Lupton Webpage sketch

This is my first sketch for my web design. Since Lupton has a degree in typography I chose to focus of that in her name. I want to try a very basic set up for the site because I feel that Lupton is a very neat designer and wouldn't want any clutter on her site. 

Ellen Lupton Webpage project

Ellen Lupton was born in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated as an art major at Cooper Union College during a time when design was not as popular as we know it today. Soon after she graduated, Lupton was offered a job working with typography, writing and design. She was able to work with the things she loved and also display all her creations to the public. She continued working and creating, producing numerous exhibitions and books. These books are used by students, designers, educators and even children. Lupin has contributed to many various productions as well and given many more speeches to anyone who will listen.In 2007 she was awarded the AIGA Gold Medal. This is one of the highest honors that a graphic designer can achieve. Currently she is the director of the Graphic Design MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Design (MICA) and is known as a writer, curator, designer, and curator to all.

cssbasics.com chapters 1-4

While reading most of these chapters I found everything to be somewhat of a review. Such as the setup of the syntax and also the purpose of the IDs and classes. One interesting thing I learned was that you can combine selectors to apply styles to multiple selectors.

HTML resume

basic HTML

 Today we started working with the website HTMLdog to create a basic web design. I hand coded this page and after looking at a second website (w3schools.com) I found out how to add color and even more to my page that i didn't have time to actually add.

Text Edits

My final touches became a battle between my text and what to do with it. I tried different types that went along with my masthead and eventually I came up with this final design that I feel went along most with my images and also seemed the most like a real magazine that someone would pick up and read. 

Masthead edit

When I first composited my images with the masthead, it just didn't look right, so I played around with it a bunch and eventually came up with something I like better seen below. 

In Progress

This is my in progress cover. I started compositing my pictures and realized that I needed more of the picture, there is more space then I thought at the top and as of right now the legs just stop. I retook some pictures last night so I will be working on putting the new pictures in today along with my final text.

11/1 Class Work Time

Today I started working on my images for the cover of my magazine. this was my scanned image from a Martha Stewart magazine and below is what I edited to be the background for my own. Below that are just a few pictures I took for the feet. I am going to work in photoshop to put the feet on the stairs and complete my images for the cover. 

Masthead Ideas

Today we worked on our mastheads for our magazine. After talking with a small group from my class we decided that the fish were a good idea. I spent all class starting at the top and working on changing little things till I got to a place that I am happy with. I am unsure about which one to choose on the last page, but I have a few ideas I can choose from and I am happy with what I did today. I also potentially solved my scanned photo dilemma by using a background from a magazine and adding my own pictures of the feet. I'm hoping that will work out okay. 

Sketches cont.

This is a very rough sketch, but I've decided that I like the fish. My audience is towards a young adult crowd who I believe will really understand the analogy. I am also unsure about my photo, I was so set on the feet, but now that I have to find it in a magazine, it could become very difficult. I like my title as is though and the selling line goes well with my main idea, "standing out from the world, for the world." Right now my biggest problem is finding the picture I need. 

Sketches for Mag. Cover

These are my first two sketches for my magazine cover. I really want to use a black and white photo of the same shoes with a focus on the colored TOMS shoes in the center. the main cover line is going to be about the creator of TOMS shoes and how the reader can be inspired by his story. I'm not sure about the fish yet so I'm going to play around with a few other ideas next. 

Magazine Cover Mood Board

This is my mood board for our upcoming project. I decided to create a magazine that is called Against the Current and will be advertised towards an audience that wants to step out and do something good for the world, but maybe don't know how or just need an inspiration. My main focus on this edition of the magazine will be on the creator of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie.

Mind Map for Next Project

our next project is a magazine cover. Today we worked on the wacom tablet to create a mind map in photoshop. As you can see it took some getting used to use the tablet, but it was interesting to try. For my concept I decided on trying to play off of the idea of stepping out of the traditional and starting something new. The title of my magazine is going to be Against the Current and I want to use the illustration of a fish going the opposite way as the school of fish. I want to use the creator of TOMS shoes as an inspiration and the main story. I'm still developing ideas further, but this is where I am so far. 

Photoshoped Ad

Our assignment for class was to take an ad from a magazine (preferably one with a celebrity in it) and use photoshop to place yourself in the image. Once I was successfully placed into the got milk ad, we had to add some text through indesign into the work. I chose to change the tag-line from the original "got milk" to got coffee since I recharge with coffee in the morning (hence my jumping for joy with Ashley Tisdale)

Types of images

Our assignment was to use inDesign and photoshop to recreate this diagram. This is my final product of trying to reproduce the chart with different types of images. 

