Assignment 8: Bonne Homme-age

Here is my version of a Paul Frank poster.

This is an actual Paul Frank design.

Assignment 7: Visual Onomatopoeia

Here is my visual onomatopoeia I created. I am so sick of typing that word. When I was first starting this assignment I wasn't really sure what to do. I kind of just typed "sketchy" in as a filler word because it was the first word that came to mind, and then I guess I just went with it. It's kind of a double entendre and I used both meanings in the piece because I wanted to show the real meaning and then the slang meaning of it. I tried to merge them as seamlessly as possible and I think it went ok, I like the hooded guy that is scribbled in and mad shoutout to Scott who showed me that feature in Illustrator. Overall, I like this project and I think it is my favourite thing I've done in this class so far.

Text Assignment

I had a lot of fun doing this assignment. I am excited to be working more with colour now in this class because it gives you so much more options. I picked this font because I thought it would be fun to kind of make a satire of, and poke fun at, girly, cutesy fonts. While I still did that, I kind of also went in another direction by making it very romantic-ish. The creator said that he made it for valentine's day so people could use it in their cards to each other so I decided to make it portray a certain "puppy love" feel, if you will. I also used a custom candy heart generator to help give a Valentine's Day effect. I also used french because "cheri" is a french word and I worked it in there.

Reading Week

With Reading Week coming up fast I realized we are almost halfway through this semester and I haven't made very many entries in my blog that aren't just posting my assignments. Mostly because this semester has been very busy because I am taking three New Media classes which all have time-consuming projects. Although a bit stressful, I feel that taking all of these classes is helping me to expand my creative process, each in their own way.
In my Theories of Design class, I am learning a lot about always thinking about negative space and thinking through how you set up everything on your workspace. You have to be aware of all elements at all times.
In my Production Management class, we are doing what I have been wanting to do for a long time in this program. We are learning how to present work that we have done, like we would if we were presenting to a client. This is a very important skill to develop because ultimately this is what most of us New Media students will be doing as a career. Creating things for other people and selling them to them.
Finally, in my compositing class I am learning a whole new side to special effects. They are a lot simpler than I had thought and I am having fun creating little sequences with particles, etc.

So that I guess is my mid-semester relection on my class.
Have a good break!

Assignment #5: True Colours

Here is the fifth assignment. I was excited to finally be working with colours and had a good time creating schemes. Also, printing this time went much more smoothly so they actually look like I want them to! I am a big fan of very natural, and neutral colours such as brown, pale pink, etc. so they show up a lot in my colour swatches. However, on the last one I decided to be a little more bold and that one ended up a little crazy. I'm still not sure how well the colours go together but it describes my favourite memory perfectly so I didn't want to change it.
Overall I am basically happy with this assignment, and I think the 'My Favourite Colours' turned out to be my favourite, also I like the combo of brown and pink in 'Colours of the Body'.

Assignment #4- Typographical Higher Arches?

Finishing this assignment was pretty much the bane of my existence. I enjoyed doing it fine enough but printing it off was a nightmare. For some reason the templates don't load right on my computer at home. Anyways, I finally got it done but it doesn't quite look like I would have hoped. Oh well. The last one is my favourite.

-Oh, and I'll never diet again.

Assignment #3

Well here is my shape assignment. I found it pretty interesting and fairly fun to do. One challenge I had was creating the low contrast with only black and white. I tried a couple different approaches and in the end I think they turned out OK. My favourite type to do was the asymmetrical one although I'm not sure why.