeks are a crash course through the tools and basic functions of Photoshop (which I pretty much know), but the work being graded is your ability to use the tools to make something creative and incredible.
At any rate, I'm one of those designers who likes things clean and organized, and not really out of the ordinary at all (see my blog banner), but Matt (my prof.) is super intense about doing something out of the ordinary. I've prepared two collages for CRIT (peer critique) tonight. Compare them with my blog banner (which I designed), and notice how out of my comfort zone I am.
Oh, by the way, he chose the criteria for what pictorial elements we were able to use. Furniture and blue print maps were required. So there you have it, and here you are:
The text says, "furniture, showroom, gallery, museum, crap, upholstery, out-of-control, children, creepy, curator, pastor man."*Matt uses random verse in a few of his pieces, so I decided to try my hand at it for visual and conceptual appeal.
This text reads, "Oh happy day On the prairie blueprint meadow of my obscene fascination with the sunlight pastor man cutting his robes with his scissors while I lay in the cool of the day on my weapon."
