Graphic Design 1: Jordan Schmidt

Icons

2010-05-12T14:15:51Z

Symbols.pdf

Words.pdf

SymbolsII.pdf

WordsII.pdf

Journal Entries

2010-05-03T20:26:40Z

I am journaling about the most interesting thing that happened to me each day for eight days.

Day 1 (Tuesday)
-Had cookies and watched TV with friends, but the cable went out.

Day 2 (Wednesday)
-SDO Bonfire. Seagulls wanted our smores

Day 3 (Thursday)
-Got a pizza in the food court with friends

Day 4 (Friday)
-Went to the Johnny Holmes Band concert at Scholastica

Day 5 (Saturday)
-Bought a new car

Response to Chapter 3

2010-04-20T19:05:37Z

I will be using a linear narrative to tell sell the idea of traveling to my audience. I will also be concentrating heavily on guiding the viewer around my piece. In fact, I am going to have a "route" for the viewer to follow printed directly on the page as a red or possible blue line. Another aspect of design that I will be focusing heavily on is the use of white space. My vision for this project is something fairly clean. It will resemble a map except without being cluttered with all the details of a landscape that a regular map contains.

Chapter Readings

2010-04-15T15:45:03Z

Proportion is one idea from the reading that I plan to pay attention to in my project. I'll have to pay attention to how the size of the type and the type bubbles relate to the piece as a whole. I'll also have to consider the ratio of the images to white space. I will also be looking closely at the relationship between my images. Specifically looking at the principles of proximity, unity, and alignment. I also plan on using a heavy, visible, grid in my piece. Since I am fashioning my project to look like a map I will have a light grid guiding the viewer around the page.

Mood Board

2010-03-23T21:12:48Z

Contemporary poster

2010-03-09T20:45:27Z

This poster is a poster advertising American food in Brazil. I thought it was a good example of contemporary design that relates back to a classic style. It's obviously referencing the pop art of Andy Warhol with the bright colors and the repetedness of the design.

Magazine Article Analysis

2010-03-04T20:40:35Z

I found an article about the music artist Drake in Complex magazine. It features images of him in a city with the lights of cars streaking by while the Title of the article is being caught in the path and scattered. I thought this was interesting because Drake has really blown up fast as an artist. He was fairly unknown until just a little while ago, so comparing him to fast moving cars is very appropriate. Also, the type being kind of chaotic and scattered makes sense because I can imagine that life is pretty crazy fro him right now. He's going through a lifestyle change becoming this famous this fast, however by showing him standing still in the images, it tells us that he's still the same person and staying true to himself.

posters

2010-02-23T23:23:30Z

poster1.pdf

poster2.pdf

Response to Design and Parody

2010-02-23T14:48:47Z

I think that parody is a good way to make people look at things in a new way. Just like in the Iraq poster. The artist presented the information about what happened in the Abu Grhraib prison in a different way than people have seen it before. The fact that he presented it in a way that related to our mass culture made the image take on a whole new meaning, and have a bigger impact than the original photo did. Plus I thought that the pictures after the story were very interesting also. The way a poster can be broken down into all the elements that inspired it is really cool.

International Design

2010-02-18T15:28:54Z

Below is a link to some Swiss designs that I found. One thing that I notice right away about Swiss design is how simple it is. That I think is one thing that we don't do much of here in the US. The Swiss are masters of simple design. They know how to include the minimal amount of imagery and their type faces are always very simple and this works for them very well.

Response to Iranian Graphic Design

2010-02-18T15:11:15Z

I could not understand this article very well. I found a lot of the wording confusing and I feel like the author repeated many of his statements too many times which added to my confusion. What I got from was that Iran has two different types of graphic design and the one that is practiced more often than not is not very good because it's not accessible to the majority of the public. I could be totally wrong about this, though. I'm not sure. I did like some of the posters that I saw, though, like the ones for typography towards the bottom, so maybe the author is being a little too hard on his own country?

Visual Research for Coexistence Poster

2010-02-11T15:49:07Z

This is the famous picture taken by a National Geographic photographer of a woman from the middle east. When I was thinking of my poster using the eyes, I kind of had this in mind because it's such a powerful image.

This is an image that doesn't have to do with my original ideas, but I'm trying to think of ways to take this project in a new direction so I'm trying to come up with a way to work some humor into it and I think adding artwork like this would be a great way to do it.

Charity Design Response

2010-02-09T15:20:00Z

The problem of being limited in our creativity as designers by clients is something that has come up in some of my other classes. I think that this "deal" that the chapter in this book talks about is a good way to solve that problem. It makes sense to me that big name companies have to abide by certain rules when it comes to it's advertising so that it can sell the most product to the most people, but what I like about less or even non-profit charity work is that, because the organization commissioning the design can't afford to pay the designer much, they let the designer have more creative freedom than he or she normally would have with a bigger company. I feel like this is a very good trade off because not only is a designer helping a company which can't afford a lot of advertising, but they are also free to produce great works of design without very many boundaries. In the reading, I was particularly impressed with the store of the designer at the end. It inspired me because he basically sacrificed money that he could have made with big name clients and instead, followed his vision and create great works of design that he was happy with.

Color

2010-01-26T20:47:10Z

I learned a lot from the article on color. Especially towards the end of the article where it talked about what different colors mean around the world. like black in China is usually associated with little boys, or white in Japan is a funerary color. Also, I thought the article was a good review of different color terms and how colors relate to each other. Overall I liked the article.

Social Cause/Change Inspiration

2010-01-26T15:18:03Z

Looking through the list of inspirational material, there were a couple of designs that stood out to me. One of which is pictured in the link above. It's of a picture of two people, one, a native New Zealander I'm assuming with tattoos on his face, and the other a caucasian person with words written on her face to mimic the tattoos of the first person. I found this piece interesting because it focuses on a different group of people than a lot of social design. Facial tattoos are still not widely excepted in our society, so to have a piece of artwork talking about excepting someone for these reasons is a different approach to the overall problem of coexistence. Also, I think that having these two people nose to nose with the words on the face mimicking the tattoos works very well design wise.