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Mivelaz Process Journal
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Table of Contents
6 Five Dollar Toy Brainstorming Constructing Logo Exploration Packaging Booklet Poster
26 Dutch Folio Exploring Researching Brainstroming Constructing Folio
38 Weekly Blog Posts
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Five Dollar Toy
For this project we were told to build an imaginaive toy and a promotional poster which can be folded down into an informational booklet. The catch however, we were only allowed to spend five dollars when purchasing items to assemble our toy. Also, rather than just going to a craft store and easily being able to construct a toy, we were restricted to only shopping at a hardware store, making it that much more difficult. This really made us get our creative juices flowing. As for the poster booklet, we needed to design a 17 in. x 22 in. double sided poster which could be folded down into a 5.5 in. x 8.5 in. informative booklet about the toy.
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Brainstorming When we were given the outline of this project it seemed like a simple thing to make a five dollar toy, however, when looking around a hardware store for items to turn into a toy, things didn’t seem so simple anymore. My first idea was to make a Game of Thrones themed doorstopper, and I was going to carve out the character, Hodor. But, I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to pull that off. My next idea was a Zen garden. I found a little rake like object and I had sand, the only problem I ran into was finding a little wooden box to put the sand in. While roaming around Lowe’s I came across the PVC piping aisle, and that’s when it hit me. I could build a marshmallow gun, I had built them before and I knew it wouldn’t be expensive to make. This is where my project began.
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Assembled Toy Meena Khalili, 2016
Constructing There are several different ways to make a marshmallow gun, so I researched different ways. I went with the standard way that I learned how to make them when I was younger. Which was with just one long piece of PVC pipe, with two elbow connectors, two T-shaped connectors, and two caps. After purchasing all the items, I went home and began cutting the PVC pipe down into the sizes I needed. I needed one long section which I made 7 inches. Then I cut two pieces off which were 5 inches in length. Next, I cut four pieces into 3 inch segments. For the final step before the actual construction of my toy, I sanded off all of the other print on the piping, but made sure the printed area where “Made In USA� was left untouched so it coud be seen on the final design.
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Logo Exploration A product is nothing without a name. I needed to come up with something clever, but simple enough for the consumer to understand what my product was. My first idea was Marshmallow Marine, but then I later changed it to Mallow & Marsh, to play off the actual gun company Smith & Wesson. While sketching out some ideas for logos, I narrowed it down to a few designs that I felt worked the best. Then I carried them over into Illustrator to tweak and make them look clean. I came up with a simple wordmark and an icon. When doing this I had to come up with a color scheme I could use that would pair well with the product. I took the standard army camouflage colors of green, tan, and brown. However, since it is a toy, I made them more playful and pastel like. They became a light green, yellow, and orange. I later got the suggestion to add pink, because the other colors were apart of the pastel marshmallows. I now had a toy, a name, and my color palette. The next step was to come up with a package design.
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Toy Package Meena Khalili, 2016
Packaging My original idea for my toy’s package was going to be a standard box which most toy guns would come in. This wasn’t unique. Also, it would’ve been quite a big box, considering how large the toy was. However, thanks to one of my classmates, I then changed my original idea from a pre-assembled marshmallow gun into a DIY marshmallow gun. This decision made the package drastically smaller. I used a box sleeve with lots of white space as well as soft edges to play off the style of a marshmallow. The slide out box was covered in the pastel colored camouflage. Overall, the package looked very sleek and clean.
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Booklet The final step was to design our booklet for the toy which could be turned into a poster when unfolded. I came up with numerous ideas for the booklet covers as well as the spreads inside. None of my sketches for my booklet were turned into the final product, which I’m very happy about, because I love what my booklet looks like now. I chose to make the booklet look like a Top Secret filing folder with classified documents inside detailing the mission statement of the toy, telling the user how to assemble the weapon, as well as where to buy it and much more.
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On this half of the booklet you can see the front and back cover as well as the first and second page of the booklet. The front and back cover are very plain to resemble a vailla filing folder. All that is displayed is a stamp of the company, Mallow & Marsh and its name typed below. Also there is a classified documents stamp. When you open the booklet you then are shown the top secret content. With blacked out type as well as a signature from the commander and even some polaroids, which are paperclipped on.
