Tag Archives: Illustrator
June Update & Website
I will shortly begin posting the analysis and descriptions of my completed projects now that I have some downtime. Phew! However, the main point of this post is to announce the launch of my proper portfolio website, www.JoshuaRousen.com! It’s been
Penguin Book Cover: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Penguin book competition also spans to adult books, with this year’s choice being the classic novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. I ran with the theme of eggs, for a variety of reasons.
Puffin Book Cover: Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Each year, Penguin Books runs a pair of competitions to design a cover for the Penguin and Puffin range of books (Puffin being the children’s branch). This year, the Puffin book is Grimm’s Fairy Tales, a collection of classic fairy
Typography Exercise: Experiments
Prior to the Magawebzine project, I was tasked with experimenting with a set piece of text, and arranging it in an interesting but orderly manner, emphasising readability and legibility. The other requirement was to use a grid system. As I’ve
Magawebzine: Final Magazine Layout
Today is the final day of the Magawebzine project, so I figured I’d post up this. Unfortunately due to time and money constraints, compromises were made in the production which prevented the physical outcome from being as I had planned,
Magawebzine: ATLAS
As part of the illustrations in my magazine, I created this vector of the Portal 2 co-op character, ATLAS (he’s a robot) using Illustrator.
Inspiration: David McCandless & Information is Beautiful
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ A tutor of mine recently noted that my Top Ten Infographic bared a resemblance to David McCandless’ work, being simple and clean visualisations of information with a focus on statistics. I recognised the name, so looked him up and
Bite the Web Project: Infographic
As I mentioned when I started this blog in October, the primary purpose for the time being was to document a variety of inspirational content set out in “Top Tens”, which in turn was for the purpose of collecting 100