Some Things I would like to Learn

Although I have learned alot in this class there are many things that I am still curious to know. One of them, is how to design a photo like this. I have a feeling that many of these photos where all just cropped pieces from many different photos and were put together by using in design, I would love to know how this was done. Its like a crazy art collage.

This photo, I absolutly love, and would love to know how to do it. How did they put all these words together to make a face, and a neckline. I find this so cool. And even though it looks as if the collar is just a collar when you look closer you see that its even more words there. The only thing that seems to not have words are the outer part of his ears. Someone please teach me this design! Its so creative.

 This is a simple graphic design, one that I would see my friend constantly doing in high school. Its something I want to learn because it looks so cool. I have an idea on how to do it. I think you can do this by grabbing the flower, and pasting it in, and then using the line tool to create the various lines. I would have to try it for myself.

This is pretty cool. A picture was taken and then a design of holes was places on top of the picture or, I dont really know. I just think this is really cool and its something I would like to learn in the near future.

I think this is something that i can actually do by myself, but I wanted to share it because it looks amazing to me. I love how the computer in just put outside, and flowers and plants, seem to be growing out of it. I think this photo has a hidden message about life, maybe about how many people rather be on the computer than out and about in the real world, where they can miss lifes simple beauties like this.

This photo I found to be very cool, a zebra hanging in the air, and dripping paint, with what seems to be an umbrella over the blue paint. This affect of dripping is something I would love to learn how to do.

This design is absolutely stunning. I am a person who loves flowers, and all the vines and flowers coming out of the word inspire look so cool. As i look at this, I wonder if the word was just written, then colored and then the vines and flowers were put on, or if this is a font within itself, or if someone created the font. However it was done, I find it very cool and would love to learn how to do this one day myself. 

I love this design because I love flowers, and this is something I know from this class that i am capable of doing myself. Using different fonts of C's to make a flower is so cool! I have really come to love graphic design and would love to learn more new things about it. I guess on my own time, I will have to test the waters.

Reflection

     I just wanted to take the time and reflect over my experience in this class. It was a great one! I absolutely loved everything I learned, and although I wasn't really into graphic designing at first, its something that I really enjoy doing now. My hardest task in the class was the Corpse exercise and my favorite task in the class was the Brochure and the magazine outline. It was also some of my biggest strengths. One of the things I learned is that detail, is very important in graphic design. Certain things can hinder the eye, and certain things can make the whole design look really bad. I also learned how to speak up, and give feedback to others, and myself when needed, and to also learn thats its okay to ask for help. I'm a very shy person, so I'm not used to going to other people for help. But asking for help in this class definitely got me a very long way. I would suggest to anybody who is interested in graphic design or thought about it, that they should take this class. The Professor, Amy is a big help, and just wants to see her students progress throughout the semester. One thing I advise you to do, is take Amy's criticism, she may say it a bit blunt, but it only doing it to help, and it could be the best advice given from your graphic design career. I am so glad that I took the time out to add this class to my schedule and if you do it, you will too. I put this picture here, because I love sunsets/sunrises, and the reflection into the water of the sunrise is absolutely beautiful. Which is how I feel about my time in this design class, it was a beautiful, wonderful, educated, time!

My Brochure.

This is my brochure, that I had to make for class. I love it! I chose to do SPoT coffee because I work at the location in the union, for two years now, and I have a passion for making Coffee and the different drinks available. The one on the top is the outer layer, and the one on the bottom is the inner. My struggle with this was trying to find out what information should I let people know about. So I went online, and decided to put the very important information, like drinks on the menu, location and hours in Buffalo, NY and last but not least an insight on SPoT itself. I chose that tan and purple and brown as the colors because these were the main colors found on the sight. On the cover page, I put the cup of coffee with a milk foam design of the heart because I thought it was something that would draw people in. On the location and hours page I put another cup with a milk foam design because the design was unique, and it is what spot is known for. Although I cannot yet do those designs, Im learning how to. On the inner page, where it says about SPoT I put a picture from a location from downtown Buffalo, because I thought it was only right. Under where it say freshness, I snagged a photo from the website, where they show the way the beans are made, because it shows the freshness. I put a photo from the Elmwood location, because at the end of high standards it talks about always welcoming visitors, and the people in the picture look happy, and the place looks busy, so I thought it would be a good look. I ended the inner part of the brochure with another milk foam picture because it was another different design, with a leaf in the foam, and I though it was a really cute photo of coffee.  My favorite part of doing this was finding the pictures I needed, because there were so many wonderful pictures to chose from! I hope you guys like this as much as I do.

