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.

Stunning Dance Posters.

    One thing that my friends know about me is that I really love to dance. So while online, I stumbled accross a couple of dance posters that I loved and thought I should share.

The first poster, says to dance as if no one is watching. What I love about this poster, is how well the tone of the colors pink and brown go together. I like the way the designer intertertwined the colors as well, by having one backgroud pink with brown letters, and the opposite on the bottom. The background also looks like the typeface was written on some type of wood, and although the typefaces are two different ones they complement each other. This poster is something I would definitly put on my wall.

 
    The next poster to the left is of a dancer, who is doing ballet, inside of a dancing studio. What I love about this picture is the symmetry that it has. the dancer is on one corner, while the quote is in the opposite one. Also the quote eleminates the big white space that would have been left in the picture. Although there is still a significantly big amount of space towards the bottom right corner, looking at this poster I feel like it doesnt really need to be filled because the floor is so shiny, it reflects the window which is kind of like adding another object.


This next poster is of two dancers, a man and a woman. What I love about this is that it is simple, with the colors black and white. I love the way it was drawn, it makes it seem like a scriptive kind of drawing. I also like the way the swoop comes from the top left of the page to the bottom right. It makes me feel like there is a sort of movement in the photo, or as is that swoop could the dress of the female dancer. This picture embodies passion, dance, and love all in one. On thing that made this picture even more symmtrecial was the authors scriptive signature at the other corner, opposite of the foot of the woman.

This last poster is a poster that I already have hanging in my room. What I love about it is the simplicity. It is a picture of the dancers feet, and in the corner, It says dance in a large size typeface, with a quote under, in a smaller size typeface. The contrast of the shadows, and the light colors from the floor and the dancer, makes the poster have a type of balance. I think if the quote was placed somewhere else in the photo the poster would look odd and weird. But I love this poster, and it embodies a part of who I am, because sometimes the body says what words cannot.

Magazine Outline Project

    This is my Magazine outline project, and on of my favorite pieces of work. Where should I even start? Left to right as we read I guess! With my title, I started off using a different typeface, one that was more on the script side, apple Chauncey to be exact. I was told to change this because "everyone" likes to use that script, and so I found that typeface and feel in love with it. I made the word color, 5 different colors in the rainbow, because I already knew that in the article they were going to talk about many different colors, and I wanted to make sure I incorporated enough of them.
    The picture under the title, was actually a last minute touch, and another change that was suggested to by the professor. The original picture that I had being displayed was of a yellow, blue, and orange flower, that had a trail of paint with the same colors, under them. That photo was a bit too big, and to downsize it, would take away the look of the photo.
    Although I have my columns 3 a page, I never exactly chose to do it that way, it just came out that way as I continued on with the project. I chose a couple of different colors for the sub-headings. I did this to incorporate more color. The first one is purple because the picture nearby was purple as well and I thought that would be a nice attribute. For the second sub-header called "The mix of colors" I mixed up the colors so that is would match what the current words are saying. For whats your color preference, I chose pink because that is my favorite color. For the sub-header making the right choices, I chose orange because orange was the color that match the last picture that I wanted to add.
    As for the other pictures I included in the piece, I chose them with many thoughts. I chose the purple prism because it showed all the colors in the rainbow, and the text also spoke about Sir Isaac Newton who discovered that when white light passes through a prism you see all the colors in the rainbow. As I read on in the text, there was a whole section where they talked about nothing but colors. I wanted to include at least a picture of two of these colors. I chose to go with the twizzler picture for the color red, because the text says red was the most emotionally intense, and I wanted to see if I could make people want one by looking at that picture. I know I sure did. I chose the forest, and waterfall picture for the color green because I love nature, and I consider nature to be a calming atmosphere, and the green in that picture was very calming, as the text says " It is a calm refreshing color." The one thing I really loved about that picture was that even the water reflected the color green, from the reflection of the trees through the forest. The last picture I chose, I chose because I loved the way that at the bottom of the photo is scaled the many different colors inside of the photo. That photo was also in a way very calming, because it was just seaweed washing ashore.
    Last but not least, I chose the background color to be that light faint yellowish color because I felt it was a color that was very light on the eyes and that it would display the others colors, just as well as white could.
    I absolutely loved doing this project, and I am so proud of how it came out. What do you think?
 

