Quick Typography Project

This obviously isn't completed...but a good working start!




type on top of original...

First 10 Tutorials (read/watched)

Pins!!!
This tutorial shows how to create pins! I've always wanted to create some funny pins and hand them to friends. The great part of having illustrator to create pins is that you can really show depth to designs. This tutorial shows you how to really create that button effect. I am certain that this is going to be a fun one to play around with! And perhaps creating a pin to go along with my portfolio as it flies to various companies would set me apart! A treat for whomever takes the time to look at my portfolio. I'm all about rewards!

10 Features in Illustrator CS4!
This tutorial shows 10 new features in AiCS4. I chose to read this tutorial in order to learn how to maximize my access to CS4 and see what added benefits there are to the newer version. The tutorial runs through the ten features with short detail... yet it is easy to branch into a full tutorial from the links provided with each stated feature.

Vector Eyeball
This video tutorial demonstrates how to create a vectored eyeball. The end product is pretty scary looking and quite frankly is a wonderful appetite suppressant. Maybe this is the beginning of a new dietary solution for people. If you gross out the morbidly obese to such a point...perhaps they will reduce their intake. This would be a non-intrusive solution...Ha!

Professional Business Card
This tutorial was easy and comprehensive. Their final product does not reflect what I would consider an effective business card. Yet the tutorial can easily be applied to any desired characteristics one may have. Thereby making this tutorial worthwhile. Creating business cards using word or whatnot is so passe!

Fairy-Tale Inspired Magical Hand Shaped Vine
This tutorial was attractive to me given its whimsical nature. I don't really like the idea of a hand-shaped vine... but the vine effect could be used for any object either inanimate and animate. The tutorial is fairly long yet it really goes into detail for each step, which is very helpful!

Environmentally Friendly Green Type Treatment
I chose to look through this tutorial as this type of type treatment seems to be quite popular in branding and advertising. The linking of what encompasses the company and its activities/services to the type is interesting to me. Generally these type treatments look fairly corny but a demand is a demand!

Vibrant Digital Collage Mixing Buildings and Vector Shapes on Paper
This tutorial was of interest to me as it uses both fireworks and illustrator together. Since I own the full adobe suite I enjoy discovering how to implement its many components together. This tutorial shows how to use multiple elements within a workspace in order to create an image with many textures and elements. The tutorial is fairly long...yet bearable.

Dramatic Vector Landscape Environment This tutorial shows how to create landscape environments in illustrator. The tutorial is a little more difficult then others to follow as it requires you to have a reasonable understanding and ease of use with the program. This is mainly given its use of the pen tool without giving a full on tutorial of how to use the pen tool.

Watercolor Vector Flower IllustrationThis tutorial shows you how to take a picture of a flower, for instance, and convert it into a watercolor painted flower. Instead of using a sketch you have drawn you can create an illustration off of a picture. The great part about this tutorial is that it teaches how to create texture and depth to illustrations.

Fading Light Vectors in Fireworks
This tutorial shows how to create some effects with fading light linear vectors in Fireworks, an adobe suite program. The tutorial is easy to follow. I chose this tutorial as I think it has the potential to be useful... especially when we begin to use photoshop or the class.

ART 120: Blog Post 1

blog assignment #1

computer experience:
I have a lot of experience using computers and various programs. I was in ART 200 last term, providing knowledge in InDesign and some in Photoshop. I am proficient using Adobe Suite, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office Suite, PageMaker, Visual Basic, and QuickBooks Pro.

what are you excited about?
I am excited about gaining more knowledge/skills in illustrator and photoshop.
I am also excited to create new projects.

favorite books & magazines:
I enjoy several magazines including: W, Objekt, Paper, Mode, Print, and I.D. to name a few.
The following are some books that I refer to at times and have enjoyed:
The Big Book of Graphic Design by Roger Walton
Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Design Firms from Across the U.S. by Jenny Sullivan
1,000 Graphic Elements: Details for Distinctive Designs by Wilson Harvey
Contemporary Graphic Design (French and German Edition) by Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell
Business Graphics: 500 Designs That Link Graphic Aesthetic and Business Savvy by Liska + Associates and Steve Liska

favorite websites:
bittbox
smashingmagazine
designfloat
designmeltdown
lynda

FINAL PROJECT: MAGAZINE

FRONT COVER/BACK COVER

FIRST PAGE (SEE Last spread for inside front cover...)












