MENU - In-progress

Here is my menu in-progress, printed out it will have a textured background with a stain color. Also below is my beer labels I have been working on. As of right now they are in a finished state, I may make a few changes to them though before they get printed out. 

MENU - final logo

MENU - logo progress

Here is my initial sketch for the logo. I wanted to play off of the old time photographs they would have and also old book cover designs. Below is my translation into the computer with two different variations in a similar color it will be on my menu. Last is my final version that I printed out in black and in different sizes to see how visible it would be. 

MENU - Mood Board

This is my mood board for the menu project. I found a few typeface that I felt worked really well with my design and also some pictures that describe my idea/ feel of the Grimm Brewery. Currently I am working on sketches for my labels, pictures will come shortly. 

MENU - research

Basic Overview/ History

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Grimm

Grimm Fairy Tale Sites

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm

German Restaurant Menu

     http://www.brauhausschmitz.com/public_html/brauhausschmitz/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/2010/04/Brauhaus-Schmitz-Spring-Menu.pdf


Design Inspiration

Grimm Fairy Tale Illustrations

Chalkboard designs (for bottle labels)

Packaging Design

Final Poster Project

To revise my poster i worked on adding more things that put it in the time-period that I was going for. I researched more posters with the western feel and changed the background as well. 

TYPE JOURNAL - week 9

Post #1

In honor of my upcoming menu project I decided to do my Type Journal on examples of what I want to use on my project. As of right now I am planning on creating a Grimm Brewery dealing with all the fairy-tales of the Grimm Brothers. The above example is a book I found that has the ornamentation that I am going for throughout my design. I also found the type treatment of this book to fit well with the almost terrifying vine texture. Below is a much different use of typface that I was planning on exploring more throughout my labels on the beer glasses. This is a Jessica Hishe Tom Sawer book cover that I really want to play off of her great use of type mixed with illustrations. 

Post# 2

TYPE JOURNAL - week 8

Post #1

This week I decided to compare and contrast 2 website designs focusing on their use of typography. I was browsing the Millersville University store and the first thing I  though when I got to the page, was how horrible the design was. Not only is the overall design bad, the type makes it so much worse. They use a script typeface for the small links that are barely legible at a larger size let alone so small. This typeface is found throughout the rest of the page randomly placed and in no way os descriptive of a link. 

Post #2

Below I added a website that I believed used very nice typography. Target uses a typeface with large counters in the "o" and it is very legible on screen. Everything is cohesive and if they do use more then one typeface, it is mixed very nicely and hardly noticeable. 

Poster Project in-progress

I got my inspiration from old advertising posters that use only typography to get the meaning across. I wanted to give the same feel with my "40 tips and tricks" poster (seen below). Everything centered and an emphasis on the text and what is important.