Blog Entry 17 – Final Project: Brochure Spreads

The colors in the brochure were meant to give more of a medieval look.  But I would have to say that with InDesign it was hard to get the texture I wanted like in Illustrator.  But the dusty brown and the gradient from brown to black give the look I was going for.

The alignment in the brochure was meant to be alined with all of the creases in the folding. the knight alined with the middle and the sword aligned in the middle.  Also there is alignment with the type so that the type can be in some type of order.  I think the unique alinement gives a cool look to the design of the brochure and I think it would attract attention.

Blog Entry 16 – Magazine Spreads

This article if from a Newsweek Magazine.  What makes this article successful is the brightness of the sparks.  The sparks draws attentions and they lead your eyes from left to right.  The article being nicely aligned vertically up and down it what you see after the sparks have lead your eyes.  And to top it off having the works Sparks fly as a bold type for a heading makes the reader more interested.

This article is from a Scientific American magazine.  What makes this article successful is the bright colors all over the page. It draws attention very easily.  Also the image in the middle of the right side is something very interesting and something that a reader would like to know more about why it is there.  Also the type that says "A measure of the creativity of a nation is how well it works with those beyond its boarders" is a quote that stand out from the nice aligned text to make other interested in the article.

This article is from Sports Illustrated.  What makes this article successful is the boldness of the title that ties into the boldness of the player in the picture.  By having that go together it already makes the reader want to know who the person is that is a "game changer".  Also the fact the picture is not bounded but type is on top of the picture makes the article more exciting to dive into.

This article is from the Gameinformer magazine.  What makes this article successful is the famous diamond shapes that Maxis is always known for.  By putting their type and picture in the diamonds makes the article so much more appealing to read.  Also by have the green color bolded "T" is another classic Maxis move that just shows their loyalty to the company.  by having 25 years clearly stated they must be doing something right that readers will love to read about.

This article is from the Scientific American magazine. What makes this article is the title combined with the really interesting images.  The images look like something irregular which is already going to pull in readers. Combine that with the title being fancy and scientific looking readers are going to see what Cosmic Collisions is all about.  To top it off the article has heading to the nicely aligned type to break down what this scientific thing is all about to readers that know nothing about the topic.

Blog Entry 15 – Revised Project 2 Logos and Brand Overview

Brand Overview

Combination mark

Monogram

 Wordmark

Blog Entry 14 – Project 2 Logos and Brand Overview

Brand overview

Combination Mark

Monogram

Word mark

Blog Entry 13 – Project 2 Research Sketches

Global Gamers

Global Gamers is a place where gamers of all places can come and enjoy a good time.  They will have the chance to chat with other gamers and be able to have the chance to demo games from all systems regardless of where they are from or how small the systems are.  Global Gamers may sound like something like other video game trade stores but it is so much more.  You will be a able to trade chat and best of all GAME!!

Possible Logotype

Combination Mark 1

Combination Mark 2

Monogram 1

Monogram 2

Monogram 1

Blog Entry 12 – The Non-Designer's Design Book: Type Categories

Most wanted signs are an example of Slab Serif type because of the thick horizontal serifs with very thick and straight forward stokes.

This is an example of Script type because of the calligraphy type of style involved with the long and fancy looking stokes in the writing.

This is an example of Oldstyle type because you can see that the stresses are going from the top left to the top right and the serifs are slanted downward to the left.

The is an example of Modern type because there are vertical stresses in the words combined with thin horizontal serifs.

This is an example of Decorative type because of the oddness in the word "great".  The word is informal and stands out but emphasizes the meaning of the word "great".

The is an example of Sans Serif Optima type because it has stresses staring from the top left to the bottom right like Oldstyle type but the serifs seem to be cut off or removed.

Blog Entry 11 – The Non-Designer's Design Book: Type

 This is concordant because the type is all the same very plain but the firs letter. and there is some slight italicized words in it but the main idea of being boring and plain is still there.

