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Post by Emily Wilson on Feb 13, 2016 6:43:33 GMT
For Graphics Communication II, I was assigned a band re-identification project. I've heard about this project when I was in GC I in my Junior year, and I was excited to do this project! ^_^ The first time I had heard about it, I definitely KNEW I would choose BOC, because this meant that I could make a concept album plus a webpage. Here's the front cover and backside. Not quite fancy digital illustrating, but making these inspired me to do a photographic remake of this project in the future. Could have used pictures from the web, but I wanted my project to be 100% authentic. I also used the front cover for a poster. I also love the song titles I came up with! Here's the poster version of the front cover. Here's the CD. I drew rough sketches of the BOC aliens from the Fire of an Unknown Origin Cover and then illustrated digitally on Photoshop. They look like wooden sculptures, but they're actually supposed to be sand sculptures. Had a lot of fun with this one, because I was experimenting with illustrating without the use of lineart. Lastly (for now), here's a tour flyer I made. More experimentation of lineart-free illustrating. I really love how this came out! Would've thrown in the January tour dates, but I was running out of room and I didn't want to make the text look shorter and badly flattened upward, so the January dates were taken out. (Also because they aren't on the BOC tour dates page anymore.) I'll share the CD insert, webpage, and T-Shirt (no physical print) designs when I finish them.
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Post by Cheryl on Feb 13, 2016 8:57:48 GMT
This is very cool what your doing here.. Great job...
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Post by pdiddy on Feb 13, 2016 14:16:32 GMT
Nice work! You really do learn alot when you do a project like this. You end up facing all the same decisions a working graphics designer would have to deal with. As a slight coincidence, i'm working on a song called Night on the Blue over the winter. Not really BOC related - about getting out of work, hooking up the boat and going for an overnight cruise. I post it on soundcloud when it's done and post a link here.
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Post by Emily Wilson on Feb 13, 2016 14:18:16 GMT
Cool! I'll give it a listen when it's available!
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Post by Parker Dude on Feb 13, 2016 15:39:44 GMT
The boys need to hire you for PR Emily. That album is a masterpiece and ought to be for real.
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Post by Emily Wilson on Feb 13, 2016 16:05:12 GMT
Thanks guys! It would be cool if this was an actual album! While I'm at it, here's a fact about one of the song titles: "The Curious Adventures of Dr. Haskell" is a reference to Dr. Robert Haskell, a superintendent who was instated in 1925 for the now torn down Wayne County Training School located in Michigan, an institution for mentally-disabled children who were accepted by court order. In the 1920s, as eugenics rose, it was also practiced there, believing that if their students grew up and had kids, then their kids would be "feeble-minded" too. In the 1940s, it turned into a cruelty hellhole. Reports raised about kids receiving brutal treatment, and by 1974, the school had closed down. I am not a total expert on this place, but my dad is, and he has had a strong interest learning about this place and sharing its history ever since the day found the place years after it closed down and way before being torn down. He has a website that goes into a lot of detail about WTCS: www.wacots.org/tiki-index.phpHere's pictures of the building and Dr. Haskell.
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Post by Parker Dude on Feb 13, 2016 16:36:44 GMT
Ya listening Buck? Emily's giving you great materials for a new album. By the way Emily, I have a friend who has Down Syndrome and was married to a girl who has low IQ. They have two sons who are severely mental incapacitated. Not a pretty picture.
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Post by zenman on Feb 13, 2016 16:39:52 GMT
Well done, Emily!
Man, in my day we took "Shops" (which was code for "Keep the Juvenile Delinquents Busy") and were happy coming out of the semester with a functional doorstopper and having all of our fingers intact.
Have you ever noticed that EVERY single shops teacher on this planet is missing a finger or three?
In fact, I wonder if the "devil's horns" heavy metal hand signal was originally created by a previously-wounded shops teacher.
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Post by eastmark on Feb 13, 2016 17:12:19 GMT
WHAT !!! Just one New England show !!!
Jus Kidding. Great job.
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Post by markus on Feb 13, 2016 19:10:43 GMT
Jeff Lynne has something to say about the album title.
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Post by Emily Wilson on Feb 13, 2016 19:20:14 GMT
Dammit, Markus. XD I didn't even know there was an Electric Light Orchestra album with the exact same album name til now. OTL Oh well, it is what it is.
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Post by duckbarman on Feb 13, 2016 21:49:32 GMT
BOC...? New material...? Nope, sorry, I don't understand such alien concepts... gravitational waves from far-off colliding black holes is easier to grasp...
:-)
Nice artwork, though!!
BTW: Track titles 7 and 8 took me back to a dark place, though:
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Post by Emily Wilson on Feb 13, 2016 21:56:29 GMT
Oh man, adding on to more coincidences. OTL Ralph, I've never heard of that song or that band who were in that music video til now. XD
The title for Morning Glory actually came from an idea that this track, along with Horizon and Out of the Blue would be songs representing as one time clock for the album. Basically, the album would start off at sunset (Horizon), then the beginning of a looooong night (Out of the Blue), and closes in at morning (Morning Glory).
The title for Oasis is a reference to a song of the same name from the game SimCity 4. I wouldn't imagine the song sounding a lot like the one from the game though.
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Post by duckbarman on Feb 13, 2016 22:15:46 GMT
> I've never heard of that song or that band
Oasis were "big in the 90s"... this was possibly their best known single::
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Post by duckbarman on Feb 13, 2016 22:20:23 GMT
Regarding song titles - it's hard to come up with something that some other bugger hasn't used before in the dim and distant past... but I think you're safe with "Dr Haskell"... :-)
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