Sometimes, a project can become more than just a project. Sometimes, it can become an exploration of your own imagination and really light some kind of fire under your ass to try out all of the things you've learned in your experiences...


This latest assignment, the poster ad for a particular font, proved to be one of those sometimes. I don't know why, but once i started playing around with different elements and colours and ideas floating in my head, it was more fun than anything to keep adding to it all.

it isn't done, but i've had some conflicts with different design choices to use. negative or positive space, for example.
Just little things, like these two buildings, for example. this particular bit of the composition happens to be very important, but deciding whether to use the positive space example at the top, or the negative space example at the bottom has been more difficult than i thought.

More to come

You would be surprised how difficult it is to make a good composition from your body when all the colours contrast with so much gusto. figuring out how to make colours that don't fit together work in a composition is a challenge to say the least, but its almost worth it somehow, pushing yourself to improve one's accute sense of colour understanding.

Assignment 3

don't ask me why these three look grayscaled; after exporting my AI files to JPEG, it seems to have messed with the fine lines of the original...


There shouldn't actually be gray, those are interlaced black and white lines. i swear.

this took me a couple hours of solid work, coming up with a-symmetrical compositions is harder than you'd think. the symmetry categories were a little more entertaining to come up with.



the contrast's weren't

four obscure sort of shapes. I have the strangest feeling that you might be able to identify one of them...

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Ooops, forgot to post my frequented websites:

gfxartist.com - digital art communit, users post there artworks using various digital mediums

pandora - internet radio site; you basically input a song title or artist and it plays a list of music that is similar to that genre or sound

torrentspy.com - I'm a pirate every once in a while, but who isn't today?

typographi.com - an entire site dedicated to new fonts and typefacing

iso50 - design site by Scott Hansen; built on flash and graphic art, very cool.

cheers

In-class Exercise: The golden mean

each box is .618 the height and width of 50% the height and width of the overall box, the spaces between each box stay true to the mean.

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I am asked to provide, and so you shall recieve.

My name is Joshua Cameron Paul. I'm aware I have three first names and completely comfortable with it. I was born in Calgary in 1985, making me 21 years old.

After school, I go home and I sleep, usually. If I'm not asleep, I design tattoos for friends and acquaintances, play my guitar, play the various gaming platforms that are strewn about the floor or listen to a collection of my music through some very cheap speakers still rockin' from the 70's.

Back in school, I sit in my New Media classes and attempt to find some interest in what you all are saying. I chose new media because I've always been drawn to eclectic lifestyle of design. There are so many different facets to the profession that no one specializes in any one thing. I guess at the base of it all, I have a really hard time invisioning myself behind a small cubicle-style desk working for a huge mechanized boss type so I can save up enough time for two weeks vacation every year. That ain't me.

Grabbing a job that will allow me to fund my life instead of the other way around; that's me. That's the answer to what my goals are, what aspirations I have for my life, where I'd like to be in X number of years. Not a lot of time on this planet, make the most of it in the one shot you get.


Really, whats the point in working 40 years for some company that makes an ungodly amount of money a year and still manages to pay you 60,000 a year? My goal is to LIVE my life, not just survive it.

As far as my career goes, you can pretty much read everything above and make your own opinions of what sort of career I'm looking for...

"Technicalities"

photoshop: out of 10; 7-8

dreamweaver: out of 10; 7

premiere: out of 10; 4

As a new media student, we all have access to a digital still camera. I don't actually own one, though.