Hanna Macek.20 Design Theory

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Design Theory Videos PART 1

From the first round of the videos i thought that everyone did a good job, but the one that stood out most to me was Rhiannon's,  really liked her concept and the way she executed it. She was able to show he theory very well though typography and had very interesting music to go with her video. Her video had many parts that were well thought out and it looked like she spent a lot of time and effort on it.

I am looking forward to seeing the next round of videos and to see how they were able to see what people did well and didn't do well during the first videos.I hope that this weeks videos are even better then what we saw last week.

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Blog9: My Mentor

It is a great feeling being able to look up to someone, my best friend Kasia Woronko is that someone to me. Despite the fact that she is actually younger than me she has taught me so much in the 5 years and have been friends and also in 5 years prior to that when we weren’t exactly “friends”.

 I met Kasia in grade 5 and up until grade 10 we did not like each other, probably because we were so similar, not that we noticed. The first thing I learned from Kasia is that Someone who might be your enemy when you are younger can actually become your best friend later on in life, and that if you just try to get to know someone you may actually find out that you have more in common than you think.

After becoming friends with Kasia in grade 10 we quickly became inseparable. Kasia is unafraid to be herself, it is something that very few people have, she never cared what people thought and is always trying new and crazy things. Seeing her be so different makes me want to thrive to be more like her. We share many of the same ideals, like how you don’t have to go out and get drunk to have fun you can just stay at home and watch awesome movies.

People don’t have to go and find a celebrity mentor, who they don’t even know, but just go find someone who they know that changes them for the better.  Look at those friends who made positive differences in their lives and made them better people, Kasia is that person to me, and I am very thankful to her.

I pray she doesn’t see this or ill never hear the end of how awesome she thinks she is…haha.

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Blog8: Command X

While watching the Command X presentations it became apparent that these students were not experienced presenters and some of them lacked any presenting skills at all. But I believe that if the students were given proper critics and their presentations they would certainly do better later one. The 5 top presentation techniques the students had:

Be confident in your work, the students who were confident about their work were the ones who presented better.

Make eye contact, the students that made eye contact engaged the audience more and made it seem more like they knew what they were talking about.

Keep it simple, don’t ad to much fluff to your presentation, just show the information that needs to be shown and nothing extra.

Speak clearly, if you speak in a clear and concise voice, people are more likely to pay attention.

Listen to what the judges say about your work, you may not agree but it will help you in the future.

The 5 worst presentation techniques the students had:

Don’t make excuses, “it didn’t export properly”, is not a good reason, take responsibility for your mistakes.

Not standing properly, looking at the ground, fiddling with your hands and just looking like you don’t want to be there.

Keep it simple, don’t ad to much fluff to your presentation, just show the information that needs to be shown and nothing extra.

Plan out your presentation, not having a closing statement is not acceptable when presenting.

Don’t just make up answers to questions you don’t know, just admit that you don’t know, other wise you risk looking like an idiot.

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Blog7: My Incomplete Manifesto

1. Be positive. No matter now many negative things happen remember to be positive and always find the bright side. 2. Take breaks. Don’t spend all your time working, take breaks, relax, walk away. If work is get boring taking a break can help to refresh your brain and give you more energy to finish all your work. 3. Get inspiration. Try to find inspiration everywhere. Listen to new music, look at new art, see new movies, you can find inspiration everywhere. 4. Friends. Having friends is important, especially when you need help, hello free labor. 5. Don’t take your self to seriously. Be able to laugh at yourself, no one likes people who are to serious. remember you are not the most important person in the world,so don’t act like you are. 6. Sarcasm. Be sarcastic, just to piss people off. It is fun trust me. 7. Sleep often. Get as much sleep as you possibly can, but instead of sleeping at regular hours try changing it up. instead of sleeping from 11pm to 6am, try 7am to 2pm you will see life in a new way. 8. Try new things. Don’t just stay with your norm, go out and do new things, try something that would normally scare you because that way you will have new experiences and a new outlook. 9. Read books. Books will help your imagination, and will bring you into worlds you could never enter on your own. I recommend The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Matched, they are all about worlds that we do not live in. 10. Change your surroundings. Don’t just stay in the same place all the time, see new things, even its its just taking a new way home you’ve never taken do it see new things. Don’t always go to the same places, pick a new restaurant or a new vacation spot, change your surroundings. 11. Daydream. Get you imagination flowing, doesn't matter what you daydream about just do it and see what you come up with. 12. Do something for yourself. Try to do something nice for yourself, buy yourself a new shirt or just a fancy coffee, it will make you happy. 13. Appearance is everything. Don’t look like you live in box, people will judge you based on how you looks so don’t give them the opportunity to think less of you based on how you dress. 14. Be messy. Cleanliness can be nice, but sometimes you just need everything out so that you can see it. 15. Think inside of the box. Sometimes when everyone else is going outside the box the answer might just be inside the box, its simple and straight forward and sometimes it works.

