my n@me

 

(Trista Alyse…)

rockin’ pumpkin… the second

So someone flat out stole my first Rise Against pumpkin…  I went to the cafeteria to get it, because I wanted to finish it, and light it up… but it was gone.  I even talked to some Big Wigs on campus to see if they could locate it!!  But they couldn’t… so I had no choice but to start over. 

My second attempt wasn’t the best…  This pumpkin was insanely thick… which made it incredibly hard to carve.  It took forEVER!!  I think I like the front carving on my first one better… but I like the back on my second one.  Does that make sense?  Oh well…  I’ll just show you pictures and let it be.

final: eames designs

Here’s what I came up with for my Eames designs…  I chose the Chinese New Year as my holiday… but I put a little twist on it.  Hopefully you can see the other holidays represented on each card.  If you make it all the way to the bottom, you’ll see my thought processes when designing these cards.

I decided it would make the most sense, if all 10 Eames cards had a central theme.  The first thing I thought of was Chinese New Year.  So my first idea was to make the Chinese letter frame, that would go around the edge of every card.  Then I added the different New Year animals to the cards.  When I was done, they looked too plain and simple… so I made the gradient black background to fill in most of the white space.  This made it look better, but it was still looking rather dull.  My next thought was to add the Chinese flowers, which give you more to look at.  I was going to change the color of the flowers for each card, but decided not to… especially since I added my final idea, which was to add images representing different holidays on each card.  By adding the other holiday images, I created a more visually interesting design, without making it seem too crowded or overwhelming.

rockin’ pumpkin

So our assignment was to use Adobe Illustrator to create a design for a pumpkin carving.  The main idea was to have a high contrast image.  I used the Rise Against logo as my design.  Here’s what I created with Illustrator…

It just so happened that the same night I created this design, there was an all-campus pumpkin carving contest.  So of course I had to go try it out, and see if my design would work!  Here’s the finished product…

It was a lot harder than you might think!!  I don’t know if anyone would be able to recognize this unless they saw the design first… but oh well.  I had fun anyway!!  Haha, you can see that I chose to label it with a pen… just so people know that I knew what my intent was… even if it made no sense to others.  Does that make sense?

And here’s the backside to my rockin’ pumpkin…

I planned on finishing it, and carving “Rise Against” into the back… but as you can see, I ran out of time before I got to the “Against” part.  Hence, its written in pen.

Let me know what you think!!  Think I could be a professional pumpkin carver?

monochrome illustrations

scavenger hunt: color schemes

 

Triad

This sign is pretty boring, but it works for what it’s advertising.  It is very simple, with straight-forward, common colors.

 

Alternate Analogous

This plate has appropriate colors for the season it is representing… fall.  Darker shades of yellow, orange, and red remind you of the color of leaves during Thanksgiving.

 

Analogous

In my opinion, COX could afford to update their design.  The colors just seem too dull, which make me think the company is old, and maybe doesn’t care much about appearances.  But if you want a strong company, appearance should be important.

 

Monochromatic

This sign definitely work.  The bright colors get you to look at the sign, and then when you see the picture of the hot dog, you’re hooked. 

 

Alternate Analogous

Again, this sign is pretty boring.  We almost didn’t even see it at all.  Brighter colors would make this sign more visually interesting, and maybe more people would realize it was there.

 

Analogous/Split Complement/Monochromatic

This is definitely visually interesting.  The variations of hues and the number of color schemes this represents make for a captivating image.  Once you look at it, you can’t look away… you just keep noticing more and more details.  If this would be painted in one color, say black for example, it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting to look at.

exercises

 

Complementary Colors:

I used shades of blue and orange, (which actually appears red, after I’ve scanned it…), and purple and yellow to create this image.

Color Combinations

Split Complement

Analogous

Alternate Analogous

colors: revisited

I asked the question “Does everyone see the same colors?” over a year ago on www.answers.yahoo.com, and got some rather interesting responses.  Here is my question, along with the details of what I’m actually talking about, and some of the replies I received.  If you prefer, you can go straight to the site and read it from there.  The link is at the very bottom of the post.

Does everyone see the same colors?

Is it possible that each persons view of color is slightly different than everyone else? Or does everyone see the exact same color in every situation? I don’t mean personal opinions of color…I mean…if someone says, oh, that’s blue…could it be that another person looking at that same object sees a color a fraction lighter/darker than the first person? Does this make sense to anyone?

 

Answerer Number One:

(I chose this answer as the best, fyi…)

-Yes I’ve always wondered this myself. For example, what I see as blue, someone else might see it as (what I would consider to be) green, yet they would call it blue still, since that’s what they’ve learned to call it. I think that’s what you’re saying (it’s fairly hard to describe).

