Aiight...! :D

[Snudge]

Aight, for school I need to design a stamp. The only problem, I got not farking clue where to start. Could you guys perhaps give me a base to begin with? I'll post the assignment here.

TGP Postal Services(Dutch company ^^') wnats a new series of stamps. They asked you to make a design for a series of 3 stamps.
They didn't find a good subject themselves yet, so it's up to you which theme belongs to this series of stamps. One must be able to see these stamps belong together, but all 3 of them have to be different.
The value( €0,44; €0,88; €1,32) has to be visible, along with the word "Nederland'(Netherlands)

Working Method;
- Collect material as inspiration source for your theme.
- Make 1 or more 'collages'(Is that an english word as well? >.>) with the material you collected
- Collect a few different stamps or images of stamps
- Make a few sketches in which you try several ideas. (Think of the tekst as well)
- Make a choice from your sketches, and work these out to a series of 3 stamps.

What you have to, and may;
- All stamps must have the same size.
- Allignment of characters and numbers on the stamps and size of the text has to be well-considered.
- It's up to you which material you use.
- Stamps have to be presentated 4 times bigger then a real stamp.
- Stamps have to be presentated neatly.(>.<?)
- Sketches of stamps hav to be presentated neatly.
- Collages of the collected material on the theme has to be presentated neatly.

I got no clue where to start. I thought of a more 'modern' theme perhaps music or gaming. Bad thing is, I don't like to sketch. I just want to go. This is the first time I'm afraid I will have to sketch :< Halp?


Wee, first two are here.



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Forgot something


Fix'd empty-ess.. sorta..
Green or Blue?:



And number three :>


Small versions;

2

2²

Green or blue?:

[Rizla]

go with simple, easy categories, fruit - automobiles - kitchen appliances - beverages - etc. Collage is a word in english as well

[0l3n]

Id go with a vector-looking stamp with a bunch of vectored cars and airplanes. Wouldnt make the vector to thick like in rizlas avatar though.

Than after your done try a black/white gradientmap set on darken to make the colors more dull.

Thats just my 2 cents

[Snudge]

Id go with a vector-looking stamp with a bunch of vectored cars and airplanes. Wouldnt make the vector to thick like in rizlas avatar though.

Than after your done try a black/white gradientmap set on darken to make the colors more dull.

Thats just my 2 cents

You read my thought :o Was just working on something vector..like..

[Snudge]

That's what I got for now, any tips? Perhaps on the text? =/
Do remember, this should be 2,5x2,1 cm ^^'

[Waisha]

looks oldschool.

[SuicideGrl]

That's what I got for now, any tips? Perhaps on the text? =/
Do remember, this should be 2,5x2,1 cm ^^'

there's a LOT of detail on this that will be completely lost at the final size. i love it though.

[Waisha]

That's what I got for now, any tips? Perhaps on the text? =/
Do remember, this should be 2,5x2,1 cm ^^'

there's a LOT of detail on this that will be completely lost at the final size. i love it though.

tell us about the new mod's etc. ^^

[CrimsonNuker]

isnt it Netherland?

[Snudge]

isnt it Netherland?

Well, it's for a Dutch school and it's not supposed to be in english, soo

That's what I got for now, any tips? Perhaps on the text? =/
Do remember, this should be 2,5x2,1 cm ^^'

there's a LOT of detail on this that will be completely lost at the final size. i love it though.

The small 'text' and the lines, yes, the detail gets more or less lost, but the main idea is still here. And btw, I do have to design them this way.

[SuicideGrl]

tell us about the new mod's etc. ^^

not a chance, gotta wait till the official announcement ;) only a few more days.

[fena]

tell us about the new mod's etc. ^^

not a chance, gotta wait till the official announcement only a few more days.

Days? Surely, you mean hours?
I mean, how long does it take to decide over a few Flags? It's actually a pretty simple decision. I'm surprised that it's taken you so long to pick it, because it's obvious that mine's the best from the very beginning.

Or do you not like mine?

[[SD]happynoobing]

tell us about the new mod's etc. ^^

not a chance, gotta wait till the official announcement only a few more days.

Days? Surely, you mean hours?
I mean, how long does it take to decide over a few Flags? It's actually a pretty simple decision. I'm surprised that it's taken you so long to pick it, because it's obvious that mine's the best from the very beginning.

Or do you not like mine?

CN better win.

[SuicideGrl]

Days? Surely, you mean hours?
I mean, how long does it take to decide over a few Flags? It's actually a pretty simple decision. I'm surprised that it's taken you so long to pick it, because it's obvious that mine's the best from the very beginning.

Or do you not like mine? :(

well, Key_J is pretty much handling that part, though we've more or less decided. it'll be a bit till we can implement them though, we need to get Ryoko on here, and he's scarce these days.

by a few days i meant the new mod selections. we've already chosen the Artist's Corner mod, An OTL mod, and 3 global mods. we're debating on two more for the guild sections now. once that finishes, we'll post results.

but ssshhh, i know i can post in here and not have it leak all over because you guys are cool, so keep your traps shut! :)

[Priam]

Like the vector Snudge, though i do not really see a stamp like that happening in the netherlands (im dutch). all stamps we ever had are kinda conservative, and people would just be like: wtf?

I'd gor for the vector cars, planes and w/e. not too much detail since SG allready mentioned: that will be lost.

Create some sort of scene people can relate to when they see the stamp.

And think of a theme first: e.g. Travelling, or summit.

[Snudge]

Like the vector Snudge, though i do not really see a stamp like that happening in the netherlands (im dutch). all stamps we ever had are kinda conservative, and people would just be like: wtf?

I'd gor for the vector cars, planes and w/e. not too much detail since SG allready mentioned: that will be lost.

Create some sort of scene people can relate to when they see the stamp.

And think of a theme first: e.g. Travelling, or summit.

Well the problem is that I don't have too much time, and I suck at vectoring stuff. So I thought I'd keep it to the basic of vectoring
And as my mom said(She really wise :o xD); I'm supposed to learn my stuff there, what I can do now is a +, but I'm supposed to learn the rest there. This is just to show what I can do.

(Oh, yeah I forgot to say this is to gain acceptance to an education. Or however I should put it >.>)

[Priam]

Like the vector Snudge, though i do not really see a stamp like that happening in the netherlands (im dutch). all stamps we ever had are kinda conservative, and people would just be like: wtf?

I'd gor for the vector cars, planes and w/e. not too much detail since SG allready mentioned: that will be lost.

Create some sort of scene people can relate to when they see the stamp.

And think of a theme first: e.g. Travelling, or summit.

Well the problem is that I don't have too much time, and I suck at vectoring stuff. So I thought I'd keep it to the basic of vectoring
And as my mom said(She really wise :o xD); I'm supposed to learn my stuff there, what I can do now is a +, but I'm supposed to learn the rest there. This is just to show what I can do.

(Oh, yeah I forgot to say this is to gain acceptance to an education. Or however I should put it >.>)

'

mm. what school?

i currently go to the 'Hogeschool van Amsterdam' and study 'Interactive media'. I'm not learning anything. Especially at the design and illustration stuff, they expect you to do everything yourself.

[Snudge]

Like the vector Snudge, though i do not really see a stamp like that happening in the netherlands (im dutch). all stamps we ever had are kinda conservative, and people would just be like: wtf?

I'd gor for the vector cars, planes and w/e. not too much detail since SG allready mentioned: that will be lost.

Create some sort of scene people can relate to when they see the stamp.

And think of a theme first: e.g. Travelling, or summit.

Well the problem is that I don't have too much time, and I suck at vectoring stuff. So I thought I'd keep it to the basic of vectoring
And as my mom said(She really wise :o xD); I'm supposed to learn my stuff there, what I can do now is a +, but I'm supposed to learn the rest there. This is just to show what I can do.

(Oh, yeah I forgot to say this is to gain acceptance to an education. Or however I should put it >.>)

'

mm. what school?

i currently go to the 'Hogeschool van Amsterdam' and study 'Interactive media'. I'm not learning anything. Especially at the design and illustration stuff, they expect you to do everything yourself.

"Grafish Lyceum Utrecht, richting Grafische Vormgeving"

[Snudge]

Edited and bump.
V2 is up.
It's a bit empty though, might edit that.

[SuicideGrl]

i really dig the style and the use of space. i still worry about the huge loss of detail when they are shrunk, but there's a lot going on, it's tasty and interesting, i think you have something great going.

have you shrunk them down to their proper size and viewed them, just to see what it'd look like? post them pls :)

[Snudge]

i really dig the style and the use of space. i still worry about the huge loss of detail when they are shrunk, but there's a lot going on, it's tasty and interesting, i think you have something great going.

have you shrunk them down to their proper size and viewed them, just to see what it'd look like? post them pls

I constantly do so, just to see wether that one brush or effect will be visible good. Or either the font is visible that way or not.

*goes to upload :o*

Edit;
As you'll notice really small details(Like some of the little X's and other details) are lost in the smaller version.
But for now I'm supposed to design them in the larger filesize. Ofcourse, I'm supposed to take the 'initial' size in consideration. But I'm not worrying about that, it's the quality that bothers me.

[Rizla]

I cant read the ,44 on your red theme stamp. These are kickass though Snudge, great work...we may need to do a vector/raster collab here soon.

[Snudge]

And stamp N° 3! This one seems a bit stuffed though. Gonna work on the 1st one(,44) now.
And I got a theme! Primary colours in their basic form.. Sounds odd enough to work! xD

But how am I going to explain that I didn't;
- Collect material as inspiration source for your theme.
- Make 1 or more 'collages'(Is that an english word as well? >.>) with the material you collected
- Collect a few different stamps or images of stamps
- Make a few sketches in which you try several ideas. (Think of the tekst as well)

To begin with.
=/

And now I'm starting to onder wether it was smart of me to pick 3 different fonts. >.>

[Rizla]

But how am I going to explain that I didn't;
- Collect material as inspiration source for your theme.

just make one a bit different than these, and say you collected it? ^^

- Make 1 or more 'collages'(Is that an english word as well? >.>) with the material you collected

make something with the piece you made

- Collect a few different stamps or images of stamps

google.com

- Make a few sketches in which you try several ideas. (Think of the tekst as well)

Um, do it?

To begin with.
=/

And now I'm starting to onder wether it was smart of me to pick 3 different fonts. >.>

I like it.

[Snudge]

And here goes a fix'd version 1!

[Rizla]

much better, but nederland on both your red/green versions have sections that are unreadable.

[SuicideGrl]

actually, they retain quite a bit of their detail at small size. very nice man.

[Snudge]

I added a blue version of the green one, because.. well... the primary colors are Red, Blue and Yellow ^^'

Which do you prefer?

And Rizla, I wouldn't have a clue how to fix that, besides adding a gradient. I don't want to add a gradient though, kills the entire 'vector feeling'.