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On this part of the booklet it displays the rest of the booklet, pages three through six. First the viewer would see what the package looks like and the contents of the package itself. Next it gives step by step instrauctions on how to assemble the DIY marshmallow gun with handwritten notes and sketches of what the gun should look like during the assembly. Also to play into the old stlye there are stains on the files, but since it is a marshmallow gun, instead of coffee stains, these are hot chocolate stains.
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Poster The poster design I had in the beginning was just the logo and a target, which then turned into the logo icon having a mouth opened into a target. However, this didn’t turn out so well, I was actaully even told it didn’t even look like a mouth. Also, the target would have been way too small. So I scrapped that design and came up with something similar but new. I wanted to make the poster and booklet mesh well toegther, so I made the target play off the same style as the booklet, with the old style paper and made it a realistic target.
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I wanted the poster to look very realistic compared to one someone would see at a shooting range, yet still playful. It has a life size version of a person, a score card at the top right, and a mini silhouette in the top left corner with the logo placed below.
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Dutch Folio
For this project we needed to design a three spread, six paged self covering book. It needed to be 8.5 in. x 11 in. when completely folded up., We had to use paper used in the aper industry. And to do this we had to either request, purchase, or otherwise procure samples. The final piece also required a biography with 200500 words, imagery of the designer, portfolio of the designer’s work, vector designs of our devising, as well as a poetic, symbolic, intangible, or metaphorical image. It needed to have experimental type, a timeline, a di-cut, and lastly, a colophon.
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Exploring We were given a list of Dutch Designers, and were instructed to choose three. After making our choices we needed to make one spread fopr each that captured their style. The designers I chose were Jeroen Vinken, Arconiko, and Faro.
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Researching After we designed spreads for each designer, we then had to narrow it down to just one. This time we weren’t just designing one spread, we would be designing a six paged, three spread, folio which would display the designer’s work. I chose to further research and design for Arconiko. I really loved the simplicity of their website with it’s large amount of white space and the lime green color of the brand. Also, their architectural works were amazing, each one had their own flare. They designed places for work, living, schools, and even sports and culture.
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Brainstorming After choosing my designer, I now needed to think of how I could design this folio while properly showing off their works while also using their style. I had many ideas, right off the bat. However, most of my ideas didn’t work with the parameters of the project when having our mini critique. This made me have to think a little differently and to come up with a completely new idea. My design was something simple and sleek with a cool cover element which I felt fit into Arconiko’s style.
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Constructing The actual construction of the folio was quite time consuming with multiple sketches, dummies, and prints. After a while they got easier and quicker to make. I wound up just using three sheets of paper. I printed the entire spread on each of them and then I cut the sheets of paper down to be 11 in. x 17 in. The hardest part of the entire construction was the front cover which had Arconiko, in all caps, cut out of the paper, allowing the viewer to see the bright green page underneath.
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Folio I am very proud of my final print and construction of the folio. I used Neenah Bright White Stipple 100 for the cover to add some texture as well as to make the cover thick. As for the pages inside I wanted to have a glossy paper so I used Espon Professional paper. I used this paper so that when the book was closed the bright green page behind the cover popped that much more.
Dutch Folio Meena Khalili, 2016
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Weekly Blog Posts
Each week we had to read a few pages from our required book, Layout Essentials, and listen to one podcast. We needed to write a response to both in at least 300 words. Also, we needed to be mindful of grammar and spelling. Each reading had to be coupled with a visual response to the reading that summarized our current progress in the project we were working on for this course at that time.
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Week 1 This podcast was very interesting from beginning to end. The story was about an elderly woman, named Edith Macefield, who wouldn’t sell her property to developers of a shopping mall. Now that you know the synopsis of the story, I’m going to attempt to relate it to my area of study, Graphic Design. Edith Macefield never gave in, even when the money offered grew way past what her house was actually worth. This can be strongly associated with Graphic Design work. In Graphic Design, we are always trying to please the client. However, sometimes the client doesn’t see exactly what were trying to accomplish, whether it is with the color palette, the typeface, or maybe even just the overall design. We are the artists. We are the professionals. So in some ways we can be seen as the developers, trying to make the client, Edith Macefield in this case, budge and let us do what we want or what we think is best. This is not always the greatest idea though. Sometimes the client will budge because they have full trust in what we do, but other times we will have clients like Edith Macefield who want things their way and won’t give an inch. And by being a Graphic Designer, we must face these tasks and still make the best out of every opportunity we are given. Similarly, in the story, the developers still built their shopping mall but instead of bulldozing her house, they built it around her house. This can be seen as a compromise, which is another thing that will be used in the workforce. We may be able to put our own spin on something the client doesn’t care too much about, but on other things they want them a specific way, so it is a win-win for both parties.
