This is a brochure I just finished at work. I know it's kind of small, but I didn't want to bog down the load time. I'll put a link to a larger version below, if anyone is that interested.
The thing folds up to the size of a business envelope. On the second page, the the big white space folds together to form a detatchable envelope and return card. You can see the mailing info for the return envelope on page 1.
I took all the photos myself at the local Boys & Girls Club and the brochure prints in three colors. We're cutting corners everywhere
You're very talented.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Don't send that to Michael Jackson.
I'll get me coat
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I'm pretty sure that the average dimensions of a girl from the Boys & Girls Club is at least two centimeters taller than you're showing, and I don't think the model in the upper right was commissioned until 2007. (Before the Russians discover the Tunguska Artifact but after the Earth Defense Initiative is founded.) I mean, I guess I can accept that the design was in the works before contact with the Proxima Diaspora, but that's stretching it.
At any rate, assuming these are being built during the war, don't you think their weaponry should be a bit heavier?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Best post ever.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Um, yes. Seconding that emotion. Simon=TEH WINNAR
In other news, it is a really clever and well-thought out design, Aban. Esp. impressive with the three-color. Some nice photo work there too.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Sol just made me spit coffee out of my nose. Bravo lad.
*still chuckling*
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
How does that fold? it looks strange for a standard letter fold or gatefold brochure: looks like the photos would not line up too well.
Nice design work though. Why the large blank space in the interior though? Is this intended to be a shell master so additional printing can be custom added?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
First post: "On the second page, the big white space folds together to form a detatchable envelope and return card."
The big white space is the inside of the envelope when it folds together.
I'll try to explain the fold... The return card (second page right) is perffed and folds down over the back of the envelope, which then folds on top of itself and is glued together. Detachable envelope acts as a fourth panel. Then you just keep folding it inward.
The unusual open space next to the kid hanging upside down is the flap of the envelope. Then there's a perf, so I didn't want to overlap anything.
I never bothered to learn the names of all the folds, I just always provide folding mockups to the printer. It's my little way of making their lives hell.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Another little nugget that I just finished this afternoon, also for the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Joseph County:
Two colors only. I used photos from the same photoshoot as the brochure (some are even the same). This will be the front side of the card, and will likely get recycled as the cover to the invitation and program. I'll do the backside Monday.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
"Any questions?"
*hands shoot up everywhere*
"Any questions not about Donald Trump?"
*all the hands go down*
Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
Shout out to all the professional graphic artists here.
Horray for the most under-appretiated job ever!
(bad day today)
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Coming Together for Kids. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
He's going to do the backside on Monday. Nudge nudge, wink wink.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
UP TEH UNDERAGE BUTT!! Posted by ulTRS magDOS (Member # 239) on :
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, I'm just glad I'm not the only one to whom that thought occured.
Posted by The Captain from M.I.K.E. (Member # 709) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: I'll do the backside Monday.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Don't filthy my thread with pedophilia humor. It's way too easy. I prefer Kwame humor.
I hear you Wes. Noone here, save my boss, gives a crap what I do, no matter how good it comes out. I put together a program for some other event last week. It came out great, and the only thing the stupid cow who was in charge of it could comment on was how pissed she was that I changed her sloppy grammar. So let's go get drunk together. What was the nature of your bad day?
You're not far off about the questions for Kwame joke. The local NBC affiliate refuses to cover the event... but they would like an interview with Kwame afterwards.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Finished postcard, front and back: Posted by Wes (Member # 212) on :
quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Don't filthy my thread with pedophilia humor. It's way too easy. I prefer Kwame humor.
I hear you Wes. Noone here, save my boss, gives a crap what I do, no matter how good it comes out. I put together a program for some other event last week. It came out great, and the only thing the stupid cow who was in charge of it could comment on was how pissed she was that I changed her sloppy grammar. So let's go get drunk together. What was the nature of your bad day?
You're not far off about the questions for Kwame joke. The local NBC affiliate refuses to cover the event... but they would like an interview with Kwame afterwards.