Dots and Symmetry

This was another exercise given to practice on our symmetry. Although it doesn't look like the biggest challenge, the challenge of doing this was getting the tow boxes that are located at the bottom, to be aligned correctly. As I look at this image now, I notice that the box on the right has the dots more evenly spaced out than the dots on the left. On the left it actually kind of looks like there is some sort of clutter in the top left corner. Or maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me. 

Doing the first square on the top left was easy because all I had to do was make sure it was centered. Doing the square on the top right was a task because although I just copied the size of one circle to make the next, aligning them to be at the same point was away from the corners was kind of annoying. But looking at it now I see there is an even spacing going diagonally through the middle. The next square with the big and little circle was annoying as well because one circle was huge compared to the other. I was a bit confused on how to make them look like they fit in the exactly same spot just in different corners. The next square was easy, or at least I assumed it to be, because now as I look at it, it looks a tad bit off, but I cant tell whats throwing it off. 

Overall I think this exercise was suppose to help us grasp the idea that symmetry in design is very important, and can hinder the eyes if something is asymmetrical. I learned that I really need to pay attention to small details, like spacing, and that this will help better me as a designer. 

Do you guys see what I see ?

Exercise Numero Three: Eye Games.

This is my exercise number three that I did in class today. I had a couple of difficulties with doing this exercise, that were minor, but still played a big part. 

In the first part of this exercise, the one in the top right corner, we had to make five boxes, pick our own colors, duplicate them, gray scale them and put both the original colors and gray scale colors in order. I think doing this was so cool, because I would of assumed that the colors belonged in a different order, than what the gray scale did. But after putting them in order I realized that although that orange is a brighter color than the blue, its still darker in hue, which is why the gray scale came out darker.

In the second part of this exercise, which is at the top right corner, I loved how the blue and the yellow and the lighting green squares looked. My problem with this one was separating them. Although I went to window pathfinder and divide, I also had to do command shift g, which would ungroup the shapes. I was stuck for a while like why isn't this separating the middle box??!! Well if anybody reading wants to know that answer just remember command shift g to ungroup after dividing.

Now in the third part of this exercise, I found this one relatively easier, but tricky on the eye. We had to make 3 inch squares, with another square in the center that was .75 inch squares. One box is black while the other was white, and in the center maintained the grey background. So it kind of looked like as if a square hole was inside of the white and black box. Now although the bigger boxes are equal in size, and the smaller boxes are equal in size as well,  the trick being played on the eye is that the grey box in the black box, looks bigger compared to the grey box in the white box.

In the fourth part of this exercise we had to do the same thing that we did in the third part, but for one box we had to make the colors  be complementary, and the other box to be analogous. The complementary color emphasizes the perception of the hues, while the analogous color subtracts from the perception of the hues. Looking at the green inside of the purple and the blue, the green in the purple seems darker than the green in the blue. But they are indeed the same size. How cool.

My Initial Design

This is my initial design. For this design we had to include our initials, a couple a words that we felt decribed us, and design it our own way. I love this design because it is so me. I made it to look like a portrait of nature, [something I would have hanging in my house] but I made it in a way that wasnt so obvious. I purposely made it blocky, so that it would look like more of a design. The tree trunk is blocky, as well as the leaves, that lead into this pink background which reminds me of the sky when the sun is going down, and the blue rectangle is meant to be a river. I placed the quote in the river because the first word was cry, and tears are a form of water, and later in the quote it say to let these tears water the seeds of your future happiness. So I felt like since there was so much "water" in the quote that placing it there was a good idea. My favorite color sceme in the design was the darkish red on top of the brown. I feel like the two blended well. I also like the pink heart in the tree, and chose to do this because I felt it would make the tree pop more rather than having it black like normally. Another thing I did with the pink was have it be the stroke of the black "tape" holding up the design.

