Project Continued

Below is my project that attempts to provide a professional look at a professional cosmetologist/stylist. This project slowly took the form of designs for a website. Four pages were designed including a home page, contact page, about page, and a page dedicated to a portfolio for the stylist. The target audience that my design was geared towards was that of industry professionals and potential employers/clients. I wanted to portray a sense of simple class that exuded the stylist's personality and ability. The software I used to create this project was Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash (for the slide show on the portfolio page). This project maintained ethical and legal considerations as I designed and created it as well as the material. Some of the photo credits go to Hannah Kiefer. Any creative suggestions are welcome as this potentially will be used as Hannah's website in the very near future. Attached is a sketch of my original idea that resulted in the project images in the previous post.
Thanks,
Ryan H.

Project

Another idea...

This was another idea I played with for the water poster seen below... I tried to portray the faucet and water droplet as you would look down on something that was underwater. Also used water droplets over entire graphic.

Project Proposal

Title: Stylist Expose

Summary: Create an expose piece on a featured artist. Creatively portray a hairstylist at work to enhance said artist's portfolio. Layout will be an e-magazine cover with possible video to accompany it.

Format: This will be done utilizing photographs, illustrations and possibly video. Various photographs will be used as the focus or background of a particular compilation working in concert with some illustrations done 3D. 

Software: Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, imovie

Goal: To showcase said stylists specific talents that aligns with her persona and is an extension of her work.

Presentation: This will be presented in .jpg format on this blog with possible link to HD Video portion on Vimeo.  

Conserve Water Campaign Poster

Hey everyone, above is a campaign poster for a particular contest that can be seen here. It involves an issue in Southern England regarding water conservation. I was astounded to learn that in that region the amount of water available per person is less than the Sudan and Syria! I was not eligible to submit for the contest but this one interested me greatly. I attempted to show the Earth as a sponge that a human hand is wringing out and that water conservation and monitoring are necessary so it can remain a renewable resource for all. 

I utilized the perspective grid tool for the 'H20' text (in Illustrator) and a neat trick to have it appear as if water was spilled on your work. I did this in Photoshop by creating a new layer and using the brush tool, I painted some spots... then > filter > distort > wave (altered a few settings) and then opened 'layer style' to add a drop shadow and bevel. Created the background, Earth and arm in Illustrator utilizing a live trace, the pen tool and gradient tool.

Album Cover Redesign

Below is my redesign of the Wilco album cover for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The corn cob looking things on the original (if anyone is familiar with Chicago) is actually the Marina City Complex. I incorporated this into my redesign by finding old construction plans (source) and implemented them in the background and the graphics on the lower left. I wanted to raise the complexity of the original album cover a little bit, but still tried to maintain the less is more philosophy. The background was done using a gray scale live trace in Illustrator then playing with the color a little bit in Photoshop. The top view graphics were taken from an expanded live trace image then, copy and pasted onto a layer within Illustrator. Within Photoshop I also utilized symbols to place the scale graphic under 'Wilco' to give it more of a technical drawing feel. Great album.

Mine.

Original.

-rjh

The above is a 'gig poster' if you will of an event at a ski/snowboard mountain. I began with live trace and the pen tool in Illustrator, I then altered the resulting image a little bit in Photoshop. This was done mainly in image > adjustments with exposure and saturation/hue. I then proceeded to use the pen tool to create a couple of paths that I then placed an outer glow on as well as a color overlay and erased portions that I didn't want. I did the same with the text (outer glow) and used a slightly opaque rounded rectangle for the text box.

The original image (which can be seen at the link below) is a picture I took at the mens' half-pipe competition at the 2006 Olympics. Some others are there as well if you are interested in taking a look. I wanted to do something with the torch but I tried a few things and I wasn't happy with it.

Original Image

Cheers,
RJH

Artist Statement

Artistically I enjoy capturing the realism of our world. Beauty, joy, pain, struggle, all that is part of the experience of life. I attempt to do this with photography and short video portraits (both a recently acquired love). I try not to just capture the human emotional aspect of a scene or situation but the natural as well. 
An avid outdoorsman I have seen many breathtaking landscapes and the emotions that I have felt are what I want to invoke in the viewer. Utilizing this mindset I then will use certain images or video shorts to put my own spin on the 'visual language' that aims to relay, promote, and foster information, ideas, actions and emotion.