VBS 2010

Looking back at some designs pre-Graphfic, I don't know if I feel ashamed or proud. Haha I mean, some of these designs are pretty juvenile, considering what I'm capable of doing now. I do feel like it's been a learning experience just like everything else is, and I'm glad to be privileged with being the designer chosen for the things I've done.

It was good that I kept drafts of what I did. For example, the first image is a rough draft that I did based on a tutorial that I saw in passing for a retro-spacey video game poster. I decided to build off that and incorporate it into the poster since the theme was "Galactic Blast". Immediately I thought of Battlestar Galactica, so off to dafont I went, looking for just the right font. The font used is called Battlestar, so that fit my idea right away.

Since it's spacey, there's gotta be some kind of space image, right? So bottom layer is space, of course. Then we go into planets, so I grabbed an image of the moon, lowered the transparency enough to make it look like another planet or even if it looks like the moon, that's fine! We're still in space! Then over that, for the geeks who know about space, there's always gotta be some sort of holographic grid. Watch Armageddon if you don't believe me. Skip over the parts with animal crackers and go right to the NASA offices. Tons of grids. Trust me on this one.

Here's what we have so far - spacey font, space, moon/planet, holo grid. Great. I'm willing to bet no kid would take a second look at that and go, hey, I wanna go there! So what do we need? A rocket! Let's throw a rocket on it, add some flames, see how that goes.

So far so good, I think. But it still looks a bit too tame. The sizing is also a bit too structured, so I tweaked it a little bit, and there it is. Completed.