A Journey of Design

The scribblings of a graphic design student at West Chester univeristy.

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Yubaba Spirited away by Matsu-Sotome

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Street Art

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Manifesto Websites

The manifesto website that I like the most out of the last class is the Holstein manifesto done by Gabrielle Cherelli. It is well designed. The color choices give good contrast and the typography has good hierarchy. The bold and color text invites you to click them. Which makes continuing through the manifesto so easy and fun. The motion is fluid and gives it great flow.

The Manifest that I am not so fond of the design of is Eric Garced's Mad Manifesto. The cite doesn't not have enough direction for me to be able to navigate it. I also do not see how the design presents or represents the manifesto. 

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Joi Ito

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Joi Ito works for the MIT Media lab. He is the CEO chair for the Creative Commons1. Which is a "nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools2."He also sits on the board in many leading websites. He was born in Kyoto, Japan and moved to the states at the age of three with his family. He has attended several schools from Tufts University for Computer Science, The University Of Chicago for physics, and Connected Education Inc3. Hewas featured in Time magazine as a "Cyber Elite" in 1997. Business Week has also named him one of the "25 Most Influential People on the Web" in 2008. He has also earned the Lifetime achievement Award from the Oxford Internet Institute.1

  His Website

His Tumblr

http://www.media.mit.edu/people/joi 1

http://creativecommons.org/about 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito 3

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Website analysis

I am going to evaluate two different websites.

The first one being Adagio Teas. www.adagio.com

the front page looks like this:

I happen to like this website very much. It gives you a very good idea of what they sell. Which is tea. They have a clear banner on top which can direct to to a search on the website if you know what you are looking for. If you just want to browse there are several different cute little tea cup logos you can click on.  Their front page features several projects that they are promoting. and at the very top there is a banner that tells you about their current sale. 

Over all I find that this website has a very good composition. With the largest featured in the center and the fact that the web site has the columns of negative space surrounding the entire layout. It as easy browsing and functionality and great aesthetics.

My second Website is Who is Penny Juice? http://www.pennyjuice.com/htmlversion/whoispj.htm

The front page looks like this:

May I say that this website is hella bright and garishly colored. I could barley read the content beacuse the colors were hare to bright and there was not enought contrast with he test ad the back round. There is no clear navigation on this site. all the links to all other information is at the very bottom in small type. I would compare more of this site but unfortunately i can only look at it for a short amount of time before it starts to give me head aches.

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DIY Paper Fans of Icy Arctic Animals

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE YOUR NAME IN GALLIFREYAN.

Or how about your tumblr login.  Or perhaps a phrase or sentence.

DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE!

There are still are 11 slots open. The next 11 requests can send me a message shall get what ever they shall choose written in gallifreyan for FREE.

Just send me the phrase/name and the color scheme. 

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Gallifreyan Promo

So in lieu of the Doctor Who season Finale. I am doing Gallifreyan 11 commissions FOR FREE

You get to pick the colors, the phrase, and what ever you would like me to put with it.

You need to PM me to get yours. First Come first Serve You have until Sunday @ 10 pm EST.

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Flying kestrals

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Quirky Doctor Who valentines

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Evaluation of My Work

This semester has been a semester of growth for me. I have been very comfortable with photoshop but not so much with illustrator. My beginning two projects where made completely in photoshop. They were highly illustrational pieces. My jellyfish stamps had a very painted effect, My shakespear poster was very similar.  The pictograph project gave me an exceeding amount of trouble. I could not be as detailed in my drawing and had to tone down the detail extremely. The project took me alot of time and I ended up finding out that my symbols for my thumbnails worked well as pictographs. The project was also done almost completely in illustrator. I believed I grew alot this semester. I still need to have more adequacy in illustrator and need some better organizational skills. But that will come with time.

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Bruce Mau

I am in agreement with all of Bruce Mau's Manifesto for Growth. It is cheeky and it follows the way I do things in my design process very well. I believe my favorite one is Stay up Late. Staying up late opens up a new world  for you and your work. YOu get to that point of extremely over tired and focused that nothing else seems to matter. I do  this quite often and it is how I get alot of my design projects done.

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Gail Anderson

I absolutely LOVE Gail Anderson's work. She created some of my most favorite broadway posters/playbills. My favorite two from her are: The Man of La Mancha, and Ragtime the Musical.

Man of the La Mancha is such an iconic poster for Broadway. I have never seen a person redo it for a show, it is just that good. THe poster features the title of the show shapes as a man's horse with a weary rider atop it. It has a slightly sketchy appearance but it gives the poster character.

Ragtime the musical is a great intricate design. She took the Statue of liberty and used a radial design with things of the time period of the musical. It is a great one to look at. Everytime I look at is I find something new.

Though some of her weaknesses are that all the information for each play is not readily found. That information is place in really small print at the bottom of the posters. She focuses a little too much on the graphic.

Works Cited:

gailycurl.com

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"From Start To Finish"

Dave Mason has several key steps to being a good designer:

1.   Know your problem

2.    Know your audience

3.     Research and Question everything

4.    Pay attention to what your client wants and even if they don't say so specifica

5.    Have clear communication

6.    Solve the problem the way you want to not in a way you think the client will like

7.    Don’t sell designs, sell solutions

8.    Make sure the client can see themselves in the solution

9. Make sure the solution is within the parameters of the clients budget and time

10. Keep things moving and don't let the client wait on you

11. Finish the project and make sure the details are perfect.

 I think his design for the Chicago Mercantile 1994 report is really successful. The embossed cover with the stock exchange number and money symbols makes it something you want to look at and pick up.

One of his least succesful designs is the BC telecom Inc Annual Report. The Typography is too hard to read.

Mason, Samantha. " Chicago Mercantile Exchange 1994 Annual Report Chicago Mercantile Exchange 1994 Annual Report." n.pag. AIGA Design Archives. Web. 9 Dec 2012. " BC Telecom Inc. 1996 Annual Report BC Telecom Inc. 1996 Annual Report BC Telecom Inc. 1996 Annual Report BC Telecom Inc. 1996 Annual Report." n.pag. AIGA Design Archives. Web. 9 Dec 2012. <http://designarchives.aiga.org/

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Dirt Poster by Joseph Ayoub

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Buisness Card Case Study

The designers had an arduous task ahead of, to create the perfect business cards. But how were they to do it? just make a ton of finalized ones and picked what worked form there? NO! They made thumbnails, they notated what this business card was supposed to look like! They did NOT force one idea to work, they tried many. They tweaked and changed things just to try and get things to gel cohesively. And the final product was fantastic. What ingenuity! What Creative thinking! To integrate the face of the owner into the card with out blatantly sticking a picture int the middle of it. And it was all thanks to the creative process. It was because of all the planning and tweaking that they were able to make such a successful design.