CD Album

I got this idea from searching images on the internet. I recreated this image in watercolor pencils and pen. After I scanned the image in I increased the saturation to give it the cool neon effect. I hope you guys like this because I really want to move forward with this! :)

Here are a few business card variations...I need feedback. I personally prefer the top horizontal piece. It works for me being that you can simply flip the card to the left or right to read the backside. Also, in the horizontal version up top I was able to use the "talk of the town" type illustration to scale. Tell me what you think.

Hey you guys, I took the classes advice and cut the "Talk and Town" from different variations and cut the "of the" from another and combine them. I played around several times and this is the one I have decided to move forward with. I chose the horizontal version because I think it reads best and feels balanced especially if this is going to be on the back of Talk of the Towns business card. Tell me what you think!.

Identity Project

Talk of the Town Salon- Flyer 1

This is a flyer option for a beauty salon. The motto is "Every girl wants to be the Talk of the Town". My solution for this motto was to create an image using contrast to draw attention to a girl who is quote on quote the "talk of the town". I drew the image and scanned it in because I wanted the card to have a personal unrefined element. This is one option, there are more to come.

Peace College softball poster-2010

Action shots by our pitcher Kendra Yearick's father Karl inspired this poster. Karl snapped hundreds of pictures at the Peace College annual softball game in the Fall of '09. I chose pictures that illustrated good fundamentals and competitive softball in hopes of good advertisement to bring the public, faculty and students out to games to support us in the spring for our 2010 season.

Skyline/Street Dancer Assignment

Balance & Scale/Proportion

Rhythm

Pattern

Pattern repeats itself to create rhythm. The reoccurance of lines, colors and shapes to create movement.

Non-pattern

Movement/dynamics

The use of elements which have something in common are repeated regularly or irregularly sometimes creating a visual rhythm.

Movement/direction

Rhythm is achieved by having a dominant visual path of line making the design appear to come to life.

Contrast

When one element differs from another, like an interruption of overall feeling of a pattern. For example, dark elements in the background while the foreground is light creating a focal point.

Isolation

Isolating an element in an image it creates an attration that meets the eye.

Placement

To place elements within a composition point to one item, the viewers attention is directed to that item creating a focal point.

Absence

When attention is achieved by not using a focal point

Balance & Scale/Proportion

Figure-ground

The visual relationship between the foreground and the background

Axial/Bilateral

Bilateral-Symmetrical arrangement, as of an organism or a body part, along a central axis, so that the body is divided into equivalent right and left halves by only one plane.

Axial-Property of a geometric configuration which is unchanged when rotated about a given line.

Radial

Asymmetry

the condition of having similar parts regularly arranged around a central axis

Human Reference

Human reference- The use of a human in a design to show the scale of the object or design so the viewer can comprehend or better understand the proportion.

Context

Context- How the surroundings and the environment can affect the outcome of an image.

Internal

Internal (object to picture plane)- Describing the scale of an object by placing that object inside another object. For example a fish inside a fish bowl.

Contrast

Contrast- The the extreme of one thing affects the other. For example like the yinyang, the darkness of the left side allows you to direct your attention towards the lightness of the right side.

Assignment II

Figure/Ground

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-ground_in_map_design

Asymmetry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetry

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I found this design at typetheory.com. Grafik Tasarim is the leading graphic design magazine in Turkey best known for design news, research and educational articles.I like the way the designer collaborated with an artist to form a lowercase “a” with human muscles and and also the anatomy of a standard letter. This image was built by hand and 3D computer generated images created with Maya and Zbrush. I am typically drawn to designs that take extreme effort, I like to see that the designer has devoted everything he or she has to the design and it fascinates me. I can see that the designer went way out of his was to recreate a common vowel in such a new way. It reminds me of the work of Christo and Juanne-Claude in the way they allow you to focus your attention on something you often overlook. Kudo's to this designer, he has officially inspired me!