Journal 14

What inspired me most this semester was my fellow classmates. Everyone has been so supportive of each others work. As well as being supportive everyone has been inspiring through their work. I loved this semester and I love the graphic students that helped me through it!

journal nine

How did the experience change with sound on and off. Most youtube examples are similar in design style. What is wrong with the similarity? Did you find examples that are different from the "norm". Choose at least 6 to examine closely. How does the experience differ? feeling, mood, emotion, imagination. Which ones do you “like” why. Which ones don't you "like". How are transitions used? How is sound used? How is color textures, images, graphics, type...used?

Watching motion graphics with and without sound was very different. Sound makes such a big difference with the impact it had on me. Without sounds not all of the message felt communicated.

What is wrong with similarity? The problem with similarity in motion graphics in that your work will get lost in the millions of other videos. Being original is very important and helps people noticed your work.

The clips that I watched all seemed to have very good transitions which makes a big impact and seamlesly sews everything together.

Journal eight

Journal Entry No. 8: Monday, March 22/ Tuesday, March 23
read: go to the Design Observer website, read Type Means Never Having to Say... looking at your font list and font spec sheets what sans serif fonts would be similar to Futura but a better alternative? and read any other article of your choice. reflect and summarize what you read. a few of my favorites:

I would use Helvetica neue as an alternative

I choose to read 10 Graphic Design Paradoxes... This article was about the 10 things that graphic designers improve on. The best thing I took away from this article was that most designer blame their clients for bad design. He also said that there is no "bad" client. To sum this article up everything is about designer/client communication to help get a great final product.

Journal six

Watch + Listen: Thirty Conversations on Design: Little and Co asked 30 designers the same two questions... “What single example of design inspires you most?” and “What problem should design solve next?” Their answers might surprise you. But hopefully, they’ll all inspire you. Discover what they have to say. Listen to at least 5 "conversations".

Summarize, reflect, how would you answer the questions?

The five conversation I listened to had an array of answers... Some answers were "the city", "other products" "people" and "daily life". If I had to answer what design inspires me most I would have to say the day to day life. I pull inspiration from class, work, friends and family. In addition to those other designers inspire me greatly.

edison movie

Test 2

TEST!

IDENTIFIES, INTERPRETS, PROTECTS, BRANDS

brands

protects

interprets

identifies

good motion graphics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WQGrZUdb0&feature=related

Len Spencer... speaker for speech

Leonard Garfield Spencer[1] (February 12, 1867 – December 15, 1914) was an early American recording artist. He recorded numerous popular songs in the pre-1920s, the most popular of which was "Arkansaw Traveler" (sic) (1902). The song is an early novelty record and consists of a back-and-forth banter with an Arkansas local who is playing a fiddle. Examples from the conversation include asking "How far is it to the next crossroads?", to which the answer is given, "You just follow your nose and you’ll come to it." He asks, "How long have you lived here?" The answer, "See that mule? It was here when I got here." In another, he asks him why he doesn’t fix the leak in his roof, to which the man replies that it’s been raining. He then asks why he doesn’t fix it when it isn’t leaking. The answer, it doesn’t leak when it doesn’t rain. The song ends with him completing the fiddle tune for the Arkansan.

speech

_ Who is speaking? Len Spencer

_ Why was/is the speech important to society? The speech was so important to society because people could hear different kinds of sound through this invention. Speeches, musics, plays and other forms of information and entertainment could be heard worldwide and by anyone, not just those lucky enough to experience them live.

_ Why do you feel in is important or interesting? These speech/event/invention changed history. It changed history because people could experience entertainment from the comfort of their home unlike any other experience they have had before.

_ What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? It has a classic feeling with words filled with promise.

_ What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses... The whole speech feels grand and quite loud. Len Spencer voice is filled with confidence and make the listener believe every word he is saying. That said nothing is soft and quite a few words are stressed.

_ What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or ruhed? I feel the part in the speech where he says "My voice is the clearest, smoothest and most natural of any talking machine. The name of my famous master is on my body, and tells you that I am a genuine Edison phonograph. The more you become acquainted with me, the better you will like me. Ask the dealer." should be paused before to make more of an impact.

_ Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/emphasized words? The key words I would emphasize the different types of sounds you can hear when listening to this machine.

_ How does it make you feel? This speech gives me a classic feeling with words filled with promise.

_ How do imagine that the audience felt? I believe the audience felt much the same why as I did .. but more hopeful in the promises Len Spencer was vocally making.

_ Could there be another interpretation of the speech? Another interpretation of the speech could just be that this speech is a big gimmick so just sell another product.

Project Brief//

In the Timeline project the class was asked to create an organized timeline. We were allowed to pick from 5 different choices.. I chose "The History of the Bathing Suit". I chose this timeline to create because it was a topic I thought I could make the designs look fun as well as informative. The class was asked to design with the key word "time" in mind. The final outcome of the project was a printed timeline.