This scenario is strongly related to a current project I am working on for a family friend’s logo for a Condominium in Florida. They call it the Tipsy Turtle, and requested a cartoon styled turtle that was laying on its back and a drink in its hand. I drew up a rough sketch and sent it over. They approved, so I did a quick illustration on my computer and sent that to them. However, while I was designing it, I modified their idea and designed a silhouette version of the original. They liked it. But then they requested some tweaks, which I was happy to make. However, neither my design nor the original designs were chosen. I made an entirely new design, which used their original idea as well as my silhouette idea. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/chris-ware http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/holdout/
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Week 2 In the 99% Invisible Podcast we learned about structural integrity, mainly about the CitiCorp building and how it was built. Turns out the building wasnt built very well and definitely wasn’t thought through when designing it. When they were building it they came across a problem. There was a church that was built too close to their building and so they decided to put columns on the bottom for the rest of the building to stand on. The engineer figured the building would only have a little wind coming at a perpendicular angle rather than winds coming at it in quarters. This could’ve been very disastrous and killed thousands of people if any storm with strong winds came through that area. Taking this scenario and putting it into the design world can be simple. If we didn’t have peer reviews for our projects or if we didn’t actually go in depth on critiques and everyone just told one another they liked or loved the design or colors or idea, we could have a serious problem. We would bypass a bad design and in this case with our toy projects, it could be a huge waste of time and money. Luckily, as designers we don’t do that, we understand that not everything we make is gold, some ideas are terrible and some just need to be a little more polished. We also can’t just look at someone’s design and say its beautiful or doesn’t look good; we need to know what the design is for and if it meets its mark. Sometimes a boring design to us may be exactly what the designer is going for because the product is bland. Again, using this with what we are doing in class, if the colors are dull, maybe the product itself isn’t something that should pop its supposed to be soothing and nature like, where as something that glows in the dark may want to throw in some fluorescent colors to make it stand out. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/structural-integrity-2/
In our Design Matters podcast we listened to, Massimo Vignelli talks about only using a small set of typefaces, because those are like his bread and butter of design. We can relate this to our future project where we will only be able to use a set number of fonts on our poster/booklet design. We as designers will have to know which fonts are best for titles as well as for body text. We wouldn’t want a super bold block like body text because it would be horrible to read, however for a title that may be what we need to grab the reader’s attention, and then have a nice soft thin body text to let their eyes flow through each letter wanting to turn the page to keep reading. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/massimo-vignelli
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Week 3 This week we had a 99% Invisible podcast to listen to as well as to read Chapters 1-8. These two things were strongly related to one another. In the podcast they discussed how the radio is structured into time segments, while in our book we read about grids and structure of page layouts. So essentially, both talked about structure and its importance. Chapters or articles can separate a book, while on the radio it can be music or it could be radio ads etcetera, because there is a time slot for each things that goes on the radio. However, things can never go over the time slot, but you’d think it would be great if some did, that way it could make up for something that goes way under. This alone can be incorporated into our current project.
Toy Package Meena Khalili, 2016
We have to design a poster that folds up into a booklet, and in this booklet we have to give the reader information about our toy we designed. If we have information that is only a sentence long on each page that won’t work, however if one segment of our booklet goes into great depth and is two pages long then the next segment could be just a quick sentence or two because the in depth segment made up its slack. Another solution to a short segment of our booklet could be pictures to help fill up the page, so it isn’t so bare. When I started sketching my mockups for this booklet I needed to take all of this and put it in the back of my mind. I came up with four very different variations with different layouts on each as well as what information was going where in the booklet. In one of my sketches I had just a more simple and sophisticated structure, but then I remembered this is a toy for kids, I know I plan on making it for ages six and up but that should mean a kid may enjoy looking at this booklet as well. So I came up with what I thought was a very playful design. The front and back cover of the booklet will have marshmallows covering the entire page, creating the shape of my logo I designed. While on the back the logo will have a burned effect into the paper and be surrounded by marshmallows. These are both very playful and will catch the viewer’s eye. I haven’t exactly nailed down which inside layout I’m going to use, but I need to keep in mind what I learned this week about structure and incorporate it into my design. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-broadcast-clock/
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Week 4 From the very beginning of the Design Matters podcast Jessica Hische talks about growing up with art and all the classes she took and then how she fell in love with lettering. She even took a class in type, thinking it would be the same thing. However, she describes them as complete opposites. Even though type isn’t her favorite thing to do she has still made a few typefaces of her very own; one of them was actually used by Barbie. She talks about how hand lettering is something that is not consistent and you can’t rearrange the letters to make a new word, you would need to go in and write everything, where as a typeface can be rearranged and it needs to be able to look great no matter how experienced the designer is using the typeface. She also talked about how a designer needs to research their project so they can get a better idea of what type to use, whether it be hand lettering or a particular typeface.
