Ch.20_Blog8_MTVLogo

MTV is something that has been around my entire life. They first went on the air in 1981. The way this logo was designed and looked was fairly simple. It was just a simple sans serif M with another font saying TV overlaying the M. As simple as this logo is it stands out and definitely gets the point and feel across depicting what MTV was about. The logo design was also very good because it has the ability to be changed and re-done, without losing its look and feel that it originally came with. This logo is still being used and changed to this day, but it is very inspiring to know that simplicity is most of the times the most efficient and technical fix in the long run.

Ch.18_Blog7_Theo Ballmer

Theo Ballmer used grids mixed with horizontal and vertical lines to create pieces of art that he could recognizably call his own. I enjoy this poster because it is very simple and straight to the point. He worked well with color, because of the color he picked against a white background, this poster sticks out and screams what it is trying to say. I feel that grids and lines are friendly to the eye, and when someone looks at something like this it is interesting and amusing to see how and what the artist created. Most of his work seems to follow this trend of grids and lines made of white space. I enjoy looking at his work and incorporating his designs into my own.

CH.15_Blog6_Kleine Dada Soiree Poster

I thought this poster was very interesting and fun to look at. It also looked like it was really fun to create and put this poster together. The main reason why I like this poster is because I enjoy working with text and manipulating it, taking the generic shape of text and turning it into a vivid, loud, picture of shapes and color. His choice of color really gives it life as well, it makes the poster stick out from the rest. If you were walking down the street you would have to turn just to look and see what is trying to be communicated with all those words. Many artists have taken this style and re-created it for cd covers and other posters.

1st_blog_cave drawings

I opened up the book to pg 5 and found cave drawings that were found in Africa over 200.000 yrs. ago. To me these pics are amazing considering how long ago they were created and with the lack of tools and canvas provided. These early day artists had to be the most innovative of any and all time in order to get their point across on their caves and to other viewers. Sometimes I sit at home and try and re-create the odd shapes of humans and animals that these people observed back in the day. It is really hard to re-create that beautiful texture of the cave walls mixed with the strange people and weird lines. Some people would argue this is not art or that a little 3yr could draw these, I laugh at these people and would ask them to try and create something as recognizable as a cave drawing with just a stick and ash. I would like to learn more about these drawings and perfect the art of ancient old cave like drawings in my own artistic way one day.

Creative Brief#2

Identification: This is Joost Schmidt's, Bahaus exhibition poster, made in 1923

The project & the problem: Joost was offered the opportunity to come up with a poster design for the Bahaus exhibition. He had to try and incorporate all of the ideas of constructivism, cubism, and De stijl into one new form of design that would stand-out and provide the useful information and awareness that it needs for the public eye.

The Client: This project is for The Bahaus and their exhibition they were putting on. This poster was also for all of the 15,000 that attended that night. It turned out to be a big success.

The Audience: This poster's audience had a new grasp on design, the strange patterns and shapes mixed with text gave the poster motion, which made it fun to look at and read to find out what the poster is trying to inform the viewer about. It was a creative poster for creative people.

What is the core message: The core message I believe was to inter-twin shapes, text, and color to create motion and something interesting to stare at for awhile. It just so happened to be the poster for the exhibition, but it could have easily made it inside to be viewed in a different light and take on new meaning.

What is the hoped-for outcome: The outcome was to promote an exhibition in search of all sorts of different viewers and art lovers from around the world. They achieved their goal because of the fact that they were able to account for 15,000 people attending that night.

What is the graphic strategy: I feel like the graphic strategy was to create something a bit different and unusual. The poster had to have text in it no matter what, so the designer found a fun and exciting way to use text with other shapes and lines and color, to create an object that looks like not from this world, or not from that time period. The color makes people stop and look, along with the weird shape of the design. It could look like a giant crop circle with text. It may look like many things to different people, but the designer won in his work because it did what it needed to do, bring people to the exhibition.

Ch.14_Blog5_Propaganda Posters

In this chapter I really liked all of the propaganda poster art. During WW1 and WW2 there was a lot of inspiration and creative drive to produce these funny and sometimes serious people swaying posters. I call them people swaying posters because they are specifically made to sway people to think a certain way towards what the artist is trying to portray. In this poster J. Paul Verrees poster is promoting victory by throwing Kaisers head in a food can. This to me at the time is very creative and if you saw this on the street you would have to stop to look and laugh or have some sort of feeling toward this poster. This was just one poster of this time, many posters were creatively made to strike emotion and that is why I like to create and design.

Ch.11_Blog4_Van de Velde's work

In this chapter I really enjoyed all of Van de Velde's work, but if I had to pick one to talk about it would be this one he made for Tropon Food Concentrate, 1899. They say it looks like he was inspired by the image of seperation from egg whites. The use of color almost makes you feel hungry for some reason. I see a hotdog on a bright sunny day at the beach, but I can also see the egg white thing. His use of lines and color make you feel and think and create whatever your mind can imagine. I feel that I can create pieces of art like this and I also feel that these pieces of art that are very effective in the design world because they make you think and imagine.

Ch.9_Blog3_Handbill for an exursion train,1876.

What I really enjoyed about this chapter was the bold printing of Handbill's excursion train poster. He wanted it to be bolder than bold, he used heavier letterforms for the initial letter of important words. I enjoy this type of printing and typographic usage because it really does stand out. He was being very creative for making the letters bigger in some areas and smaller in others. He also used a fire engine red for the text color which puts it al together. Now a days people are looking for these kind of posters to collect and hang in their homes as timely reminders of the past and where we have come. But this is a great example of how creative and genuine printing was back in the day.

Ch.7_Blog2_Renaissance Graphic Design-Boarder Designs

What I really liked in this chapter was the very intricate boarder designs of The seventeenth century related to the work of Jean de Tournes and Bernard Salomon, who actually did the boarder designs for pages out of Ovid's La vita et metamorfoseo in 1559. Salomon's boarder designs are printed in black and white and convey a strong, bold, lacking of white space spread that feels inclosed. Although, despit the fact that it feels very inclosed, I feel his designs and little details he adds to make it one unique flowing piece is quit inspiring. It must have taken him a lot of time back then to get all of those little marks and waves to be perfect and complete to print. It almost feels like one big black and white sketch on a page ripped out of my note book that I start in class because I'm bored. I inspire to be this good with Black and White pen work.