Google SketchUp cont.

After working most of the period on trying to finish this chair I came up with a pretty successful chair. This tutorial did not tell you step by step how to do things, so I had to search google and find a lot of information on new tools that I never used before. I have a much better handle on this program now.

Google SketchUp

Today we started working in Google sketch up and had the option of watching tutorials on the sketchup website and follow along. The first chair I created was subtractive, meaning I created a block and cut away from it. The second one was an additive approach where I created the base then added the back and the legs. The next chair I am working on is much more complicated, I found these two chairs relatively easy to complete.

Final Mounted Project

Complete Packet

We were required to have one complete packet that could actually hold seeds. So for this one I had to make a back also. I wanted to incorporate the Emerald city in my design and thought this was a perfect place to do so. The idea of the seed is to grow a desire (the three that the characters want in the film) without having to go visit the wizard. It is a product that the Wizard produced almost as if he didn't want to be bothered. The very bottom of the back I added a quote from L. Frank Baum's book the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (the book that the movie was based off of) as a disclaimer saying "the true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have plenty." I feel that this just sums up the seeds perfectly as a product of the Wizard. Just like in the book/movie the characters never really needed the Wizard at all to find the qualities they desired, it was in them all along. The Wizard is just a big show. 

Final Designs

These are the final designs I ended up with. It took me a while to get to where I ended, especially with the sayings. Overall I'm happy with what I came up with and I think it ties all three together nicely. 

sketches cont.

I also worked on my final design today, the brain. I really want to play off of a cotton plant growing a brain. Since I had so much trouble with with the courage design I have to add some part of the scarecrow to this design so I need to rework some things, but this is my basic idea. Now to move onto illustrator...

Sketches

My first idea for the courage seed packet was to play off of the movie and use a medal as the center of the flower and the ribbon as the pedals. Once I started working on it in illustrator though it just didn't seem to come together as a whole idea with the other 2 ideas. So I had to rethink and after brainstorming for a long time we came up with the idea of courage associated with strength. So I am going to try and play off the idea of muscles as the leaves and a sunflower being the mane of a lion. i am also going to add parts of the characters (tin and straw) to the other two designs so this isn't the only one with an actual reference with the character. 

September 27: in progress

After our critique today on our "completed" design I made some final changes to my first seed packet design. I am still working on the wording of "grow a heart" and deciding how I want the three different packets to work together so there will be changes to come. I already started working on my second packet, courage. I'm still in the initial steps, but it will be the next one to finish. 

September 21: inProgress

I eventually decided to change the hearts to look more like human hearts then the actual flower. I feel that this will flow better with my other designs to come. I also made some minor other adjustments with the type and also the background. Overall I think it has improved from what I had at the beginning of class. I'm going to continue to tweak this one while I start my next two designs, I feel the hearts still need some serious work. 

Initial design

This was my initial design for my first seed packet, Grow a Heart. When we came to class we had everyone look at it and make comments on what they thought... there will be changes to come. Some of the things people disagreed with was the outline and also the background is too confusing. A lot of people were also confused as to how I was going to continue the concept of the three gifts from the Wizard of Oz. This one worked well, but how will courage be portrayed. I may play around with things and make these hearts look more like actual hearts and less like the plant so all three will eventually be more cohesive.

Mood Board

For our first project we are creating seed packet designs that have a twist. I choose to do Wizard of Oz seeds. This is my mood board to convey the concept I will eventually show on my seed packet. 

Mind Mapping Exercise

We started with the idea "seed packet" and had to branch off ideas using the mind mapping technique. I just started coming up with random things and even ended up with the Wizard of Oz as one of my points. It's amazing where your mind can go when you stop analyzing and just write down the first word that comes to mind. 

Mario Mushroom Exercise

For this exercise I had to use the mesh tool to create the 3D look of the mushroom. 

In Class Exercise #2

Todays exercise was to recreate logos in adobe illustrator. We had to mainly use the pen tool to recreate 4 logos that we were assigned.

In Class Exercise 1

This is a project I worked on in class today. We had to have over 100 simple black circles and arrange them in and interesting composition using the principles of 2D Design.

Response to Videos

When watching the videos there was not too much said that I didn't already know about mac computers. However, I found it very interesting when he said that macs and windows are similar in some ways, since I have always known them to be very different. One of the only things that is different in the applications is how you exit a program completely.