CIOS 108 Final

This is my final draft submission. When I started I thought of benches, scales, gavels, and all the other stuff court room things. I decided to go on a different path. I started by making the planet when I thought of power and authority I wanted to show that with this book the readers could hold the power of the world. I created it by making a circle with the marquee tool while holding shift to keep it even. I then used the difference of clouds render with black and white to get the cloudy effect, then I added a gradient of blue to white on color burn blending mode, I added an outer glow and lowered the opacity. I simply copied my image and made it smaller to place on the spine. I used a gradient on the covers of the book, I pick browns because it gave a law book feel. I then took a picture of a hand and duplicated it, got the best selection I could and blended them with luminosity. I pasted the left most picture and created a textured stroke. I then cropped out the face and used the eyes to get a more powerful feel. I used the number one on the spine so that she can create more books and use the same style to tie them together. I placed the text with a serif font to make the cover feel more elegant which is one of the things that is needed for a book on manners no matter where it means for you to use it. The last thing I did was pick up some texture gray scaled it and blended it to make the spine feel more real. Overall I used natural colors and elements so that Marion would feel a sense of nature and authority from the cover of her book.

CIOS 108 final summary draft

I have decided to send my six sketches that I have been tossing around in my head. I would like to let Ms. Marion to know that not all logos have to help push across what it is that the company does, I would advise her to look at NBC and Mac’s logos the peacock and the apple, neither have anything to do with what the company is about and that the point of the company is more important in marketing through commercials and print. Stating that I would like to reinsure Ms. Marion that this would be a great place to bring out the natural feel she wants to her logo. I have included a range of ideas from simple initials to large more detailed sketches. I would also like the state that I would like to use natural colors such as browns, greens, and yellows.

Option A – A simple design the word law can be drop to make it very basic.

Option B – pushes the fact that it is a publishing company

Option C – A more creative way of just using the initials.

Option D – stresses the name as crown king and that it is a publishing company. Three books that spell law well with what kind of books she is publishing.

Option E – the most natural, a crown made out of a bushy texture, the initials would be embedded into a trunk textured area and that the roots of the company are around the law.

Option F – stresses the crown king point the farthest.

I would personally bump option D and E.

Hierarchal Progression project 7

This project i believe i made more difficult than it had to be. I was very confused at what the book wanted so i looked around to see what others where doing to get an idea. I cam eup with the phrase and did graphics to define each section of the phrase. The phrase "Humans are let skyscrapers, even with stone feet, they reach for the starts, yet the world, can change their direction" cam to me when i thought of how we all want to reach our goals, and even if we plant ourselves firmly in one place the earth still rotates and moves our direction.

My theme was "ever changing" even though it kind goes against what the book said i wanted to challange the book by making a theme that has no theme.

Half of my graphics were hand drawn because i couldn't find anything to work with to get the result i wanted.

My first graphic i used gradient tools to make lines shoot off to show men and woman are diffrent yet the lines cross to show we can come together. I hand drew the signs becuase i didn't like the photos i had taken or the ones i found.

My second graphic i used the outline of some feet and used texture to make the prints look cracked like the feet had been there a while and ripped up to show how still and how long they had been there. The stripes give the graphic the lines that were needed and filled the blank area.

My third graphic I hand drew a girl cause the first thing i thought of was a girl being amazed and having the stary gaze. The stars were then placed into a line to point up and out to the sky.

My forth graphic i use strictly photoshop and tried my hand at speratic drawing, not the greatest but i did get my point across.

My fifth graphic although not the best looking had my favorite effect. People and see mulitple sets of lines, wheither its seeing four black and four white arrows pointing in or line where the white and black clash.

CIOS108 Project 5c letter study

My first letter in the upper left i thought of A as the first letter that children learn how to write and in English we start in the upper left corner, so i picked a form that made the A look slop to show the raw new knowledge.

The second A follows the theme of the first row which i decided on making how writing A's are made, now the writer has gotten past the new knowledge of writing and can print the A.

The final A of the top row is the apex of writing, learning how to write in cursive and makes the A look as it was made in one fluid motion.

The second row was things i thought of when i thought of the letter A. The first was an Ace in cards and i found a perfect letter form for this.

The middle A was made to be angelic, and airy. This was the easiest to find.

The last of the second row i thought of abstract, so i found the most abstract way to display an A but the picture shows a lot of words that can describe an A, its an arrow, that's angled.

The lowest left A i thought of absolute, and the form i had chosen was to make it seem bold and abundant.

The lower middle letter form i picked a narrow letter form because an A doesn't have any black area where this a was placed, so i tried to make it as invisible as possible.

The lower right is my tribute to my coding buddies. It is how an A is represented in binary form.

CIOS108 Project 5a Contrast studies

Organized Contrast For this one i followed the rules and did it black and white. The best way i found to contrast was to get the view to believe in a logical order and then ripp it to pieces by adding a hexagon.

Random Contrast

The insperation for this one came form a game actually. The game is called squares where you are a circle trying to dodge squares that are flying in every way. I added the yellow glow to show how this one diffrent shape shines from all the rest.

CIOS 108 Midterm Project

CIOS 108 Project 4b: Season

This project was really fun, First i went looking for some pictures that i felt captured the feeling of winter and placed them all in my file. Once i had my pictures i then decided my color triad which made the project a loe easier then picking a triad and finding pictures that fit it.

I have to stop a moment and talk about this snowman picture, I just had to have it, it was flat out amazing and turned out to be an amzing background my favorite of all the photos.

I used five photos becuase my first graphic design teacher taught me odd is always good and it has stuck with me sense then.