I can just about guarantee that everyone sees things in slightly different shades, since aging alone will cause that.
However I would suspect that even if people see colours as being vastly different to one another, I would still assume that everyone sees brightness and darkness the same way.
And by that I mean, a dark corner is difficult to see versus a light corner in all people (I would think). Though I’m still not sure if white and black are universal colours for everyone…

EDIT: Funny enough, you can even extend this to ‘favourite’ colours. So for example, humans might universally prefer the color blue (or the color that I call blue), yet if we saw colours differently, we would end up with (apparently) different favourite colours. So in the first example I mentioned, that ’someone else’ would say their favourite colour was green (because they see it as MY blue) whereas another person might say orange is their favourite colour (again it would be MY blue) and so on.
It raises a lot of unusual questions.

 

Answerer Number Two:

Any specific spectrum (distribution of wavelengths) can be defined as a specific color. Since our sensing of this spectrum is the result of real physical processes in the human, which must vary somewhat from person to person, there is bound to be a difference in the resulting signal processed by the brain. Therefore, in this physical sense there is most likely a difference from person to person.

But, if you are told that some spectrum is a particular color you will be in sync. with what others call that particular spectrum of light.

If we were to continuously vary the spectrum in some continuous way between various named colors it is likely that different people would name the spectrum a particular color at different stages of of the evolution to the actual named spectrum. This would indicate a possible difference in perception.

 

Answerer Number Three:

Makes perfect sense. The way we perceive light waves (and the differences thereof) will vary the same way we perceive, say pain.

Source(s):

It’s just my opinion, no research on the feild of ocular health.

 

To read other answers:

(http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkuwBtypp.tdKYlMqA_OKWfty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080628112209AAOxJYA)

who ever said not to judge magazines by their cover?

For this assignment, we were instructed to go to a magazine stand and pick the top 3 that caught our attention.  (Oh, and of course analyze them…)

Magazine One:

I would never, ever buy this magazine.  So why was this my first pick?  Well, I must give the designer credit, in that it IS visually interesting.  You can’t just glance at this magazine and know exactly what is going on.  You have to take the time to look at all the different designs, photos, and text that are randomly placed on practically the entire cover.  There is very little white space, which is perfectly fine.. because the cover works.  Although there is a lot going on, it isn’t confusing to look at, but rather, it is interesting.  Because of all the colorful pictures and variations of font used, I’m sure this magazine is most appealing to the middle-school age, namely girls.

Magazine Two:

This magazine’s font and simplicity would draw readers from an older generation.  The colors are very neutral, and not over-powering.  You can tell that this magazine focuses more on the information it holds within it, rather than how appealing it is to those who view it.  The curved line made by the people is very interesting, as it slices through the white space of the background.  Your eyes naturally follow the line from the very front of the magazine all the way to the title.  Or vice versa… one who instantly sees the title would follow the curve to the bottom of the magazine, where you can see people up-close. 

Magazine Three:

This cover would obviously attract the “biker scene”.  So again, why would I find it interesting?  Well, I find it interesting because just this past week I experienced my first bike ride.  Or rather, crotch rocket, if you will.  Because I have never done that before, I have a new found respect for bikes.  The large picture of the motorcycle attracts people of all ages.  Naturally, Harley Davidson fanatics would find this appealing.  But also, young people who long for their very own motorcycle would be attracted to this cover.

design concepts: texture & color

texture:  usually thought of as something recognized by touch;  For example, marbles are smooth; sandpaper is rough, etc.  We know this because we can feel it.  Because you can’t always feel and touch design, designers have to create texture in a different way.  Designers have to substitute sight for touch, in that they have to convey a certain texture through visual information.  They do this by using various techniques.  One of the main visual elements that can be used to create texture is value, which has been addressed and defined in an earlier post.  One way to use value in a way to create texture, is by taking special note of light patterns.  For example, a metal rod directly underneath a light will have an almost white stripe running from one end to the other.  (See photo)

Because the value gradually gets darker as your eyes go from one edge of a rod to the other, we can see that the metal rods are smooth and shiny.  If there was no change in value, we wouldn’t see rods, rather we would see something resmebling black rectangles.  We can learn more from this image, such as how texture can be used to show detail.  Because of the texture, we can see that the rods are indeed round.  The texture simulates round, smooth, metal rods.

color:  In the world of design, it is not uncommon for color to be referred to as RGB.  This stands for the three primary colors; red, green, and blue.  The color method used for new media is known as additive color.  This is important to designers because this is the way that computers and TVs produce color.  This color method is different from subtractive color, in that “the subtractive color system produces different colors by removing specific wavelengths from white light instead of mixing them together”  (Design Fundamentals for New Media, James Bennett).  The three primary colors of the additive method are red, blue, and green… while the three primary colors of the subtractive method are magenta, cyan, and yellow.