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Finale
As my first course on my path to becoming a professional artist, I can safely say this is a milestone that I am not likely to forget. I want to extend my deepest thanks to my instructors, Professor Khalili and Professor Friesen, whose direction and oversight pushed me into challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone. I can’t wait to continue moving forward.
For this week’s assignment we were tasked with creating a logo for one of selection of fictional companies. I chose MoonBeam Mobile, which was a cell carrier. This was a project I initially struggled on. It seemed as though my first idea worked in my head but just couldn’t be replicated on paper. My initial concept was was the moon with a “beam” of pixels dropping from it, but after the group critique, I went back to brainstorming. A few failed attempts later I instead tried starting from just the basic moon shape. Still following the pixel concept, I played around with the inside of the crescent being augmented in some way, which lead me to my final design where pixels are breaking away from the center of the crescent into the negative space. Initially my pixel size was way too small, so I simplified it further going from 12 rows of pixels to only 6, making the watermark much more readable on small print. My font considerations included the likes of Ubuntu, Cabin, Alte Haas Grotesk, and Kimberly, but after careful consideration of readability and how the letter shaping played with the watermark, I ended up choosing Coolvetica Regular, a Helvetica alteration. In hindsight, going for a bigger font size for “mobile” would have been for the best, but overall I am happy with the resolve for the typography and it’s placement in relation to the mark.
This week’s assignment was creating an emblem based on a combination of 2 items from 4 categories. I was not anticipating this assignment to be as much of a challenge as this turned out to be. My initial goal was to use negative space in some interesting way, but I found this to be a hard route to take compared to throwing shapes together. With the limitations of the project, I found myself picking certain combinations of designs over others, leading to the pair pictured above. I’m happy with how the G-circle design came out. I generally hate serif fonts, and try to avoid them as much as possible, initially not wanting to use one for this project. But then I switched mindsets while I was working with one of the # designs, and began thinking of it more as a shape rather than a letter. This change in mindset allowed me to focus on making something visually interesting rather than thinking of it in terms of two simple parts.
For this week’s assignment, we had to create a poster design based around a quote. I chose a custom quote that was not on the original list, one from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acceptance speech at the Tony’s. My goal for this project going in was to use colors pretty effectively. I created the crystal heart in Illustrator and then applied color manipulation in Photoshop to give it a nice warm popping effect against the slate background. The photo of the hands was taken by me of a fellow classmate.
Project 2 was a fun exercise to learn about syntax vs semantics. I’ve never actually taken and mounted my own photos before, so it was a challenge to learn how to cut and lay photos. The photo I chose was the same image I posted last week. The mirrored images are definitely my favorite part.
The exercise we had on Wednesday was a lot of fun. We were tasked with creating a game using only objects that we had within our reach. Together we ended up making a game were you javelin a pen onto a board. You get points for value of the each space the pen touches, plus an additional multiplier based on the row if the pen leaves a mark on the paper.
These first two weeks of class have been a new experience for me, having come off of a failing attempt at an engineering degree. I’ve always had an interest in digital art and media, starting with self-teaching myself Photoshop when I was 12 years old, up until the last year or so where I began taking commissions for digital art and graphics.
That’s not to say I haven’t learned anything new, however. Since I taught myself using older versions of the software when I was younger, I never actually bothered to learn or understand adjustment layers in Photoshop, instead opting to duplicate the base layer when I wanted to make changes to levels/hue/etc.. After seeing them demoed in class, however, I immediately regret that ignorance. Adjustment layers are much more practical than my solution that I wish I had experimented with them sooner. It inspired me to go back and see if I could match, or even better, some of my old photos that I had sitting on my laptop from a year or two back. The first image is one such piece. It is a photo of a cat which I had done an edit of before, but I went back and started from scratch using only adjustment layers for the image correction this time. The result is about the same as the original edit, but with half the time and half the file size. Definitely a step in the right direction moving forward for how I edit photos.
The paper airplane project was admittedly something I put off until the day before. My plan leading into it was to create a bunch of different airplane designs and then test to find the best one, which I would then take and modify more to increase it’s performance even more. This strategy proved to work extremely well, as it meant I didn’t have to focus on one design fix and improve, but could rather relax and create a bunch of designs to find the best one. In the end, the design that performed the best only needed a few minor tweaks to help it better fulfill the specific requirements of the project.
Overall, these two weeks have been reassurance that this is what I want to make a career out of, and for the first time, I feel like I know what direction I want to go in with my college education. I look forward now to future projects and how they will challenge me further.