Computer Class HW 9

ABIGAIL QUILES

My favorite vacation place is Virginia beach. Specifically Busch gardens which is an amusement park in Virginia. This is my favorite vacation place because it is very family oriented and theres fun for everyone. 

Micro- Aggression

I have one micro-aggression experience.  When I meet other spanish people like myself and I say I am spanish they usually start talking in spanish because they assume I speak it. I usually give them a weird look and then they say "you're spanish but dont speak spanish?!?!. This is offensive because they dont understand my background and it comes off as really offensive.

5 Book Covers and Questions

I liked this book cover because I feel like when I think of something being sucked up I think of a black hole. and this spiral so the brain being sucked as the title and the background being a spiral really enhanced the book. 

I like this cover because it reminded of those colorful circle stickers you would get in school and to me I liek to explore things if they make me feel familiar and comfortable.

I enjoyed this cover specifically because of the background cover and the pedals. It drew me in because i think the simple light blue in the background enhanced the title of the book and the focal point of the pedals.

This cover intrigued me and I liked this cover because when you think of smothered hugs you think of a bear hug. They put the bear in the background purposefully to make you think of this and that makes you think of like your dad or mom giving you a tight hug. I enjoyed this cover specifically of the picture they picked to be on the cover.

This book cover intrigued me because i like the concept of the book cover. The book is called wide awake and to me when i think of being awake I think of staying up and wasting time on less important thing. Thinking of time right off the back helps relate to the cover because around the book cover is a clock and I like that me and the creator of the book cover think a like. Personally I think using the clock in the background was creative and would make me want to read the book.

My Favorite Book

I think the book cover was good at capturing the storyline of this book because this book is a part of a series. This series of book is basically about three siblings that are orphans and they are trying to get away fo Count Olaf and they find out a lot of family secrets along the way. With that being said it was successful because each cover shows you what scenery they would be in in that book and this one is a hospital. It intrigues someone who is reading the series because you want to know what is going to happen in the hospital and what is going to happen. Also there is a title but the font is small because the title is not as significant as the picture, I feel this cover was very well designed and definitely intrigues especially young kids to read it.

Announcement Poster Before and After

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Logo Reflection

What was the most challenging aspect of creating your logo design?

The most challenging aspect of creating my logo design was figuring out what type of font i would use. This was hard for me because I knew I needed a simple font that would be easy to read. Eventually I created my own font with a tool on Illustrator which helped me overcome this issue! I think that was the best decision for my project and it actually successfully worked out.

What was the most successful aspect of your logo design?

The most successful aspect of my logo design was creating the basketball needed in my design through illustrator. To me this was most successful because at the start of the project I was just going to copy and paste a basketball fro the internet but in the end I created my own basketball shape. This was a big accomplishment for me and therefor the most successful because it definitely made my logo design better and enhanced for the better.

Mid Winter Recess

Over mid-Winter Recess i went to tour a college that I am 95% is the college for me. This school is known as SUNY Potsdam. it is located in upstate New York. I left on February 14th in the night and came back on February 18th. I stood with a friend that attends school there and I had an amazing time. The food was great, her friends were really nice, and just in general the school was really beautiful. Below is a picture of me on the bus up there and how many degrees it was, the dorm, the ice skating rink over there and a picture I took of the Potsdam bridge.

When I came back I went to the restaurant Big Daddy's for the first time ever with my best friend Chynna and it was amazing! That was basically what I did over my mid-winter break. 

Look at Art- MoMa

The artwork that I looked at was I and the Village by Marc Chagall. I could not get a picture of it so I will describe it for you. On the right side of the picture is a man whose skin is green and on the left side of the page is a colorful unicorn. The man is holding a tree like object and in the middle of the picture is a road with a man on it that looks to me like a road leading into a city or village.

This picture/artwork caught my eye because of the colors. I was intrigued to see a man colored green because people are not usually that colored skin. I also thought that it was cool that the unicorn and him are looking into each other's eye.

This artwork is located in the MoMa. This artwork was in the kids section and the reason why I yielded to this section is because artwork made for children is easy to understand and I like things that are easy to understand and have bright colors.

