Textures

First we had a picture of a cabbage. Then I coloured it red using the hue and saturation and cropped it. then i duplicated it and merged the layers

Then I added the letter “J” and flipped it. Then once again I duplicated it. (Transform tools)

Then I filled the screen with the image

Then i added some typography

 

Then I added the typography to the background image and then I copied and pasted it.

 

Which I then caused the colouring of the text to have the same image as the background

Then I added a black background to make my final outcome stand out even more.

These are all graphite rubbing's that was done for texture examples. We have gone around the college and took rubbing examples of random textures that we could find and This is how they have come out.

 Image #1 a moon Effect

 Image #3 a Grass Effect
Image #3 Testing:

 Image #4 a fuzzy effect

 Image #2 a fabric effect

 Image #6 a Rocky Stone like effect

 Image #7 a Blue Gravel effect

Image #5 a Fibre optic Effect


Most these Photoshop textures where made using the same sort of technique e.g. :

-I choose my Two colour Options
-I go to Filter/Render/Clouds
-I open a Channels tab and select a new channel which is called Alpha 1
-I make a noise effect to make it fuzzy
-Then I give the image a Radial blur
-Then I go back into the layers tab and make the background into "Layer 0"
-After I go to Filter/ Render/ Lighting effects.. and Create a Light Region for my image
-Then when I'm happy with the work I Save The Image as a Photoshop PSD file and also as a Jpeg

I feel the most Successful where Image #5, Image #7 and Image #3 as these three are my favourite out of the 7 Images Created.

My Version of David Carson

This is my version of work based on a David Carson piece



David Carson:

Reference: http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/t/work/print/ 10/12/2012

David Carson was born on September 8, 1954 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Since then he has lived in and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe and lectured frequently around the world. Carson's first actual contact with graphic design was made in 1980 at the University of Arizona on a two week graphics course, taught by Jackson Boelts. He attended San Diego State University and Oregon College of Commercial Art. Later on in 1983, Carson was teaching high school Sociology in del mar California when he went to Switzerland, where he attended a three-week workshop in graphic design as part of his degree. This is where he met his first great influence, who also happened to be the teacher of this course, Hans-Rudolf Lutz. Carson has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

He became renowned for his inventive graphics in the 1990s. Having worked as a sociology teacher and professional surfer in the late 1970s, he art directed various music, skateboarding, and surfing magazines through the 1980/90s, including twSkateboarding, twSnowboarding, Surfer, Beach Culture and the music magazine Ray Gun. As art director of Ray Gun (1992-5), Carson came to worldwide attention. In a feature story, NEWSWEEK magazine said he "changed the public face of graphic design".

His layouts featured distortions or mixes of 'vernacular' typefaces and fractured imagery, rendering them almost illegible. Indeed, his maxim of the 'end of print' questioned the role of type in the emergent age of digital design, following on from California New Wave and coinciding with experiments at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In the later 1990s he added corporate clients to his list of clients, including Microsoft, Armani, Nike, Levi's, British Airways, Quiksilver, Sony, Pepsi, Citibank, Yale University, Toyota and many others. When Graphic Design USA Magazine (NYC) listed the “most influential graphic designers of the era” David was listed as one of the all time 5 most influential designers, with Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Saul Bass and Massimo Vignelli.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carson_(graphic_designer) 10/12/2012