More Poster Details and a Few Other Things
After the spinach dip incident, I went to Pizzicato and got a slice of pizza which did the trick for the whole being starving thing.
After that I went to Moonstruck, got a hot chocolate, sat on the comfy bench at the table by the window and drew for a while. I didn't come up with anything that I'm super excited about. Sometimes it just seems like nothing comes out of my pen. I wrote some stuff, and started a few ideas which might be worth fleshing out. I think it speaks to the general restlessness I've been feeling lately. I feel like I just can't settle down and focus on anything.
My poster is finally getting there. The coordinator of this project likes the version I like, which I'm really happy about. It reminds me that if I like one version a lot better than the other, I should just send the one that I like. The differences between the posters were so minute that they didn't really need to see both versions. In this case it worked out though, so I really can't complain.
Here's maybe the final version we're going with:
It's being sent for review by the AIGA Portland Board Members, but hopefully they will just say, "great! we love it!"
I'm gonna be a graphic design geek for a minute and talk about a photoshop mystery, so skip over the next 3 paragraphs if photoshop and measurements don't interest you.
Something odd happened when I was resizing one of the logos. I set the crop windows so that the final size of the cropped image would be 0.75 inches by whatever at 300 dpi. When I imported the image into inDesign, something didn't look right. Thanks to my heightened awareness of even the most minute of discrepancies, I checked and indeed the logo in question was only 0.7 inches high; off by 0.05 inches.
I opened the image in photoshop to double check everything. The crop window still had 0.75 for the height, but when I checked the image size of the file, it was only 0.7 inches high. Perplexed, I started all over again with the original file.
The same thing happened! Honestly I have no idea why. Every time I tried to crop that image, it would yield a file that was 0.7 inches high. I never could figure it out. I had to change the percentage in inDesign so the image would be 0.75 inches high like the rest of the logos. The size was only increased by 6%, so I think it'll be alright.
So that's that. I'm getting ready to go check out a movie with Stephanie and Matt. They are picking me up in a few minutes, so I'd better mosey. We're going to see Choke, which I've already seen and really liked, so I don't mind seeing it again; in fact I was thinking I'd like to see it again, and it's still in the $3 theater. There are some pretty intense sex scenes though, so I wonder what they'll think of it.
After that I went to Moonstruck, got a hot chocolate, sat on the comfy bench at the table by the window and drew for a while. I didn't come up with anything that I'm super excited about. Sometimes it just seems like nothing comes out of my pen. I wrote some stuff, and started a few ideas which might be worth fleshing out. I think it speaks to the general restlessness I've been feeling lately. I feel like I just can't settle down and focus on anything.
My poster is finally getting there. The coordinator of this project likes the version I like, which I'm really happy about. It reminds me that if I like one version a lot better than the other, I should just send the one that I like. The differences between the posters were so minute that they didn't really need to see both versions. In this case it worked out though, so I really can't complain.
Here's maybe the final version we're going with:
It's being sent for review by the AIGA Portland Board Members, but hopefully they will just say, "great! we love it!"
I'm gonna be a graphic design geek for a minute and talk about a photoshop mystery, so skip over the next 3 paragraphs if photoshop and measurements don't interest you.
Something odd happened when I was resizing one of the logos. I set the crop windows so that the final size of the cropped image would be 0.75 inches by whatever at 300 dpi. When I imported the image into inDesign, something didn't look right. Thanks to my heightened awareness of even the most minute of discrepancies, I checked and indeed the logo in question was only 0.7 inches high; off by 0.05 inches.
I opened the image in photoshop to double check everything. The crop window still had 0.75 for the height, but when I checked the image size of the file, it was only 0.7 inches high. Perplexed, I started all over again with the original file.
The same thing happened! Honestly I have no idea why. Every time I tried to crop that image, it would yield a file that was 0.7 inches high. I never could figure it out. I had to change the percentage in inDesign so the image would be 0.75 inches high like the rest of the logos. The size was only increased by 6%, so I think it'll be alright.
So that's that. I'm getting ready to go check out a movie with Stephanie and Matt. They are picking me up in a few minutes, so I'd better mosey. We're going to see Choke, which I've already seen and really liked, so I don't mind seeing it again; in fact I was thinking I'd like to see it again, and it's still in the $3 theater. There are some pretty intense sex scenes though, so I wonder what they'll think of it.