Post 15 - 05/01/08

Well For this post I found a really neat illustration that was actually made several years ago with older software.

IF you want to think about this, it could use 2 programs to make this piece. First you have the Earth, Hand, Stars, etc. that can be made and edited in Photoshop to make them appear lifelike and 3D-ish. For the curved line that spirals around the entire hand, you could make that in illustrator as well as the bone like thing in the hand. Having the crispness of the lines with the great images produced by Photoshop, you would get a nice piece like this.

Just to think, what would this piece look like today with better stock photography, better graphics, and our new software? 100 times better!!!!! OH, the monitor would need to be updated to a LCD monitor, since CRTs are not really in use too much anymore.

Post 14 - 04/24/08

Well in this post I found a simple advertisement that put a smile on my face. Yes, this does seem like a simple image, and someone might actually be foolish enough to go out there and take a picture of someone holding a bun to a cow. Not me! I enjoy the fact that you know that it has to be photoshoped and has the product at the bottom in very simple terms.

For a big eat, like a cow burger, you need that sauce to make it seem that much bigger and better. Adding in the paper towel makes me think that that sauce is good and messy, which means mmmmmmmm in my lingo. If you also look closly at the image, you can see that there is a blur around the hands part on the bun and it stays sharp where the cow is to make our eye go right toward the cow.

Hmm...I think its time to go to Just Hamburgers in Paxton... Good, Cheap, and filling.

E.C. Post 4

Well for this extra credit post, I found a picture while ripping off the front covers of magazines where I work at.

Unfortunatly I had already ripped it in half so I had to Photoshop it back together rather quickly. You can still see that it came from a magazine and that I took a quick photo of it. This image can go one of two directions if you think about it.

1) You are like me, a little crazy, and you would take your nice shiny new Ford F150 out storm chasing and find the perfect shot of a tornado coming right at you. Get out of the truck, set up the tripod, mount the camera, snap a few pictures where you like them, trow the equiptment back in the truck and get out of there as quickly as possible.

2) You find a good picture of a tornado and make it look really aggressive, then you photoshop in the nice new truck and adjust the glow of it to make it seem as if it is really there.

In my opinion, either way would be fun!

Post 13 - 04/17/08

Well for this post I went to Dynamic Graphics website and did some cruising around. They do have alot of interesting art there to look at. The one that found for this weeks post is of an avertisement.

What first of all caught my eye was of the layout of the ad. Instead of just being a 90 degree straight picture they tilted it a bit to make it seem as if it is sitting on this paper. Along with the drop shadow, it really gives a neat effect of bing a picture on a document instead of just one total work of art.

I really like how elegant, but simple the total layout is of this ad. All the text is justified and easy to read with plenty of leading. They do not go on with all the nit picky features of the plane, but instead sum it up and give you a small picture of the interior. If you want to really know more about it, you have to call them up. I am a fisherman, and even though I have never flown yet, it would be alot of fun to take a plane like this up to Canada and go fishing for some large mouth pike, walleye, and northern bass. Having a plane like this, you would think you are flying first class for a business meeting, but you are instead flying away from the business part of life...you are enjoying life with your new plane! Great Ad!

Post 12 - 04/10/08

Well in this post I was surfing through the communication arts mag. website for some inspiration on the CD project. I can accross an ad for helmets that seemed to fit in to what I like in graphic design.

From what I could understand from the caption that was with it, it was a combination of photography and illustration. I can see how you can get such sharp lines in the helmet that the guy is riding the ATV accross. If you were to just use the picture it would be so pixelized that no one would know what it really is. Since the helmet was turned into an illustration, you get the nice vector lines that really set it up nice and make it look tought. When I look at the helmet on his head, I see that it has a good since of style as well as durability. I know that adding the dirt flying up from the ATV tires gives it a neat effect, however it is not logical. When I think of an ATV on a smooth surface, even if it is a made up image, I think more along the lines of smoke or just spinning wheels. Where does the dirt play in? Overall I like this type of work. It is so nice and crisp and really pleasing to look at...for those of us who like ATVs.

E.C. Post 3

For this extra credit post I found a neat gift bag in the store that I work at. I like the overall design of it because it is so simple but yet you know that it took some time to get the design just right.

Just looking at the image I can see many different designs from the diamond plate background, to the rivots on the red circle and the gradient found in the GARAGE part of the label. There is just so much graphic design everywhere you look.

Besides graphic design, I like the underlined saying "Repair and Despair under one roof" That means so much, beings as I know some stuff about mechanics. There are things that you know how to do, like change the oil, the fuel filter, a hose, a belt...even a radiator, alternator, water pump and so much more. However, if you do not attach it correctly or that is not the problem and you spent all that time and money for something that did not fix the vehicle, I get is a pit of despair. By the way...depending on the vehicle, you will usually bust your knuckle somewhere trying to fix something.

Post 11 04/03/08

On this post, I believe that I found one of the best billboards to show graphic design (that came out of the billboard book).

I really enjoy the amount of work that had to go into making this image. I have seen things like this before in magazines, but I can not believe that this would have been a real billboard! For the graphic design principle, when you start off with the man on the left, I can see the great amount of lighting that is shining down on his head and shoulders. I can really get a feel for what that person would look like in real life. With out the lighting in this image, I do not think that it would be as successful, because the guy would not look 3D. He would be a flat looking cartoon style character. Moving on into the next image, you can see that he is transforming into a timber wolf, by the description of the billboard. This would have been the step that would have taken the most time. Can you imagine getting the right effects from both the actual picture or design of the wolf and from the man and applying them together? That would take some time. Again in the last two images of the animal/human, you can really get a since of figure from the amount of lighting there. This was a good billboard in my opinion.