LA Logo Revised and Sketches

Los Angeles Logos

I'm heading in another route and doing this assignment on Los Angeles's cuisine. Each color represents a different region in the world.
Blue: Europe
Yellow: Asian
Green: Latin
Red: American
Orange: African
Purple: Middle Eastern

Cool Website!

Cool website of one of my fave artist.

http://www.ohlandmusic.com/

CSUN SAGA Panel Discussion

Last Tuesday, CSUN's SAGA club had a 3 guest speakers come to talk about their careers after CSUN. The first speaker was designer for phone apps and websites. She gave great advice to give that she wish she had done when she was a student. A few of my favorite are:

• Be a sponge, get inspired by everything!
• Learn as much as you can in school.
• Have a mentor
• Find a creative outlet outside of graphic design

The 2nd speaker worked with keynote art making movie posters. He worked on movies such as my favorite Jackass 3. The fact that he was able to work with anything related with cinema was facsinating. But he stressed so much on how hard you have to work.

The 3rd speaker was a freelance designer, mainly creating fliers and anything promotional to the event he was designing for. He talked about his clients and how he managed his time. 

The designers made me worry because all three kept bringing up the down side to becoming a designer. Such as working long hours, multi-tasking, and getting no sleep. I really wished that the guest speakers chosen were not alumni's that graduated from the same year. I really wanted to hear from someone who worked 10 years in the industry. 

Los Angeles Inspiration

LA Light from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

Research of Los Angeles

was founded because of the Rio Pornicula (which is not the LA River)

means the city of Angels

without the Owens river and the LA aquaduct, LA would NOT be the city it is today.

Is known for different lifestyles and ethnic groups.

Rich and poor live so close together.

Different stereotypes within the county> Valley, Urban City, Skid Row, Beverly Hills, Beach, West Hollywood

Concrete Jungle> Downtown the hey day and now

Famous Landmarks: Angel's flight, Bradbury Building, Griffin Observatory, Santa Monica, Chinese Graumans Theater, etc.

BEST ETHNIC FOOD

Ethnic Enclaves> Chinatown, Lil Tokyo, Viet Town, etc.

Fast Pace life style

MUTHA FUCKING TRAFFIC.

Movie production

LAX

Art hub

Looks matter: plastic surgeons, nail shops, malls

The Animal Print Shop

Check out this website! The layout is so minimal and cute, perfect for the elegant baby. There are also some really cute photography. If you know anyone expecting a baby, you can get these as gifts.

https://www.theanimalprintshop.com/

Dafont Website Revision

Redesign Choice

I'm choosing to redesign the website:

http://www.dafont.com/

John Mayer Logo

Really cool John Mayer logo, taken from his store. If you flipped it upside down, it would still say John Mayer.

7 Types of Websites

1. Brochure Site

http://www.avocado.org/

Just because I love avocados, this website to promote sales of California grown Avocados. It features recipes, growers of avocados, and the benefits of the fruit.

2. Social/ Community

http://lookbook.nu/

A social website where members can post pictures of their outfits and critique other members outfits.

3. Reference

http://www.webmd.com/

Feel a little under the weather or think their might be something wrong with your body? You can find what's going on with your body by the Symptom Checker. Or even learn about other sicknesses and diseases.

4. Ecommerce 

http://www.etsy.com/

Just like an eBay or Amazon, this website specializes in handmade products.

5. Flash/Entertainment

http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/

Website used to promote the Simpsons Movie. You can even "Simpsonize" yourself.

6. Web Apps

http://www.bittorrent.com/

Web app where you can share files with other users.

7. CMS (Content Management System)

http://photobucket.com/

Upload and share digital photos.

Guerilla Ad Trident

Project: Ad

Simple Movie Poster

I'm not going to lie, I want to know more about this movie because of this poster. I'm thinking of using this type of simplicity for my ad.

Ideas for Ad

Show how everybody wants to be your friend when you have gum.

Show the amount of hazel nuts used.

gre·gar·i·ous

   [gri-gair-ee-uhs]  Show IPA

adjective

1.

fond of the company of others; sociable.

2.

living in flocks or herds, as animals.

3.

Botany . growing in open clusters or colonies; not mattedtogether.

4.

pertaining to a flock or crowd.

Types of Advertising

1. Make a Metaphor

2 images put together to send the message that McDonalds now has WiFi.

2. Promise a Benefit

Juice promises a longer life.

3. Mention a Problem

Marges up-do is stiff which is the problem, this ad actually shows the benefit of the product which shows Marge with luscious flowy locks.

4. Get Really Real

This ad shows what people think about body odor.

5. Create a Character

Dos Equis creates a character that make their product seem interesting.

6. Inject Drama

This ad makes it more dramatic by adding body bags on the horses.

7. Exaggerate to the Extreme

Knives cannot cut through wood by their own weight.

8. Eye Candy

Hands painted beautifully, makes you look twice because they are hands!

Heifer Final

Art Chandry

Graphic Design can be humorous! There is a lot of type, but I enjoy reading it.

Heifer Poster Revision

The top is the revised version of my project. What is different is the diagram. Also I made the title smaller and "This is how it works" box has become a box and an arrow.

Skunkling

I just thought this was a really cool type face. I'm really into Nostalgic designs, which is why this font caught my attention. The person who created this was a student and designed this font for a contest. He won, and is top seller now. Check out his website at: 

http://jasonmarkjones.bigcartel.com/product/skunkling-font-family

Plus I found this cool poster on Design Sponge's blog. I think it fitting for our major:

Heifer Poster

GOOD GOD! Graphic Design hurts my back!! But I'm finally done.

InfoGraphic Correction

The left is the original and the right is the corrected version. I've changed the spacing on H8TER in the bar graph, and added the percentage. Also, for the statistics, I have reverse the gradient from dark to light to light to dark.

Heifer Foundation

For my info graphic project, I am planning to do it on the Heifer Foundation which is an organization that is dedicated to help families from third world countries get out of poverty. They do this buy giving livestock to families, and are trained to take care of it. One animal helps provide some resources that can be used to feed or even make some extra money. The Heifer foundation takes this quote very seriously, 

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him how to fish you feed him for a lifetime".

Here is a link to the story of one family that was helped by this program.

You can give some money to help buy a share of an animal or flock of animals for a family, or you can purchase the whole animal. Let's say if you were feeling generous, a whole cow would be $500, and if you were tight on money, you can help out with $50 for a share. Not only are there cows to buy, there are llamas, flock of chicks, bees, sheep, water buffalo, rabbits, and pigs. Click here to give!

Letterpress Stationary

I would love to experiment with letterpress! I want to combine my illustrations with graphic design, and I think letterpress would be an awesome thing to do.

http://www.beastpieces.com/

InfoGraphics

What attracted me was the font and the minimal use of colors.

Very cool illustration.

No drawing what so ever. But it's great that the artist had to hand cut this and take a picture of it.