Final Project

The topic of my design was bullying. I think this is an important topic because it isn’t something that happens in school, it happens anywhere. Some people define bullying as a kid picking on another kid, but bullying is truly just someone being cruel to someone else for no reason. Adults do it too but people don’t usually see that as bullying. I hope people who might be bullies will look at my poster and get the message, which is to step back from bullying. When looking hard enough at my design, it might hurt your eyes because of how it looks physically. But it might also hurt the bullies sense of pride when they realize who they are and how their actions effects not just their victims, but it also effects them as people. Belittling a person to make yourself feel better isn’t going to get you anywhere in life. All it does is give you a false sense of pride and power, when really it makes you weaker than the person you’re trying to hurt.

                  I believe this will work in a school setting because bullying is always found in schools. To be quite honest, I don’t see too much bullying in my school, but it’s still out there, whether it being physical bullying or cyber bullying. I’ve never seen someone physically hurt somebody at our school for no reason, but I have seen a lot of disrespect. I think a good place for my design to be displayed is around the cafeteria area. That’s an area where all students go at sometime in there day. That’s also where groups of people walk around the school during there lunch. I’ve seen groups of kids mock other kids and just show disrespect to other students or staff.

                  For my design, I made the main focus point very large and in the center. I want that to be the first thing people see. I want my design to leave a good first impression on the viewer when they first look at it. I didn’t use any color because of the theme of my design. Bullying is dark so I kept my design all black and white and a little bit of gray. I used zig-zagging and overlapping lines to create an optical allusion. You have to look through the lines, or either be standing at a distance, to see what is actually being shown. I used a person in the fetal position to illustrate sadness and I used the words “step back” below the person. I put that image of the person and the words “step back” at a very low opacity so they are hard to see. The dark and thick lines make it so you can’t fully see or make out what you’re really looking at until you either literally “look between the lines” or “step back.” By “step back” I’m literally meaning, step back to see the design, and to step back from bullying. Then at the bottom I wrote “you’re hurting yourself by hurting others” so people better understand the message I’m trying to convey.

         

animation

In this piece, i made a man throwing a rock in the water. i wanted to do a ripple effect because i thought it would have looked cool with the animation, but i didn't know how to end it. I was going to just have a ripple and then that's it, but i didn't think it was a very good ending. So i had the ripple reach where the man was sitting and i made it form a hand and grab the man and pull him in the water. At the end i made a little closing screen that said "Don't Throw Stones." It gives my animation a very creepy and spooky feel. I wanted the end to be come out of no one for the viewer and shock them.

"Outside The Box" a type poster

prom ticket

2. Create an image showing type using distortion in a reflection...

5. Create an image showing type drawn with non traditional tools (sponge, branches, etc.)

4. Create an image showing type made out of non-traditional materials

1. Create an image of type using cast shadows and light....

messin with the web test

LHS Logo Design

Jupiter Power Plastics Logo

Paper Folding

Juxtapose

I made my design visually exciting with all of the colors. The original background was black and white, and i used a picture of city buildings to sit on top of the original background and changed the colors. The red colors are the dark parts of the original background, and the blue is the light parts of the original background. I also made the shadows of the people colorful so they stand out. The colors and city buildings contrast with the old original black and white background.

T-Shirt Design

1. Whats the deeper or second meaning?
     
       When i drew the the logo in the middle (2013) i had the whole thing connecting to symbolize how we all stayed together with each other for 4 years

2. The main principal or element we see in my design are lines.

Scanner Dreams Questions

1. What is the mood of your image? Is it a result of: contrast, subject matter, depth of field or the figure to ground relationship?

           

            I think the mood of my image is haunting. The black and white colors and the old, vintage type look makes it look spooky. I’m also sticking my hand out, kind of like I’m reaching out for help, and my hands are the most bright part of the whole image. And the bottom image of myself looks like I’m almost fading away.  Its more of a result of contrast I think, and how the colors vary from how close I am to the camera.

2. What makes the illusion of depth? Value changes, edge quality, or size of objects?

           

            My hands make the illusion of depth. I made them the closest thing to the scanner, while my head and body were further away. I also moved my head and hand down half way through the scan to add a wavy, stretchy effect. 

Scanner Artwork

Corporate Identity Project Questions

1.How do these designs show your use of the elements of art and the principals of design to relate to your THEME?

My designs represent my theme, confusion, because a lot of the things on the business card and envelope don’t seem too clear. You can probably understand what they are, but not really what they mean. Things seem to be in places that they normally wouldn’t be in, but it works with the rest of the art. I used many elements and principals such as color, texture, and repetition.

   2. How do the three designs relate and respond to each other? Do they    show change? Do they share a common shape, color or texture?

They relate to each other because they both go along with the theme of confusion. I like to work with black and white designs that are mixed with color. That is shown in my envelope and business card. I worked a lot with shapes and lines. 

Corporate Identity Designs

Connor Corvello

1.What elements of art do you see as most important in his work?

He uses a lot of shape and line. Sometimes color but most of his art looks like black and white with a lot of shapes and textures

2. Which of the principals of design are most important to his work?

I think repetition is the most important design in his artwork.  He uses a lot of patterns and rhythm.

3. What makes his images interesting to you? How does his work INVOLVE the viewer?

I like that he puts a lot of patterns and shapes into his designs. A lot of little things clumped together to form something big! His art isn’t just something that you can look at for a second and fully understand it. You want to look at his work and look for every little shape or pattern and see how it flows and connects with the rest of his design