While Listening to Nazareth

icon, single image
icon, single word
icon with piece of info-graph
1 icon, harmony
2 icons, harmony
1 icon drama
2 icons drama
slight scale
dramatic scale
scale overlapping 

Vis Com Pattern Work

These first three images are the direction I was originally heading for the Smithsonian exhibit promo. I was thinking of a  way to incorporate the icon/image juxtapositions with the patterns. The patterns all include a hand and then the main object. The Tiger/Hand pattern was made with the idea of a trainer fending off the tiger, speaking to the research I did and the topic of Sig. and Roy I used in my infograph. Hands go in handcuffs. Houdini was a handcuff master and escape artist. You pull a rabbit out of a top hat.  This was the first attempt I made at incorporating both ideas on one plane. After talking with Jamie I decided to work with the images a bit and see how I could better incorporate them.This is the last idea I have developed. These are the images that I have conceptually applied to all templates (t-shirt, postcard, etc.) I will show pictures of the incorporations once I talk with Jamie about which are the strongest. In these, I wanted to show overlap and I used the images of the people/hat to further along the idea of pattern and repetition. The color pallet is derived from the 2-color icon set based off of my original color pallet. The images are almost all from my original research as well. 

VISCOM FINAL ICONS

Sorry that the images are all messed up but this blog program kind of sucks with the use of images.

It all started with a book...

The color images of the playing cards is the direction I decided to go with CARDS for the sake of legibility when the pile of cards (seen in the top right corner of the photo with 4 different card drawings) didn't pan out. I laid out the cards, sketched them in different ways, entered the image into the matrix in an attempt to find a unified system, and wound up working on a white-shape-black-background-semi-detailed system. The glove started in a similar fashion. I found an image, drew from it, and wound up with the icon seen below.   

The final icons can be seen above (The set below was completed before making the small minor tweaks that needed to be made to the tigers mouth, hat, etc.). I may still need to make a few "digital craft" tweaks and I still don't know if the shapes of the black background are working yet or not. I'll keep working on them. Any feedback would be greatly a ppreciated in regards to the backgrounds.