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Blog4: Values, Beliefs, Paul Rand & Me

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”- Paul Rand

Paul Rand is not afraid to state his feelings about design and his design theory. Paul Rand is known for giving a client one design, one solution, and since he is very confident in his designs he simply tells them that this is his solution to their problem and they can take it or leave it. Paul Rand also says that aesthetics is just as important as content, because something may be the most intelligent and thoughtful design, but if it doesn’t look good and if people don’t understand the design than it is completely useless as a design. A product can be made more valuable if it looks better and thats where designers come in. Paul Rand also designs logo’s in a very simple way and says that he tries to link the new logo to the old one to induce nostalgia. Paul Rand has also said that a logo becomes meaningful only after its used. After hearing Paul Rand’s values as a designer it really makes me think about my own. Like Paul Rand I also believe in making things look good and also have good content, when things look nice they are easier for people to relate to and people will be more likely to understand something if its laid out nicely. Paul Rand has also said that “if you can think clearly you can write clearly”, clearly i do not posses this gift because unlike Paul Rand my written skills something to be desired, I’d say that my writing is the thing I could improve most on.  I think that the world is a place where people are always looking for new information, I think that designers are the ones who will present them with this new informations in a nice looking way. Paul Rand had it right when he talked about how a designer can ad value to a product by making it look better, and I think that that would be another role of designers because in a world of so many of the same products people will start to look at the way that the product is presented and the nicer looking ones will be the ones people will buy. I think designers have a big impact on the world because we are the ones who act as the buffer between the product and the consumer because we are the ones who make things look nice so that people will buy the product.

Things important to me as a person and designer:

- Inspiration - Aesthetics - Literature - Content - Simplicity - Music - Personality

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Blog3: "Design is..." Take One

Design is personality expressed through a mediums in different ways. Where my design theory is right now is that design is a persons personality expressed through different mediums and different ways. This means that al things that are designed have the designers personality in it. This is my thinking because every time I design anything I always try to put my own personal touch on it so that it is mine an expresses me in it. An example of my theory would be my paintings, they are done in my style and my distinct brush strokes, thus my own personality is in them. Some things that I need to consider is how exactly to make sure that even though all my designs have my personality in them they should all be similar. There should be more variety and I think right now I still need to challenge my ascetics more and find the right balance between what I like and what will work better for the overall design. That is where my design theory is at this moment.

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I still get shivers every time i hear this music and see him enter the ring. He is just so amazing.

Jeff Hardy's entrance in the WWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpWtcI_5ZSk&feature=related

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Jeff explains how The Swanton Bomb came to be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFyBnVjJy1w

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Blog2: Creativity & Innovation: Jeff Hardy

"Live for the moment." -Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy is a professional wrestler, he is known as "The Charismatic Enigma", and is in my eyes the most interesting, unique, and craziest wrestler. He debut on October 15 1993 in the WWF, and has been with them for years, and also with TNA. "Jeff Hardy is an artist and a daredevil" is what his fellow wrestlers say about him.

Jeff designed some of the most famous and difficuilt wreastling moves "The Swanton Bomb" and "Whisper in the Wind", which I think are some of the most beautiful things to see. He is always coming up with the most newest and craziest moves, and takes everything to the next level. He is known to jump of anything and has, on more than one occasion, jumped off a 30 foot ladder.

Jeff gets into his character by pumping up backstage, he listens to his favourite music and starts to get worked up. He also paints his body in a crazy glow in the dark paint. And when he is at home he gets his creativity going by making his "aluminummy",which is an 30 foot alien statue made of tin foil, he also paints, which is how he gets ideas for his attire and body paintings. Jeff has also had a biography written The Hardy Boyz: Exist 2 inspire, and two movies "Twist of Fate: The Matt and Jeff Hardy Story" , and "Hardy Boyz Leap of Fate".

Jeff has actually been a big influence on me because I started watching him when i was in the 4th grade and quickly became obsessed. I would dye my hair new colours every week like him, from pink to blue. I also learned that being different and having an interesting and crazy outlook helps to make you a more creative person.

"It's your body, use it...amuse it...'cos one day, you're gonna lose it!"- Jeff Hardy

Refferences:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0362664/bio

http://www.wrestlerbiographies.com/wwe-legends/history-and-biography-of-jeff-hardy

Images:

http://wwechampion2011.blogspot.com/2011/08/jeff-hardy-swanton-bomb-wallpaper.html

http://www.freewebs.com/hardyboyzfansite7/jeffhardy.htm

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Influences

The Song that I am currently listening to which is About Rain is very influential to my design process. Music is a big thing in my design theory because I find that what ever song I am listening to at the time influences my designs because the emotion in the song starts to come out in my designs.

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Song: About Rain

Artisit: Sequoya Prep School

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I am currently reading this book by Malcolm Gladwell, it is great for seeing how quickly things become trends and how trends work.

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my favourite song. I pretty much listen to this all day everyday, it moves me in a way that most songs don't. listening to this will help put you in my mind set when i design.

Lifehouse- Blind

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Post 1: Introduction

“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.  Her early leaf’s a flower,  But only so an hour.  Then leaf subsides to leaf,  So Eden sank to grief.  So dawn goes down to day,  Nothing gold can stay”    -Robert Frost To anyone this may concern, my name is Hanna Macek, and I am a second year Graphic Design student at Humber College, and this blog will about my design theory, and process. You will see a lot of pictures and  writing that will explain how these images help to produce my theory. I am very influenced by many things, like music, fine art, and even fashion. My design is always influenced by things I see or hear or even feel. I will also be posting quotes and songs that influence me in a meaningful way. Right at this moment I don’t have my design theory completely ready, but you will see it grow and become more polished and become an actual theory with thought behind it. “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold”     -The Outsiders