Surrealist Design

This is my surrealist design. What I like most about Photoshop, compared to Illustrator, is that you can edit photos pretty much any way you want. I don't like how sometimes some of the tools don't work the right way. Benefits of using Photoshop that I think I will discover are that you can change anything you want in a photo, and people will never be able to tell. (:  It can also be helpful for designing cool things like posters or book covers. 

Graphic Designer Poster

The graphic designer I chose is Alex Pardee. He was born in California on February 5, 1976. He's a freelance artist , apparel designer, and writer. He uses mostly pens, ink, watercolors, & dye. His self-proclaimed influences include 1980's horror movies, pop art, graffiti, and gangster rap. He is best known for illustrating The Used's album artwork. The style of this designers work is mostly weird/creepy cartoon drawings that have a lot of bright colors. When he does use text, it's usually scratchy, liney, or cursive. Here's his website. I chose this designer because I like how his art is unique and weird. I also thought it would be fun to make up some of my own art in the style of his art. People should check out this graphic designer's art because it's different and really cool. :) 

     This is my quote design. The quote is  from Albert Einstein and it says "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." The elements and principles of design that influenced my work are shape, direction, size, color, value, balance, and harmony. The assignment was to make a typography poster with a historical quote. I made it my own by changing the font, colors, and size of certain words, and by making a clipping mask of a picture of Albert Einstein with the text e=mc². It took a lot of planning while designing this. I didn't even end up using the first idea I had. I wasn't sure if I wanted the entire poster to be a clipping mask, so I decided only a little part of it should be. Deciding how to put the text in the quote took a lot of experimenting and changing. I chose the picture of Albert Einstein because it looked like he was thinking. 

Emotion Words

These are my four emotion words. The emotions I chose are scared, bored, silly, and stressed. The way a  line is drawn affects the mood of a design because the type of line and color gives it a certain feeling. In my scared design, I wrote the word in thin, shaky, zig zag lines and used scary colors. I wrote the word a bunch of times then overlapped them. In my bored design, I used black and white, thick, boring straight lines and arranged them above each other. This new knowledge can influence my future designs because now whenever I include words in my designs, I can make them look more interesting. 

Logo Designs

These are my two logo designs. The one on the left is a cupcake with my initials in the negative space of the pink part, and the one on the right is how I re-created the Sanrio logo. The cupcake design is a good example of line, shape, color, negative space, and repetition. The assignment for the design was to create a logo using your name or initials. I made it my own by drawing a cupcake, then making my initials fit into it. To make it, I first sketched it out on paper, then created it on Adobe Illustrator. I mainly used the line and pencil tool. The copy and paste tool was also helpful for making the sprinkles.  

Graphic Design

I found this cute graphic design at Free Logo Design. It was created for a kindergarten. You can see it here.

Color Design

This is my 5th design for my design book. It's the color design. It's also my favorite one :)