In the groove

I'm starting to get a hang of the daily routine here at logan, which probably means its about time to break out of it and explore more of what logan has to offer. It will be easier though when Alex returns from New York next week because then I can talk to him.

The first thing I learned today, which I actually already kind of knew, was that sometimes you put a lot of hard work into a design or an idea and it just doesn't fly with one of the clients. One of the frames for the boards of the AUTODESK people was pretty much rejected. Luckly I hadn't really spent TOO much time, but still it's always a little depressing knowing you did something for nothing, especially when its an unpaid internship.



The first project of the day was working on another map, trying to get it stylized in illustrator to look like this image created in photoshop. It was tricky, because it didn't seem to want to match up very well no matter what I did. With the help of some of the other designers ideas, I managed to pull something off that got pretty darn close.



After that was done, I got to work on a frame that was a little more creative. It involved taking an areal view of a map and adding 3-D like buildings to t that were represnetiations for data(as in the buildings were bars of a bar graph). I learned all about the cool 3-D functions of illustrator and I felt like this frame was a lot more of my original idea as opposed to just copying someone elses frame. I finished up with this by the end of the day.