Week 13

Diffusion
Randomness
Sequentially
Depth
Opacity
Consistency
Transparency
Accent
Fragmentation

Fragmentation
Complexity
Irregularity
Asymmetry
Exaggeration

These two design influences express my vision for complexity and irregular representation of text. There is spontaneity to these designs that make the reader look for the message. The first image uses sketches expressing child like qualities. Bright transparent letters overlying the sketched photo of David Bowi on his way to the moon continue the randomness of the theme. The small magnified segments create a sequence showing details and telling the viewer there is more to what the eye can see. This graphic design is an advertisment for an HBO sitcom. The playfulness accents and sequential elements interests the viewer in finding out more. I hope that my designs leave the viewer wanting to investigate deeper messages within my works.

The second design is a reflection of a complex grid structure. The paragraphs show a movement across the page. The red accents keep the reader centered. This type of typography keeps the reader interested. It is not the average mundane layout of text. There is more to read out of the layout with color accents and highlighted pull quotes. There seems to be a very important message to be read from this design. The amount of effort the designer used to catch the readers attention is significant. There is something really dynamic about the placement each feature. This is the type of influence I hope to have over a page.

Contrast WEEK 11

Here is a graphic image using completely contrasting images. A gun is seen as a violent weapon, intimidating, wrong, masculine. A Japanese style fan is seen as delicate, tranquil, calming, cool, feminine. This juxtaposition shows a gun shooting out a fan with a small cartoon skull and crossbones with hearts as the joints of the bones. The character has a slight smile possibly winking with one red heart eye and the other white. This does express the action a gun would actually make. Though, the fan is opened in a similar fashion that the gun would explode a bullet with gun powder shoot out in all directions. The limitation of contrasting colors are powerful. They really state a message a black weapon shooting out a white fan with a red character that could represent an injury that a gun would cause. The image is balanced with lost of motion created by the shooting gun with similar motion created by the open fan. An wrongful action with a message of hope. The fan takes the pressure off of the shooting gun. These two images together makes the viewer think differently about the three images in context.

This album cover uses contrasting tones of black and white. The artist is displayed in a familiar set up using clean white attire, all dolled up for a photo shoot with full make-up and hair. She stands in front of a vandalized wall dripping with thick black paint. This contrast could be successful but due to the juxtaposition of the artist and background are too absolute. The artist is standing too close to the contrasting image. The paint seems to have been thrown at the direction of the beautiful woman. This angle could be interpreted as the paint being thrown at the woman in disgust. Her body language verbalizes this idea even more standing with her face backing away from the thrown paint. I would think this is a disrespectful representation of someone who is obviously trying to show off her talent. These polarities should reflect a artist being able to coincide with both concepts street grunge with classic vocals maybe. This is clearly two different ideas haphazardly juxtaposed together. There is a possibility that the artist and the background was taken at different times. This is no seen a whole concept merging together to represent this woman.

Motion in Graphic Design WEEK 10

This poster shows movement in graphic design even through flat images. The images seem to be cut out and placed on top of a background. This overlapping feature creates depth to the picture. The background creates tension between the spiraling spheres creating a continual movement to the background. The trapeze characters are set into relative motion by implied motion. The characters are set into motion by the strings that hold their seemingly moving swings. The biological motion created by the bodies about to swing across the page. The strings create overlapping lines that create more depth. These lines follow across the page moving the the viewers eyes across the page. Directional motion.
Motion is created in this graphic by an implied motion of applied movement. The figure is repeated in a consistent form as a walking character. The figure walks and leaves an impression of its past movements. A continuous shadow is formed and blurred to indicate motion blur. The character usually used for drawing purposed to show form and function of human is set into walking motion with biological motion as a real person in space. Each body part is is moved according to actual motion. The arms seem to have been waving as the character moved forward.

Depth Perception (WEEK 9!)