In my original design before this final one, instead of having the pink, I actually had that space the color  teal, but it was suggested to be changed to a brighter color by our lovely professor. Although I didnt understand at the moment why she thought a bright color would be better, after changed the teal to pink, I feel like my design just came alive. So I like the change :]

Creative Album Covers.

So after looking through the favorite album covers of the half past century, I decided that I wanted to share some of my favorite album covers as well. 

This first Album cover is Carlos Santana's debut album from 1969, Santana. In the cover, the first thing that catches the eye is the lion and the name of the album, Santana. I love the way that the name of the album is linked to the picture, and as mysterious as the photo is, the typeface is just as mysterious. When I first seen this album cover, my mother was playing the album, and me being curious wanted to know who made this good music. When I picked up the album, I was frightened, because the eyes of the lion scared me. Now that I'm older, I think this album cover is cool, because its not only a lion, but there is a person and many faces. At the top, there's one face, with two faces underneath right on top of the eye area. There are also two other faces, where the whiskers are coming out of.  And underneath the chin of the lion face, there is legs. Although I read online that the legs are there because its suppose to be a native person with a skirt, my eyes have failed to see it. Do you see it?

What I love about this album cover, is A LOT. It has the old school 50's type of feel to it, and the type face outer lining matches the border with the gold, as well as the silver filling in the words "NO DOUBT" kind of matches the inside of the picture where the moon is shining. I also think that the mini pictures, like the coconuts at the bottom, and the flies and Gwen, and the guys along with the tree and the "Tragic Kingdom" was all placed where they were very well. I also think the the dry grass and the dead tree reminds me of Africa, where there are alot of Kingdoms, but the fact that its all seems dead reminds me of a tragic Kingdom. Overall I think this album cover was designed very well.

This album cover, is by Pink Floyd and the name of the album is called The Tree of Life. What I love about this is, it matches the album name because its a tree. But not only is it a tree, its a tree that was shaped to make it look like the side of a face. I think its so cool how they did this,  I can tell it was photo shopped, but whoever did that, did a good job, because the face itself just reminds me of life.

This is Keri Hilsons album, No Boys Allowed. What I love about this album is that, her name was written in the pink "lipstick". The only things that have color is the lipstick in her mouth (which at first I thought was a cigarette), the yellow do not cross tape,that she has labeled as the album name no boys allowed, and her name. I think this worked very well with this photo, and if it was in full color it may have been a little too much. I think with the lipstick in her mouth, that gave her a very sexy look, that would attract boys or men, but the tape over her body in that bright yellow probably made a couple of guys not buy the album. I think its really creative though.

This is another one of the album covers I choice. I actually found this one on the list, and liked it a lot, Its Frank Sinatra's Album, Tone Poems of Color. What I like about is it once again matches the album name, and has many different tones of color, and within the tones on the right hand side are the different color poems, matching the color, inside that color strip.  The only color poem that didn't seem to match was "Brown" which was actually in the red tone. I wonder why.

But these are some of my favorite album covers of all time, that I wanted to share because I think they were very cool, creative, and done with a lot of thought, alignment, and symmetry to them. 

Chapter One exercise - Dynamic Composition

On top of this photo, The Poet, 1911, by Egon Schiele, made with oil on canvas, lies my dynamic composition of the picture. Composition can be static or dynamic but for this painting I recreated the dynamic movement. Although the colors for my composition don't match those in the picture, I did it for a reason. I wanted to be able to tell the difference between the difference parts of the body, and I think the bright pink and pastelish green was able to bring that out, making the composition look rather 3-D ish. I considered that specific green and pink to be a eye catcher, while the brown and black background make it a little less popish, and tone down the overall vision of the composition.  

While looking at my composition I noticed one thing that I could have changed. Which was the positioning of the eyes. I think if I really fully slanted the eyes, from the inside going down towards the outside of the eye shape that my composition would have really captured the essence of the photo. 

I think overall that my composition was a good dynamic of The Poet. I think most of my angles for the triangles were correct and that it was very symmetrical as well. I look forward to doing another exercise like so, because practice is always a good thing. What do you think of my composition?

Mery Creation.

