Company Project: GraviTea - Pattern

This is my company pattern for GraviTea. I took the tea leaf from the logo and copied it into a pattern. The colors repeat themselves as well.

Company Project: GraviTea - Logo

This is the company I created for our product packaging project. The company in question is GraviTea. Our main product is of course tea. The company's name just came to me and I ran with it. Gravity is a natural force and it relates to my natural tea product. For the logo itself, I chose a brownish color and a green because of their natural feel. In the middle of the "a" in "Gravi" and the "a" in "Tea" is a tea leaf. Everything is made from scratch and is 100% illustrator.

Seamless Pattern

This is my seamless pattern. I used a tutorial to help me.

My Company Business Card

This is my company's business card. I decided to make it front and back. On the front is my logo and slogan, and on the back is my information. I decided to keep the typography of my logo in my business card as well. I wanted a professional slash playful looking card. It even looks like a restaurants business card.

My CATE Logo

The is my logo design for our Career and Technology Education program here at the school. I spent most of my time working with the "C" in "CATE". If you can tell (hopefully you can), I transformed the "C" into a globe. My idea came from CATE's goal. If the students actually go into the technology field, they could be working with people around the world. Technology and careers are global.

My Company Logo

My company name is Design Hungry. My logo process was fairly long and full of many different ideas. My first big idea was to have a paint palette with a bite taken out of it, represent my hunger for design. I didn't like the final look of it so I scraped the entire design. My final design has a fork with a cherry on it in place of the "i" in "design". I like it...

My Expression

This is a project that I did in Adobe Illustrator. I decided to take a chance and do something different. Basically, I took a picture of me (terrible, just terrible), opened my head up, and made it look like all of the text is coming out of my head. The "thought cloud" is separated into two different sections. The first section is my depressive side and the other is my true side. I don't like expressing my feelings to others because I don't want to sound winy. On the depressive side, the text is more straight and boring, and my other side is flowing and different. I liked this project and I'm glad I was able to express myself.

Realistic Flash Drive

This is a flash drive that I created in Adobe Illustrator. Using shapes and gradients, I made the flash drive look real. Pretty easy and simple. And yes, the flash drive can hold over 9000 terabytes of information.

Flower Pot

This is a flower pot that I created using Adobe Illustrator. In Illustrator, I created a base shape using the pen tool, then I used the 3D revolve effect to create the pot. Then, I used map art to put my flower creation on the pot.

Creating Flowers in Illustrator

Using Adobe Illustrator, I was able to create these flowers. I used the pen tool to draw the outlines of the flowers, then I filled them in with a radial gradient. The filaments inside of the flower were also created through the use of the pen tool and gradients. After I finished with one, I duplicated it, and scaled the three flowers you see here to size.

Snowboard Tutorial

This is a tutorial that I did in Adobe Illustrator. In this design, I used Live Trace to take a real photo of a snowboarder and turn it into what you see here. I also used the pen tool to make the swooshes in the background.

My Logo Recreation

This is my recreation of the YouTube logo design. I used Adobe Illustrator to copy the original font and scale it to the same size. During this project, I didn't run into any significant problems because it wasn't too challenging. Overall, it looks fairly identical.

Las Vegas Logo

Using Adobe Illustrator, I was able to create a logo using the actual Las Vegas sign. With the use of shapes, scaling, and text, anything is possible!

SPLAT! Tutorial



In this image, I used 3D effects to make it seem like the splats and letters were popping out.



Text Spirals Made With Illustrator

I used a spiral and path text to create this compelling design.

Glyph Monster Using Illustrator

Yep... that's my glyph monster. He is a straight gangster.

An Epic Quote

This quote so happens to be from the movie, Tropic Thunder. I emphasized Kirk's constant use of the word "dude" by filling each one in with red. Each "dude" is bigger than the last, letting the reader know how sincere Kirk's reference to "dude" is. I used a different and smaller font for the word "disguised" to emphasize it's meaning. The words actually form a triangle, getting bigger as they are read.

Like I said in the original post, I emphasized the word "dude" by changing its color to red. I wanted viewers to recognize how ridiculous Kirk's statement was. The balance is Asymmetrical because the text size is not the same for each line. I also emphasized the word "disguised" by putting it in a smaller size and different font.

Elements of Design

This image suggests infinity with its use of direction and with the artistic work of a pencil, also creates implied texture. The tree (or whatever it is) spirals down, going into foreverness. The texture is drawn in and made to look like bark. That's why it is considered implied and not real. 
The balance in this image is Asymmetrical. The tree (or whatever it is) is not equal as it spirals down. There is open space between the foreground and background parts of the tree.

This image is a great representation of calmness and tranquility. The horizon in this picture is a horizontal line (of course). Your eyes rest and relax as they focus on the middle. Slow currents gently go up and down, creating a sense of peace. This image also suggests size and perspective. The mountains in the background become faded in their value and smaller in size compared to mountains in the front.

Proportion has a big effect in this image. There is a boat in front of the closest mountain in the picture. The boat is way smaller in comparison to the mountain. There is also open space to the left of the mountain creating an Asymmetrical balance in the picture. 

This image suggests infinity. Although it's not technically a spiral, the image uses color and a series of circles (shape) to imply foreverness. The circles gradually become smaller, acting as a spiral that goes down and down and down and down (and down) into the deep recesses of the mind... maybe gave that a little too much thought. Anyway, it's really trippy.

The circles in this picture use repetition to created a sense of Rhythm. Much of the image is shown in a rainbow spectrum, but the black in the picture gives emphasis to the circles. 

Tyler Schlandt - My Bio

Hello people of the interwebs, mostly my Graphic Design class, this is my first blog and will be information about me that you may or may not care about. My name is Tyler Schlandt, I'm a senior at my high school, I live with my step mother and dad, and I have 3 brothers. I've lived in College Station for all my life and the same house for 17 years. This summer I went to Washington to visit my real mother and had a pretty good time. I'm actually planning to move up there right out of high school. Hopefully I can get a job in Seattle and move into my own apartment. In my spare time I like to pick around on my guitar, hang with friends, and sleep. I'm kind of a computer geek though I haven't built my own yet. I really enjoy technology, but don't have a job to support my craving. Video games are also kind of a hobby of mine, but I'm glad to say they don't take up my life. Hopefully my final year of high school will be alright. I have interesting classes, including this one, and some interesting teachers as well. The only problem is that I'm a perfectionist and so much of one that it could be considered a little OCD. Maybe this is getting too personal. I'm sad to say I haven't done much volunteering and I've never even joined a club. Shy is what I've been called and I usually keep to myself unless friends are around. Maybe I should try to break out of my shell? I guess you probably don't have to much interest in that. I guess this ends my bio.

Peace - JTS