Here is an example of depth perception in Motion Graphics. A family is surrounded head to toe, side to side with flat screened moving graphics. The light beams are moving at an accelerated rate seemingly towards the viewers. The streaming linear light beams give the impression that the beams are coming from a far distance overlapping slightly to show some linear perception of future space as if moving towards oncoming light beams. There are multiple layers of light beams represented by larger and smaller white spheres. The larger white beams seem to be closer that the smaller beams. These almost parallel shapes give the illusion they are different distances due to size and brightness. This motion graphics example is all about flow patterns, these seemingly moving beams are making the viewers feel as though they are moving at a fast past through space. The panels on the right, left and below really make this illusion hard to ignore. Like the example in the lecture of the room of checkers the texture gradient is seen in the different sizes of the light beams. Once again the beams that seem closer are the larger beams then the dim smaller beams in the "distance."

Tone & Color (Week 8)

TONE: There are lots of tonal information in this poster. The monkey infant is very detailed with contrasting light and dark tonal areas. This creates a very bleak picture of the animal. The eyes have a bright light shinning from them giving the viewer the interpretation that the animal is crying, sad, asking for help possibly. The saturation of the photo is very high reinstating the text of similar DNA to humans. This high saturation heightens the intensity of the image. The skin of the animal is very textured. It feels too real to ignore the message.

TEXTURE & SCALE: This poster using both texture and scale to attract its viewers. The scale of the animal is so large and real it is difficult to look away. There is no question to where the viewer should be looking; into his lonley, needy eyes. The image is so large and detailed there is no need for other images to determine the scale of the image. The scale affects the tone of the photograph. The image is so large that each line and pore of the animal is exposed. There is no other factors to take away from the intesity of the light shinning on the animal. The texture of teh animal creates an even more humanistic approach. There is no denial to the relationship between humans and monkeys. The view can not be fooled by the same textures that they see in the mirror each day.

COLOR: There is limited color in this design, but it does not take away from the message of the piece. The words are written over transparent red blocks in a juxaposed manner. A black and white photo with abrupt loud color placement. Red is very passionate color, it can be interpreted almost violent with expression. The red is telling the viewer to act on its message. Do not deny the facts the poster is stating. There is no way that the viewer could say they did not understand the message.

SCALE: The color text blocks are scaled to compete with the very large image on the page. The message is being stated almost as large as the emotional image that is tied to the given information. The smaller text gives the reader additional information on how to react to the large scaled text. The large block texts are scaled large enough that the viewer is unable to walk away from the poster while only reacting to the image.

Overall this poster is very powerful. The small color screams its very important message to the viewer. It is very emotional and hard to ignore due to the texture, scale, and loud color treatment.

Magazine/book Design

Line: This design is full of dots in motion. Multiple points are being dragged across the page in every direction with mulitple line weights, color, and many layers of transparencies. Each line in this design has a purpose moving strategically across the page in every direction. Most lines continue to run right off the page while another is coming in bring the eye back across in the opposite direction. Writing notions are seen in the lines, there are many hidden shapes lost in the layers and direction of each line; arrows, targets, tire tracks. The symbols are not only pulling eyes off the page but they are also telling it through written language.

Shape: These lines form symbols and shapes as they are continually overlapped across the page. There are lots of rectanges formed by the moving lines and revolving spheres. The sheres are multiple layers in many cases, bullet targets possibly moving around and around in one place on the page. A circle is endless, the blue and white circle next to the large font is the most dynamic. It gives the reader a little stability in the middle of a chaos. A little white space, a little breating room. This keeps the shapes grounded on the page while there is chaos flying by in every other direcion.

Direction: There is lots of direction in this piece. The whole design is based on this. Horizontal an vertical lines as well as curving lines. Though there is chaos and overlapping directional qualities there seems to be balance moving in horizonal and vertial planes. There is eqaul vertical for horizontal directional qualites. There is balance between the north and south moving planes as well.

Color: There are many colors in this design but there is a neon color palette. There is not much saturation and lots of transparencies. The colors chosen are exciting and engaging with the user. Though they are surprisily not over barring regardless of there being next to zero white space. Overall it is an interesting choice of color that create darker hues of the colors through the overlapping transpariencies creating lots of purples.

Feature Channels (Week3)

This poster shows multiple feature channels and visual searches. This duo tone poster has color as the top of the visual hierarchy. The blue and yellow have a pop effect, bold, bright colors on a black and white poster. These color features are also arrows that bring direction and motion to the poster. This keeps the eyes moving back an forth across the page. The bold black text boxes keep your eyes centered on the page. The dark irregular shape of the monkey then attracts the viewer. Color, motion, then shape.

