20140405 Final Project Review - Style of design

My design for the final project mainly focus on the figure and slogan.
But I took some designers design as example and try to use the elements in their design to integrate into my work.
Apart from Otto Neurath's isotype design, I also do some research on 'Peter Saville' and 'The Designers Republic'.
Peter Saville is an English art director and graphic designer.
From my point of view, he used very strong color and make a comparison on his design, but viewers would not lose the focus because he still keep balance on scene.

This work, 'History of Modern' is an album cover and really impressive.

He create the great balance on the main figure and the background color he use would not be seen too exaggerate or too eye-catching. 

In fact, it perfectly mix together.

On the other hand, to make the whole work seems to be vividly.

I take 'The Designers Republic' as example when I do my design.

The work that 'The Designers Republic' done is like the main graphic corporate with logo, and also mixed some Japanese anime with a postmodern tendency.

This is the work I found which is quite remarkable. 

Because the man in poster can catch the spectators attention, big move of man and opposite color is the point that the man could stand out.

Moreover, the color they used in this work is the combination of purple, dark purple and orange. 

I think the use of colors is quite bold but would not be odd for viewers.

I think my work is the mix of this three designers (Otto Neurath &Peter Saville &The Designers Republic).

I used great color contrast, iconic figure and balance screen to create the attention for viewers. 

What is more, I also use slogan to reflect on my graphic design to reveal and emphasize the topic of work.

20140404 Draft - CD design

This post should be post in earlier date but I always forgot it. Hence, this is the post which talks about some inspirational design from others and my draft.
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The CD cover design was inspired by David Report.
Davide report is a blog for recording down different kinds of design, and this blog is owned by David Carlson.
David Carlson is an influential facilitator, cross-polinator, and design thought-leader. He provides bespoke solutions based on his knowledge in strategies concerning design, innovation and brand development.
In addition, he is the author of Make Design Matter.

He wrote the reports for the design competition to make a CD design which needs to incorporate the hole.
He displayed series of work on CD cover. (The link of the work: The hole in the CD)

Occasionally, I saw the third one on the google, and this kinds of CD design gave me a lot of ideas about how to use the hole.
Moreover, I found that the third one quite feat with my slogan.
So that I used the earth as a picture around the hole.
And I make my orange man push it.

20140404 Final Project Review - Video (NBA "Where Amazing Happens" commercial) & NBA logo

Apart from the Nike advertisements, this commercial video is another reason why I want to create the slogan within the iconic logo.
This CM create kinds of tough atmosphere for the basketball.
Within the slogan, it makes audiences who watch the video really can get involved in and also get the inside emotion with basketball.
Moreover, at the end of the video. It shows the NBA logo with the slogan "Where amazing happens" to reveal the whole theme again.
I personally quite like the way they do,and I believe that the audiences could  get the intended message.
Thus, that is why I did my best on this series of design, because I want to deliver same kinds of faith through the figures to viewers.

20140404 Presentation - Davide Carson

Our presentation was introducing one of great designer, David Carson, and here is the information about him. (Take from our presentation slides)

1.Bio:
-Born: September 8th,1954 (age60) Texas, United States
-Field: Type+Graphic Design

2. Ray Gun:
-Published in 1992- Carson was founding art director
-Distinct experimental typography
-He left three years late, but the chaotic style still very much influenced the artistic style of the magazine.

3. Features
-Emphasis on words/type rather than images
-Simplicity & minimalistic style
-Use of emotion (e.g. Dingbat font)

4. Cultural Impact & Public Opinion
-Love/hate reaction
-Merging of design & content= strong communication- highly influential
-Cultural context - Grunge new wave design & typography
-Basic academic knowledge of design- raw quality- puts an emphasis on emotions that people can relate to

5. Personal Thought:
After did some research about David Carson, I feel that his work is not that attractive to me, maybe is because of the whole design seems to be too crowded and lack of consistency. But he did not afraid of breaking the rules of design. To some degree it may seems to be too emotional but I think that is truth of design, just following your heart and do whatever you want on piece of paper. There is no limited. Although I do not really like David Carson, his faith with design still very inspirational.

(Presentation Notes)

(Presentation Notes)

20140403 Final Project - the trail of paper texture effect

Although I have already done with my final project, I still try my best to try out the different effect on my design.
Today, I tried the paper texture effect which taught by tutor few weeks ago.
The whole things is not that difficult to make it, and the final result seems quite well.
But in this case I think the effect should adjust into other colors or the orange man would be covered by the whole background.
On the other hand, I think the paper texture effect not really feat my topic.
To some degree, the atmosphere of whole seems very weird.