The End.

[Azealia Banks]

Overall, I really enjoyed this class. I was looking forward to learning new techniques and using programs I have never used before. Back then I used to use Photoshop CS3 (yikes!) and now experiencing 6, I was feeling like I was going to be set back. But I wasn't!

The one thing that kept me back were the blogs. I would forget sometimes, even if I wrote them in my planner. With those, as you can see I would do research on graphic designers I never heard of and learn more about graphic design as a whole. Some of the blogs were pretty fun and it was nice to read others from my classmates and others. 

I can really say I did like doing the projects, but I will stick with the brochure being my favorite. The poster was fun to do too, besides the challenge of finding an image. I had a good one too! This one I used for my poster did turn up a better though, just a tad bit small.

Graphic design is almost everywhere. Crammed into our homes, all over our cities and dotted around the countryside, its images, letters, colours and shapes are consciously put together to perform all sorts of functions.

I really enjoyed this course, thanks Amy! 

Jacqueline Casey

Jacqueline Casey did more in her position as a designer at MIT than most people do in a lifetime. She began working at MIT in 1955, brought on board through the suggestion of her friend and former classmate Muriel Cooper, and remained at the Institute until her death in 1992. Casey helped pioneer the institute’s Office of Design Services and acted as director for the office from 1972 until 1989. Her posters for MIT are iconic; they’re elegant and energetic, clean and creative. Casey had a real talent for depicting concepts through simple forms and type. Her posters are still an inspiration to designers.

Examples of her work have been acquired for permanent collection by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, the USIA, and the Library of Congress. Her work is also represented in many graphic design magazines and annuals and in books on the history of graphic design

She was the recipient of the William J. Gunn Award in 1988 given by the Creative Club of Boston. She received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1990. She was appointed by the late President Bartlett A. Giamatti of Yale to the Visiting Committee of the Yale School of Graphic Design. She was a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Project 4

I really enjoyed this project, the brochure. I felt like I had enough time to get it done and implemented ideas I wanted to implement. As a few may know, back in August of 2010, I was apart of the Disney College Program and worked at Disney's Caribbean Beach. I chose to do this because I remember a lot about it and really wanted to have fun and to show that I did with it.

A challenge with this was images. Some images were too small, and some just did not work at all. So that took a while. Plus the font with the skulls was a royal pain. I displayed my brochure on my PC today and the skull turned into a giant "S". I am hoping that when I present that it does not show up again!

There were really no issues, except just hoping that it was too boring or too much for the eyes.

Caribbean Beach Resort is a really enjoyable place and I am hoping people will understand that from seeing the brochure in actual color! :D

Twitter.

“Starting today you’ll begin to notice a simplified Twitter bird. From now on, this bird will be the universally recognizable symbol of Twitter. (Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter.) There’s no longer a need for text, bubbled typefaces, or a lowercase “t” to represent Twitter.”

It seems that Twitter has joined the ranks of Apple, Nike, Starbucks and Target in the club of companies that are so big that their brand is instantly recognizable without a single letter of text.

Interestingly enough, many of the illustrations that I can find of the original bird actually face to the left, though it seems Twitter played with facing him in either direction

The next step was to drop all that silly cartoon detail and revert to a silhouette look. During the process, the bird’s shape was streamlined. The feet were removed, the wings redrawn and the beak was made to be less awkwardly curved. Interestingly enough, in this step, the bird was made to look less like it was moving upwards, a step that would be reversed and taken to new heights in the next version.

Graphic Design

Graphic design is everywhere, touching everything we do, everything we see, everything we buy: we see it on billboards and in magazines. Over the door of your favorite stores,  websites, on mobile items and on gift certificates, on your favorite beverage and on your favorite books.

Graphic design to me is a combination of words and pictures,  photographs and illustrations that, in order to succeed, demands critical thinking from the artist who can execute the elements so they all add up to something distinctive or perhaps memorable.

Design based in this understanding of the intended audience is highly successful. Trying to design without it is like trying to communicate without knowing the language of the listener.

History of the Apple Logo

Apple logos are everywhere, iPods, iMacs, iPhones, iPads and many other ‘i’ devices. The Apple logo is one of the best and most relevant logo ever. But it was not the same as it is now.

Currently we have a simple small bitten silver/white Apple logo. But at the very beginning it was totally different. The first logo which was Issac Newton sitting under the Apple tree. On the tree a single apple shines to show that it was the one that helped Newton discover gravity.

This was the first Apple logo which had Issac Newton sitting under the gravity discovering apple tree.  The first Apple logo was designed by  Ron Wayne. But this logo was replaced by the Apple rainbow logo very fast. A shining about to fall apple lies directly above his head

This famous logo was designed by  Rob Janoff in 1976. He presented with a lot of similar logos from which Steve Jobs selected this one. According to Steve Jobs biography the other logo was simple looking apple which Steve didn’t like saying it looked like a cheery. After this logo was kept Apple kept it’s slogan as “Byte into an Apple”.

After Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 the rainbow Apple logo got replaced in 1998  by the blank, and the glass themed/white logo. Jonathan Ive is said to be the person who changed the logo to make it simple and clean. When the iMac was launched it came with the new logo.

Since then it used the new ones for advertising, packaging, products and replaced the rainbow totally. Monochrome logo were used from 1998 to 2003 while after that they finally used the glass themed version of the Apple logo which we see them in all the Apple devices.

David C a r s o n

David Carson,  born September 8, 1955 in Corpus Christi, Texas, is  American graphic designer, whose unconventional style revolutionized visual communication in the 1990s. Carson came to graphic design relatively late in life.

Carson started designing in the 80s with no formal schooling in the field and has since focused heavily on typography and photography. His work became well-known in the late 80s and early 90s through skateboarding and surfing magazines. Later, he started Ray Gun Magazine, a lifestyle and music magazine, and went on to start his own design firm, David Carson Design. Carson has written and co-authored a handful of books characterizing design trends. 

He continues to be active in the surfing community. Clients include Quiksilver, Suicide Girls, Samsung, Adidas, Nine Inch Nails, Pepsi, and Toyota.

In 1989 Carson became art director at the magazine Beach Culture. 

Although he produced only six issues before the journal folded, his work there earned him more than 150 design awards. By that time, Carson’s work had caught the eye of Marvin Scott Jarrett, publisher of the alternative-music magazine Ray Gun, and he hired Carson as art director in 1992. Over the next three years, with the help of Carson’s radical design vision, Ray Gun’s circulation tripled. Because Carson’s work clearly appealed to a youthful readership, corporations such as Nike and Levi Strauss & Co. commissioned him to design print ads, and he also began directing television commercials.

After leaving Ray Gun in 1995, Carson established David Carson Design, with offices in New York City and San Diego, California. The firm was instantly successful and attracted well-known, wealthy corporate clients. In 1995 Carson produced The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson (revised edition issued in 2000 as The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson), the first comprehensive collection of his distinctive graphic imagery.