trashy work—better image
alissa (65 pencils) | Sun, 2008-11-16 00:37
Sorry about that small image, everyone! Please comment on this one.
I am creating a book for a class project, called "trash in, trash out." (it's a guide to image correction, and features images of—you guessed it—garbage.) This text will go on the front cover. Right now, I'm trying to decide between the left and right versions—the only difference is the "t." (in the left version, it is solid, in the right version, it is using a scribbley type treatment that ties in with the "t" and "h" above.
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I like the scribbles, but not if they'll be used at a smaller size... you might try the same thing with a larger brush for a little less noise in your scribbles to see how that looks. at the size of the original the scribbles don't affect the hierarchy nearly as much as they do at a smaller size, have you designed the rest of the cover yet? I'd like to see it in place.
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
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Y dont you put it in place so as to see it apparently?
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i'm curious, why call it "trash in, trash out" instead of "garbage in, garbage out?" garbage in, garbage out is a common phrase that even has a recognizable acronym, GIGO.
i agree w/jhouse that the "in" get lost easily.
Of the two "t" treatments, I prefer the solid version. Also, have you considered treating the cover (and of course the entire book) to a diecut of this image in a metallic silver and black and white accents...to emulate the lid of a trashcan; maybe with a handle on it displaying the author(s)' name? just an idea....
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
that idea is just plain amazing. right now, i have it on a crumpled piece of paper, but I like that much better. I'll see what i can do in the next 4 days. crunch time at its finest.
thanks so much for the insight and ideas, everybody! i have some work to do, but I'll try to put a finished version up sometime soon.
no dotted line. make "in" bigger.
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agreed about making "in" larger, I'm not sure about the dotted line, I think you need a seperating element there, but maybe you could think of another way to accomplish it, or of a way to make it more subtle.
Since this is the title of a book cover and not a logo, the interaction between cover and title should be considered together and this is why I wanted to see them together. I also wanted to see if there were any elements that would be placed outside this graphic that let the reader know that this is about image editing, such as the phrase "A guide to image editing"
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
definitely make "in" bigger. why does it look like a soda cap?
i kinda thought it looked vaguely like looking at a corrugated metal trash can from a top-down view.
I saw both the bottle cap and the trash can lid, but thought it too neat to be a discarded bottle cap. A discarded bottle cap would probably not have retained its original shape. I think it would be bent back with some of its points a little stretched from being yanked on.
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
— Frank Zappa
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber