Since the beginning of the year I have been designing ads for
Carl Black Chevrolet out of Nashville, TN for our publication of
Tennessee Wheels and Deals. I started out using Chevrolet pre-made ads and fitting them into the space for the cover. It is sometimes like, well you know like fitting a size 14 body into a size 8 dress. Or have none of you ever experienced that ... wink, wink I know you have. Well after awhile the pre-made slicks ran out and I started picking out pictures and coming up slogans for the covers and thought I would share a few.
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| July 14, 2011 |
Check out the photoshop work of looping the sign around the tree.
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| August 11, 2011 |
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| August 25, 2011 |
It was fair week down in Nashville so I decided to acknowledge that.
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| September 8, 2011 |
The vehicle started out with no view just a solid gray and so it was an easy "paste into" of Tennessee mountains. And just so that you know it was not my intention to rhyme just a quirky happenstance.
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| October 6, 2011 |
For this one I wanted to choose a font that is not normally used for the publication. There are only slim number of fonts that are "printable". So, to make this work I had to make the font for lack of a better term a graphic.
I had this one all designed. But the dealer wanted something to do with football so I came up with the following ...
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| October 20, 2011 |
Check out the model names in "football" style.
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| November 3, 2011 |
This took some photoshop skill. I don't like the passenger side mirror hanging out all by itself.
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| November 17, 2011 |
I'm not completely happy with the font for "Not Much!" All the image work was down in Adobe InDesign.
That's all for now. Thanks for looking.
Indiana Trivia:
The birthplace of the automobile, the pneumatic rubber tire, the aluminum casting process, stainless steel and the first push-button car radio was in Kokomo, Indiana.