Air Women

 

      This project had to do with the the first all female crew to fly into space, and the first woman, Amelia Earhart to fly across the atlantic ocean by herself. This exercise was a bit easier than the last one. What I did was crop Amelia Earhart's head onto one of the women in the photo. In order to do so, I had to take a rectangular piece from the american flag, and put it over the face of the women, where Earhart face now is. After doing do, I had to smooth the flag out, to make it look like the rest of the flag. With the tool I used, the soft brush, I was able to snag one piece of the flag, and put it to another piece, it was sort of like copy and paste. The in order to get her head on top of the women, I had to crop her head from the photo given to us, and paste it there. I had to use a layer mask, and then I used the burn tool to get ride of the rest of the parts of the image with Amelia's face. It was so cool using the burn tool because right before my eyes, parts of the image would disappear, and then if I need to add more back, I had to make the burn tool black. Yet again right before my eyes the parts of the image would reappear. I also had to make the whole image black and white, because Amelia's image was black and white. I did this by using the black and white adjustment layer, on top of the clone layer to get the grayscale look. My favorite part of see was seeing that you can really change a photo, and create your own by doing the things that I did. I find it so cool that it looks like Amelia is now apart of the all female crew who flew into space!

The Corpse

This is my exercise number 3, My Corpse. I did this the same day that Professor Amy went over it in class for the second time. This exercise was the most difficult one yet. In order to make it look the way it is- which is very transparent there were many different steps we had to take. Its honestly too many to explain, but the easier parts was finding things such as hue and saturation. But the difficult parts was adding each of the pictures, grouping them together, and doing the transparency. After getting the hang of it it became more simple, but its definitely something I need to constantly practice to remember. I love  how this came out, although I had a bit of a hard time understanding why the hands needed to be placed in the background. Maybe just to have a background all in its self, or maybe it was just to help get the hang of the transparency actions. I like how i aligned the body, it really looked like to me as if it was all one person. One thing I think i definitely could of touched up on was the alignment of the back and the arms from the picture of the legs. I think to make it even more of a person I could of aligned the arms with the hands, to make it seem like the hands were connected. I think I was so worried about aligned the feet with the legs that I failed to realize that it wasn't to aligned with the back. So for a next assignment like so, Im going to work on being a bit more detailed.

This is random, but there is a total of 6 hands in this photo. Thats a lot of hands, transparent and all. 

Save it, Don't Waste it.

This is my lovely poster for our third project. I chose to do this topic, of the conservation of water, because recently in my Intercultural communications class we were told do write a paper on a news article that affects many people around the world. I chose to write mine on the Water Crisis, focusing on The Wine to Water campaign. This campaign is about many different Bartenders in the world who give up their tips for one week to donate it wine to water who provides clean water, and water wells, to nine different countries who lack access to clean water. After writing my paper I realized that most of the time I'm wasting gallons and gallons of water a day, and that I want to try to conserve it as much as possible because we don't know if one day we will run out of it. So my message was to get people to try and save water, by pointing out that it is essential to life, because it is something every life on this earth needs, and pointing out how fortunate we are, that they are people in different countries who don't even have access to water like we do. There are many different countries in Africa where people walk over 10 miles, taking up most of their day in the heat, trying to access water. When they do get access to the water, the water they do get isn't purified, and gets their families sick and the sickness sometimes leads to death. So my main point was to not take advantage of water, and to save it and not waste it. I have already started my own way of conserving water, but not letting it run while I brush my teeth, and telling people not to let it run at work. Little things. I don't think its much of a challenge to conserve it, and I do think it will help.

Cool Inspirational Posters

So I decided to look up some inspirational posters since our new project is to make a poster with a meaningful quote, created by us. I chose to share this first poster, I find it to be cute. It says "There's you," which is the red car, "and then there's everybody else" and everybody else is fruits, cakes, forks, and spoons. What I like about this poster is the way everything was spaced out. The creator decided not to make the grass just a flat surface, but yet a hill. At the top point of that hill is the red car which is "you." I also think that the word "you" being in a different font also help differentiate, "you" and "everybody else." It also kind of looks like there is a face in the O of the word "you."What I think the posters message is besides the obvious, is to just be yourself and not be like everyone else. Although there is fruits, and utensils, and cakes which each fit into the same family, each thing besides the car is still different from the other, nothing in this picture is the same. I also like the background color, although it kind of looks like a shade of a light green/ yellow, which is kind of similar to the grass, it works, and I think it works because of the space the red car takes up.

The next poster, I liked as soon as I seen it. The designer set it up as a poster that you see when you visit the eye doctor, and they cover your left or right eye to test your eyesight. The typeface looks exactly like the one they use at the eye doctors office, and the size decreases from large to small. It says "See the beauty that is all around you." I think this quote is a nice quote because not a lot of people realize the beauty that is all around them. I also like how the background color is like a sandpaper color with white that makes it look as if its an old paper. I also like how the designer incorporated the eye at the end, because you see with you eyes, so I think the eye was a good last touch to the poster.

In this poster I have no idea who, this guy is, but what I like about it is his face, if he was talking he looks as if he was to strongly feel the way he does about whatever he maybe saying. As it says in the picture, "If you're going through hell, keep going." I found this quote to be inspirational, because it made me think, you know hes right. If your already going through what you feel like is hell, why stop and not try to push on. Keep going. What really made this poster, was that the photo is tinted in red. Red reminds me of hell in this photo, and I think that was the point. The designer did a really good job, and I think what tops it off is the white typography. Because White is a color that symbols purity, and goodness, and the words inspire you to continue.