Friday, December 3, 2010

 The things that drive me to buy things are the advertisements the store has. The price is another way to convince me into buying that product. The features that the items contains for example a computer or laptop is another way to dive me into buying.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

How to analyze advertisements

Describe the layout of the advertisement. How is content arranged? For example, are elements arranged symmetrically or asymmetrically?
The advertisement I'm doing about is wonder bread. The layout of is colorful and very eye catching. The content is a asymmetrical.


Describe the relationship between the written (copy) and graphic elements of the advertisement.



How does the advertisement use page space? Is the advertisement full of text and graphics or does it have a lot of
white space?

How does the advertisement use alignment to organize its information?


Describe the colors used on the advertisement. Do they work well together? Is there a high contrast ratio between text and background?


Does the color scheme add to the purpose or tone of the advertisement? What tone or message do these colors convey?


Is a photograph used in the advertisement? If so, what kind of shot is it? What angle is it taken from? What is the lighting like? How is color used?


If people or animals are in the advertisement, how would you describe them? What are they doing?



What is the background of this advertisement? That is, where does it “take place”?


What “story” do you think this advertisement is trying to tell?


Describe the font(s) used for each element of the advertisement. How does the advertisement use typography to distinguish among different elements (create hierarchy or emphasize a message)?

Describe the font families used (name them if you can). What messages do these font families convey?




Thursday, November 4, 2010

Reflection Journal

    In class we were learning about shapes and paintbrush tools. We were assigned to create our own logos for a company, store or anything but it had to be our own. At first it as hard to come up with an idea but then I came up with the idea of cross country. I came up with this idea as my logo because I am in the school cross country and i wanted to advertise it and make it more popular for others to join.
     In our logos we had use design elements and design principles. The design principles i used were emphasis and repetition. The design elements i used in my logo are shapes, line, and color. This helps your logos look better. I also used value making things that are more important brighter.
   We learned about the difference between vector and bitmap images. Bitmap images are images that combine different kind of color pixels to make one image. Vector images use mathematical equations that are great to scale an image especially  for logos or design. This makes the image more sharp and less blurry on the edges or sides or the image.
    I did some changes for my redesign logo. I added more color and I added another shape. I added more texture in my logo. I changed the size of some things in my logo to put more emphasis on it. I pretty glad with my logo and how it came out as a final job.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Do Now Vector Images

 What is bitmap image?
Bitmap images are different color pixels that go together to create the image. What does "resolution- dependent mean?
Resolution-dependent means that the size and characteristic of an image depend on the number of pixels.   How does a vector image works?
Vector images work by scaling the image because they mathemacical 

Thursday, October 21, 2010

The initial goals for this logo is to represent Ecuador's  independence. It has the Ecuador flag.
Yes, the logo does match the initial goal.
Yes, i have new goals for the logo. I could add fireworks because its a celebration and also i could make the ecuadorian flag more visual.

How to understand Color Management by Jennifer Toledo


For this lab we had to take screen shots to understand color management. In this screen shot i

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Design Principles

Emphasis is to express an image to make it powerful which has an important meaning to it. It is to make it stand out and catches the eye of the viewer. Balance is comparing two things or images. It is also to contrast between them. Proximity is placing similar objects closer together unlike putting them closer. Harmony is combining similar or related elements together. Repetition is the recurrence of an object. Repetition is use for the readers to see the importance. Color is also know as hue. Color is used to draw attention to a particular object. There are   primary colors, secondary colors. White spaces could be a good and bad thing. White spaces are nothing its just a white space. It breaks down texts and graphics.You could add white spaces to make the page less cramping or confusing. Alignment helps keep everything in order.

the do now

 Do Now: List the basic design elements
 The graphic design elements are lines, color, shape, and texture.

Monday, October 18, 2010

my color palette


I picked these colors there are my favorite colors. I also picked these colors because like how they were together. Hue is in my palette because it means color. Chroma is the intensity of the colors so each of my color has a different intensity.  MY color palette has tint because the orange and the yellowish color has some white in it. Shade is represented because some colors have some black in the to make them darker.