Throughout the development of the composition, I employed a variety of tools in order to deliver the final product. Cropping was heavily used on the monolith images to center them within the space of the polaroid and give the effect of them breaking the bounds; drop shadows completed this effect and added great contrast. The central circle was also the product of cropping down to size to form the foundation texture for the other three elements (polaroid, illustration, and text) to build upon. 

Shape building tools, the pen tool, and stroke effects created the linework weaving throughout the piece that guides the eye. The pen tool also had a major part in creating the minimal illustration to depict a slice of the earth’s sphere that anchors the top of the artboard.  I made sure to create a color spectrum spanning the full range of my palette, utilized to represent shading in earth tones and gradients to bind the entire artboard together, sparingly placing the sharper blues to add emphasis where needed. 

In the end, the boldness of the typeface coincided nicely with the stoic visage of the monoliths. Rather than being perfectly centered, I offset the text of the business name against the background circle to catch the eye, while balancing the space with other elements and fitting it within the side margins of the artboard; not too close, not too distant. The linework assists the movement by running counter-clockwise, trailing off the right hand side of the page as a subtle metaphor for moving forward and onward consistent with timelines and eras.