Line dynamics
In the beginning I hit a rough patch not knowing how I wanted to incorporate the different ways to achieve depth in each section. I starched off with the shape as a simple blob being sectioned and spaced apart. I then took my 4 favorite sketches from my sketchbook and put one in each section. After that I used to sketchbook to see which designs would look best with it. After going at it for a while, it wasn't as much of a struggle like in the beginning. I ended up loving what I designed.
Shape transformation
This project I didn't enjoy as much as the previous one. At first I didn't follow the directions correctly so I felt the need to redo it all rather than tweaking the other one so that it would work better. But i started off with geometric shapes slowly transforming into curvy organic ones. I attempted to have a face show in the curvy one. I feel like I could have added more to it but i still wanted there to be negative space.
balancing act
In order from left to right: Stability, individuality, dominance, opposition, and rework of dominance. I enjoyed doing this project and messing with the shapes and deciding which arrangement worked best for what they had to represent. I also like that everyone interpreted a different way in class when looking them as a whole. I used photoshop for these so that there would be good craft and equal measurements.
Nature abstractions
For this project we had to take something from nature and turn it unto an abstraction. I chose different kind of leaves that I thought had interesting shapes and a variety of them. I wanted it to be apparent that it was a leaf although abstracting it, which was challenging especially for the pine leaves. Then we were to take one of the abstractions and make another abstraction from it! I made a flower from one of the leaves and used the rest as an interesting background! I really liked how each of them turned out and it was one of my favorite projects this semester. N
Pattern saturation
For this project we had to create a shape, cut it out, and then repeat it all over the paper. From there we would erase lines leaving 7-13 different shapes. In each shape we would put a pattern inside of it that would range in value from 5 being the lightest and 1 being the darkest. The goal was to show each shape overlapping with each other creating depth. I enjoyed the project and drawing in different shapes. My favorite part of the composition was the bottom left corner that looks like a funnel. I do however wish I had used white instead of gold for the project but still love how it turned out!
COLOR RESEARCH
RED: associated with health, compels people to buy things, signals danger because its very visible.
YELLOW: inspires original thought, activates left part of brain, and used for caution signs
WHITE: represents a clean slate, too much is isolating, shows cleanliness.
ORANGE: helps bounce back from disappointments, used to promote food products, is the most neglected color.
GREY: neutral color, in business represents powerful, 50shade of grey= not everything is black and white.
BROWN: symbolizes organization, UPS uses it to ensure customers their packaging will get where they wanna go, if you dream of brown is means you are/will be lucky with money
PINK: combines the passion of red and pureness of white,pink logos are for women, back in the day pink was for boy and blue was used for girls.
PURPLE: represents the higher self, purple in nature is calming and rare so its sacred, stands for mystery (cashire cat)
GREEN: down to earth person, used to advertise drugs and medical products, and is in the middle of the visual spectrum so it represents harmony.
BLUE: "got the blues" came from alcohol withdrawal.. considered the blue devil, used on cleaning products because it represends water and the sky,
YELLOW: inspires original thought, activates left part of brain, and used for caution signs
WHITE: represents a clean slate, too much is isolating, shows cleanliness.
ORANGE: helps bounce back from disappointments, used to promote food products, is the most neglected color.
GREY: neutral color, in business represents powerful, 50shade of grey= not everything is black and white.
BROWN: symbolizes organization, UPS uses it to ensure customers their packaging will get where they wanna go, if you dream of brown is means you are/will be lucky with money
PINK: combines the passion of red and pureness of white,pink logos are for women, back in the day pink was for boy and blue was used for girls.
PURPLE: represents the higher self, purple in nature is calming and rare so its sacred, stands for mystery (cashire cat)
GREEN: down to earth person, used to advertise drugs and medical products, and is in the middle of the visual spectrum so it represents harmony.
BLUE: "got the blues" came from alcohol withdrawal.. considered the blue devil, used on cleaning products because it represends water and the sky,
logo/branding
For this project we had to create a logo on photoshop and then brand different items with our logo. Creating the logo was fun for me since I'm a graphic design major so I liked being able to my project on a software I was aware of. During my senior year of high school we had to create a logo for ourselves in class so it was a nice change to revisit it and redesign it. We then had to brand stuff with our logos. I chose a candle that was made by my mom, a pail to hold pens/pencils in, and i simplified it and made it in the snow. Its cool to have things with my logo on it but the white background on them are very distracting.
logo cube
For this project we had to take a packaging and redesign it. We could either make the cube look as if it still represents the project its advertising or we could make it our own. I didn't want to necessarily go too far in either direction so i went kin of in-between. I enjoyed this project because again we got to use photoshop to create it. I used a Krave cereal box as the packagin for this project. And incorporated it into one of my favorite songs "crave you" and put the lyrics as "I krave you"