BAD Design (wk6)

Here is an example of a terrible design. There is a lot of stress between two sides of the poster. It is a poster for a double feature but the overlapping areas do not reflect the concept of advertising two different films. The base of the page is disrupted by a third dissection. The figure overlaps the pictures above. It feels as though you are trying to look around her to see the rest of the image. The positive and negative sides of the poster does help distinguish the separate films but the red texts distracts your eyes from the poster on the right. There is more stress caused by the grid structure of the text on the left side compared to the right. The test is slanted without a consistent grid while the other side is very structured and straight. Overall it is hard to get the information you need out of the poster due to all the distractions.

GOOD design (wk 6)

This a very well balanced poster, it uses the whole poster in a well structured manner. The is a lot of negative space but the figure still seems to take up most of the page. The dark edges also keep the figure in place. The direction of the horns make your eyes follow the whole poster up to the top instead of getting stuck in the middle with the main figure. The detail of the horns of branches fits well with the strict outline of the animal. I love the combination of texts and organic forms. The slanted texts gives the animal a balanced ground to stand on. There texts goes off the page towards the right while the horns direct you in toward the top left. This makes the axis of the poster slightly slanted but does not affect how the viewer looks at the poster. There is no need to tilt your head because the main figure is standing solid in the middle. The subtle white text takes away from all the stress of additional textual elements and the contrasting black bold text below. Overall I thinks this design works really well. One powerful image in the center with small details to keep the view interested with a limited amount of texts on a non traditional axis.

Top Down Processing

This graphically generated image applies to the idea that your eyes and brain have to continue to link and re-link the concepts in order to understand the image. A tree with irregular leaf or branch cut outs that are the same shape as the birds. The tree is the more dominant shape but the birds are different colors, distracting the eye away from the tree. It is difficult to look at the image as a whole to determine the image. The eyes get distracted by the same shapes of the objects. White space is seen between the birds and the trees helping the viewer determine that there are separate images involved

Visual Information: Tattoos (Week 5)

Visual Information: Tattoos



When taking pictures of tattoos there is no regard for the subject for which the art is on. The focus is only on the artwork. Placement is a key visual concept for tattoos. Line weight and detail is usually a significant focal point. This can determine the quality of the tattoo. Before and after pictures are very common with tattoos. A picture is taken right after the tattoo is done and one is taken after it has healed. This is important factor to see the end result. A tattoo can drastically change from when the ink is first applied compared to after a tattoo is healed. Everyone's skin is different. The ink settles into the skin in variations of color. Skin types can also determine the amount of detail that actually is absorbed. Different skin types do not take ink the same.

Considering the visual language of a tattoo, the tattoo itself is the only information the viewer needs to see. The subject is irrelevant, a tattoo can be anyone. Quality photo can also be a plus. There is a low standard to photo quality when concerning tattoos. Though, there is a growing appreciation for the art form. Quality on all levels from the tattoo to the documentation is is rising.

Ex 4

Colored Triangle
Bailey's Solution: Second row far right column same as Fourth row second column
In order to solve the puzzle I looked for similar color shapes, I searched the page for cross sections of yellow and green within the inside octagon, proximity of colors. Once I found this similarity I searched for the other section of blue and red. Once I found this I cross reference the colors. This was a difficult exercise. Since the shapes are circular it made it hard to not feel crossed eyed searching each shape. I thought this could have been a solution for a second to blur my vision to find the solution. Basically I used the process of elimination using a cross of colored.

Alfred's Solution: Process of elimination by examining individual triangle colors such as a blue/yellow combination. Once he found this similarity he would back track to the first umbrella to determine if there was any other similarities. Further on in the process instead of using the triangle he used one triangle that was grouped together.




Twin Blocks Puzzle

E=L
F=J
C=D
H=K
A=I
B=G

Bailey's Solution: I used different angled perspective to find each pair. This enabled me to look for similar conjunctions. Changing the way I looked at each shape helped find the pairs. I had to move my entire head to visualize how a shape would look from a different angle. This exercise was much less complicated from the first due to the geometric cubes. I found this easier to rotating the these type of shapes versus a color wheel.

Alfred's Solution: Alfred did the same concept of looking for a particular angle and rotated the sheet to find that shape. After each pair was found it became a process of elimination to find each pair.