RECHARGING100%: March 2007

Sunday, March 25, 2007

ABSTRACT-GRUNGE

This skill is very useful in Graphic design and also the other field. While I was researching for something in BB, suddenly I found out this one. It includes guide lines so everybody can easily follow and practice same as me. I strongly recommend this skill and also one more thing, please regularly visit BB. There are a lot of information especially we really need. And play it!!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Orchid Exercise

Today we studied about how to clip in image and how the shadow affects an object. So, our first exercise is designing a name card. I used one of the picture of an orchid and clipped a single flower using pen tool. I tried to focus on how does it clearly show the information to audience so I tried to highlight for those two things.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

Gestalt Exercise 2

Everyday we learn about something, but most the important thing is that learning does not include actual practices. In the actual practice we learn to experiment using all the rules and I found out many possibilities of inventing new type of design. So, I wanted to practice more about the layout design. This is my second Gestalt exercise. Actually, last Thursday, some of very important rules about designing layout was learned seriously. So, I tried to follow this rules and using one of the Gestalt concept. I chose two concepts which are combination and similarities. In my layout, the shapes are all circles but it has two main types of differences.
I designed, firstly one type of circle is for body text and secondly the another circle is for the flower pictures.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Gestalt Exercise

Today our lecture was about the Gestalt theory. This is very important basic concepts, Closure, Continuance, Similarity, Proximity and Combine, for design students.
Also, we had an exercise in using one of the these concepts in designing layout. My design concept is Closure and the main shape is circle. The idea came from the picture so I designed the body text that looks like part of the main picture’s shape. In addition, I used two different fonts for the title and body text.

Sunday, March 11, 2007

The Sun

Saturday, March 10, 2007

The Power of color

Which color is your favorite? I like green because green makes me relax and fresh. However, have you ever thought about the power of color? As you know, color has two temperatures, usually warm and cold. The warm colors are red, yellow and orange. On the other hand, the opposite side colors are blue and green. How about if we use those colors, warm and cold color, beside each other, in that way we can see the great movement. Actually, one of the warm color feature is extended.

Let’s look at my example color mixing.
I used two colors, orange and blue. We could noticed that yellow color is more extended then blue color. It surely can see the pattern of this blocks. Our eyes naturally see the yellow color is front and then the blue color is a little of behind so the movement is occurred in these two patterns.

That is the power of color!!

Just use different colors and make amazing movement!!!

Friday, March 9, 2007

A story about a story by Duane Michals

When I saw these pictures in a website, I was very amazed how genius the artist is. It is like we don’t know which picture is first.
Firstly when we see the pictures, our brain automatically follows order by order but the last picture was shown, every body are confused about picture because we can not organize which is the first.
I thought Maybe the first can not exist in the world because everything are going around and around. Just human can not identify this truth.

http://windshoes.new21.org/gallery-michals.htm

Monday, March 5, 2007

Research THE SUN

Today I researched about the Sun images. One thing is very interesting which is the subject,it is just the Sun but the representation is all different like those images.
I think because the different view of purpose or what part they took importantly and removed other part clearly.