This information can easily be related to what we’re doing in class right now designing our booklets for our Toy Project. If the toy is very playful and directed more to young kids, the text may be bigger and have nice clean typeface with maybe even rounded corners. Where as if our toy is supposed to make you think or is for an older crowd it may have a nice sleek blocked San Serif typeface. My toy is a DIY marshmallow gun and it is a playful toy and is for younger kids but anyone can use it. Since my toy is a gun, I decided to make my booklet for it look like a filing folder with top-secret documents inside detailing what the toy is as well as how to build it. When doing this I had to research what top-secret files looked like and the layouts for them so when you saw the booklet you knew exactly what I was aiming for. When researching I found most all top-secret files had a stamp on them with classified or top secret, as well as the companies stamp and name in a clean typeface. While the body text is an old standard typewriter look. But the real catch is the paper looks grainy and had little notes and strikethroughs all over the file. This gives it that little extra nod to top-secret. So I went with this style and even added a little extra by adding little Polaroid pictures that are paper clipped onto the file to showcase the product itself. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/jessica-hische
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Week 5 This week’s podcast was the 99% Invisible podcast discussing revolving doors and how they are more energy sufficient and just a better overall use for buildings and the people inside them. While listening I was having a pretty difficult time trying to think of how I could relate this to Graphic Design. Then I stepped away and came back to it later. This time instead of listening to exactly what was being said I read the story. Then it hit me how I would be able to connect this podcast to Graphic Design. In one way, the invention of the revolving door was for social interaction phobia basically, but then it slowly became clear that this revolving door wasn’t just for not having to engage in conversation or holding the door for anyone behind you walking in or out, it became more scientific by looking into what all goes on with the revolving door. They said that swinging doors exchange 8 times more air than a revolving door. Using a revolving door would save tons of carbon, as well as saving tons of heating costs due to the air exchange. Also a revolving door doesn’t allow wind, snow or rain to get into the building either. So in this sense, relating to Graphic Design, we may come up with an idea but then later on have something that was a better version of it. The second way I can relate this story to Graphic Design is packaging, because they tested out to see how many people use the revolving door versus the swinging door. The swinging door was tremendously higher than the number of people who used the revolving door. However, when they put signage up more people were inclined to use the revolving door. This can be related to packaging because something that catches your attention you may be more inclined to buy that product rather than your normal product, in this case the swinging door.
