Self Portraits

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Photoshop: ART 120

This is my first ever chance to learn a bit about photoshop. I feel as I have only scrapped the service, or less than scrapped if that is possible... but looking forward to learning more this winter break on my own to gear up for next term.

Factory project for ART 112

ART 118 Project #2

These are not at all the colors that were in my illustrator document: so I guess perfect example of what we were talking about in class how I need to convert from CMYK to RGB.... but I haven't quite figured out how to do that, so until then I'll just leave this one up.
This isn't really related to the process of our ART 120 projects but I thought I would end up using my blog to post images of my work from all my classes as well.

This particular project was to use type as a visual element. We had to state a design objective to explain our project to the class. My overall design objective was to use both straight lines, angels of letters and a curvalinear element to show and explore the relationship between the two figures.

I was happy with the colors that I ended up going with, they were really bright and vibrant and while using Helvetica I got a rather late 1980's feel from the whole thing.

Something I struggled with overall was where to place the type, I was going for all the obvious places that lined up with the letters. Since I was going for an overall simple design I really wanted the typography to play a larger part in the appeal of my design. I created color segments throughout the letterforms and ended up placing the type along one of the constructed shapes inside of the letter G.

PROCESS ENTRY FURNITURE DESIGN POSTER

* My first concept was primarily derived from a piece of furniture that I found on an image hunt that was very aesthetically appealing to me. I first traced both chairs from the image I had placed in illustrator. I knew I wanted to texture the chairs with something beyond just a plain color. I used type to attempt to look like texture. Or to give the idea maybe the chair was constructed from a recycled piece of material.

After the first class discussion about all the designs I gained a lot of ideas of what was working and what was not working in my design. First things first, text on the chairs not working, took those off, also the gray bar that was extending from left to right behind the "title" was not adding to the design I took that off as well. The squiggles on the right hand side, are random and not cohesive with the design primarily just "fluff." My text was pretty much just a block of text so that is an area I decided I wanted to explore a bit in my following designs.

What I have left from my springboard design is one of the chairs. I knew I loved the shape it created and thought It would go well in the design. At this point I just had a chair and it seemed like many examples I saw from classmates just had a single piece of furniture just sitting there. Like look i'm a chair or a table ect. I didn't really know how I wanted to explore this, but knew I needed to enhance my design in terms of how the viewer saw and experienced how the furniture was placed into the design.

Still with not a good idea of how I wanted to spice things up, I decided to work with swatches and clipping masks of my wallpaper designs that were needed to be incorporated into the design. I had fun playing around with this for awhile but still just felt like I was rolling paint on a chair.
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(The above design was my final design, in this design I changed the colors a bit. I added one of my wallpaper designs to the back panel of the chair, and revereted the yellow bottom half to white. Overall I was pleased with the proccess of getting to the point of my final design. I liked the chair how it was to begin with but by breaking it up , I think it creates something more visually appealing and interesting to the viewer.) I'm sure there is more that could be improved on but for now this is where it ends.
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While taking a break from homework my husband and I were setting up our new living room furniture from Ikea. We learned from this experience that you need to be really good at following directions via image and diagram since all directions use no words ! So after this I got the idea of creating my chair into what maybe it would look like broken up in a diagram if you bought it and had to put it together. I decided on a simple grid in the back, I tried first without a grid but it looked like the 3 shapes were just floating randomly. The grid seemed to me to seem more like the shapes were locked into place. I placed the text/information along lines protruding out from the object such as those that you might find leading you to follow one direction to the other to get all the information needed to complete the task. In this example, what you need to attend the show.
I added the PSU logo I had forgot to insert in previous desings and with this fourth logo I thought it would be more appropriate to line them up one next to another to look more streamline opposed to stack them in the corner like what I had been doing.