Monday, March 23, 2009

Weekly Article 18

On the magazine of idPure on page 60 there is an article about "New York". Christoph Niemann is the designer of the new york times, business week, The new Yorker, and the Atlantic monthly. He is one of the great designers of our time and he believes that the hardest you work on a design the better it will be at the end. He had got many awards and is very famous.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Weekly Article 17 (Magazine)

On page 56 of the great design magazine idpure, there is an article which is talking about EBOY company.We all know EBOY; they are making this cool designs of different kind of staff. Sometimes it is cars and sometimes it is just usual home products. But that it isn't why this company is special. EBOY has this very special design for its products. It is working with pixels and basically making all its designs with squares in different colors that are attached together. They are making fabulous stuff, and sometimes you can't even guess it is made of squares and a lot of cubes. This is a very unique style of design; and may try to use it sometimes, maybe when I will do my website I will some icons in this style.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Rationale for my Ad

This poster for MTV switch is an advertisement for MTV switch that tries to show us that what we do to nature is bad. This poster includes the slogan of MTV switch which is “Time’s up”. This poster can be used on a billboard or a magazine. In this poster all the principles of design are applied such as proximity and contrast. There is a really good contrast from dark to light; even though the dark should have been on the left because we read from left to right, I put it from right to left because I wanted to attract the eye towards the logo and the dark part is more attracting than the light part. Other design technique that I have used is alignment; I put the “Time’s up” slogan so it will be aligned to tree’s horizon. The girl’s sad face is in a really good point in the poster so you can’t miss it. The girl’s face shows the sadness that she sees in nature. In case you would like to use this poster in a billboard you will just need to get rid of the text and then it will be a really good as an advertisement. The tree which is all alone is a good representation for nature.

Letter Head


My letter Head is more kind of formal. It has all the elements that are needed in a formal letter. I tried to make it as easy as possible so it will be easy to read.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Poster for Mtv SWITCH








The first one is the basic idea. The second one is my poster. It fits both magazine and billboard. In a billboard you will just get rid of the text.

Logos for MTV switch

I got two versions. One for dark background and one for light.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Article 16

This article on about.com teaches you how to brainstorm in the easiest and most efficient way. Even though brainstorming sounds like an easy process it can usually be the hardest part, because in this process you get the general idea of how to design whatever it is you are designing.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/howto/a/brainstorming.htm

Monday, February 9, 2009

Article 15

This website gives you a very good description and explanation of how to design a website from the beginning until the ending. This website should instruct you how to design your website from total rubbish into a magnificent art work. The website teaches you everything, starting from the basic rules like balance and contrast until the final rule like fonts and color.

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/principles_of_design/

Monday, February 2, 2009

Article 14

This is one of the biggest competition for logo designs. You can find a lot of inspiration and examples in it.
www.wolda.org

Article 13

This Article gives very good and basic rules of how to design website so it will be easy for people to navigate through it.
http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/effectivewebsites/a/web_navigation.htm

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

What the Boss Wants!

The Priniciples of The MTV Switch said that they want the second approach with the face of the first one. They want the second color scheme which is blue green and yellow and the face of the first which is dark and sad.

Article 12

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/pagelayout/qt/bigger.htm

This short Article "Make it Bigger" is explaining how to attract the eye with the simplest ways. Which is of-course making the object big.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Fonts for MTV switch

On Mtv switch you need two types of fonts, one type will be more outgoing and not strict and that will fit the logo and other graphic ideas; the other type that will be used is a strict font "sans serif", and this font will probably be used in the formal letters and other kinds of formal writing.

formal fonts:










The Fonts for logos and ads:

Western Audio

The Weakness is usually on the right side of the screen. The strength is usually on the left side because the westerners are reading from left to right.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009