CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW Design Competition shows who will win $100,000 US. The competition categories include: Advertising, Fashion, Vehicle Wraps, Illustration and Fine Art. The students can join along the competition.
Inhabitat Design Competitions
It has tons of competitions that you can trying to join some their groups.
Electrolux Design Lab
Many designers send to this link to share their concepts to present what they suggest for. The art directors look through different their concept and leave some their feedback what are their thought of.
I am reading, writing, and uploading the blog for senior year in the Art Institute of Seattle. It is required to post the blog on the blogger related to my thought, opinion, and comment about anything of graphic design.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Project 2 Preliminary Proposal
I have made my decision who will be my client for Project 2. It's Borracchini's Bakery in Rainier Valley. My proposal is only rough. I have to think to explain specific about it. But, here's my rough proposal.
KEY BENEFITS
Coming soon...
Week 5: Sketching and feedback
Week 6: Art direction to improve design
Week 7: Prelim Critics
Week 8: Final Critics
BACKGROUND
Borracchini’s Bakery is Seattle's
historic Italian privately owned, family business bakery, tracing our roots
back to our founding in 1922. Our quality and customer service is unmatched,
proven by the longevity, loyalty and satisfaction of our customers over the
years. It has small grocery market, deli, breads, pastries and cakes. It looks
forward to serving you and making your special day as memorable as it can be.
It loves to make customers the cake or cookies for their unique events such as
birthday, wedding, or party.
CLIENT
Borracchini’s Bakery
TARGET AUDIENCE
Italian residences, 30 to 50 age adults, and kids
PROBLEMS
When the audiences want to buy breads or pastries. There will
have brown sack to gather the donuts or cookies together. Also, the plastic bag
is for the loaf of bread. It doesn’t have any Italian packaging to place
cookies or donuts to be organizing inside. Cake does have blank pink packaging.
OPPORTIUNITY
Create to make bit old-traditional of
Italian on the package. It can be tons of size of boxes since small to big. It
may present some Ancient Roman’s sculptures and ivy plants on different boxes.
KEY BENEFITS
Coming soon...
SCHEDULE
Week 3: Brainstorming the idea for Project 2
Week 4: Sketching and feedback
Week 5: Sketching and feedback
Week 6: Art direction to improve design
Week 7: Prelim Critics
Week 8: Final Critics
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Thesis Response 4
"Alcohol Branding and Sins"
Does an alcohol is part of seven deadly sins? Yes, I agree
with her. Because they are part of lust, gluttony, wrath, envy, pride, sloth,
and greed, any alcohols such bottle, martini, and cocktail present sexy, pride,
and ego. When you see any flyers, billboards or magazine ads, there have a
feeling about the models pose with alcohol that look so sexy as lust. Also, the
handsome guy stands in middle of line all bikini or swimsuits women that called
pride and ego.
In other hand, they alcohol’s brandings have different
purposes and shape of bottle. For example, the alcohol named 1792 Ridgemont
Reserve, using the illustrated map of the where product coming from long ago.
Also, skull bottle had no text on it, but the audience looked at it and had
known what it is because the bottle is full of vodka.
Thesis Response 3
"Make It Move Embracing Motion Graphics Design"
His thesis is half bored and interested because he explained
about the old time design and future time about motion graphics as The Girl
With Dragon Tattoo’s opening presents different motion from old motion from the
past. Also, he explained good reasons how the graphic design has been changing
through the time. The old designers focus on the design as typography and
layout. Now, in the 21st century, it seems the graphic designers
learn more specific about designer as motion graphics and animations.
He had good point about the design is change a bit in few
years later. The designers may like to learn specific about graphic designer.
His thesis applies to my design experience because the graphic design is not
only learn how to do layout for brochure, annual report, and booklet,
typography, and flyers. But, not only learn to do for website, it includes with
ad commercial and information commercial. Because of new technologies coming, I
need to learn more about graphic design and web design. The social media is
increase highly and graphic designers have to learn more about web design.
Unit 3: How People Remember?
When you are on the phone and the person you are talking,
the callers and talkers give you the number and their name. You do not have any
paper and pen to scribble on it. You have to repeat their number and name to
keep in your mind. Your brain is “short-term” memory because the brain be able
to hold too much information same times. If you were in stressful with stuff,
it would reduce the effectiveness of working memory.
Your brain has two parts: task includes remembering the
words or numbers is in the left hemisphere. The tasks includes spatial
relations such as finding on a map is in the right hemisphere.
There are ten billion neurons in the brain that store much
information. The neurons in the brain fire many words, phrases, songs, phone
numbers every time they repeat. The people tried to memorize them in their
brain. They have to hear or see the information over and over to make stick on
the brain.
