Spring Semester Reflection

This semester I have learned a lot of things. I learned about semiotics, image making, creating posters, magazine layouts, and many many more. Spring semesters tend to fly by quicker than fall semester but I have learned SO many things.

I feel comfortable where I am at design wise. I could improve in my designing skills and making things look pretty. I'm very systematic and tend to be stuck there. I'm also very stubborn with changing ideas, which I feel like if it isn't working, I should change ideas. But the thing is, I tend to want to make my original idea work so I try my best. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I think I'm good formally but not conceptually. I'm very literal and straight to the point. I need to be more witty and clever.

There were so many things from first semester that carried over to second semester. I'm sure that the things I learned this semester will carry on to my designing career. Semiotics will for sure play a big part since many seniors talked about it last semester at their review. Type will always play a big part to making or breaking any poster or info graphs. Images have to be well thought out and executed for the message to be clearly conveyed.

I'd say this semester was much better than the last. I was more time efficient and I made more work that I'm proud to present. I've been slacking lately but I'm going to make sure next year I will start the momentum up strong and keep it there for Junior year.

Selected Icon Combinations

Patterns:

These patterns were made with various combinations of multiple icons. There is the bench and the lamp which gives off the park vibe. The leaves in the 2nd pattern is in a blowing way. The last pattern is with scarves and the high heels, for the message of women or fashion. The first one is harmonious and the last 2 are amplified drama because of the scale change.

Anchorage and relay:

Most of these are relay because they aren't the first thing people think of when they see the icons. I used several of these in my museum exhibit.

Final Museum Exhibit

Mass post! Below are some from round 3 of the museum exhibit of the opposite attracts. I changed it to "Deception: The Price We Pay for Our Wants".

Round 4. These were presented at final crit. VERY BAD. It was actually okay but the texture wasn't working. Just a selected few.

And these are my final ones for final review. The texture is changed making it more legible and hopefully there's more variety to them. Much better I think.

There's still a lot I can learn. I tend to be really systematic and never really thinking about how to make it look pretty. That's something I will work hard to improve on.

Final Review Proposal

So for my final review, I want to include the following projects. For form and color, my orthographic drawings and booklet, the color delineation set, and the color book. From image, I'm just going to put my Poe poster. From type 1 and 2, I will put my monogram for radium and that whole exercise, the change one thing poster, magazine layout, and the designer poster. From vis comm 1 and 2, the haiku set, the line book, and my icons over time ending with the museum exhibit.

The order I want it to be in would revolve when it happened. Like, I want to start with the orthographic drawings and how that led to the color delineation. From that, I want to talk about the color book and how image taking affects the image poster. That would go onto into my icons and semiotics work which would lead into the magazine layout and I would talk about how I got to where I am with the projects leading up to it like the change one thing poster.

This is not a very good proposal but I have it in my head, I just have to think about it more.

Museum Application Round 1 and 2

So we are working on our museum exhibitions and I chose to stick with 3 different ideas: Central Park, Opposites, and Mine and Mines. These are some of the ideas that were due last Friday. I'm only posting the ones that were good but needs improvements.

These were due yesterday and it was just improvements on the top ones. Not a big fan of them but the idea is there. I'm sticking to the opposite direction but I need to work on making it look pretty and I need a new title for it. Right now it's "Price We Pay for Our Wants", which doesn't roll off the tongue nicely so it will be changed. Yupz.

F+S

I know we are done with info graphs, but I just stumbled on this and its pretty amazing. Just felt like sharing it. :D

Anchorage vs. Relay

Anchorage:

Relay:

Those are just some out of all 24 that I did. Um...they tend to be in the middle area, like they can go here or there. They aren't super good yet so I'll have to mess with the compositions a little bit. But yes. :D

Museum Exhibition Titles

Possible titles for museum exhibitions.

• Pursuit of Love
• Love Story
• Opposite Attracts: The Price We Pay for What We Want
• Mine and Mines: What it Takes to Make It Yours
• Central Park: Stroll Through Time
• Marriages Through Time
• Sweet Proposals
• Secrets to Love
• Central Park: Stories of Love
• Chasing Happiness
• From Park to Altar: Love Stories

Yup.

Patterns Round 2

These were just due today. The first 4 are the ones I'm sticking with and tweaking. This critique was definitely more helpful in defining where these should be headed and now I have a clearer understanding about drama vs. harmonious. Next up is pairing my icons with other images/words.

Patterns Round 1

These were due on Wednesday for critique with some seniors. None of them are really working. They are kind of out of order but it basically goes harmonious and then amplified drama, back and forth like that. I had to fix basically everything. It seemed better when I follow my icon's curve so that the placement dictates the form (like the scarf). So I took that and applied it for the set due today (Friday). I'll post that later but I think there's improvement for sure, even if it is just tiny steps.

Final Magazine Layout v.2

Edited layouts according to last week's critique.