Concert – Page 2 – A Smith of All Trades

Oh hey, blog! Long time, no write! We’ve been so incredibly busy this past week with Valentine’s Day and my birthday that I haven’t had time to do anything but enjoy life and celebrate! I’m not complaining 😉 It’s been a great few days.

Now back to the blog world!

I had the pleasure of designing another poster for the Occasional Symphony this month for one of their upcoming events… remember the scary one I did last year?

Totally freaky.

Well this time around, the project was a little more… colorful! The Occasional Symphony is celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday at Port Discovery in Baltimore, Md. on March 2, so needless to say they didn’t want to scare all of the kids away with that creepy guy’s face again. Some polka dots, lots of fun colors and one topsy-turvy cake later, and their poster was complete!

This poster we a lot of fun to do. The background is a solid yellow with a 15 percent tint to it. Then, I took other tints of the same yellow and did polka dots across the back. The colors are all awesome and bright — definitely eye-catching for little kiddos. And the font is an imitation Dr. Seuss font that I found online for free! #Winning. Best of all is the three-layer, topsy-turvy cake, which I designed myself in Adobe Illustrator. It is just adorable. I love it!

If you live in or around Baltimore and need something to do March 2, you’re welcome. I basically just planned your Saturday afternoon for you. The program should be awesome.

I’ve been working on a few other design projects: a logo for my bff’s chocolate business, and a whole bunch of goodies for a local non-profit. It’s been a lot of fun. I love me some graphic design!

Graphic Design

Occasional Symphony performs HALLOWEEN

October 2, 2012October 1, 2012 Jessica Smith

I’ve had the pleasure of working on a poster for my friend’s fiance’s symphony’s (say that three times fast) upcoming performance at the end of October.

Occasional Symphony is a new symphony in Baltimore whose goal is to celebrate holidays by playing concerts at unique venues all across Charm City. For their performance of Halloween (which is on, yes, Halloween), they rented an old church and will be playing eerie music while showing the silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The creepy tunes were created by local composers — too cool!

I was so excited to help, especially on such a unique project! I was able to grab shots from the movie — the copyright has run out — and tweak them in Photoshop using the dry brush filter. I added a brick texture to the background and found a super creepy font to use. I think it looks fantastic, and Rachel, Norman and crew are really happy with it. Yay!

Here’s what I came up with:

If you live in or near Baltimore, make sure you check out an Occasional Symphony show! It sounds like they will be doing some really cool things.

Oh, and because I think it is super awesome, look at the shout out I got on their site *squeals of excitement*:

Life

Bruuuuuuuuuce

September 15, 2012September 15, 2012 Jessica Smith

Last night was the long-awaited Springsteen concert and it was pretty awesome. Guess who got to touch The Boss twice? Yes, this girl 🙂 The concert venue was the most terrible venue ever (stick to baseball games, Nationals Stadium), which put a huge damper on our evening. But once we got going, it was epic as usual.

Today we are going to a wedding — Congrats, Andrew and Shannon. I’ll write about my wrist stuff tomorrow and show you a craft I’ve been working on. Have a great weekend!