It worked out so well becuase i didn't want all my photos to be straight up and down way to boring for me so i tilted them on a side, most of the snowmen are looking to the lower right which creates a flow down to the right lower corner, so if the lower right is the bottom i thought then the upper left is the top, which is where i placed the seasons name. For the text i used white text rotated it 90 degrees used the wind effect from right to left a few times to get the lines, then i rotated it into posistion. Then i had to pick an accent color which i chose red which went against all my other colors, i placed it behind the title to pull it out of the backgroun more, i used a Gradient tool that made a row with both sides fading into transparent. I didn't like my photos just sitting there like duh duh duh, so i pulled them up by placing a stroke around the pictures.

I was going to use my custom brush i used on my crush project with white as the color but it really messed up my project so i took it out. On a hidden note if you start from the red strip and go between the pictures and end going up it makes a large W for winter, did you notice it before you read this? ;P

CIOS 108 Project 4a: shots

Pattern

Rhythm or Movement

Orientation

Scale Change

Repetition

Dominance

Asymmetrical Balance

Simple Symmetrical Balance




This was a hard project becuase I bought a disposable camera to do the project only later to find i wish i had a digital camera to get better pictures but i have picked the best from the ones i had.

The Symmetrical Balance shot i took my glass half spheres and placed them on my table and arranged them in two arrows and took the picture with no flash.

The Asymmetrical one was fun i took the bowl and threw it on the table and took a picture of the spilled remains, nothing can be symmetrical to chaos :).

The Dominance one took forever, it so hard to balance those little half spheres of glass on each other finally i got it and it turned out great.

For repetition i made a repetitive color code, it reminds me of simon says red, blue, red, blue, red, blue or christmas lights.

The scale Change was hard also i only had like three diffrent sizes of half spheres so i took them and another and set them up to make an optical illusion to make the sizes seem to differ even more.

I was starting to run out of film by the time i got to Orientation and the simplest and most effective photo was this one, i took two glass half spheres adn placed a third on half of the lens to gain three diffrent points of view in one shot, one with no alterations, a close up taking half of the shot, and the third of a glass half sphere seen through the other.

When i saw Rhythm and movement i thought of music and dancing right away and how cool is it that they could serve as notes.

I chose to make a flower pattern out of my subject starting with my only yellow then red, blue, thne white.

CIOS 108 Graphic Animal Atlas Beetle continued

Close up of my detailed wing drawing.

Close up of atlas Head with horns.

CIOS 108 Graphic Animal Atlas Beetle

Full Detailed drawing of my Atlas Beetle

More than basic shap drawing

Basic drawing white beetle and black background

Basic drawing black beetle white background

Basic outline of Atlas Beetle

I'm sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, My computer doesn't have my scanning software on it anymore even thou i still had my scanner connected, so i had to take all the pictures on my webcam, better than nothing. Everthing got a lot better once i was in photoshop. I chose this pose for my beetle because as i went around looking for more photos like a side view or a front view i lost alot of detail that i wanted to draw. The frontal only had the beetle's head and horns all black so it was to hard to try and trace the outline without making it look like a pea with a fork through it. The side view had the same problem, as i looking and moved to trace it ended up looking like a hotdog with a stick shoved in it. I chose a Atlas Beetle because it has very Distinguishing features ( Triple horn, 90 degree folding shell and hidden wings ) This beetle was just so diffrent, instead of it having one horn or large jaws it had three horns and its wings fold out sideways and not up like other beetles.

Project: Expressive Types and design

This is my First option for the project. I believe i like this one better becuse the hammer doesn't fight with the Word Crush as the main subject of the picture.

This is my second option for the project. I made this first but the hammer bothered me after i zoomed out as if it was taking attention away from the word.

Here are my four font styles i picked for the start of the project. I used cruch but becuase it had to be black and white i took off my photo to make it completely black.

CIOS 108 Graphic Design for Computer Applications

A. What is something that is going well in your life?

My life is rather well all around. I’m healthy happy and content.

B. What are your specific goals for this class?

To increase my skills in Graphic design and hope to use what I have learning to earn a living.

C. What was your first experience with design, computers andimaging technology like?

My first encounter with designing I can’t really remember considering I’ve played with blocks and linkin logs forever ago. I first came into contact with computers at home, I was about 8 or 10 and started playing games on the computer. I first came in contact with imaging software and technology in high school where I took desktop design.

D. Do you usually work on a Mac or a PC and why?

I usually work on a PC, the reason would be because that is what I was brought up on, what I work with at my job, and what I use at home.

E. What is your experience level with any of the other image editingor vector programs available?

I have used Photoshop for a lot of fun things and have even made a Photoshop portfolio on Facebook for my friends to see. I’m not a novice at Photoshop but I still have great potential and seek to reach it.

F. What is something you liked about your day today?I liked having today off from work lol.

I enjoy the simple things if life and just being able to get up and walk on my own is enough for me.

G. How do you plan to use what you learn in this class?

I plan to use it to the fullest extent possible. I wish to live off of my graphic design talent and hard work.

H. What would make this class go very well for you?

For there to be an assignment link on the homesite to upload homework and classwork tasks.

I. How do you plan to make this class go very well for you?

By working hard and enjoying every minute of it even if I struggle.

J. What do you do for creativity on an on‐going basis?

I play dungeons and dragons on a rather constant basis which allows for complete creativity, from day to day chores to how to defeat that amazing super boss.

K. Who is Milton Glaser? Paul Bass?

If I had to guess they would be famous graphic designers or photographers or computer designers. Anyway I don’t know for sure, however not only am I sure I’ll be learning about them names don’t matter besides in the copy right it is what they have brought to the world of graphic design that interests me.

L. Do you own or have access to a color image scanner?

I have access to a scanner and it does scan in color.

M. What software application will you be using for the course?

I would prefer to use Photoshop on most of my works. However I would gladly learn new software to increase my value as a designer as each software has things it is good and bad at.