well i watched these videos, and they were quite funny actually. And you were right, i was kinda surprised at the answers they gave. But giving how quirky they all are, its not to far of a stretch.
So ill quickly summarize the 5 that i watched.
First off- Erick Speakerman: i mean of course he is a little balsy, and has that grumpy old man feel, BUT ITS ERICK SPEAKERMAN, i wouldnt expect anything less. and chose the alphabet as his number one inspiration, and the best design, which makes sense cus he is such a type freak, but also cus he looks like he was there when it was invented.
2nddddd- Joe Duffy- He was a pretty chill dude, his top design inspiration was natures design. I agree, if you just look at some of things nature has created, well then you should be damn astounded. He designed the Bahamas logotype, which i know a lot people really connected with and got inspiration from it. so good work joe duffy.
3rddddd- Edwin Chan- kinda a weird dude, but i totally relate to his words of wisdom. He talked about budhist monks using the mandala, and how the monks visualized all of their creations, and drew it in the sand. So Chan was alllll about creation through visualization, which is what i take pride in . so yes. im diggin it.
4thhhh- Kiko Farkas- this guy loves his simplicity. however he doesnt speak so clearly or simply. oddly enough. but he realy loves meaningful significant design, with not so many elements and just the right amount content.
5thhandfinal: CHIP KIDD- this guy is funny. this guy is just plain crazy. but he knows what he is talking about. He loves status, and being serious about ones self. He really wants to develop an identity. which he has personal done ten times over. but yes, he equates your quality of alchohol to your success, it is just funny. he is a funny man.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Back to the future of timelines of the past with process!
Project 2: TIMELINE: Organizing Information
Establishing order: Graphic design often relies on typography to commuicate order, information, and sytems. The goal of this project is to make things easy to read, navigate and understand. As you learned in typography one, the foundation for creating an clear informational structure is a a strong typographic hiearchy. Type size, wieght, and color are the the first steps. Graphic elements (lines, arrows, grids) and page structure are often used to aid in establishing a clear hierarchy.
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You will need to choose from one of the folllowing timeline choices...
TIMELINE CHOICES:
_ History of the Bathing Suit ( I CHOSE THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
_ History of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
_ History of Photography
_ Prehistoric Timeline
_ 100 years of Flight
CONTENT
_ timeline must have a range of dates
_ intro text
_ each point in time must have a date
_ and each point of time must have at least one sentence
_ images, icons, graphic elements are optional
Use the content from the website, you may use any additional resources for more information, images, etc. You may work in groups on collecting content.
CHALLENGE
How can you visualize the content? How can the audience get a quick understading about the topic? How are the pulled into the content to find out more?
TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS
Format: poster or accordian folded book
Size: You determine the final size, poster min. size is 13 x 19 tall or wide
Color: Unlimited color palette
Typography: 2 typefaces, 3 type styles, and no more than 4 sizes of type.
Grid: proportional or ratio modular grid
Project Overview:
Well I kinda liked and kinda disliked this particular project. It was challenging as usual but something about it rubbed me just a little bit in the wrong direction. Either way, I got a final poster that I like, and that I feel fufills the needs of the challenge. This was a quick project, and I really wanted to span my ideas out a bit further, but im glad it was short anyway. Im pumped to move on to the next project and get that quick one under my belt as well. I looking forward to doing more work oddly enough. Even enough to do most of it over spring break.
First Steps...
First off, we needed to kinda just pick one out. Due to the quickness of the project, it was basically go with an interest and even if you didn't like it, you were stuck. So I picked the bathing suit just out of chance. So running with it, I started spitting out ideas. They didn't exactly scream timeline, or show it but the thought was there. there is also some pictures thrown in there.
Round Dos: well after some brutal research and some equally brutal critiques, i started going in a few different directions in order to get the right feel. i tried few of the sketches, like the thermometer, swim bouye lines, and an acordian style booklet. like such.
Round 3ish: Well so i continued with the booklet to no avail. it didnt show enough sense of time. So i with the advice of some friends and teachers, i simplified it down to JUST time, and JUST visuals. I came up with a kind of down stream sense, and with some photography tricks i remembered from high school, i came up with a global idea. a sweet techinique if i do say so myself.
Nearing Round 4!!!!!!!!: so after an enlightining critique, i decided to go with the globe idea. but i needed to make it better with a sense of time. I had a few different ideas. some side menus orientation, and vertical orientation, and then a rather skimpy one with no menu's however i think i like that one the best.
ITS THE FINAL ROUND! ALI TOLD ME HIMSELF THAT I WAS THE WORLDS GREATEST!:
So here below is the final product, i made a few adjustments with some stroke weight, some type errors, and even adjusted the color so it didnt look so purple. im happy how it came out, im happy that its over as well. During the actual printing, it was going perfect, literally until the very end. THE DAMN PRINTER CUT ONE WORD OFF. imagine how small that error is when the font size is 8pt. it was literally 1/4 of an inch that got cut off. i was not a happy man, so 8 dollars later, i readjusted, and had a perfectly printed print, and perfectly annoyed design student. o well. what we wont do for good design. nothing i guess. WELL WITHOUT FURTHER ADEIU! the final.
i hope you enjoyed. i did for the most part.