This piece drew my attention specifically of the colors. It is a really colorful piece and I become so intrigued with color schemes. The picture drew me in and by being drawn in by colors I saw the rest of the images captured with this one piece of artwork which was really beautiful and amazing to see.

I know that the piece is that the artist was trying to incorporate his home in Russia with the folktales he would hear as a kid and he wanted to incorporate them into one piece. he wanted to mix his reality with the unreal which i think it is so cool!

Abby Logo Project

Abby Logo Presentation

Research: Questions and Summary Blog

Summary:

The club I am planning to do my logo project on is Lady Phoenix Basketball Team. This club is run by a gym teacher from Brooklyn Millennium known as Bryan McCarthy aka Coach mcCarthy. This club is only for girls and its purpose is to give girls that love basketball a chance to compete with other schools in our division and to get better everyday at the sport. the main focus of this club is to build basketball, communication, and teamwork skills. This club is joint together with Brooklyn Millennium so it is open to girls fro both schools. The main color schemes for this club is white, red, and black which is of course school colors. The main theme is centered around Lady Phoenix and to also demonstrate that girls can compete too. The three fonts that i think would be good for this logo is fonts that are easily seen such as Times New Roman, Princetown Let, and lastly Myriad.

Questions:

What is the club about?
The club is working with athletes that love basketball to improve their skills.

What are the goals?
The goals of this club is to improve basketball,communication,and teamwork skills. To have an undefeated record. To win the division B championship.

How long has the club/activity been around?
Coach McCarthy has been the coach for the last four years. Before that Mr. Silverman was the coach for a couple of years but the club has been around since Millennium has become a high school.

What activities do you do?
We have a practice 3-5 times a week and games twice a week. On practice day we work out by doing cardio exercises. We also go over drills and plays for games.

What represents your club?
The school mascot, the Phoenix
The school colors which are white,red, and black.
The fact that we are girls.

What is the theme of the club?
The Lady Phoenix Basketball Team

What is the best part?
Becoming close with other girls from your school.
Learning how to play together.
Winning games and most importantly going far in the post season.
Building unbreakable bonds.

What would you like your logo to represent?
The Lady Phoenix
School colors

What kind of people are in the club?
It is open to any girl from both Millennium's that have some experience playing basketball.

Transformation Project: Reflection

For this project I photographed my nephew. I chose to take pictures of him fo this project because I wanted to have playful silly transformation. my first idea was to have toys coming out of his head because he is a kid but that quickly changed because when I photographed him, all he wanted to do is stand like superman and that hit me, my nephew should be transformed into superman! To perform this task I changed the background because his pose looked like he was flying in the sky so I put the background to be the sky. Then I thought I did not want him to be typical superman so instead of making his suit blue and his symbol red, I did the opposite and instead of naming him as superman I named him as superman Ely. There you have it! My nephew Ely was transformed!

One thing i really enjoyed about this project was writing my steps out. I believe that really helped me understand how to work photoshop in a deeper complex level and it made it easy to create my transformation.

One thing that was difficult for me for this project was cropping out the excess background, that was really hard for me and frustrated me. If i would do this project over I would try to relax and not get frustrated at myself because it affected my work ethic.

Overall, i believe my transformation was strong and doing this project taught me a lot about how i work, and taught me how to work photoshop in a different light which i know will be very helpful in the future.

Transformation Project

Do Now: Which typeface would you be?

If I had to be a font; I would choose to be the Sans Serif typeface. I would choose this because I like that it does not serifs at the end of the letters and Sans Serif has a simple elegance which i really enjoy. The specific font that I would be is Josefin Sans.

Well Designed Logo: Not Familiar With

I think this logo is very well designed for many reasons. One I like that it is combination mark. I also like the fact that you have to oberserve the image for a good five seconds to notice that the A in artist and U in united join together to create the symbol which is a pencil. This logo I really enjoy becuase it is trying to objectify the idea artist united and the fact that the two words connect in the pencil really show the point that they are trying to make. Overall this logo was very creative, out of the box, and most definitely very well designed.

Favorite Logo: Well Desgined

My favorite Logo:

This is my favorite logo becuase it is universal. I also like this logo becuase it is a combination mark and I feel like the symbol is universal and the words always connect back to Mcdonalds. It is also my favorite because the words catch your eye. It makes you think oh what are you loving and makes you want to try Mcdonalds food. This logo was very well designed and this is why it is my favoirte logo becuase it was perfecttly made and really catches your eye well at least mine.
 

