Friday, November 19, 2010

Save Us


For this free choice breadth project I wanted to focus on making a design for a specific company, like I would be doing for my career as a graphic designer. I made an environmental design for the US Environmental Protection Agency with a poster and business cards. The elements and principles of design I used are balance and unity. Balance in the symmetry of the poster, how there are an equal amount of objects on each side of the piece. And unity in the color scheme. I feel like this project was a success and could be used by the company.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Self Portrait



For the self portrait project, the main focus was to incorporate a full body portrait. I had never done this before and was initially excited to see what I could create. I met the criteria for this project by including a full body portrait in relation to things around me. For example, the photo where I am sitting on the stairs shows proportions. Also, if we were going to do the project digitally, we were supposed to combine/ incorporate multiple photos, which I obviously did. I met the three c's also. Composition; my piece has a unique composition with bolder images in the major focus areas. Craftsmanship; I printed this piece on a substrate made of newspaper, modge podge, and gel medium. It took a lot of time and helped my piece reach it's full potential. Concept; my piece had a concept to show all the of the different personalities I have, to represent that I am not a very stagnant person. My piece also shows some of the elements and principles of design including contrast and unity. It shows contrast in the strong colors against the black and white of the newspaper and other colors. It shows unity in the sense of blended photos working together and similar colors used throughout the piece. This will fit into my portfolio because it is solely created from a design point of view.