2007
 
2006
Ahlan wa Sahlan!


website



Art direction: Miguel Gómez
Concept and Design: Joel Torres
Illustration:Niño José Heredia
Reporter: Orus Villacorta
Edition: Natalie Long; I-Cheng Chan
Infographic: Luis Chumpitaz
Web Design: Jacob Hernández

THE BEGINING




Diagram used to sketch the project


    During the process of project's concept, Miguel Gómez and me, decided to elaborate a product that visually tell all the history of the Star Wars' world, we divided it in three different informational' sequence: the dark side, the side of the light and the process of movie's creation. with the concept in mind, we elaborated the first sketches that we displayed to the editorial staff. The idea was approved and we initiated one of the greatest informational graphic project made in Gulf News.

Joel Torres


THE NUMBERS
2.8 GB
megabytes used in all project

9
spreads pages
ILLUSTRATIONS


Niño José Heredia

 Different talents from Gulf News worked in this project it was a complete integration between editorial, Design, Illustration and informational graphics department and also online.

For the final product, 3 project was been developed parallel, Niño (illustrator), responsible to create 30 personages' illustrations that was published during 30 days, Orus Villacorta (reporter)edited all the text from Mexico and finally Jacob Hernandez collected the content and made the web site and the final accomplishment for paper was in charge of Joel Torres.

THE NUMBERS

260
hours

30
illustrations

15
Weeks

1
big composition




 




Joel Torres and Niño José Heredia


  "Every time they asked me how many illustrations that I have to make and I answered: 30!

I always get a common expression from them: What? are you crazy!?. Those artworks are half a meter in width with a height of 64cm. it's crazy indeed. Will I able to finish it on time?

I was'nt sure! But I did it, i finished the last character two days before our deadline. I proved them wrong. It's passion and I had fun!

Niño José Heredia

AND ACTION!


Finished some illustrations, it was time of the photography department.

 

Niño Jose and Joel Torres in photo studio, Many other professional.		  
MANY OTHERS PROFESSIONAL INVOLVED

Eliezer Semine from Pre-press Department

  

Luis Chumpitaz creating one of the lightsaber of star wars

Luis Chumpitaz

Miguel Gómez, Gulf News Art Director
  
TRANSLATION: PRINT TO WWW

Jacob Hernandez and Joel Torres in the process of creation of the Web,the product was created in Flash and this available one in Gulfnews.com

Jacob Hernandez


Gulf News special Star Wars Website






AT THE END


The sketches were mounted in black and white and creating
a single document on scale

 

Joel Torres is making the cover for the special.
More than 120 photos from George Lucas' profile


During the days of publication the pages were mounted to show a single mega poster

HERE ARE THE RESULT!