The first is the most interesting. I was given a semi-well known WWII document to clean up, then reproduce. The document is a posting to the troops from their commander, General McAuliffe, during the Siege of Bastogne (part of the Battle of the Bulge - the capture of northern Europe from the German occupiers), as a way of telling them that he had stuck his tongue out at the German commander when asked to surrender, more or less. The document utters the famous declaration "NUTS" to said surrender.
Basically, the allied troops in the Belgian town of Bastogne were surrounded, and they managed to hold out, despite the rediculous odds, until relief troops arrived (of which my own grandfather was a participant).
The scan that I worked on was a copy of a copy, and thus was in rather poor condition. The original can be seen here.
This is what I was given:
I spent about three full days in Photoshop cleaning it up. Then end result was this:
Then, since even this cleaned up version has major legibility issues, I created a reproduction, as faithfully as I could, so that it could be framed for personal viewing of the client. I searched through tons of fonts for the right distressed typewriter font (none were perfect, but the one I chose, John Doe, does the job. The x-heights are different, but they have enough key elements to be similar. This was the result of the recreation:
And there we have it.The second project I wanted to share was a design concept for a new line of essential oil infusions, for a client of mine. The first is a horizontal label for a ficticious oil:
And then this is a verticle idea, for a different ficticious oil:
Despite the various conversion and compressions I had to go through to get them into jpg's that would fit in this entry, I think they still look fairly good, although the color is kinda tweaked. Maggie Smith's stuff is very nice, and you can check out her website here.Anywho, that's what I've been doing. Cheers!
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