Okay, I'm home, it's Friday night, 9:25 pm according to the pink hello-kitty-crossed-with-a-pikachu clock on my computer. I have been working 14 plus hour days for so long now, if/when I go back to 9 hour days, I'm going to feel like a part-timer. Anyway, the point of this is to write ANOTHER design brief...
Design Problem:
Create a poster and invitation to an event.
Design Ideas:
Could make a poster for graduation. Use a drawing of a billowing silhouette of a grad gown, typography next to it to state the time, day, location. Invitation could have the same gown as the poster, but because the gown only covers half the page, the cover of the invitation would be a die-cut of the gown.
Could make a poster for the summer solstace...no real ideas...
Could get some sleep and then let my fingers do some freehand sketching, see what happens...
Could continue to wonder why I'm required to take this class when I'm already working in the field and have a professional portfolio...but am really too tired to think about it...
Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Portfolio Sites
Attached are sites that I found.
www.joolz.fr/folio/
This site has a modern artistic feel to it. I like the mix of wildlife and illustration. The muted dark grey in the background is interesting, but doesn't take away from the purpose of the page. What I don't like the is this designer's repetition of style. After viewing a few of these designs, they begin to look alike.
www.milanogw.net
Emil's site is simple, easy to use, interesting. I also like the way the designer uses small rectangles to display his work, it's almost as if the pieces are playing peek-a-boo with the visitor.
www.robpatti.com
Robbie has a postcard design as the homepage. It's very interesting, yet not overwhelming. Unfortunately, he hasn't put much work on the site, so it's quick to go through and none of the work is spectacular enough to keep me interested in pursuing him further.
www.susanengel.co.uk/portfolio/web.htm
Susan's site has an interesting graphic at the top, but most of the site fades away into the background. Not very captivating. The work opens from the thumbnail only slightly larger than the thumbnail. Hard to read. BUT she did a great job at explaining the design problem.
www.matthazelton.com/print.html
Matt also has a simple easy to use site. His designs are very much the same. He uses the same elements over and over and over (see the t-shirt designs). I like the thumbnails displays, he gives an interesting look at a portion of the final product, which tempt me to click and look at the entire image.
www.joolz.fr/folio/
This site has a modern artistic feel to it. I like the mix of wildlife and illustration. The muted dark grey in the background is interesting, but doesn't take away from the purpose of the page. What I don't like the is this designer's repetition of style. After viewing a few of these designs, they begin to look alike.
www.milanogw.net
Emil's site is simple, easy to use, interesting. I also like the way the designer uses small rectangles to display his work, it's almost as if the pieces are playing peek-a-boo with the visitor.
www.robpatti.com
Robbie has a postcard design as the homepage. It's very interesting, yet not overwhelming. Unfortunately, he hasn't put much work on the site, so it's quick to go through and none of the work is spectacular enough to keep me interested in pursuing him further.
www.susanengel.co.uk/portfolio/web.htm
Susan's site has an interesting graphic at the top, but most of the site fades away into the background. Not very captivating. The work opens from the thumbnail only slightly larger than the thumbnail. Hard to read. BUT she did a great job at explaining the design problem.
www.matthazelton.com/print.html
Matt also has a simple easy to use site. His designs are very much the same. He uses the same elements over and over and over (see the t-shirt designs). I like the thumbnails displays, he gives an interesting look at a portion of the final product, which tempt me to click and look at the entire image.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
design Brief
Design Brief for Personal Logo
Project:
Design a personal logo that reflects me as Graphic Designer.
Elements:
Fonts, colors, possibly graphics
Specifics:
Using a simple sans serif font of my initials TLB in black.
No background color.
Possibly a color band at the top or bottom to distinguish information.
Ideas:
Use a lamppost, with my initials forming a stick figure, leaning against the lamppost.
Why:
I want to convey my laid-back personality and my ability to shine a light on the solution to the clients needs.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Day 1
This is day 1 of the last ten-weeks as an undergraduate! Woot! Which means what? An easy coast to the end? Oh hell no. Presentation class requires speeches, every other week. The Portfolio class is going to require 15-20 hours a week of homework. Sure, I'll fit this right in between my 50-60 hours of work every week. Sleep, so over-rated. But hey, I've been working on this degree for 30 years (off and on-mainly off) so I can do this, right? Right!
Day 1 assignment-create this blog. Done! Now to make it all pretty-like.
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