After watching the "Fifty shades of Gray"

The real Man in Black - no shades of gray!

Visualizing Onomatopoeia -2 (Storyboard)

My storyboard for an animation

Visualizing Onomatopoeia

My animation work for my college.

1st step: Onomatopoeia meaning research on Internet, search for sounds
2nd step: Sketches drawing, making a storyboard
3rd step: Making vector graphics in AdobeIllustrator
4th step: Export to AdobeFlash and animate of static graphics
5th step: Export a SWF-file into Adobe PremierPro
6th step. Production of a final animation and uploading it on youtube.

References for my inspiration:

Onomatopoeia Definition:
http://literarydevices.net/onomatopoeia/
What is Onomatopoeia:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/what-is-onomatopoeia.html
Examples of Onomatopoeia:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/examples-of-onomatopoeia.html
Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias

Tickets (Russian Famous Artists)

CiS. My Web Site Design.

One big poster in several stages of work.

It was a big (B1) poster for The Russian Theater of Roman Viktyuk. The play "The maids" in Latvian National Opera in Riga (Latvia). You can see some parts of that play onYouTube: http://youtu.be/iI4dYWRISxk Here I want to show the stages of that poster producing.

1.Stage. Incoming... assets. It was A4 flyer with scratches and creasing line after folding.

2. I have scanned it with 1200 ppi (pixel per inch). 
  


3. Scanned images from printed materials have one big problem: a moiré pattern (pronounced more-ay). (For more details you can read on here: http://www.scantips.com/basics06.html ). I had to remove a moiré pattern (the halftone screen) from the scanned image. I applied 1-pixels-size Gaussian Blur and decrease resolution of image several times. (I didn't use the integrated descreen filter at that time).

BaltHouse Ltd. Few screenshots of my works.

http://www.bhprint.lv/
This is one of the leaders of printing market in Latvia. Their customers are blue chip companies around the world.

Apple Mac. Adobe InDesign. Prepress mock-up layouts (impositions).

My own mock-ups for Candy (Italy) and MIELE (Germany).

CiS. A5 Flyers. My Design.

I think these are my best flyers design because i found the best colour solution for them. And second thing is a very good layout of elements.

Pink colour solution

Yellow & Blue, Golden gradient, Old Pin-Up style

CiS. Incoming sketch & my finished design.

Incoming sketch	My finished design
Incoming sketch	My finished design

My own hand-made B&W vector clip-art

Program: Adobe Illustrator.
I wanted to create my own vector clip-art collection. But I left this idea because it took a lot of time and i didn't see how to monetize it to get profit.

Amber Dog magazine (2008)

 www.amberdog.lv

They invited me to make restyling of their magazine. Before, they used designers from outside their company. As a result, at that moment they didn't have any source files. I had to create everything from a very beginning. It wasn't first time for me. They provided me a good computer with two monitors. In my opinion, it's very convenient for magazine layouting. And my experience included image processing and retouching for a magazine cover as well.

Real Estate Catalogue

When i was a small boy... when i was a magazine designer...

http://www.balthaus.lv/ In 2005 i took a part in producing of a Real Estate Catalogue (twice a year). More than 270 pages. It had a lot of financial articles, tables with important information and so on... I had to create all object's and paragraph styles from a very beginning.
Four designers prepared ads, images for me. I had to compile all of them in one ready-to-print catalogue. Since that catalogue sometimes had to have 3 languages on the same page we had to use OpenType fonts like Myriad Pro and Times New Roman. They handle Unicode characters.

price offers (images) for mailing list (my own graphic design)

Tomorrow is the Valentine's Day.
I wish everybody to meet his own Big Love and Happiness!

I made them for a Creative Printer. This is my own graphic design (mock-ups) for a company in London which one i worked for. 

Icons for web

In 2012 I am worked for one printing company in London. I have been in charge of preparation files for print. Every day I checked about 60 incoming files and fix about 10 of them. I was surprised how many incoming artworks didn't have any bleed (extra area for trimming).
And I had to create 2-3 absolutely new design a day. I love being busy. The more tasks - the better. 
When i had a little bit more spare time i created assets for company's website.
Before it looked like this. I have began from icons. First icons I have created in Illustrator. They were vector icons with gradient. I wanted to select colour for them later. I saved each icon separately as a png-file with transparency.

Then I had to create icons for every kind of our productions. In order it will be possible in future to replace previous icons to new ones i used their file names. It looked like a product_image211.png, a product_image312.png, a product_image789.png... and so on. In fact, I didn't have a direct access to webserver. I just saved web pages to my HD and I assume, all names of  icons were produced by webserver.

Our director who was responsible for updating of corporate website asked me to separate and to rename all files for each kind of our production separately. They asked me to make different size of icons for different sizes of our production (A3, A4, A5, A6, A7 - icons should be smaller depending of paper size). It was more than 250 icons.

Adobe Illustrator (my main program)

I use Adobe PhotoShop for pictures correction and photo collages.
I love using Adobe InDesign for two purposes: when I create final one-side imposition. I am sure it's more easy and faster to use InDesign than Preps in that cases.

Second case when I love using InDesign is when I need to use Paragraph Styles and I need to apply them for an entire document. The excellent things are Master Pages, off course.

But my main program is Illustrator. I love use it to create one-side and double-side flyers (one or two pages documents). And Illustrator is a main tool to work with mock-ups for packaging. Of course I don't mention about 3D visualisation of a pack.

(On the picture I have shown one document with 3 languages for 3 countries (Germany, France, Russia).

Wireframing. One year ago I didn't know the name of this process. My previous boss asked me to make prototype of company's website in order to move elements and to apply different colours for them and to see the result.
Such a preview is not interactive but it's a not bad way for wireframing.