Final Website

I have some screen shots of my website. It's an actual website made on www.wix.com, but in order to get the most out of it, everything you see on it was made in Photoshop or Illustrator. I plugged it into dreamweaver and I am still learning to make the final FINAL website. There is a lot to be done, and it looks a little different than my wireframes. I wanted to be very precise on creating this because it is my actual website. You can check it out here, and let me know some feedback!
http://www.redpentagon.com/

Remember, they're just screen shots, and there is a lot more to the published website. I am still working on the site to complete the whole thing, with DreamWeaver and the new application Muse on the cloud.

http://www.redpentagon.com/

Tools and videos

There are many tools I would like to deepen my understanding of between Photoshop and Illustrator. I am more efficient in Illustrator than I am Photoshop but the tools are almost identical, give or take a few. In Photoshop, I would like to learn ore about the pen tool and the brush tool to widen my horizons of digital painting. In Illustrator, I know a lot about the pen, but I don’t know it all. So that would be a tool I would love to learn all about. I also want to learn about live paint tool and the blob brush tool. All these tool in both programs are a serious essential to what I need in order to succeed in my choice of design industry. They will teach me too complete a piece and have finished colored works of art, with perfect lineage work. It’ll help me get the perfect product I want.

I’ve looked around the world wide web for some websites on my specific design industry and I’ve found a lot of cool things. One website I swear by is tv.adobe.com. I found a tutorial on how to make a tshirt design in illustrator, which s pretty much what I plan on doing for the rest of my life so this is very helpful. http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-for-academics/creating-your-personal-brand-episode-creating-a-tshirt-design/

On a more broader subject, www.lynda.com/ in general is the greatest thing to happen to me. All the videos whether it’s from fundamentals of Photoshop to videos on business and how to manage or really anything you need, its there.

One more website that is of extreme use to  me is youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6iwTjMLhQ is a video about actually screenprinting. Its from Ryonet, a screen printing company that has supplies and classes. All of this is so useful to me and makes me confident that I can be successful in what I need to do.

Website Frame Designs

These are my website wire frames for a much MUCH developed professional website. It includes an introduction, a portfolio section, faqs, a shop and a bunch of other sections. It's still in development and I don't have everything I need for it yet, but it is slowly coming along. I have used Photoshop, and I am still learning DreamWeaver. Its a little confusing for me.

My website's name is called ALLFOR___. All for meaning all for everything, all done by me, Julie Forlenza. ALLFOR___.

Art Deco

I had to go with a different idea for my spread because I couldn't get the time to draw it from scratch. But in this idea, the cover is inspired by Super Mario with a touch of art deco. The inside spreads shows simple text that would be small articles or captions pertaining to the pictures featured in the spread.

Art Deco for Digital Arts

My preliminary sketches for my magazine front and spread aren't what I would like them to be. Although I will admit, I had a very difficult time trying to figure out how to execute this. And after my research, I finally figured it out. I know what I want to do, but this isn't how it will look. I am actually still working on some sketches and brain storming some ideas, but I am pretty solid what I want it to be about.

 Here, a sketch for the cover of my magazine, I found my research to be really helpful. Art Deco has come about around post WWII, so for my cover I wanted to create an art deco styled cover of WWII fighter planes. I want the titles to be about art styles after WWII focusing on art deco and the origins of it. And the other titles of the spread inside magazine on the cover about architecture post WWII between the 1930s and 1940s. Houses, city architecture and art of that time.

 

I am still working on designs and concepts for what the actual spread will look like but it will all be art deco inspired with articles about homes inspired by the deco and city building and other fixtures of art deco time.

I will create illustrations for the front cover and borders and fancy up the spread itself. And I will use pictures I have researched for the spread itself. And focus the typography around the deco style.