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Logo Comparison 2 questions

1) One is bold and really jumps out at you. The Other is very light font and is hard to see.
2) The design issue is that you cannot see the words very well so they made them bigger.

Logo Vector Color

Logo Vector black and white

Logo Pencil Sketch

3D Box of Gainz

Helvetica Assignment

Helvetica Movie Assignment

·      Where does Helvetica originate from? What Country?

Helvetica originates in Switzerland

·      What does the original name mean? What is the translation in English?

Helvetica was originally written in Latin and translates to the “Swiss typeface”

·      What year was Helvetica created?

1957

·      What is the design style that Helvetica brought to popularity worldwide?

It is a rational typeface. Clean and simple characteristics very legible.

·      List the names of 3 different design styles or design movements that are discussed in the film?

Some of the deign styles discussed in the film were modernism, post-modernism and the grunge.

·      Write about some of the insight about design you have taken away from the film. You can provide quotes if you like.

It is very interesting how much design is all around us everywhere we go. Before taking this class and watching the movie I just took it all for granted and didn’t even think about it. Now I recognize different fonts and graphic designs. Helvetica basically rules the world. It is the king which I think is pretty awesome.

 Lars Muller

         Lars Müller was born in Oslo in 1955, and although a Norwegian citizen, has been based in Switzerland since 1963.

After an apprenticeship as a graphic designer and some years as a peripatetic student in the United States and Holland, Lars Müller returned to Switzerland in 1982 and established his studio in Baden. Since 1996, he has been a partner of “Integral Concept,” an interdisciplinary design group active in Paris, Milan, Zürich, Berlin, and Montreal.

http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/en/publisher/lars-mueller

 Matthew Carter

"The most important typography designer of our time, MATTHEW CARTER (1937) is one of the few designers whose work is used by millions of people every day. Having devoted the first half of his career to typefaces for use in print, such as Miller and Bell Centennial, he then pioneered the design of fonts for use on screen, notably Verdana for Microsoft."

http://designmuseum.org/design/matthew-carter

Massimo Vignelli

"Massimo Vignelli is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to houseware design to furniture design to public signage to showroom design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife, Lella."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Vignelli

Wim Crouwel

 “Wim Crouwel, born in Groningen (the Netherlands) in 1928 is a remarkable and inspiring figure with an inventive spirit and vision, vigorous and always distinguished…”

http://www.iconofgraphics.com/Wim-Crouwel/

Helvetica Examples

Hand Lettering exercise with Name

Elements Of Design

Elements Of Design Notes

Elements:

- Space, line, color, shape, texture, value, unity, variety

 Space:

- Negative, positive, foreground, background

 Line:

- Suggestion of shape

 Color:

- Suggestion, emotion, leading

 Shape:

                - Suggestion, emotion

Texture:

                - Real and suggested

 Value:

                - Shadow, shading

Principles:

 Unity:

                - Everything connects into a visually appealing piece

 Variety:

                - Variety avoids blandness

 Harmony:

                - Flow and visual appeal, everything fits

 Proximity:

- Leading the viewers eye

- Patterns

- Meaning, such as in the pedestrian sign where the man is near or far from the woman and children

Perspective Illustration

Color Wheels

Type Face Portrait

Sugar Skull using Adobe Illustrator

Washington Monument Spaceship

Can you find the gorilla? (:

MJ Flying Across Skyline Throwing Down

A Silverback Gorilla making Fat Gainzzz

Bouncing Ball Gif

CIRCLE GRAPHIC FILE COMPARISON

The best quality photo was the png 24 format. It is much large than all the files at 129KB and 53KB. 

The worst quality format was the Gif restrictive file. As you can see its very pixled. 

BEST-WORST 1-12

1) png 24

2) png-8-128-dithered

3) Gif 128 no dither

4) Gif 128 dithered

5) jpeg high

6) jpeg medium

7) Gif 64 Dithered

8) jpeg low

9) Gif 64 no dither

10) Gif 32 Dithered

11) Gif 32 No Dither

12) Gif restrictive

Photo Collage

Some Gorillas kicking it at the top of the food chain

Here are some shapes I made using Illustrator

This is a Silverback Gorilla who knows nothing but Gainz.. I made him using Adobe Illustrator

Here is a beast Gorilla I made using Photoshop

First Projects Box To Car And Mario

Here is a Range Rover I made using Adobe Illustrator And a Mario using Photoshop