Art By Evan

My name's Evan Watkins, I am a student at Antonelli Institute and here you will able to find all my recent and past projects that I have done. You also will fine current step by step images of my artwork

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Graphic Design Controversy

Through the years, Starbucks has re-branded multiple times. From 1971 to 2011the original logo has completely changed, changed so much to the point that it gets people wondering, why and is it even worth it? From the look of the logos, at the rate they are going with their re-branding, they are going to be down to nothing but a green circle.

Personally I do not like that way that Starbucks decided to re-brand. However, i will admit that the original logo from 1971 needed a change, but the 1992 logo, to me seemed like the perfect logo to them. The good use of balance between the black and green colors i believe were just right to not immediately draw the eye to the black, has your eye feel like its being pulled from the green to the black.

What are your opinions?

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Design Trends (topic)

What are design trends?

The one main trend that i have noticed in the design field would have to be just the simplistic design, swiss design, stuff that is very modern. For examples look at swiss design and a lot of the websites used by branding agencies or in-house jobs are very modern. Realizing that this os only maybe one trend, I went to research it a little bit more and I found out that there are a plethora of design trends. There is a Responsive website trend, ghost button trend, bigger emphasis on type and large, beautiful background images and videos.

Out of those trends that I researched the Emphasis on type stood out to me the most. As a graphic artists, or just as an artists rather, we are always looking for whats new in the world, and how do we make it better in our own way. I personally agree with the emphasis on type, reason being because sites, poster, anything with type can get lost. Its a matter of using the right font and pt size as well as the right amount of noise that the text is either on or behind. So having a larger pt font is not a bad thing, it really all depends on the design look and the audience.

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Another one of the sketches in my sketch book, kinda just felt like drawing lips and thus, this was born. hope you enjoy, and let me know of any fixes

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Mock up for my Portfolio class, this is one of my many designs and illustrations that are in it. Leave a comment and reblog please, Let me know what u think and give me some advice

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This is one of my sketches out of my sketch book, let me know what you think. 

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My Times New Roman font book. Times New Roman is a serif typeface commissioned by the British newspaper The Times in 1931, created by Victor Lardent at the English branch of Monotype.

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In this project we were given certain images and were required to show a state of wonder. This was my interpretation of a state of wonder.

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The assignment we were givien was to design a bitter truth ad for a company of our choice. I decided to go with Rolex, my main focus was on the expensiveness of their products as well as the luxorious feel of the company.

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In this project we had to research a pet in need and create an advertisement to help get that animal adopted. For my animal, I had Plink the Catnip Enthusiast!!

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Project in class we have to design for a none profit charity, I chose AbleGamers Foundation. The AbleGamers Foundation, aka AbleGamers Charity, is a nonprofit public charity that aims to improve the overall quality of life for those with disabilities through the power of video games.

-x3 Ads

-x4 Banners

-1 Large Poster

-Septa Bus Layout Design 

-Web App