You sometimes wished some something vivid happened stick on
your brain. It can be annoying that you think about it some day because the
memories are so vivid.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Rough Project Proposal for Two and Three
I've been thinking to design something different for two more projects. I like to make the packaging for shopping or products that need to redesign the packaging. I don't yet make decision which client to be fitting with my project 2.
Also, I have made decision to make graphic image sticker on the window for Baskin Robbins' shop. Since I saw the shop in different location that not really enough lure the people's attention to get the ice cream from the shop.
Also, I have made decision to make graphic image sticker on the window for Baskin Robbins' shop. Since I saw the shop in different location that not really enough lure the people's attention to get the ice cream from the shop.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Unit 2: How People Read
One chapter explains about the shapes of words and letters in each
sentence. People's eyes read more quickly and smoothly, but in shape jumps
called saccade. Also, there's an example that uppercase letters may be harder
to read than lowercase letters. But, authors can use these uppercase letters to
show people shouting. Another chapter talks about the different look of the
typefaces such as san serifs and serifs. There is a debate about how to read it
smoothly, but there's no rule how to use them because of people’s reading style.
There're many typefaces with different shapes. Some typefaces are too
decorative making make it hard to read and understand. Another chapter explains
about reading a single wide column and multiple columns. Many people prefer to
read multiple columns when reading newspapers, magazines, and websites. These
are easy to read smoothly and fast compared to the single wide column which
takes time to read and possibly losing your place going to the next line.
Definition:
Saccade: The reader's eye move in quick, sharp jumps with short
period of stillness in between.
Fixations: The moment of stillness
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Thesis Response 2
“Cultural Fusion in Brand Strategy”
He explained the contact different from other countries with
true cultural traditional and cultural traditional stealing. His thesis’s
explanation really so clearly and make good points about two different
cultural. He has lots of good point about copy the cultural.
I am actually learn
something that I do not realized that some countries influenced and/or inspired
by other countries. Some countries could be stole/borrowed the cultural from
other countries to use for mobile, art, and fashion runway. When I read it, it
made me wonder if the 21st century still stealing the traditional cultural and
changing some of traditional to present bit different ways. That's why I noticed some branding for clothing, silverwares, hardwares or furnishing's shape are almost same. They just changed a little to be their own style.
Thesis Response 1
“Interacting With the Illusion Depth”
It’s very interested how he explained the five different
senses; sight, touch, smell, feel, and taste, are used to interact with movie,
video games technology, and mobile device. Five senses communicate to
understand what is in the environment. For example, a painter crates a
painting; the artwork depends on the artist’s tools. It showed how they used to
create the art. Although, the paper with texts or images show how to communicate
with people to be understand.
Imagine how the five senses are not exist in the world, they will not communicate or not immediately recognize. Five senses are very dependable in the world.
Imagine how the five senses are not exist in the world, they will not communicate or not immediately recognize. Five senses are very dependable in the world.
I had known how the five senses interact with device. But for more specific about five senses interact with technology. I depend with my sight and touch on the technology such as computer, movies, and television since I losing my hearing implant. I use my sight to see everything what I saw.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Project 1 Proposal
View project statement: The NW Network Statement
Schedule:
Week 1: Brainstorming the idea for Project 1
Week 2: Sketching and feedback
Week 3: Art Direction to improve design
Week 4: Prelim Critics
Week 5: Final Critics
Schedule:
Week 1: Brainstorming the idea for Project 1
Week 2: Sketching and feedback
Week 3: Art Direction to improve design
Week 4: Prelim Critics
Week 5: Final Critics
Unit 1: How People See
You think your brain understands what you see. It is not
true because your brain is interpreting what you see. When people look at
three-dimensional objects, it enters the retina as two-dimensional. But, then
the two-dimensional image is sent to visual cortex in the brain to be
recognized as a three-dimensional image. The fusiform face area is in the
brain, not part of the visual cortex (FFA). We depend on to recognize faces
faster than objects. People who have autism cannot use the FFA for face
recognition. They see faces the same as objects. More men than women that have
color-blindness since men only have one X-chromosome, women have two
X-chromosome. A color blindness person may not recognize the difference in
color or the color disappears.
Many people may recognize different colors that have certain meaning in
different cultures. For example, the red means financial trouble, danger or
stop. Green means money, environment, and “go”. Since different cultures have
color purpose, you have to consider the color selection you use.
Geon (geometric icon) is to use basic shapes to identity
objects.
FFA (fusiform face area) allows faces to bypass the brain’s
usual interpretive channels (visual cortex) and help the people identify faces more
quickly than objects.
Canonical perspective is usually drawn from a perspective
slightly above looking down and nothing askew straight from left to right.
Affordance is a visual clue to the function of an object.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
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