Mattc0m » College http://www.mattc0m.com Keep up with my adventures into gaming, design, and many other projects from around the web! Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:18:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Some Print Designs from February http://www.mattc0m.com/2010/02/06/some-print-designs-from-february/ http://www.mattc0m.com/2010/02/06/some-print-designs-from-february/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:05:57 +0000 Mattc0m http://www.mattc0m.com/2010/02/06/some-print-designs-from-february/

I designed a set of cards for a maternity company called Haute Momas. It offers two coupons on the back of a card, with a pretty standard stock photo for the front. Still, it turned out pretty darn good – I am a bit fan of the color scheme I selected. Has a very professional, yet light “smoothness” to it.

This next set is from a flyer for a theme week for Program Board (an student-run organization that organizes and programs all the events on campus). I was experimenting with a lot of new colors, and it turned out pretty damn slick.

All-You-Need-Is-Love

Getting correct colors for the printing was pretty challenging, but it turned out very eye catching and I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from it.

Tell me what you think of both projects!

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]]> http://www.mattc0m.com/2010/01/12/shepherd-university-intramurals-site-launched/feed/ 0 First Advertising Project http://www.mattc0m.com/2009/09/25/first-advertising-project/ http://www.mattc0m.com/2009/09/25/first-advertising-project/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:19:04 +0000 Mattc0m http://www.mattc0m.com/2009/09/25/first-advertising-project/ For our first project in Advertising and Imagery (a class I’m taking this semester), we were instructed to design an advertisement for a new type of cigarette, the “Marijuana Cigarette.” This is obviously not a real product, mind you! I designed and developed all three ads.

Check out what I came up with:

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Anyway, I struggled quite a bit on this project, but I really turned it around. We needed to select a certain type of media (an image, advertisement, poster, film, music, whatever) and analyze the “semiotics” of it. It’s a difficult theory to explain in a thumbnail, but it essentially states that everything has a signifier, a signified concept, and tosses in concepts ideologies, symbols, icons, connation, denotation, syntagm, and many other ideas to spice things up a little.

What I ended up analyzing were three movie posters for Dark Knight. I used a lot of imagery and media to go along with this analysis, and in the end it looks really awesome.

Check it out here!

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