Graphically Pleasing Design Examples- Blog Response 6
This past Wednesday our group decided to do a two-fold project. The first portion being a pamphlet which leads the reader to the second portion: a Webpage or, at the very least, a blog page. This weekend it was my duty to do a mockup of our pamphlet. I was looking around online, especially at the cites Ozayr mentioned, and I did find a few interesting and inspirational graphics. I made a compilation of the ones I got the most from below.
The first I found on the first page I went to which was the CMYK Magazine website. I really liked the repetition of figures (figure one), which I know I have seen before, but for some reason it just jumped out at me on this cover. For our pamphlet I decided to try out a similar graphic. Our topic being environmental sustainability, the globe seemed to be fitting. Figure two shows my attempt. I don’t have photoshop or anything similar, so I was forced to do it all painstakingly on powerpoint, but once I got started I found it incredibly addictive.
The next thing I found online was actually not entirely related to sustainability or presentation, I just thought it was an interesting article. I stumbled upon it while I was surfing through the Print Magazine website. It was an article about Google Earth and YouTube and their possible assistance in the termination of genocide. See the link here, http://printmag.com/design_articles/the_right_click/tabid/288/Default.aspx. For me it just brought to focus how powerful the internet can be. I realize it is a long shot for Google Earth to end mass killing of innocent people, but it can easily raise awareness. I, for one, am a Google Earth/ YouTube addict and I can think of no better way of raising awareness than to put signs in all the common areas. It is advertising, but for change.
The third image below is one I found on the intro to graphis.com. I think it is a very compelling advertisement. Both simple and effective. Side note: (Try to read this) Did you konw taht if you wirte a wrod wtih the frsit and lsat lteters in the smae pacle and all the mdlide lteetrs jmubled it is msot lekily sitll lgbelie? Did you get it?
The fourth image is one I found on the Print magazine web site as well. The only reason I chose it is because I thought it looked very professional with the tone on tone style. I would like to carry this into our project. It sometimes seems as though too much color creates a distraction from the graphics and the content.
The fifth image is really just a representation of the simple style that I think speaks so well in professional format. It exudes organization, professionalism and even confidence. It is as if the designers knew that was enough to get them noticed and anything else would be overkill: confidence.
The sixth and final image in the group is just an example of a very well organized website. It is all in a grid pattern and very easy to follow. It is very professional, though it seems relatively effortlessly so.
