Extra project

Recently in class we had a day to work on the extra project for Graphic Design 1, which I had forgotten about for awhile, so I thought I might as well use a personal project I've been working on for a while as the class project. The project is based around my senior project which is to build a recording studio at the Chehalem cultural center, the project is going to cost upwards of $3,000 so, on top of grants, we've started to raise some funds for it. My partner on the project is the drummer of a jazz combo and decided to raise funds by recording and selling a CD with Christmas jazz songs, half of the money going towards the band, and half going towards the project. My part of the project is designing all of the promotional posters and fliers and designing the CD (just front and back).

     (Top to bottom: 1/4 page flier, full page poster, info sheet(was at the desk where we were getting orders for more inf, printed on 11 X 17 poster board)) I designed these in Illustrator with one nights notice, I got home, designed and printed them (took all day) and they were ready the next day for the opening night of Guys and Dolls. Since then they've been tweaked a bit (costs added, names of people who couldn't be in band removed) they were quick but useful, I believe we ended up with a total of about 30 orders ($180!) plus talking to various people about spreading the news of the CD.

     The next big hurdle is the CD itself, here is my plan for the back cover, on top of this would be track numbers, info, etc, the plan was to have be in simple black text, so I might go through and lighten the background if I need to. At the moment, I'm still working on the front cover, with the floating finish date being December 14th, though the official poster says mid-December in case of hiccups, my current idea was to paint the front of the library and (if I had enough time) maybe put something like a dude playing saxophone on it. Below is what I have done on that so far (snow to be added in at end (aside from that little bit at the bottom of the pillars)).