Week 10

Movie Poster

For this assignment we were partnered with a film group who created a script, directed, and edited a short movie. I was given the task to create a movie poster for a film named Live the Dream. I made three designs before I was satisfied with what I had created. 

Week 9

Pizza Logo Assignment

For this assignment, we designed and marketed our own brand of pizza. We also created own label, logo, and advertising. What I ended up with is a logo, a pizza box design, and an outdoor billboard. I liked my idea of pizza you can get at night when most restaurants are closed whether you are up late studying, hanging out with friends, or just can't sleep, the midnight pizza brand was the perfect solution to this food crisis. I tried out two pizza logos before I found the one that I liked. MY first one was too busy, and the second one too simple. I ended up somewhere in the middle, and I am very proud of my logo. I downloaded a font from online to get the effect I wanted and turned my logo into a pizza clock. For the box, I wanted it to be simple and like any other pizza box, in order to not make the brand pricey. I also wanted the billboard to remain simple but get the point across. Anyone even slightly hungry will remember my pizza brand when driving by the billboard. 

Week 8

Film Premiere Poster

For this assignment, we were instructed to create a poster promoting the tiger studios, short film premiere. Along with including the date and time, we had to incorporate that it is a formal dress event with limited seating. I decided to create a red carpet and add silhouettes of people in formal dress attire, which I traced from the internet and placed onto my poster. I also downloaded two fonts to use, and am really happy with how it turned out. It was interesting to see how even when an image is turned into a silhouette, one can still tell what it is. 

Week 7

Road Sign Assignment

For this assignment, we had to learn about the immediate, practical communication, and other primary functions of a road sign. We first sketched out 12 different roadsigns by hand, trying to make sure each sign was clear and would be easy to read when driving by. I chose 5 signs to design in illustrator. These five were: Indian village, ant farm, target range, highway patrol area, nuclear power plant, and bird sanctuary. I chose simple designs for each which get the message across easily for people driving by. 

Week 6

Good/Bad Graphic Design T-Shirts

For this assignment, we were all instructed to create two T-shirt designs incorporating what we know about graphic design into them. AN idea for a bad T-shirt immediately popped into my head. I decided to create the worst designed shirt ever seen. I incorporated the worst fonts, colors and placement I could think of into this design. For my good T-shirt, I could not decide on an idea. Halfway through designing one I stopped and made another. I ended up with two T-shirts. One T-shirt incorporates the woman who designed the Nike swoosh into it.  The other T-shirt shows a person designing a T-shirt on a laptop, on the T-shirt is that same person designing a T-shirt again. I enjoyed this assignment because it forced me to be creative and come up with unique shirt ideas.

Week 5

Stencil Project

This purpose of this assignment was to create a stencil where when cut out created a doilie or crochet type pattern. I decided to do a space and planet theme, using the rings to connect everything to the border. I made a design and am going to cut out the black and leave the white. I made Saturn and Jupiter along with some different shapes of stars. 

Week 4

Face Collage Assignment

For this assignment we were told to go home, take a photo of ourselves, find images from the internet to collage over it, and to use the collaged images to show where the light and dark parts of the photo are. I really enjoyed this assignment even though it was stressful confusing. It was difficult finding so many images of colors of different shades that looked good together and also still looked like a face. My idea was to use nature for my face, hair and hand and use the city and newspaper as the nature surrounding me. I wanted to create an image that stood for a reminder that each individual is one of God's creations while everything surrounding us may be man made. A majority of the time when one sees a tree or bush it was put or moved there by a person, it did not grow there by itself, making it in a way, man made. People influence the way the world is run, but can not influence how you run yourself, and I wanted to embody that message in this image.

Home Page

Welcome to my Graphic Design website. Graphic design is "the process of visual communication and problem-solving through the use of typography, photography and illustration. The field is considered a subset of visual communication and communication design, but sometimes the term "graphic design" is used synonymously. (Wikipedia)" I am taking this course as a Junior in high school because it intrigues me how colors, shapes, and lines can be brought into one simple image becoming a logo, well-known symbol, and many other things. Graphic design is everywhere, the majority of it is taken for granted. One never thinks about how much time and effort was put into creating the simple logo of an app or company. 

             

                                  

Week 3

Font Poster

I chose the font that I used for the individual letter, the font Bitter. I really like the way that this font looks formal, but is also in a way fun and playful. My poster is a tree full of letters. I thought of how a lot of times I see word trees, and how ideas for new words, letters, or fons had to all stem/ branch out from one original idea or point. I made my letters red to help them stand out and give the poster a more "Time Magazine Look".

The Altered Page

For this project, we had to alter, rearrange, change, or redesign an image to create a new impression and to capture an audience’s attention. Using the template of a wall with an outlet, a brick wall, and a wall with a window, I used images I found on google to alter the templates. For the wall with an outlet, I decided to show space with the sun and moon plugged into the outlet. Similar to how a lamp is plugged in I plugged in two powerful sources of light. The brick wall template I filled with pairs of eyes. I wanted to show the diversity and a slight eerie sense of being watched. Lastly the wall with the window I decided to crop a baby swimming behind the window. There is a book centred around babies swimming which is adorable, and I thought it would be hilarious to see a baby swimming up to a window, which are normally not underwater. 

          

Week 2

Individual Letter Painting

I selected the font "Bitter" to paint my uppercase letter "X" in. I like this font because it is not as common as Times New Roman but still has a more professional and formal look to it. I at first intended to paint it as white marble, but really likes the idea of using a sponge to add some subtle colors in. The design ended up resembling more of some kind of underwater marble pattern which I really enjoy.

New Font/Alphabet

When coming up with ideas for the alphabet assignment, I knew I wanted to do something with either food or sticks and leaves. I decided that with sticks and leaves it would be harder to tell which letter was which, so I decided on food. I chose to work with skittles because their vibrant color would be nice visually, and the shape of them would be easy to work with. 

Week 1

Part 1

Instructions: Watch both the 2 minute video by Ira Glass and the 15 minute TED Talk with designer icon Milton Glaser.  On your blog, note the concepts that struck you as important in this competitive world of design.  What inspires you to learn about and do good design?  

The things that stuck out to me in the first video was the different ways that Ira Glass expressed and presented different words. Her unique style was intriguing, and I myself could have never come up with the idea for that video. In the TED talk, what Milton Glaser said was very interesting. He talks about different design types, and it made me wonder how a certain pattern or font becomes popular.

Part 2

Instructions: Select two great designs - anything from anywhere - and explain why you selected them and discuss their designs.  Along with your explanation, post the images, giving credit to the designers.

I chose to look deeper into the history behind the amazon, and target logos.

The iconic amazon arrow which everyone is formilliar with comes from the fact that amazon used to be a large book company. The arrow points from "a" to "z" because the company had books titled from a to z. The story behind the target logo is not as interesting. A group of 200 people were given the assignment to brainstorm name ideas for the new store. The name "Target" came up, and stuck, not long after that the logo was formed.