support and color

The following are the three designs I am going to work with.  Now I've got to start working with color.  It may be a little challenging but hopefully I get some good results out of it!

type

I love that our new project is dealing with type.  I love looking at different fonts and can't wait to take a class on fonts — I've slowly been teaching myself about them.  Anyway, I found this and thought it was cute/funny.  I think my favorite is the baskerville (meaningless fact: that was one of the two fonts I chose for my high school paper).

here's the link to where I found this: http://9gag.com/gag/21488/#

More meaninglessness: I'm listening to really loud music right now.  Why? Because I love it.

printed

I printed my poster on Friday and am so excited to have this project completed!! Tonight I am working on finishing my process notebook.  Tomorrow night I'll work on the 20 typographic images with my word "support."  I am going to work on trying to depict my word using the word only once.

support

We are wrapping up project 3 (finally) and moving on to the next.  For this project we're representing a word and it's meaning.  I've chosen the word support.

According to the American Heritage dictionary, it's defined as:

TRANSITIVE VERB:
sup·port·ed, sup·port·ing, sup·ports

1. To bear the weight of, especially from below.
2. To hold in position so as to keep from falling, sinking, or slipping.
3. To be capable of bearing; withstand: "His flaw'd heart . . . too weak the conflict to support" (Shakespeare).
4. To keep from weakening or failing; strengthen: The letter supported him in his grief.

 Now I'm off to finish up my hairdryer project and study for a journalism test!
 

Fredrik Marsh

Last night photographer Fredrik Marsh spoke with us in the Hallmark Symposium series.  I found him very interesting to listen to – even though I may not be going into photo.  It is always interesting and more entertaining to hear from someone who obviously loves what they do (which Mr. Marsh does).  I loved his work where he was capturing the landscape with man-made influences.

 This was one of my favorites he showed.  The framing of the horizon and landscape through the building is very intriguing.

I also enjoyed the interior shots he did in Germany and thought they were more successful once he began shooting in color.  Here was one of my favorites:

One of the most interesting part of his photos. to me, was he said he never sets anything up.  He shoots what is left there for him.  This is very inspiring, I like the idea of just capturing what is already there.

If you want to see more of his work, check out his website: www.FredrikMarsh.com

thus far...

Here's what I've got so far, I still plan on editing some of these and then I obviously need to finish my gestural and texture still and scan those in.  Any thoughts?

hairdryers on illustrator

I am really enjoying working on this project with illustrator.  I've started refining all of my hairdryers and am getting excited to finish this project!  I've only got two more drawings to complete — the gestural and texture.  So, I guess we'll see what everyone thinks in class on Tuesday!

what? a computer?

I am so excited to be moving on to the next step in this project!  I am happy with the 15 drawings I ended up choosing to refine for the poster and hopefully they'll look great together.  I can't wait to mess around more with Illustrator.  I feel like I'm getting the hang of it — at least for basic tools.  I scanned in some of my drawings last night and couldn't help but already start to mess with them in Photoshop and Illustrator.

inspiration.

I got a new pair of shoes today from my favorite company ever, TOMS shoes.  Aside from graphic design, I also hope to make an impact on the world and TOMS shoes has been a huge inspiration in that aspect.  One guy has made a world of difference to young kids in poverty stricken countries by providing shoes (for each pair a customer buys, one pair is donated).  I can only hope to become involved in something as a great as TOMS.

Love.

wow, my posts are even getting monotonous

Not only do I feel like all we do in this class is draw, now that is all I post about.  My weekend will be spent finishing up these bazillion drawings.  Maybe eventually I'll have something new to post about regarding class...