This is concordant type because the type is all the same, very bold, but the comment in the corner is much smaller than the rest.

This is conflicting because of the top and bottom line.  They are the same type as the rest of the writing but they are slight change of color

This type is a contrast because the type is the same but the bottom line is slightly dark and slightly smaller

The contrast on this is because the font are nothing of the same and there is several different colors and sizes of font

 This is contrasting because each line of type is a different font and size

Blog Entry 10 – The Non-Designer's Design Book: Alignment

Good Examples

In this example organization is a big key here.  The main thing about the page is that along the tope i mainly a line of helpful search items.  but a vertical line down from the search bar is a line of searched items.

The line in the middle of the page show separation as well as unity of the comment of Romney's presidency compared to Romney himself.

This business card is a good example of what the books shows as alignment down the center and from left to right.  the alignment down the center is the general information and the left to right alignment is the names of the people and company.  So there is unity and alignment here.

This poster has a great example of alignment where is is easy to read the important information about the show Lost.  The other miscellaneous information doesnt's seem to be cared about as much.

The Wall street Journal web page shows great alignment where as they have three distinct lines down their page to show as much information as possible as cleanly as they can.

Bad Examples

This flier has nothing of alignment, the information of this flier is just randomly placed all over the page.

This example of alignment seemed to be closer than the one above but the information should be aligned down just one side of the card to make reading much easier for the person looking at the business card.

Blog Entry 9 – Pen Tool Assignment

Blog Entry 8 – The Non-Designer's Design Book: Proximity

ebay is one website where they show proximity very well.  They have everything arranged very well where they separate everything into different categories.  They have the name of the site very clearly able to be read but in the middle of they have the hot items where people can easily click on but around that they just have miscellaneous information (what people are less interested in) in much smaller print around the main points of this page.

Yahoo is very similar to the eBay picture above but its main concern is not selling things.  You can see that Yahoo shows is name very clearly up in the top but then has the top articles in the middle of the page.  But what Yahoo does that eBay doesn't is make their search bar very distinct because Yahoo is mainly a search engine so they want people to know how to search for things and where to go.

The Bill of rights shows great proximity in bering very professional.  The document states the title up top as the eyes would go to first and below is each article separated because they are all different.  The document also states the date by the title because it is related the when the Bill of Rights is written.

This is a good example of advertising in proximity.  The title of the product is show boldly like they have confidence in the item they are selling but below their product is the golden goodness that you can eat.  Also relevant to the product is all of the good nutrition facts they they are bragging about that they also show boldly.

This is our book that we need to read for class and this shows the title very clearly but in the corner is where they brag about how there is 8 books in 1 and below that relevant to the book included is where they list the books that is included.  But below the book they bold the authors to there is difference between the authors and the title of the books.

Blog Entry 7 – Project 1: Revised Image Final

Blog Entry 6 – Project 1: Critique Image Final

Blog Entry 5 – Project 1: Research

Looking at Levi van Veluw work he has a lot of picture of just his face, but what is on his face seems to play a big role on how his face look, especially in his ball point pictures.  His art seems to just be a reflection of a curtain feeling he is having.  But this type of art I can really relate to with the music I listen to.  The music I listen too is always dependent on the mood I am in.  This is something that is very simple to show but the way Levi shows it is very unique.

Catlin Harrison has some a neat self-portrait of herself.  But what is really interesting about it is that she drew a separate image to describe different parts or herself.  Almost like there are certain thing about her that conflict but to her work out perfectly.  I can also relate to this because I also feel like certain parts of me conflict.  For example, when I am Mennonite but I love to see violent movies.  Catlin has a great way to show herself as a person.

Blog Entry 4: Out of Bounds Composite Demo

Blog Entry 3: Basic Compositing Demo (Meerkats)

Blog Entry 2: Bird/Orange Composite

Attack of the BIRDS!!!