Both of these two comparisons relate to our current project of the $5 toy, and especially my toy. My marshmallow gun, instead of the typical toy gun you would see at a shop, is a DIY toy, so this may catch a consumer’s eye and have them pick up the product read the information on the back about it, then hopefully make them want to purchase it. Also, the idea of a target for my poster design became better the more I looked into it, just like the revolving door. I started out with a target because it was fun and easy to do, then looking at it more and researching them my target transformed from a very bright and colorful target, that didn’t really work as intended, into a very realistic looking target that was serious yet still playful based off the original design. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/revolving-doors/
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Week 6 With our first project completely finished we are now beginning to start our second project. And with each week we get another new and exciting podcast as well as some chapters to read. This week we had a Design Matters podcast with Maria Popova. It was a very long podcast, however, it was pretty interesting to listen to what she had to say. One of the things she mentioned I agree with on so many levels. She stated, “We create by combining and re-combining existing pieces of knowledge and insight and information that we gather over the course of our lives.” This is absolutely true; I can always catch myself putting my own style on something even when I’m trying to implement a different style or design. This isn’t a bad thing by any means; it is what makes each one of us unique and different from every other designer. This can be seen so easily when given a project in class. Relating back to out first project, we were given perimeters of what we could do for our toy project. It had to be something from a hardware store and it couldn’t cost more than five dollars. Yet not one person had the same idea. Some were similar to one another but they still had their own style of design. This again will come into effect in our upcoming project, where we have to take three Dutch designers, and implement their style of work into a spread. We will do this by using body text and imagery as well as the typefaces we see fit the designer. Even if we all were given the exact same designer, pictures and body text, I bet we would all have a different layout of our spreads as well as different typefaces used because we always add our own individuality into our work without knowing we’re doing it. This is because our individuality is sculpted by the art we look at and are attracted to, therefore when we are designing something ourselves we pull the things we like the most out of all the artworks and combine them into something completely new. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/maria-popova
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Week 7 In this week’s blog post we were instructed to read chapters 37-45 and listen to the 99% Invisible podcast, which discussed Guerilla Pubic Service. An artist, by the name of Richard Ankrom, noticed that an overhead sign on the freeway didn’t have proper signage. So he took it upon himself to fix this problem. He went out and measured the signage so it wouldn’t be noticeable that the company, Caltrans, who is in charge of those things didn’t professionally do it. He matched up the pantone colors to the interstate sign, as well as the height and width of the letters. In the end it was pretty spot on. He did an incredible job of recreating the sign and putting it up on the overhead sign above the freeway, so good in fact that it went unnoticed for 9 months. Caltrans didn’t even notice it. One of Richard Ankrom’s friends leaked the story, which then led to the company finding out about the sign. However, they didn’t take it down, they just ran inspection of the sign and it actually passed, so they left it up. Later on they took it down when redoing all the signage above the freeway, and one of the workers joked around saying that it was so good they may have to hire him.
This story can be loosely related to our current project of designing spreads for three Dutch designers of our choice. We have to research these designers and see what styles and typefaces they use so that we can then merge these things together and make a spread that would look as if they made it themselves. It is quite difficult but, just as Richard Ankrom did, we have to research greatly and use the same color schemes as well as to look and see how everything works when put together. Since we have three different designers all of our spreads should look different, for the most part. Some may use the same typefaces, some may use the same color palette, some may even use the same the layouts, but none of their works will be the same. This is what will separate them from one another and we, as the designer for the spreads, must find the best way to do so. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guerrilla-public-service/
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Week 8 This week’s blog post, we we’re instructed to listen to Design Matters with Marian Bantjes as well as to read chapters 46-54 in our Layout Essentials book. At the beginning of the podcast it grabbed my attention. This woman went above and beyond as well as branching outside the book. For me that is a little difficult to d when designing spreads, as you could probably tell from the first critique of our second project. During her podcast she stated, “we are always focused on pleasing the client and getting the idea across immediately; I am the complete opposite of that” and I can relate to the first part tremendously. I always try to do what my teachers would like or what looks best even though sometimes it’s not exactly what I would’ve done. However, sometimes when I do that I get so submersed in it that I eventually begin to love it myself and then take the wheel and make it even better than what I were hoping for. So Marian Bantjes is very unique in the way she, I’m sure still pleases the client but, conveys her work so they its also something that she will like. That to me is very smart, because like I just said, when you begin to love the work you’re making it shows in the end result because you aren’t just trying to please someone by making something, you’re then making something for yourself that your then giving to someone else. This can strongly relate to our second part of project 2. I’m not super into designing spreads, but I need to learn the best way to design a spread for this class. The more I surround myself with spreads and ideas that I like for designing this 6 page 3 spread booklet the more fun I’ll have making it and the better the design will look in the end. I have a few ideas already, but I need to research more about my Dutch designer I chose so I can better mold my booklet to their style. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/marian-bantjes
