Jazz Man Book Design

After careful research, I have created a contemporary cover with a modern feel and given a comedic cartoon character an existential look. Or at least that's what I hope I did.

After creating this book I felt inspired so I created a biography book cover for another notable Simpsons character below.

Only a true Simpsons fan will get this one

Below are images used for each project.

http://recapguide.com/recap/117/The-Simpsons/season-24/episode-19/

https://www.simpsonsworld.com/character/bleeding_gums_murphy

https://commons.esc.edu/rhiannarogers/

http://7-themes.com/7036666-rainbow-on-sky.html

http://5ean.deviantart.com/art/another-mountainscape-215857599

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/nuclear-reactors-cover-the-world-053534/

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/27oqnw/ive_seen_at_least_5_people_today_asking_for_tips/

Preliminary Book Cover Design

I love jazz music, I used to have friends over on thursday nights back at my first college, where we would drink cheap wine and listen to NPR's evening of jazz. I'm also a huge Simpsons fan and any fan of the show can tell you that there is a very memorable jazz musician that had a major affect on little Lisa Simpson's life before he past away during an episode.

That's right, Bleeding Gums Murphy. Though many Simpsons books have been published, there's never been a faux biography for the ol' jazz man.

What a great subject, you can make up anything and it would still be as real as any Bob Dylan biography :)

Awareness Poster

Initially I started working with images similar to my sketches and trying to create a carrot that morphed into a snake like I had drawn up.

I thought the snake morphing from the carrot would look better if I used an orange snake similarly colored to the carrot. It didn't. 

I loved this image or idea of freshly pulled carrots from the ground. I found many other images just like the one above but ultimately, it just looked like the gardener had accidentally pulled up a snake from its burrow or the snake had been mixed in with all the carrots.

So instead I decided to work with a single carrot, I thought the idea of someone eating said carrot would better deliver the message that the GMO's are in foods we all already eat. 

https://battlebears.vanillaforums.com/discussion/28548/things-on-the-forums-only-you-can-say-youve-done

By the way, it's quite difficult to find an image of someone eating a carrot on the web that does not look phallic in some manner or another. Many even point out and make fun of this fact.

I managed to find a perfect one, however, and decided to use a snake that was not only notoriously dangerous but also stood out from the carrot itself. A rattlesnake was a great choice, as it's known for its deadly bite and ferocity. From what I can tell, all of the orange snakes above aren't even poisonous.

http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-rattlesnakes/

This worked out much better, as the striking rattlesnake makes the carrot appear much more deadly and adds much more of an element of danger. The complete horizontal placement of the carrot and most everything else in the photo also aids with the typography and aids with it's placement, and
adds value to the posters design. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it!

Preliminary Awareness Poster Ideas

After careful thought and debate I sketched up a few options for an Awareness Poster for some social causes I feel need more attention.

The above sketch depicts a carrot morphing into a poisonous snake. The message is to show (as I explained in my module 3 discussion) that there is more hidden in our food than we know.

This second image is meant to resemble a word cloud in the shape of a condom... a, uh, filled condom. Hopefully the phallus shape would be enough to cause shock or garner attention. I'd like to also note that I haven't drawn anything this phallic since middle school. It's sad that we still have to educate people about having safe sex but the all the things listed in this word cloud are still very real and growing dangers.