Project #5 and#6

Hi everyone, so for my next two projects which will be done back to back with each other are desgining a logo for my friends band and an info graphic for the school science academy. The info graphic how ever is on hold until the student supplies me with his information, the logo however is going good. I have narrowed down the best ones with my friend and are working off of those. This shouldnt take too much longer, im smelling a pay check soon

Project #4- Videogame Cover Redesign

Description: This project was a continuation of a project from last year that never was fully finished. I redesigned the box art, both front and back, of the video game called "Gears of War 2". In creating this cover I went online and found a basic "Xbox 360" box art template already scaled to the right proportions and dementions for the actual box. With that I didn't have to waist time recreating everything from scratch. For the front portion I gave it a simple look and gave it attributes of the limited editions which I found to be the coolest and most simple. As for the back portion, I kept all of the original text so that nothing was made up or mis-worded. Fonts I tried to match up to keep authenticity and style of the overall game. And to keep the back recognizable as a game description tool, I kept snapshots of the game and then the descriptions.
Skills Learned: In the design of the cover, I had to spend a lot of time looking at already created covers to see proper layout of information such as ratings and disclaimers. Although no new photoshop skills were learned, I did learn a better grasp of layout and organization.
Self Reflection: I feel that the final product came out well. Although a problems that I did run into were finding fonts that matched the theme and completely scraping my original design that was made last year. I did feel though that the back portion could have been better, more eye catchy to make you want to read the description. Also it was quite difficult to find a picture where I cold read the text to recreate it in the new cover, I ended up bringing in my own copy of the came for all the text eeded. Aside from that I enjoyed working on this project and the cover looks pretty good when its in a game box.
Project/Participation: 10/8

Project #4- Game cover Redesign'

So I've been working on a redesign of a video games box art called Gears of War 2. I'm relatively pleased with the progress of it and just need to find the back information such as plot synopsis and other text that is needed. I'm going to have to actually bring in the actual copy since I cant find a descent sized image on the internet where I can reference off of. I should clearly state that all rights reserved to Microsoft and Epic game studios and that this design is not intended for retail. Anyway, here is what I have at the present moment. Comments are welcome, and I should have the final up at the end of the week.