Establishing order: Graphic design often relies on typography to commuicate order, information, and sytems. The goal of this project is to make things easy to read, navigate and understand. As you learned in typography one, the foundation for creating an clear informational structure is a a strong typographic hiearchy. Type size, wieght, and color are the the first steps. Graphic elements (lines, arrows, grids) and page structure are often used to aid in establishing a clear hierarchy.
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
You will need to choose from one of the folllowing timeline choices...
TIMELINE CHOICES:
_ History of the Bathing Suit ( I CHOSE THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
_ History of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
_ History of Photography
_ Prehistoric Timeline
_ 100 years of Flight
CONTENT
_ timeline must have a range of dates
_ intro text
_ each point in time must have a date
_ and each point of time must have at least one sentence
_ images, icons, graphic elements are optional
Use the content from the website, you may use any additional resources for more information, images, etc. You may work in groups on collecting content.
CHALLENGE
How can you visualize the content? How can the audience get a quick understading about the topic? How are the pulled into the content to find out more?
TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS
Format: poster or accordian folded book
Size: You determine the final size, poster min. size is 13 x 19 tall or wide
Color: Unlimited color palette
Typography: 2 typefaces, 3 type styles, and no more than 4 sizes of type.
Grid: proportional or ratio modular grid
Project Overview:
Well I kinda liked and kinda disliked this particular project. It was challenging as usual but something about it rubbed me just a little bit in the wrong direction. Either way, I got a final poster that I like, and that I feel fufills the needs of the challenge. This was a quick project, and I really wanted to span my ideas out a bit further, but im glad it was short anyway. Im pumped to move on to the next project and get that quick one under my belt as well. I looking forward to doing more work oddly enough. Even enough to do most of it over spring break.
First Steps...
First off, we needed to kinda just pick one out. Due to the quickness of the project, it was basically go with an interest and even if you didn't like it, you were stuck. So I picked the bathing suit just out of chance. So running with it, I started spitting out ideas. They didn't exactly scream timeline, or show it but the thought was there. there is also some pictures thrown in there.
Round Dos: well after some brutal research and some equally brutal critiques, i started going in a few different directions in order to get the right feel. i tried few of the sketches, like the thermometer, swim bouye lines, and an acordian style booklet. like such.
Round 3ish: Well so i continued with the booklet to no avail. it didnt show enough sense of time. So i with the advice of some friends and teachers, i simplified it down to JUST time, and JUST visuals. I came up with a kind of down stream sense, and with some photography tricks i remembered from high school, i came up with a global idea. a sweet techinique if i do say so myself.
Nearing Round 4!!!!!!!!: so after an enlightining critique, i decided to go with the globe idea. but i needed to make it better with a sense of time. I had a few different ideas. some side menus orientation, and vertical orientation, and then a rather skimpy one with no menu's however i think i like that one the best.
ITS THE FINAL ROUND! ALI TOLD ME HIMSELF THAT I WAS THE WORLDS GREATEST!:
So here below is the final product, i made a few adjustments with some stroke weight, some type errors, and even adjusted the color so it didnt look so purple. im happy how it came out, im happy that its over as well. During the actual printing, it was going perfect, literally until the very end. THE DAMN PRINTER CUT ONE WORD OFF. imagine how small that error is when the font size is 8pt. it was literally 1/4 of an inch that got cut off. i was not a happy man, so 8 dollars later, i readjusted, and had a perfectly printed print, and perfectly annoyed design student. o well. what we wont do for good design. nothing i guess. WELL WITHOUT FURTHER ADEIU! the final.
i hope you enjoyed. i did for the most part.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
BLOG-O # FIVE
So I read How Good Is Good. Besides being very well written it was very enlightening.
Summarizing what Stefan said basically goes like this....
The world in general has been designed, obviously by designers, but since most of us just follow the orders of our clients we fail to see the importance of design in the world and the affect that we have. If all of us just took time to make a list of priorities we apply to our designs and followed them, the world could be a better and more well designed place.
My favorite part was when he summed things up very simply. Like: Good Design + Bad Cause = Bad
I think Stefan is poplular because he puts things into context like that. He brings it up simply and makes it easy to understand.
Alot of the other videos I watched really had to do with designing our future, and the fact that we all play a very large roll in what happens to this world. Some person can have the best idea in the world but if it is not designed well, it wont reach the surface. So yeah I enjoyed these TED talks.
Summarizing what Stefan said basically goes like this....
The world in general has been designed, obviously by designers, but since most of us just follow the orders of our clients we fail to see the importance of design in the world and the affect that we have. If all of us just took time to make a list of priorities we apply to our designs and followed them, the world could be a better and more well designed place.
My favorite part was when he summed things up very simply. Like: Good Design + Bad Cause = Bad
I think Stefan is poplular because he puts things into context like that. He brings it up simply and makes it easy to understand.
Alot of the other videos I watched really had to do with designing our future, and the fact that we all play a very large roll in what happens to this world. Some person can have the best idea in the world but if it is not designed well, it wont reach the surface. So yeah I enjoyed these TED talks.
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