Its much worse for me. Half my job is low-level content creation (make this brochure for me EXACTLY HOW I WANT IT) with little to no creative freedom. The other half lets me have some creative freedom, but my boss, who has no design background will comment on aspects of my designs that bug the living shit out of me, and MAKE ME CHANGE THEM.
A good example was the day I was talking about - we got into a huge debate over weather this logo I did should be all lowercase (it was a very minimalist design, and the all-lowercase was intentional). I cited more then a few examples of good logos where the text is all lowercase, and finally just pulled the �well the client is happy, that�s all that matters� card.
How can I be working for someone who knows less then me. It�s a question I ask myself every day. It all boils down to me looking for a new studio and forgetting this place. Unfortunately I�m lazy/not quite pissed enough to start hunting.
Next week I�m using 4 of my 10 days of paid leave (thank god he has his vacation policies right) and spending the week in Vegas. A well-earned rest I say, although the boss will pressure me into taking my laptop for �emergencies�.
I'm down for a Sour Apple Martini or five.
PS: Love the design, is this a two or three color print? The text looks dark blue but the people look B+W.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
You only get 10 days of paid leave? A year? In a full time job? Christ...
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
I only get 2 weeks. Cause I'm a newbie. After two years, I'll get three weeks per annum.
The card is indeed two colors. The text is the dark blue color. The logo and the people are the dark blue as a base, with a little bit of the green plate showing through too, to give them a little more depth. I love multi channel files.
All I can say about the work situation is "Get your butt out of there." Seriously. You may not be fed up enough yet, but trust me when I say you soon will be. I spent three years working for a company whose marketing VP (only so because he decided he should be an executive) was a complete moron and spouted whatever design gibberish he managed to read on the internet like it was his own private Gospel. Every cool thing I did got shot down and bastardized to such an extent so as to be unrecognizable. It almost drained all creative desire out of me.
Getting to actually do cool things at this new job makes me so much happier, even when I have to deal with the occasional stupidity.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I am no graphic designer at all, but I will give my advice anyway: Your boss(es)/clients will always want to make some change, so that they feel like they are in some way part of the project. So always make the logo too small. Their attention will be successfully diverted in a direction you were going to go anyway.
I have no idea what to do if no logo is involved.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"How can I be working for someone who knows less then me."
Isn't that how it usually works? That's what I've learned from "Dilbert", anyway.
Oh, and "than". And "I". And "?".
"You only get 10 days of paid leave? A year? In a full time job? Christ..."
I get one day. Although, that's just for the first year. After that I get two weeks. Three weeks if I stick around for five years.
Of course, I work for a public library*, which is going to have, presumably, lower benefits and crap than in a corporation. So 10 days sounds pretty bad. Even for here in the US.
*If anyone has been paying attention to my life (and that's pretty sad if you have been) and thinks it's strange that I talk about being in my first year at the library: I was part-time before. I've only been full-time for a couple months now.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Sol: Yes, there are little tricks to keep the client from messing with anything too important. Making intentional mistakes on highly visible elements is one of them.
I tend to accept more crap from my freelance clients than from internal clients at the day job. The freelance clients can always go somewhere else. The internal ones are supposed to be members of the team, plus they're stuck with me. You don't wait until the last minute to feed me mistake-riddled content, then ask for a great design, then tell me to change it to specifications you never told me you had. That's a good way to get a can opened up on you.
Take this card for example: I originally came up with the maroon color scheme (which shows up more pink on screen than it actually is), but the client didn't like it. He didn't tell me... he told my boss. Then I find out that there was a question about whether or not I had designed some folder they need to get reprinted and he makes the comment, "I know Alan didn't do it because it meets the Boys & Girls Clubs' graphic standards." My response was, "Those graphics standards were created because people like you are usually the ones doing the designing."
He irritates the hell out of me.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Let me get this straight: if you stay with your company for five years, you get 15 days of paid vacation a year? And that's legal? And you don't work in Japan?
Christ, and I thought we Europeans had it bad... Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
That's just vacation time. I also have sick days and personal days on top of that. 5 of each I think. Though I'm out of personal days for the year.
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Sol just made me spit coffee out of my nose. Bravo lad.
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