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Time Line

I've currently been in a sort of transition that has consumed my entire mind lately. I'm transferring schools to a college in northern Kentucky. It's closer to home and it's a great school. Instead of getting an apartment, we decided to buy a foreclosure and flip it. I'll live in it and rent it out until I graduate and then we'll sell it. Well, we found a house and signed on it. Then I found out that Northern Kentucky University is going to accept my design class credits. after we signed on the house. This wouldn't have been an issue had we not made a large investment in a piece of property 600+ miles from my current college. So I've been a bit distracted and with houses weighing heavily on my mind, I decided to do my timeline on house styles that were popular in that era. But after finding out that my school wasn't going to accept my credits, it all seemed a bit fruitless.

Pecha Kucha Night

 

 This poster was created as an informational about Pecha Kucha night, I chose an interesting aspect of Pensacola that you don't read about in the tourist brochures. This house in the Portafino area by the beach has a U.F.O. shaped room on top of their house, it's a really peculiar house shape. And since this was meant to interest the locals of Pensacola rather than the tourists.

After the class critique, it was said that the way the spaceship beams stopped mid air was a bit awkward. So I extended those to the ground level. I'm not entirely sure who said what about the Pecha Kucha at the top, but I extended the beams and added the word "Night" that was originally part of the title but I forgot to add.

My Parents Influential Upbringing

The background was really an after thought but that's not much of an excuse. So I took off the awful paint splatter and replaced it with a clean comic book-esque background. In the critique, it was said that some of the icons were not as strong as they could be, namely the eye color, creativity, lead foot, and eye for color. So I blew up the eye so that color would be visible. I took away led foot and replaced it with love for nature. I just didn't think that led foot was going to be as successful as the others as an icon. With creativity, I took the idea of the paint splatters from my background and used the colors of the color scheme. I took the eye for color and made the color scheme squares correlate with the compositions color scheme.
I wasn't entirely sure how to fill color the outlines of my parents and I, so I initally used photoshop and just saved them as .pngs and then dropped them in. This made my parents and I have a different look from the icons. So after Mrs. Ruddick showed me the livepaint tool, I just remade my parents.
Overall, I like the revisions made post submission. Its a cleaner look and i think the icons are more successful this way. Making these revisions based on student suggestions strengthened my trust in my fellow classmates opinion.

"Teach A Martian to Tie A Shoe"

I had a friend who looked at my "How To" and found some inconsistencies. There were a couple scenes that were difficult to understand. For instance, in the distillation process water and oil separate in the right tube, you have to drain the water to collect the oil. Some water is kept to dilute the potency of the oil. I illustrated this but it was more confusing than necessary. so I omitted it in the bottom left scene. Also, I thought it necessary to add an extra scene because 7 scenes were too unbalanced.
I tried to incorporate gold through out the composition. I was hesitant about including gold and am still a bit unsure. I wanted gold to hold a symbolic power in the color scheme. Its supposed to represent the essential oil that you're going through the distillation process for.

Typeface Project

"Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty" by Sharon Wu: Reaction Post.

I think that plagiarism is a serious matter. As Graphic Designers, we have to honor these rules set to protect others' intellectual property. It should come down to a matter of personal integrity. Should I everhave any of my creations become popular, I want to be able to hold my head high, knowing that nobody has a stake in my creative process, that this was all my own. I don't want to have to bear the feeling of guilt every time I see my logo on a building or see a magazine run my ad. It's about being able to sign off on it knowing that you have tried your absolute best and it is entirely your own creation.