   So recently one of my friends started her own accessory company, called Mery Creation by her: Cruzmery Javiar. The other day she put up what would be her logo, that appears on the tags of the many rings, scarves, bracelets, bow ties, and earrings that she created.; on Facebook. This is it:

        When she told me she came up with the design herself I wasn't surprised, because its just so her ! I love it though. The jaguar print fades into this beautiful deep yellow color, and although its kind of plain it represents her and her line. One thing I wonder is why did she has the Mery lowercase while the Creation was uppercase. Mery is apart of her name so I thought it would be capitalized.
        What a lot of people don't know is why this design is so her. Well Cruzmery is in a sorority call Lambda Pi Upsilon Latinas Poderosas Unidas, and their "mascot" is a Jaguar. Which explains the jaggy print. Also the sororities colors are red, black, white and yellow. Which is why I think she had the jaggy print fade into the yellow. The girls are also called "Divas" so looking at this just reminds me of a DIVA. I'm glad the design is so "her" because every piece of the accessories that's made is hand crafted by her herself.
        One of the things I love about this is the two different typefaces that she put together as well. It gives the overall look of the design a very sophisticated and professional look. I hope that her success with the accessory business goes well. If you guys are interested here's some of her accessories:

You can see more at http://merycreation.wordpress.com/

You can also comment below and let me know what you think of her designs.

The Sunny Delight Logo

         Recently we spoke in class about how American Airlines changed their logo. When I read 10 Observations on the new American Airlines logo, the one thing that popped out to me besides the fact that American Airlines isn't the best flight company, was observation number two and number ten. Observation number two was that the new logo is not as good as the old logo. That logo was made in 1967 and although that was a long time ago, I like that logo better and think that they could of at least used the same logo and modified it to look modern. Observation number ten was that most people don't even notice logos, which I disagree with. To be honest, I have never noticed a logo that relates to traveling, but if it has to do with food and beverage, I've noticed it.
         One that I really noticed that has continuously changed is the Sunny Delight Logo. It feels weird even calling it Sunny Delight since they have the nick name of Sunny D, but Sunny D is an orange flavored drink that is 70 percent juice and 30 percent made of other natural materials, as they say. They came out in 1964, and from what I researched this is the first logo. I also remember seeing commercials and bottles from my childhood in the 1990's with this design. Compared to now the design is a little dull, but when I was younger I used to look at this design like this is really a sunny delight in a bottle. I used to think that the flavor was refreshing, reminding me of laying out in the warm sun on a beach, during a beautiful summer day.
         It was said that they abbreviated the name in order to make it sound cool. So Sunny Delight changed to  Sunny D in the early 2000's. There are currently three different logos, for three different areas of the world since it became so popular. There is the US design:

The UK Design:

& the Design for Spain and Portugal, who still call it Sunny Delight:

The one thing that remains the same in all of the designs is the Sunshine in the background of the words. The Sun is what makes Sunny D, Sunny D. Although the UK one is a bit different by having the "sunshine" in back of the fruit that the drink taste like, maybe they just didn't like the original US look. My favorite design out of all three of them is actually the one from the UK because I feel like the typeface and the graphics around it are more appealing to children now, it just looks more friendly and more "cool"  than the US and Spanish design. Do you think the new Sunny D logos took a change for the better? I do.

Windows 7 Stunning background

I just wanted to share this stunning background design by windows seven. What I love about it is that it gives you the impression of being underwater by the way the light reflects the ground and the windows design is floating in the air as well as the green swoop that is across the screen. Its like an illusion because you see the sky is cloudy and sunlight coming out from it, so you never know for sure if this is underwater or not. Maybe that was the point, or maybe the designer wanted to give you the feeling of being in a new world. The main colors in this design are cool colors which is green and blue, with one warm color; that being yellow. The feeling that invokes in me from viewing this design is a feeling of curiousness and amazement. I think this was very creative, and I would love to have something like this on my background.
  One thing that I would love to know is how do they come up with these designs, what made them want to give the impression of being underwater, with the sky over you as a background logo for your computer screen? Does someone tell the person "Oh, I would like our new design to be confusing and creatively beautiful." Or does the person just come up with it and show them to see if they like it? I'm a person who's indecisive so I would like to know how designs are thought up of, other than besides obvious reasons. If I had the opportunity to design a background for window I would of used the windows symbol and filled it in with different views of the good things of life, or maybe even different vacation spots. I would go for the more obvious type of design. What would you come up with ?

