Essay Written

I have written the essay on a word document and am pleased with the way that i have analysed both his life and his work I am currently creating material for the essay so that when put together it is in the style of beall  

Key Facts About Beall

• Lester Beall (1903–1969) was a twentieth-century American graphic designer notable
  
• Lester Thomas Beall was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
  
• His family soon moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and later to Chicago, Illinois.
  
• Beall studied at the University of Chicago
  
• Beall also took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. After a short period of experimentation and professional work in Chicago, Beall moved to New York in 1935. The following year he established his home/office in Wilton, Connecticut.
  
• Through the 1930s and 1940s Beall produced innovative work for clients including the Chicago Tribune, Sterling Engraving, The Art Directors Club of New York, Hiram Walker, Abbott Laboratories and Time magazine.
  
• Of particular interest was his work for the Crowell Publishing Company which produced Colliers magazine.The promotional covers "Will There Be War?" and "Hitler's Nightmare" are powerful designs which distill messages of the time.
  

These facts off the net show that beall had a interesting moving around a lot but still being able to produce a wide variety of work. these facts will help me a lot with my essay

Successful Printing

After going to blow up to get my material printed i am very happy with the results an the fact that it cost so little that i had both my poster ideas printed and had two of my leaflet made. I have also made my postcards today and i feel that they have come out well.   

Postcard Backs

Here i have created the backs for my postcards with the titles of the images so when I write my essay the images can be looked at and then reversed and they can by identified by the captions on the back  

Class Crit

After Doing my class crit i feel that i have had some useful comments from my class mates, such as ...

• Re Title leaflet and re design it maybe use the arrow like his work 
• keep the two tone blue idea for poster
• keep the car on the right
• use blue and yellow leaflet
• the red and blue leaflet is too dark
• sort out the pictures on the back i a more ordered way   

Poster Developed Further

After creating the different colour schemes i decided to try a two tone blue idea then to add my own touch to the poster i decided to trace a car a place it in the background as well as a road sign.   

poster Idea Development

After deciding to use the idea of petrol with my rural electrification administration poster i then had the problem on deciding on the colour scheme, therefore i decided to try a number of schemes to see what they would look like.     

Gatefold Leaflet

After finishing my leaflets yesterday I can say always think about the colour on the prints as well as the screen because while creating the yellow and blue print I was worried that the white font would not show up well but it did. also when thinking about my leaflet I thought that it is best to use two different colour schemes two see your produce in two different ways. Also when thinking about the content I use a time line of the era, small amount of info about the artist, some of his work, and on the back other artists like him.

Printed Paper Scans

Here are the scans of my ink jet printed paper using the brown packing paper. now i have tried two techniques using brown packing paper I would like to use an ink jet printer to make my paper. looking at the two diffrent sizes i feel that an interesting way of wrapping my box would be using large print down the side of my box and small print on the top and bottom.

Font Choice

After looking at a number of different fonts for my poster I have decided on two that I feel are very similar to the fonts used by Beall. The first is street corner slab either in bold or semi bold. I feel that these fonts are a wise choice due to there likeness of the fonts used by beall.

Stencil Into Practice

After thinking about my paper I decided to make a sample of my stencil and apply it to a strip of brown paper to see the effect it will have. Therefore here is how it come out and i can say that problems i had with this is the the spray paint was very powerful therefore i created bleeding around the outside. Also the paint spread so much that it went over the whole stencil and on the paper on the table so the next stencil I make will be an A4 piece of card.