Assignment 3: Your Signature

You are always signing your life away, either on a check, a contract, or even your homework... Especially THIS homework!

You're are going to create your signature. You can do this on a regular sheet of paper and a pen, construction paper and crayons, on the computer, or any form you want to create your name.

The piece should be 8"x10", or 720px by 576px at 72dpi if you're doing it on the computer.

Here is my submission:

The image was created in Illustrator using Rockwell Condensed, stretching the "11" to appear to merge with the "tt" in my name. The blocks were added to fill in the white space.


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Take your time with this. You have until May 8th, at 11:59pm to finish this.

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments section.

Assignment 2: Word It!

UnderConsideration.com had a website where they would come up with a word and asked the followers of their blogs to come up with a design using what the artist imagines what that word means to them.

http://www.underconsideration.com/wordit/

Take your time to visit the site above and see the creativity of the various entries and get an idea on how you would create your piece. Your word to consider is:

Goal

First you need to think about what the word "Goal" means to you. It helps to visit the Dictionary and Wikipedia sites to give you an idea. From there come up with ideas on how you would design your creation. You are allowed to use whatever medium you wish, from scissors, paper, glue, crayons, and pencils (and scanned in) on up to Photoshop, Illustrator, MacPaint, Windows Paint, etc. You are also welcome to create more than one piece, but you will only be graded on one.

The piece needs to be on a 6"x6" sized image. That's 432px by 432px at 72dpi if you are doing it in the computer. I know it looks small, and you are welcome to do a larger piece if you want, but keep it  at that size when posting it on the blog. I want to keep the file sizes down.

Here are my two examples (click to embiggen):

The first one is a cipher. It's the Japanese game "Go" and "Al" from Happy Days. Add them together to get "GoAl". The second is a word cloud generated at Wordle.net and with an arrow created in Illustrator.

Take your time with this. You have until May 8th, at 11:50pm to finish this.

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments section.

A Great Idea! Rachel Lipman

I thought this was a really cool picture of McDonalds fries. I know that it is a Christmas ad from last year but I thought the way that the fries created a Christmas tree was awesome.

Now lets talk design stuff, I think that this ad has good background and foreground. It also shows good space and size.

RosaGvra: Assignment 1: A Good Idea

I found this image on the website Abduzeedo, which is a good website to learn and get inspired by other people's work. I like vector images and would like to learn how to make my own. It has foreground, background, unity, and balance by direction.

JJones-Assignment 1: A Good Idea

I love this ad and would find it very gratifying to blow it up and hang it on my wall. Found it on Mother Earth Magazine website. The colors are fantastic and bright; it has unity, balance by position, radial balance, emphasis by placement and is symmetrical. The serif type font works very well, too.

AAlarcon - Assignment 1: A Good Idea

Ok, I used this image because I just love anything CocaCola.

I found this in a new website of theirs which was announcing a new vending machine that has all of the CocaCola-brand sodas.

And the reason I picked this one amongst others is because I like how instead of just taking pictures of the machines, they decided to render them digitally.

CAzucena_Assignment1:Good Idea

This is an AD from Canon that I've saved when this camera first came out.

The AD displays foreground/background, asymmetrical balance, radial balance and balance by position. The 7d logo zoomed in and the Earth in the background, together they bring unity. When I look at this ad it isn't the best that Canon has put out there, I wanted something that would include different types of balance.

Assign 1, A good idea

I like this ad because of the placement of the furniture it guides your eyes
through the ad it has that z pattern grabs your attention. And if you look
at it shapes this ad has plenty squares, rectangles, circles, etc. It also has a
nice balance, foreground/background.

GTodd_Assignment 1 : A Good Idea

Haha I really like this because what are the chances of going into a Mc.D's fast food and see a serial killer there eating a big mac. Im not sure what I see, I guess something close to Asymmetrical balance, line and shape, emphasis by placement, foreground and background !!! Leave me some comments and let me know what you see in this ad.