Zine cover

Here is my zine cover! The cover depicts the imaginary scene of the landfill taking over the world! I wanted the cover to look almost godzillaesc. My zine is about recycling and primarily reusing!

Illustrator Collage

Here's my collage! I put together my favorite things that I have done in Illustrator so far. Plus I added a couple pictures that I live traced and added hints of color to. The man from China with lesions on his neck is in there. Then the city is in the background with a black sky representing air pollution. The fountain has a beautiful girl but then the water below her is green, representing water pollution. Then, on top are two of my logos both are of trash cans. This collage pretty much represents the major types of pollution and the causes of them.

assignment #8!

I found this article called Home, Sick, Home by Melissa Hendricks. It has awesome illustrations done by Melissa Grimes. The article is about how our home and the indoors in general are some of the most polluted places we can be. A point that Hendricks brings up is that every time we enter our homes we bring in the toxins from outside and then the toxins stay closed up inside our homes. The article is divided up in to sections about different pollutants. A few of the sections are: Formaldehyde, Chloroform, Lead and Pesticides. Hendricks talks about all the different pollutants in our homes. Most you would never even think of!
Below is one of the illustrations from the article!



Here is a picture from National Geographic of a man in China who has neck lesions from the toxins that pollute the air:



Here's my live traced version:

assignment #7

So, here's assignment #7. I drew a picture of a trash can and scanned it on to the computer. Then I traced it with the pen tool and put color in on it. I also used a gradient in order to try and make the trash can look like a 3-D object.

So, here are all of my logos. Four are just icons and the other four are all type logos. The first one is one of my icon ones. It is of a sewer pipe with goopy pollution coming out. The goop is supposed to form the letters in trash. I don't know that I was so successful with that. This logo represents how there's so much pollution in our water. The logo to the right is one of my type logos. The words "trashculture" form a trash can. I had the words "trash culture" form the trash can because trash goes in a trash can and I thought that they went well together. The next two type logos both work with the words "trash culture". The first one has the words verically down a squiggly line. The words coming down a squiggly line represent trash falling out of nowhere. The logo next to it has the letters all squished together and I made them so that they were all tall and skinny. This represents how trash can take up so much room. My next icon is of the world with a trash can in the center. The pieces around the world represent trash. This icon shows how trash is all over and how it's a world wide problem. The icon to the right is a trash can with trash going into it. The icon below shows the world with pollution taking it over. The black smug is taking over the world. My last text logo has the word trash repeated in a circle. This shows how trash is an endless circle. There is always trash, no matter where you go. Trash is never ending! Oh no!

Pollution is in the Air

Above are all of my original images that used to create my final project. The first image is of a pipe spilling pollution out into the open. The next image is a CD cover. I used this CD cover because I like how frightened the people on the cover are. The third image is of a frightened couple. The image of the city is a photo I took from the top of the stairs in front of the art museum. Finally, the last image is of a woman floating in the water. The artist of this image is Toni Frissell.

The image below is my final project. I wanted my final product to show the message that pollution is getting worse and worse. I thought the city in the background would be a good idea because the air pollution in big cities such as Philadelphia is getting worse because of all the factories and cars in the area. Along the bottom I put frightened people because everyone should be frightened of the future of the world if the pollution level keeps rising. The pollution coming from the corners of the image represents water pollution and the enormous amount of it. I hope this final image brings across a clear message.

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