Throwback Tuesday

While I deal with shipping issues trying to get my Etsy crafting supplies I decided to post an older project from my school days.

My last two years at college I worked in the education department and one of my duties was promotional material.  Unfortunately, none of my stuff was ever published but I'll show you how I did it here.

The upcoming theme of the department was "Building Better Educators" so, as an architecture student, I took a different angle on the presentation.  I looked at their program as the levels of a building or the stages of building design.  I developed two designs, one using a building section drawing and one using more developed building drawings.

First, I started gathering my building drawings online.  I would use pieces of most of these in one design and the other design would be dominated by the tall section cut at the bottom.

To this I added some color filters to get that old "blueprint" look and some paper textures for realism.

Finally, I put all the pieces together and started working the layers.  The first poster was simple and consisted of one "sheet" of paper with one drawing on it showing a building section and the curriculum development.

The second drawing was much more complex.  YouTube was my friend here, and I looked up some tutorials on how to make each sheet of paper stand out on the poster.  I ended up digitally pulling the corners of the sheet up and making other sheets look rolled or curled so it ended up looking like a pile of architectural drawings, again demonstrating the curriculum development.  Both designs left space for more information on classes and internships that was never added.  I've hung on to these files and ideas in case I ever need them again, but so far they remain nothing but 1's and 0's on my computer.