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Week 9 This weeks podcast we were instructed to listen to the 99% Invisible podcast Awareness. In the podcast they spoke about symbols and how they are important. This is extremely true, a symbol can make or break a company. If the name and the logo don’t mesh with one another it wouldn’t make sense to the viewer. Also some big name companies like Nike, Starbucks, or McDonald’s wouldn’t be as big as they are now without their perfectly designed symbols. They have some of the most iconic symbols. I once saw a video of a classroom being quizzed on images and every single person knew those but when they were shown other images they had no clue what they were. These symbols are so powerful they don’t even have their name as apart of the logo it is truly just a symbol. This can be somewhat related to what we are currently working on but more so just our work in graphic design as a whole. For this project we need to symbolize the designer we are showing no matter the page we’re on even if it doesn’t show their name. In our graphic design classes we need to be able to create such works that a viewer can be be in awe of what we’ve made and know exactly what we were trying to convey when making it. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/awareness/
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Week 10 This week’s podcast we listened to Stefan Stagmeister’s Design Matters. One thing I really enjoyed from the podcast was when he stated to “try not to look at art as objects but try to look at it as an experience.” This stood out to me because art usually is an object or some thing, but its the experience that comes with that piece that makes us fall in love with it. I can relate that to our current project because I have been looking at this booklet trying to make it seem cool and attract someone’s eye which, I think the cover does but when you opened it up it looked so ugly and plain, I would want to close it back up and never open it again. However, after our group meeting in class I received some pretty good feedback and actually got an idea on how to spice up the spreads. It’s not finished yet but the above imagine is my redesign of the horrible slanted images I had going on before. Now, it looks like an experience, your eye wants to read the header then skim over the body text, then the next page as all these wonderful images on it all in black and white with a nice pop of color and some grunginess to some of them as well. Then the timeline on the bottom which takes your eye from page to page. It’s still a work in process but I love this new direction I’m taking. I actually am starting to like working on this project again, at first I wasn’t really into it as I’m sure it could be seen in my work compared to how fascinated I was with the toy project and all of my work I put in. Hopefully once this project is completed the two with both be pieces I enjoy. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/design-matters-with-debbie-13
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Week 11 In this weeks podcast we were instructed to listen to the 99% Invisible Ten Thousand Years. It was very different from the other podcasts we have listened to over the course of this semester. However it still was very intriguing and interesting to think about. Art is something that changes drastically over years, and there’s nothing we can do to stop or predict it. It is just the way of life, but we can try to predict what may last for a long period of time rather than just a couple years. This is something that logo design has to think about. Look at any big name brand, their logos have changed over their entire existence but sometimes they are just small tweaks to make it fit into the artistic style that everyone loves. This is something we as designers will have to learn to do. To try and relate this podcast to our currently project is a little tricky, but I can make a stretch and say that we are having to take somebody’s style and work and make it last. So we can’t put too my modern style to it, it needs to be simple but still eye catching that if someone were to see it years from now they would pick it up and could possibly tell when it was made but also see what we were trying to accomplish when designing it all. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
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Week 12 This week’s podcast we listened to the Design Matters with Tina Roth Eisenberg. To start off she begins discussing how she uses art to escape and be happy, which is exactly what our work should do. Also, she spoke about how she started a blog, now I see why we may have been told to start this blog for class for our process journal but also, it may be something that we keep updating throughout our time in this program, or even further. Debbie Millman of Design Matters asked Tina if she ever had a moment when she knew that this is what she wanted to do with her life, and of course she said, “yes” and stated that she saw her Uncle making art one day and that is when she knew she wanted to do art for a living.
I, myself, don’t really recall an exact moment when I knew Graphic Design is what I wanted to do for a living, but I have always been surrounded by art and artists. My entire mother’s side of the family is very artistic, my mom can draw and paint wonderful pieces, and so can my Aunt. My Uncle actually is a professional artist who sells prints that he draws and then converts them to the computer to be printed. Which I think may have been the reason why I started to love art because I was so in awe when looking at his work. His works consist of University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Baseball, and NASCAR prints. However, my favorite pieces were the realistic cartoons of University mascots doing ordinary things together. He’s a UK fan so his main piece would be of the Kentucky wildcat doing things with other SEC mascots such as playing poker, sitting at the last supper, having a barbeque, playing golf, sitting at a bar, and much more. But then he would do the Louisville version with the other mascots of their conference. I just have always loved this works because it was very unique and the amount of detail put in was amazing because he would sneak in little seek and finds for people in our family and close friends, and I enjoyed looking for them. Thinking back on this now I just made the connection to one of my favorite designs I’ve made in my own free time, which is very similar to those pieces. I made a Disneyesque version. It just has a bunch of Disney characters as well as some others just sitting around on a couch watching shows on a laptop, playing videogames and more. For our final project we have to turn all of our blog posts, and our two projects into a booklet, which we design. I already have an idea of the direction I want to go in I just have to figure out how to make it work. https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/tina-roth-eisenberg
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