Module 4 Sketches

Module 4 Sketches
I chose Leonard Bernstein as the subject for my book design. I have uploaded sketches for 3 separate concepts. Leonard Bernstein was a famous modern American composer, conductor, musician, author, lecturer and pianist. He is famed for writing many pieces of chamber, modern classical, opera, and theatrical pieces to include the scores for West Side Story, Candide, and many other classical pieces performed by the famed New York Philharmonic. Leonard Bernstein grew up in the East Side of NYC. I thought the title "From East Side to West Side" was an appropriate title to encompass his life from his childhood on the east side to the popularity of the famed West Side Story- however after re-reading the instructions for the assignment, I see we were simply supposed to use the name of the musician as the title of the book, so I may have to deviate from concept sketches. I hope to delve a bit deeper in font choices for this project which is why I noted specific fonts that I am considering for the book. I also would like to play a bit with black and white tones. I also think it will be an appropriate play on themes to use some simple style for a book about a man who wrote some phenomenally complex classical pieces. Looking forward to your feedback.

Module 3 Sketches

Module 3 Sketches are posted here: http://digitalartepiphanies.blogspot.com/p/sketches_17.html


My public awareness poster encourages society to contact their congressmen and women and tell them to stop sequestration.  Sequestration will involve $85 billion dollars in cuts.  50% of those cuts are going to come from the Pentagon.  I don't think the public understands that what $43 billion dollars worth of cuts will do to the Soldiers that are currently at war.  I think my font choice will be important regardless of the concept that I choose.

Concept 1A utilizes a STOP sign as a background and a picture of scissors cutting a dollar bill (representing the budget cuts associated with sequestration) in the middle of the STOP sign.

Concept 1B take s a different approach putting a shot of combat troops in the middle with the slogan "Sequestration puts them at risk" above and below.

Concept 1C would have dollar and cents symbols in them middle (representing money) and two separate pictures - one of an severely injured combat troop and one of congress squabbling.  I have concerns about this one because I don't want the message to simply come across as bitter.  I'm also concerned that it may be too busy.

Concept 1D is an alternate of 1A with a STOP sign as a background again with a picture of the Capitol faded into the STOP sign.

 My final product will include this website at the bottom of each http://www.house.gov/representatives/ which shows a list of contact info for all state representatives