Tutorial6_Adv. GD : Candy Text

I had some trouble following the tutorial, so it doesn't look as good as I hoped,
but I tried to make the back ground look like a candy wrapper :P

Something that I'm working on..

For our next project in Imaging, we are to create 12 sets of post cards
that represents given words. Each post card should
be dinotative or connotative as well as a montage, collage, or abstract.
We were not required to have an overall theme for this project
but since I wanted them to have a sense of unity,
I decided to have a theme.

While in search of a theme, I learned that this year marks
the 40th anniversary of Earth day celebration.
I thought this would be perfect since I am interested in
environment related designs and the idea of "going green."

So, here's what I have so far-
This is not the actual design of post card
but what will probably go on back of it.

Package/brand design website

PopSop

Here's another website that I found today, which contains
many designs and articles of world wide known brands
such as Starbucks and Coca-Cola.
Make sure you check out the category
named "design concepts" on Left-
You'll find a lot of cool packaging ideas and designs.

Tutorial5_Adv. GD: Transparent glass lettering

Here's a tutorial that I did for this week. It's little bit different from the
tutorial because I had to figure out some of the effects, but in I think
it turned out alright in the end. I thought the word "clean" may work
well for this tutorial because it's transparent
..then I thought of Cinderella but that was too random,
so I just used Clean :)

Here the link for this tutorial.

Cool web sites!

1) Sostav
I found this web page while I was doing some search on Google-
It's a Russian website, so everything is in Russian, but the descriptions
about each design is in English.
There are all types of design ranging from packaging to brand identity.
By the way, I found out that "sostav" means "structure."


2) NOTCOT
And here's another web page that I found
This website links to other websites or blogs,
and although not every single one of them are related to graphic design,
there are some cool photography and concepts designers may enjoy.


3) Logolog
This is a very cool logo design blog that I found.
I personally enjoy logo designs very much
so it was fun and inspiring to look at all the creative designs that are out there.

Social Justice Posters (Final)

For our first big project in imaging class,
we were to choose a social justice topic and
create posters for that issue. First, we did a research about the topics
and created four different posters based on
what we have learned through researching.
Each poster also included a stance which we were provided with
at the beginning of the project. After having a group critique,
we chose two posters that we want to further develop.

My social justice topic was "world hunger/starvation."
I chose this topic because there are people around the world who suffer
because they cannot meet the most basic need, which is to eat.
I wanted to create posters that will bring awareness to people
and also provide with some type of actions they can take
after seeing the posters.
Following are the posters that I chose as my final work.
My posters turned out to be two completely different designs
because I used different approach and stance for each poster.


This poster was designed based on the shocking fact
that a child dies every six seconds. At the bottom,
I calculated how many children will die of starvation in a minute,
an hour, a day, and an year.
For sides, from top to bottom it counts one through 6
and the emphasis is on number six, meaning six seconds.
Overall, my approach for this poster was to call for an action
through providing shocking facts.


My next poster is the one that I had most fun with,
not only because it's close to my personal taste,
but also because I used different methods to get to the final product.
I enjoyed the process of printing, folding,
and scanning the money apple.
The stance that I used for this poster would be "Emotion".
This poster was based on a famous adage, which also helped me to
create a theme for the poster.

Overall, I enjoyed this project. I love the idea how designs can have an
impact on people besides being creative and appealing to eyes.
Through this project I learned that good designs can actually make
people act and eventually change the world.

Tutorial4_Adv. GD: Jewel effect

This tutorial was originally to create a jeweled dollar sign.
However, with Valentine's day quickly approaching,
I decided to make one with a heart-
This tutorial was one of my favorites,
because it explained all the steps very well with details.

Happy (early) Valentine's day! :D


If you liked this effect and want to try it yourself, click here!

OSOCIO.org

While I was searching for poster designs
on Google for some inspiration,
I found these posters which had cool illustrations on them.



I liked the irony part of the posters a lot, so I decided to
check out the website that's on them.
Then, I found that OSOCIO is like a blog
that contains all kinds of cool videos and poster designs
about social justice issues and non-profit campaigns.

So, my friends in Adv. graphic design studio,
check out this website whenever you need some inspiration for your poster designs! :)

Inspiring social justice posters

These are some poster designs that I found
while I was looking for an inspiration one day-

Most of these posters are self explanatory, but I will get
back to it and add my comments on them soon-

Tutorial3_Adv. GD (In process)

There's more to this tutorial,
but I've only finished the type effect for now-
Anyway, I chose the word 'summer'
because I can't wait until the weather gets warm!
(not hot though,,)

here's the link for the tutorial -> click!