These logos are a reference to my experience as a university student stained with the trauma of previously living in hazardous environments as a child. Living in the ghettos has equipped me with a set of survival skills that are less essential for surviving in a private university setting. I find myself contemplating about potential risk and danger far more than my peers and feel as if I have
This assignment I was assigned to take a wikipedia post and typeset it into a booklet. I am deeply fascinated with the parallel between the dismay shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s biography and his writings, so I chose his wikipedia page. I chose fonts that reference how type is used in modern museum in order to display Edgar Allan Poe in that same archaic fashion.
In this project, I was assigned to use a proportional manuscript grid in order to adhere a commencement speak to it. I chose to put the speech in a serif font to make the print easy to read and because a serif font reflects tradition and refinement.
In order to showcase the character of this typeface I designed, I created type specimen posters. These posters act as an exemplar to guide potential users of this typeface, displaying that this font’s elegance lies in subtlety and strategic yet generous uses of space—design fundamentals native to Japan.
This typeface is inspired from a quote dealing with a traditional sense of love, which I associate with marriage. The crane, in Japanese culture, along with other east Asian cultures, is a common motif used in wedding ceremonies and a symbol of longevity and good fortune. In order to capture the delicate elegance associated with wedding ceremonies and the essence of a crane, I used form inspired by origami to create this typeface and named it Tsuru, crane in Japanese.
In order to better understand the anatomy of type, I was assigned to build a monogram of my initials from a specified group of shapes, which produced design limitations and greater potential for cohesion and creativity.
I see this information being used for a conference—that seems fairly obvious. Perhaps this information could be used as a data based as a digital archive to clearly display the viewpoints, missions and goal of this organization and its member for future reference
Earlier this semester I declared that about six hours a week should suffice when designing for this class, but I was strongly mistaken when working with typography in space-time. In reality I was working 7-10 hours a week creating and working with so many elements on screen while also trying to push myself to learn new things about after effects that I could potential incorporate into this project.
I think my definition of sophisticated definitely has changed from last semester to this one. As an emerging designer I believe that context is key to good design—often asking myself “where does this belong”. I see that my design choices are gearing away from such overtly obvious cues for context and my work is more able to communicate what I want it to without such overt cues. My work just seems all around more sleek as well.
Again I learned the issues of time. I wouldn’t say at all I procrastinated but I realized this semester that time will slip away if I don’t have a scheduled plan. A futuristic weather report could manifest itself in many different ways and I wanted to research enough so that I will be able to have a concrete vision of what my future would look like and I also tried to research after effects techniques that could make that happen…then issues of actually doing all that tedious work emerged. So I feel like I’m more christened to my process and how I work so I will be better able to make a schedule for myself. Other than that I learned about hierarchy and choreography with typography and reducing the amount of stress on the eyes even though there were a lot of points on screen.
I really want to know how to animate type beyond the basic motions but morphing type or other elements or have a tool belt of ground level skills so that perhaps I can experiment with that myself.
I think this project is very important given that we’re dealing with animation. I think that sets this project apart from anything we did before with type just for the mere fact that this is dealing with time, but I don’t weigh this project as important as the identity one we’re doing with Jimmy now because the weather report doesn’t have an intention of use. It may be a start to something but the contextual basis is in the air.
I take it upon myself for grow. That’s really the main contributor for grow. I see that other people can help you but it’s through your own initiative. I appreciate to have a professor to guide and help me to see direction because I think a mentor of some sort is important, in anything, unless if your a pioneer in what you do. I value my classmates in the sense where I see where I am in comparison to other people at the same level of development as I am and how they approach prompts, but besides that I view them as competitors.
how much in week = 6
what should be the mid-term total = 45
what should be the semester total = 90
( current grand total = TBH I have no idea. But I strive to prove that I have plenty of experience based on my work. )
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It’s all relative towards your goals or needs of course. In this stage of my life and given that I practically a liberal studies major as well, I would say anything more than 10-12 hours a week might be quite excessive just because other studies need attention to. A lot of the time the techniques that I am trying to learn or get used to isn’t so hard but studying for a different subject is a different story. I would say if I was doing this full time that 10 hours isn’t nearly enough but I’m still yet a student. How many hours would not be enough to create sophisticated work? I don’t know. Some people classify sophisticated differently; people learn differently. For me, I need around 4 hours on something in order for it to start getting somewhere. For my definition of excessive, I exceed excessiveness but it’s not always for school so maybe I’m overworking myself.
Sophisticated work is work that is purposeful. It’s work that is designed with the intent to be place somewhere where it will thrive without much explanation—looks like it belongs there. But still yet sophistication is a relative to the person. I would say that I tried strongly to suggest some type of personality with my maps. It’s hard for me not to include any type of personality or character.
I got the majority of my feedback from your desk crits because I really didn’t show my progress. I was working on too many things at once and wasn’t exactly on the same projectile as most of my classmates. But I did receive some good insights about placement, color, and different relationships between things on the page.
The most challenging part about this project was just doing a map, plain and simple. I always try and spice it up a bit. I always want to make work that I feel like is worth taking some time to observe. It is very difficult for me to sort of do something and then move on, which brings me to my second point. I don’t know when to stop, at least in this setting. I felt like only one of my maps (out of 2) could stand alone just because it seemed the most finished. You could say that that map, the Tony Pierce one, is all three wrapped in one. It shows me deducing to figure out where Tony Pierce lives (process) , it has an example of a topographical map that has some depth to it, and it has graphs on it. The most fun thing about this project was figure out where Tony Pierce lives. It was almost obsessive.
Yessir. I did a few things. I am a graphic designer and stylist for the fashion magazine on campus, CABRA. I am also on the creative team for a music promotional team on campus called New Waves. I basically take photos and videos of our events and makes logos, posters, and designs for merchandise. I guess I do the same for CABRA as well. I also help artists setup at ATM gallery studios. I also took a theatre class this semester so I had to do 30 hours of work outside of class hanging lighting fixtures 18 feet able everyone’s head (which was pretty cool) and help design sets for the shows. Plus a did a couple things for money, attend shows, and watch how people on YouTube approach different creative crafts.
I definitely think I try to do too much at once just because I have an urge to be working and being involved with my community. I seen a lot of growth in my work because I have been making an effort to live breathe and think in terms of design. I have exponentially gotten a bit better but I’m hungry for more. The maps in this class just felt like a formality assignment that’s why I tried to make it more interesting with my Tony Pierce map, but when it came down to working on my other two, it was quite difficult because of the time crunch. I lost many many many hours of sleep. I also got other classes too which made my life a living hell.
My perfect classroom environment probably has more of an open forum and discussion. I feel like when people are willing to express their viewpoints and ideas all the students can learn from various different points of view, but I learned that it takes some level of maturity to speak up and seek being corrected if wrong. I tried to break the silence in our classroom by doing that. I only wish that more people would be expressive about their process and their mindset.