Concept and Reflection

Concept: My concept is summer. I started off with ice cream because ice cream is like the best treat in the summer and I transformed it into a bathing suit and my final dymbol because in Summer people are always wearing bathing suits and bathing suits are you only used in summer.

Reflection: 

The most frustrating part of the project for me was layering. I would usually forget what layer I was in and then I would erase and I would be on the wrong layer. This frustrated me because I thought the computer was broken and then I realized after about twenty minutes that I was on the wrong layer and that frustrated me a lot. I think I have to pay closer attention to which layer I am on but, at the end of the project I learned the difference between layers and I felt proud of myself because I felt like I actually learned something through the project process. Front this experience I realized that I have to learn how to work the computer by myself because it would benefit me the most and will help me with future projects. I also learned from this experience to keep the sheet with all the information next to me because I could get my questions easily answered from that packet. After completing this project I feel most confident in using the eye- dropper tool and creating new layers because I needed to use the eye- dropper tool a lot to get the color I used in a previous layers and creating new layers because I had a lot of layers so I practiced making new layers a lot. One thing I wish I would be better at and hopefully I do get better at is using the paint brush tool because I am a horrible drawer  so I do not like using it but I think if I practiced with it more it would be very helpful to me in future projects. I would like to use photoshop in the future to create more gifs because they are really cool and to edit pictures that I take because I think there are amazing tools on photoshop that could edit a picture that I have taken beautifully.

Fast GIF and Slow Gif Final

GIF

Milton Glaser Concept Board Summary

Research:

http://www.designishistory.com/

http://www.designishistory.com/1960/milton-glaser/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Glaser

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/192810427767564168/

http://www.miltonglaser.com/store/c:posters/892/the-philadelphia-zoo-1988

http://idsgn.org/posts/design-for-the-people-is-not-dead/

http://tylerayers.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/to-vote-is-human/

https://www.guernicamag.com/art/sight-lines/

http://www.designforchange.org.au/content/blog/1914/its-not-warming-its-dying-qa-with-design-heavyweight-milton-glaser

http://monikasimonaityte.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/critical-analysis-of-work-of-one-designer-milton-glaser/

http://www.springleap.com/blog/milton-glaser/

http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/06/26/milton-glaser-debbie-millman-interview/

Brainstorm:

Milton Glaser: His artwork intrigued me because I feel that his artwork is so basic but creates a combination of pieces of art that a appealing to the eye. For example he is famous mostly for the I LOVE NEW YORK design. It’s so simple but also a universal piece of art that everyone knows and that what I enjoy. I enjoy artwork that everyone can learn to appreciate.  My first impression was that his artwork is beautiful because of its simplicity.

Motion Graphics: I was intrigued by motion graphics because I feel it is such a natural form of art. My first impression was that it a unique type of art because it is the body doing different poses and it looks almost as if the picture was taken of their movements in fog.

Illustration: My first impression of illustration is that I believe it is a good use of graphic design because it helps advertise an idea using words and pictures uniformly. I like that although it seems like a lot is going on in the picture, everything comes together to create a unique meaning.

Compiling/Concept Board Summary:

I am choosing to do my concept board on Milton Glaser. Milton Glaser is mostly known for his creation of the logo I Love New York. His work is so unique because he influences all of society and not just one distinct group in society. His work is appreciated by both genders, and all ages from being really little to elderly. I think that enhances his uniqueness because his artwork can be appreciated by all. He is unique because he has a gift to know what interest kids, adults, and just people in general. For example, with kids he has created graphic design pieces for a zoo. That influences kids because kids love zoos and pictures help intrigue kids. With adults he has created posters government like posters which is an influence for adults because the adults in our population are the people that vote in government elections. Lastly he influences people all over the world. An example of this is his I Love New York logo. Everyone around the world knows that symbol because it has become universal and the majority of people living have some sort of object with this logo on it. Milton Glaser is an amazing graphic designer and his work influences everyone around the global. He has inspired me and I think that his work is beautiful, relatable an amazing and that is why I chose him for my concept board.