Quote Design

This is my quote design, which was a quote by John Lennon. I used color and value a great deal on this design, because blue and orange are complementary colors and because its such a cool color, orange looks great against orange too. This makes for a good contrast between the background and Lennon's face. The assignment was basically just to create a design based on a quote, and I made it my own by using an expressive, eye-catching palette and a bold design. This design didn't go through too many changes along the way that deviated from the original plan, but I WAS going to color in random words in the image to make the quote again. In the end it didnt look right and detracted from the image so i took it out.

The Monday (Friday) Report- Emotion Designs!

So these are my emotion pictures, showing loneliness, happiness, loudness and bubbly-ness(?). The way lines are drawn can definitely affect the mood of the drawing. For example, a dark, heavy, jagged line isn't going to remind someone of happy things, it would bring to mind a dark, angry feeling or mood. In the same way, a light, swirly line wouldn't bring to mind an angry, resentful feel. I used fonts in the same way, for example, in the lonely pic, I lowered the opacity of the font in the background and used a font that gave a quiet, mysterious feel. This made it feel quiet and lonely. Another example would be in my loud pic, i used brighter, more fun fonts and played around with the size to give the impression of sound waves. This could help me in the future, even in the next project to set the mood for text depending on what text is talking about.

The Friday Report. Logo Design

So this week we had to make two different logo designs. One had to be our name, while the other had to be a recreation of another company's logo or a completely new brand you made up. I chose to remake the converse logo. I made it my own by putting a converse high-top shoe in the logo, and i connected some of the letters with some lines, and also used a different font. I pretty much lucked out, i didn't brainstorm a lot, i just saw the shoe between the two letters and ran with it. I used shape in this design to make the converse shoe between the R and the S. I also balanced the beginning of the logo with the end, because if i hadn't put the converse star in the O, the logo felt too heavy towards the end with the shoe.