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Week 15

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Week 14

Craft:

I played a lot around with the text. I used the "pen tool" the "text box" and the "box tool". I used colors that I used the "drop tool" to bring the blue color from previous spreads and used the border tool to create a frame around my work.

Concept:

This cover uses my design style and my current status as a graduate and computer graphics being the last class I've taken here.

Composition:

I tried to center the title and most important objects. Everything else was secondary.

Week 13

Craft: From my cover page I used the "box tool," the "pen tool," the "text box" tool, and the color tab. The blue color is a box and is set into the back ground. The two red boxes and long black box on the corner of the magazine is were made using the color and box tools. The text was used with box the text box tool and the regular box tool. The grad cap was made with the box tool and the "rotation". Then, I used the circle, color, and pen tool to add the button on the cap, color the cap and strings on the cap, and to create the string respectively. I also used the pen tool to make the line across the cover and through the numbers and to make the designs above the titles for the inside article. For Chanise's piece I used the box tool to outline the images and create the thick rectangles of color in the background. I used the border and pen tool to create the line of dots next to the text. I embedded the pictures through copy and paste and I entered the text with the text box tool.

Concept: This week I started my cover page and added in art work by Chanise Lohman. My cover is basically the ending of something (college) and the beginning something (adulthood). As a graduate this art class was a great way for me to finally express my more creative side and also reminded me that it is something I would like to keep exercising.

Composition: I believe that both of these pieces are simple, but also has enough art and text which brings about a great balance in both. There are images, lines, contrast, hues, shapes, and text.

Week 12

Craft: I created the complete layout in InDesign and the pictures I brought them all from Illustrator. First I placed all pictures into a box, using the "place" and "box" tool on my tool bar. I also switched up the box shape and used the circle. I used the box also in retangles. I added text books for the text, using the "text" tool and from inspiration in different magazines and from my own personal tastes created the layouts.

Concept: I basically layed out my spreads on my shoes created in our illustrator part of the class. I've accidentally I think came across a very elegant and relaxing style for this spread through the colors blue and black and through the cursive text. Its also very clean and modern looking.

Composition: The format for the spread as a whole is progressive. It goes from the finish multiple versions to the original version, to the version in process, unitl the original photo. There are an array of bright hues to my spread, blues, yellows, greens. purple/pink, and reds. I have some contrast given that black and white are in each, as high contrast, and the other color represent the low contrasts.

Week 11

Craft: For the black hair piece I used the box tool for the background. Then I added the solid green color. Next, I put a gradient on it and added blue and kept the white and back on the gradient. Then, I added a radial shape of the gradient and dragged it until I got the achieved look. Then, using the "place tab" I added all of the images and sized all the boxes to be even. Next I added the shade drop and dotted border from the border section in my tool bar of the top and made the dots white. I added the text box using the text box tool. For the paint I simply embedded the image with the place tab and because the first image had a colored background I couldn't change, I added it to the overall design with the cover page as well. I used a text box for the title and body paragraph which I added dashed (3-4) border to.

Concept: This week I added my black hair spread and my paint spread. The black hair is basically what the title states, talking about black hair as a black woman. I love changing my hair and I always wanted to be in one of those black hair magazines, so I thought it would be cool to have one of my own. The paint spread is basically a piece I created in high school using the paint application on my laptop. It took a very long time to do and I thought it was unique to show what you can create on such a basic and old application.

Composition: The black hair has a dynamic background using color very close to each other on the color wheel and black and white with a gradient. The photos on top have no contrast and actually blend with the background. Yet they sit on top of the background because of the shadow drop and the white dotted border. I hint of white at the bottom make the overall picture a little less overwhelming and the black shapes give contrast and increase the readers attention. The paint has low and high contrast with the light yellow and dark red, the black and white, and the browns. The use of ample white space draws the readers eye to the text and image. It also give the feel as though everything on the page is floating it space which give a nice raw feel. Almost like someone drew it directly on the page.

Museum Post

Modern Day Peck & King

Modern Day Dama (Original Title & Artist Unknown)
Craft

Both pieces of art in these images are more modern works of art. One of my favorites from the art museum trip is "Modern Day Dama". This piece has been created with many mediums to create the art. There are lit matches, bobby pins, paint, sketch, and buttons etc. to create this woman. It looks like the paint and drawing are create first and the 3-D objects are placed on top.

Concept

I believe this piece is showing how one can use random and everyday object (maybe even not so modern objects) to create art. In addition, this piece could simply express the look of the modern day woman.

Composition

There are various contrast areas of darks and lights between the back ground blues and whites, to the lit matches and buttons and bobby pins. The most unique thing about this piece is the composition because many different types of mediums are being used. Although it is probably obvious that the 3-D objects would go on top of the one dimensional mediums, there is still a fun play between using everything in this work.