Colors

  Every year I noticed that Google goes out there way to create a design for many of the holidays taking place during the year, and in the design it seems to find a way to spell Google and remains to be the home page for the rest of the day. Although there are so many, there were a couple that really caught my eye and invoked a feeling while looking at the design.
  The first one was the Valentines Day 2008 eight design of  a old man and old woman walking down the beach. I love this design because it gives me a warm feeling. Maybe its the warm colors of the red orange sky, and red balloons that reflect the love and passion that this picture is representing. Or the yellow shirt the old man is wearing that reflects the happiness that he may be experiencing while taking the lovely stroll on the beach. It could also be the cool blue of the water washing ashore, and hitting their feet that make them feel at peace with themselves or one another. Whatever it may be, I think the colors used in this picture symbolize a lot and get the message across that its valentines day be happy and love one another.
   The second one of my favorite designs for Google holidays was the first day of spring March 20, 2009. This design was by Eric Carle,  the author of the well known children's book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I love this design because it was one of my favorite books that I read as a kid, and the Caterpillar as well as the warm colors and fruit reminds me of spring. One of the things that I really like about this design is that all the holes that represent the Caterpillar eating through the fruit, also represent the letters in Google. I love that he had the idea to put a blueberry upside down with a leaf to make a lowercase g. This was a very creative was to celebrate the first day of spring.
  Colors seem to play a very big role on the way people perceive things in day to day life. They also play an even bigger role in design, helping getting a message across to the people that see it. The colors that have a big role in my life are Teal, Brown, Black and Pink. You can find me wearing one of these colors everyday. What colors to you like to wear?

Helvetica.. One Hell of A Movie.

  Before I begin discussing Helvetica, I wanted to point out the fact that although this is an old,well known, and well used typeface, Helvetica has the red line under it, so it needs a spell check. I wonder why that is.
  Before watching this movie, I never paid attention to the different fonts that are being used in businesses, retail, food, keyboards, and anything written in daily life. But now I notice all of them, and now I'm starting to see Helvetica everywhere. 
  I dont really like the font, I feel like the words are too close together, and the fact that its used so much doesn't help me like it either. I like variety, and trying something different. I understand people think, but its a classic! But I mean its 2013, stop following this classical thing and do more of a modern thing! Just because its classic doesn't mean its the best.
  After watching this, I watched the short mini film about the typeface Comic Sans--which I thought was a very well put together film & suggest it to others and realized I love Comic Sans way more than Helvetica.
  As a person who loves movies,  and media production, I was excited to see this movie because although I know that there is a lot of movies about almost everything, I didnt know there was one about a typeface. It was pretty cool to hear about how popular and well respected this typeface is, and even more cool to see that there was over n hour worth of material about it.
  But you know what would be more cool? Seeing a movie about MY favorite typeface. Verdana.
  Maybe Ill make a mini movie about it!

Day One.

Today was the first day of my Communication Graphics class, and I cant wait until we begin making our own designs. One of the things that happened in class that I was shocked about was how nice the designs looked from the early 20th century that we were shown in the slide show. People are very talented.

I think its important for Communication majors to study design because its a big factor in communication itself. In public relations and advertising, there are alot of designs that go into the advertisement of what the ad may be, and in media production lets say someone in the music industry may want a design for their album cover, or a producer may want to open a new record company and need a design for that. Designs are everywhere in communication! Why not know it?!

Good design matters, because if you have a boring or simple design it may not attract people, or the people you want it to attract, and then it wont help for business. & You always want business to go be good !

I've seen alot of designs in my 21 years of living, but one of my favorite designs is LG. Which stands for the company Lucky Goldstar, who also uses the LG as a symbol for Life's Good. The thing I like about it is that it is a face where the G is going around the L to make it look like a face and the L is made to look like the nose. But what really got me is that the G over the L kind of looks like another eye, but an eye that is winking. So the whole design gives off this positive feeling, that life is good, winky face.