Project 3

I love learning about design soft, it is just,, I am kinda slow leaner especially when it comes to computers. : ) This is a map from project 3. I enjoyed drawing little trees and sushi. I like to use tutorial sites more often and learn deeper!!

Stock Images

I downloaded this image from iStockphoto. This was in the "This week's free files".
It is professionally done, very high resolution!

Constructing Meaning

This is designed by Min Wang for Beijing Olympic 2008. He mentioned, "you can expect to see the game's iconography on just about everything in Olympic with such a massive global audience guaranteed, the job of communicating the event is no small task." (designboom.com 1-2par)

"This integrates charm of inscriptions on bones and bronze objects in ancient china with simplified embodiment of modern graphics." I like the strokes of seal characters as their basic form. Everybody in the world can be the "Target audience" for this case, and they can determine what game are symbolized for this designs . I think that these are a good example of "Stereotypes" and "Cliches" for typical sports icons but added impacts and changes with the designers cultural influences.

Critical Thinking

I picked up these old and new logos for this week. Logos could be very difficult to design because it should be simple, rememberable, original, meaningful and effective. Burger King I like old one is pronounced "buns(burger)" better than new one, but the new one's diagonal line and blue circle gives fresh and young image to it. Over all, I still like the old one because it makes me think of eating a burger! Pizza Hut I like the letters in old one. Just like Burger King, new one has more movement but I like the stability on old one. TACO BELL AGAIN, I like the old one. The contrast of colors are awesome. The letters pop out and stabled, though this could be too retro, but I guess the new sign shows more "American friendly food" than traditional mexican food. KFC This one is humm, I think it is a tie. I like how it has original name by using cool fonts and appealing "Kentucky's original fried chicken", it is about food, but now it is more about "KFC"brand. The new one could be more rememberable. Score is 3(old) vs 0(new) and 1(tie)! What do you think?

Color

As you all know, one of Van Gogh's famous painting, "Cafe Terrace at Night". I have always loved his painting. It is kind of cool I have noticed that I look at the arts a little different way after I started taking this class. I look at the unity, balance, emphasis, color, etc many different element which I did not think about them before!

The yellow that push toward us, and the dark colored building and sky pull inward. The color of the road is bright that lead us inward and outward. Another small yellow square on the right side keeps good balance. This painting make me want to stop by this cafe and have a cup of cappuccino or something if I were in this picture. This yellow and orange color make me feel just warm and happy.

About an Earthquake

I get many phone calls and emails from my friends and family in laws in the states about the earthquake and tsunami on the other day. And I appreciate it sooo much. My family got hit by earthquake but not like you see on TV. Luckily they had no damages. It really hurts me whenever I see what is happening over there especially northern area. I have friends in Tokyo who have not been able to go home yet and my friend's parents who live in the worst damaged area. I am worried about them. We have been trained for earthquake since we were very young, but there is nothing we (human)can do when something like this happen.
I am figuring out what I can do to help them.
Thank you very much for your concern.

I just made this image. 愛 means LOVE.

Color

One of my favorite artist immediately come to my mind when I think about colors. Her name is Mika Ninagawa. She is not only a talented photographer but makes movies, advertisements, and works many for fashion. Two of these posters are for the movie "SAKURAN". With the one on the left, green and orange are used, making a good contrast and leaving a warm but bright impression. I like she looks like she has the attitude from her smile and a angle of her body. The letters layout vertically along her face which gives more Japanese traditional image. With on the top right, this image has symmetrical balance by dark colored temples (they are actually "red light district") on both side. Whole image has sort of cool impression with blue and pink but gold fishes put more impact in this image and also they make blue color sky look like water.
These bottom two pictures are advertisement pieces. The one on the left advertises "BALI Island". The flowers on this side is more blur than far away. It creates the distance of depth, and vertical line creates of wider space as well. The contrast of these three colors are just beautiful. With the one on the right also has excellent color interaction and the black font image plays excellent in this piece.
Here is the link to her English website.

http://www.ninamika.com/en/index.html