INSIDE FRONT COVER/ INSIDE BACK COVER

Signage PDFs

Process: narrative write-up revisited

Groupings: groups incorporating mentioned parts of routine
WATER-
9:00 PM: Walk to bathroom sink
Turn on hot water
9:00.05 PM: Let water run until steam appears
9:02 PM: Adjust temperature

SOAPING/LATHERING-
9:02.5 PM: Wash hands (using hand soap)
9:03 PM: Rinse hands thoroughly
9:03.5 PM: Using both hands splash face (focusing on eye area) several times until mascara has reasonably dissolved
9:04 PM: re-soap hands using hand soap until they are quite sudsy
Close eyes
Bring soapy hands up to eyes to lather to clean off all eye-makeup
9:04.5 PM: Rinse face and hands until soap residue is gone
9:05 PM: Pump 2 pumps of Cetaphil face wash into hands
Spread and lather in hands
9:05.5 PM: Bring hands up to face and lather on face using a circular motion
Each general facial area reached twice

RINSE/DRY-
9:06 PM: Rinse face 4 times or until all sudsy residues is gone
Turn water off
9:06.5 PM: Turn and walk to towels
Dry off face

PRODUCTS’ APPLICATION-
9:07 PM: Walk back to sink
Grab a cotton ball
Pump 3 pumps of astringent into cotton ball
Swipe across entire facial area
9:07.5 PM: Grab facial serum
Pump 2 pumps into hand
Spread over facial area
Slightly air dry
9:08.2 PM: Grab facial lotion
Pump 2 pumps into hand
Spread over facial area
9:08.7 PM: Put on Chapstick
9:09 PM: Grab facial lotion
Pump 1 more pump into hand
Spread over remaining dry facial areas

Groupings purpose:

Each group (water, soaping/lathering, rinse/dry, and products’ application) turn into chapters.
Each chapter will have several pages (2-3) within it…the images reflecting the routine and the narrative sharing a thought or emotion that was felt during that particular instance of the routine.
This could also be done in he opposite way…the images reflecting thought or emotion felt during the particular step and the narrative being the step-by-step routine.

Applicable thoughts/emotions by chapter:

WATER
Main water line leak-leak was detected…at a rate of a gallon/minute
Water usages-to drink…to splash…to cleanse
Sinking-overwhelmed feelings

SOAPING/LATHERING
Cleanse-taking off the day, ridding myself of day’s negative encounters
Color-solution turns to milky sand color
Why-what was that about

RINSE/DRY

PRODUCTS’ APPLICATION

Process: Narrative Write-up

. . . pondered on what daily routine would be suitable for mapping . . . came up with two. The second developed into my preffered choice for this project.

Waking Up:
Eve of next day (hours vary...): ensure that alarm is on
And set for 8:30 AM
8:30 AM: alarm goes off
Blind/audible search for phone
Phone located
Snooze button selected

8:31 AM: place phone above head pillow for ease of access

In the next 9.5 minutes…
Comfort and dreams prior to alarm going off are sought

8:41 AM: Snooze button selected again
In the next 9.5 minutes…
Comfort and dreams prior to alarm going off are sought
~process repeated for as need be

8:51 AM: Turn off alarm button selected

8:52 AM: Rise out of bed
Walk to bathroom
Turn on shower
Urinate
Hop in shower

8:53.5 AM: Take Shower

Washing My Face Off:

Routine takes place at various hours…generally in the evening…for the purpose of this exercise the ninth evening hour will be chosen.

9:00 PM: Walk to bathroom sink
Turn on hot water

9:00.05 PM: Let water run until steam appears

9:02 PM: Adjust temperature

9:02.5 PM: Wash hands (using hand soap)

9:03 PM: Rinse hands thoroughly

9:03.5 PM: Using both hands splash face (focusing on eye area) several times until mascara has reasonably dissolved

9:04 PM: re-soap hands using hand soap until they are quite sudsy
Close eyes
Bring soapy hands up to eyes to lather to clean off all eye-makeup

9:04.5 PM: Rinse face and hands until soap residue is gone

9:05 PM: Pump 2 pumps of Cetaphil face wash into hands
Spread and lather in hands

9:05.5 PM: Bring hands up to face and lather on face using a circular motion
Each general facial area reached twice

9:06 PM: Rinse face 4 times or until all sudsy residues are off
Turn water off

9:06.5 PM: Turn and walk to towels
Dry off face

9:07 PM: Walk back to sink
Grab a cotton ball
Pump 3 pumps of astringent into cotton ball
Swipe across entire facial area

9:07.5 PM: Grab facial serum
Pump 2 pumps into hand
Spread over facial area
Slightly air dry

9:08.2 PM: Grab facial lotion
Pump 2 pumps into hand
Spread over facial area

9:08.7 PM: Put on Chapstick

9:09 PM: Grab facial lotion
Pump 1 more pump into hand
Spread over remaining dry facial areas