Project Overview//

This project went extremely fast! I can't believe we are already done with turning it in. If I had to do this project again I would change a few things... One thing is change is more time to develop my ideas. I felt very rushed and would of like maybe just one more week to clear some design ideas up. Second I would of liked a group crit. Crits always help me and I like looking at my classmates work to see essentially if I am on task. Other than those few changes overall this project was unique and let me think more of time and space rather than just trying to make something look nice.

done... final

third round

first draft on computer

sketches for history of the swimsuit

Metaphor

Exaggeration

Alteration Book Cover

refined biodiesel poster

almost final poster.. please comment on what you want to change! thanks!

journal five

"How Good Is Good?" an article written by Stefan Sagmeister, provides points to enriching ones life as a person and designer. The tone in his article is written for an easy read but brings up important topics and mindsets we should have. He often refers to priorities he has. At the beginning of the article he list three reasons for being alive and reasons to "get out of bed in the morning". At first his list goes like this...

1. Strive for happiness
2. Don’t hurt anybody
3. Help, others achieve the same

To create a better list he changes the priority of the reasons on the list

1. Help others
2. Don’t hurt anybody
3. Strive for happiness

I like that he has changed his mindset and is always looking for a way for the greater good of society as well as benefitting himself.

A question I would pose to sagmeister would be why so kind so humanity, instead of being selfish like many humans and designers? He is always trying to find the solution for everyone not just one.

I believe Sagmeister is so popular because his designs are amazing and he can really relate to the majority of the public. I enjoy his writing and design and am eager to see more for him.

Ze Frank's nerdcore comedy

This 19 minute clip is taken from the 2004 TED conference... very funny.. watch...

"Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create and interact using simple, addictive web tools."

http://www.ted.com/talks/ze_frank_s_nerdcore_comedy.html

It's Just A Date Final

It's Called A Break Up Because It's Broken Final

He's Just Not That Into You Final Cover

journal four

Bruce Mau is a world famous graphic designer. He attended school at Ontario College of Art and Design. He didn't end up graduating but pursued his talent at Fifty Fingers, a design firm. After a few years of working at Fifty Fingers Bruce decided travel to England for a short stay of a year and then returned to Canada and founded Public Good Design and Communications.

Bruce Mau is an important designer because he focuses on the good and stays positive. I admire this because the world can make people so jaded and Bruce Mau doesn't even focus on the negative.

The mantra I have decide to follow is...

12. Keep moving.
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

I choose this mantra because when designing I tend to get hung up on the smallest flaws and try to correct them before I try something else.. which in turn slows me down and does't let me come up with as many solutions as I would of liked to.

biodiesel flash... work in progress

redo biodiesel storyboard

biodiesel poster three

biodiesel poster two

biodiesel poster one

story board

type for logo

type studies

color palette for bd logo

logo type.. again three here help me pick one!

logo ... in two different colors (which should I go with)... please comment

logo signage

word list logo

logo brainstorming

journal uno

mind maps- help from ideas by connecting words or images with each with whatever one can think of. Its a good idea to not reject any associations because you never when the offbeat word may become useful.

concept maps- are very similar to mind maps but are more conditional and rely on statement like "if", "maybe", "with", "in addition to" etc.

free writing- is when one writes whatever comes to mind when a certain word(s) is said

word lists- similar to the free writing exercise but less poetic in a way and not really associating word after word together.

reflective writing- is looking back and writing about what has been done and what could have been done differently. An example of this would be process books

journals/notebooks- are a pretty casual one just keeps drawing, or text to keep thoughts and ideas

moodboard

Audience Persona:

Audience Persona:

Grace is a 19 year old college student. This is Grace’s freshman year and everything about college is new and exciting. Grace lives in the dorms with her new bestfriend/roommate. Grace has a part time job at a clothing store and although she spends most of her time focusing on fashion she is also very studious. She is majoring in Journalism and hope to work for a magazine or branding doing Public Representation for them. Grace is a strong indiviual but also a romantic. She reads many self-help books about relationships and believes that the books help her deal with the men at college.

concept statements

Concept Statements

1. Hybrid word. Love-hate

I choose the two words love and hate because this series of books written by Greg Berenhdt is about finding love and then breaking up.

2. Quote about love.

“Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.”

3. Urban Dictionary definition of “break-up”

When two people have to let each other go. Despite the fact that one of them loves the other one truly. The girl or the guy in your case decides that the two of you are not compatible for each other. Hopefully the two of the people can remain friends, though that is hard for guys to do, because we hold on. But always remember, there are more than 6 billion people on this planet. So though you may not want to hear it, the chances of this person being the one, are less than winning the lottery. I know it's tough but you have to move on after a break up.

font studies

Old Book Covers