five by five quote project

In my graphic design class, we were tasked to create 5" x 5" typography squares. I made these. Aside from the SMPTE test screen, they were made in Adobe Illustrator on grayscale before being colorized. While we were supposed to use sketches, I ended up changing up all of the quotes besides the fourth one shown, (which I still drastically switched up the layout of) so it wouldn't really be productive to post the sketches. Quotes two and four were originally done in a different color scheme (two in orange and blue and four in garbage).

INFOWARS JOKE HERE
I made this one around the SMPTE color test, so it really doesn't have a good monochrome. The quote was BM'd up in ten seconds because it looked good and it sounded good.

DOCTOR SUESS QUOTE
This one's a quote from Theodore Guisel, better known as Doctor Seuss, who stole the second part from the guy who made the speech where the term "Cold War" was originally coined. I chose it because I was low on time and I didn't want to use some weird, obscure, out-of-left-field quote. I used purple and yellow because they seemed like good quirky contrasting colors.

 PSYCHADELIC ALBUM COVER RIPOFF
Warping the text into the circle was a real pain in the butt, but I'm proud of the final product. I used muted orange and blue color scheme with a closed border. (Politics related jokes would go here if I were allowed an opinion as a blog.) The quote's made up, but I'll bet you ten pennies similar sentiments have been expressed before.

 PAT THE BUNNY QUOTE
Now here's the real thorn in my side. I was kinda aimless originally but the second draft, this one, really worked pretty well. The picture in the background was an image of Beatniks, which the quote definitely reminds me of.

The original version of this one kinda sucks. I was really trying to do that "stop sign" kinda thing and it didn't work. I like all the parts individually, but all together they're cluttered and hard to follow.

The quote is from the song "From Here to Utopia (Song for the Desperate)" by the band Ramshackle Glory. Pat "The Bunny" Schneeweis is the lead singer of the band, hence why the quote is attributed to him. This is a wholesome blog for young, impressionable children, so I won't embed the video, but here's a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_gyMftEqg



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