Craig Nicholson http://crossfire-designs.com Design Blog / Portfolio Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:15:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Typography Poster Sketches http://crossfire-designs.com/portfolio/college/205/ http://crossfire-designs.com/portfolio/college/205/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:00:46 +0000 Craig Nicholson http://crossfire-designs.com/?p=205

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Idea sketches and development sketches for Typography poster

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Back Cover:

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Front Cover:

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Client wanted a very clean/basic looking background with a lot of colour.

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My own youtube background. Tried to keep to a theme of fire/lava

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Was asked to just go wild with this background but to stay with the colours black and blue.

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Client wanted a stone feel to the background. So i created a material in cinema 4d with a rock texture overlay. I then carried this texture into photoshop and used in the background

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Main text in centre of background was created in cinema 4d. Everything else was created in photoshop

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Everything in this image was created in cinema 4d. Photoshop was only used to add the lens flare on the top left of the image

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