Post 4 - for 02/07/08

In that poster book again...I found a funny poster that relates to the way life is in many ways today.

"Save the products of the Land" is still true today for many respects, but now we have to also Save the products of the Sea as well. The poster says to eat more fish because they feed them selves but the way this world is going now in days, more and more of the Sea's natural resources seem to be depleting alot and fish are not able to spaun as well as they once were. People today are eating more fish that ever, as well as more fish eggs for the richer people. This simply means that we need to start controling how much we decided to catch so that way there are still some fish left in the sea for the future generation to eat and for the other animals in the sea to eat as well.

The overall graphic elements of this image are pretty neat. I like the way the color of the fish blends with the background but still is enough for the fish to stich out for us to see it. You can really get a small sence of what the fish acutally looks like due to its texture and the representation of the scales. The background itself could use a little work to it, but the is not the main focus of the image, the fish is. The gren that they used was an appropriate color, especially when you think of wildlife and a fish in its natural habitat.

Post 3 - for 01/31/08

For this posting, I found out of the same book that I found the previous image a poster about the war again. I liked this one due to the use of imagry within an image.

From what I can get from this image, it is the Nazi, the enemy of the United States during the war, with the guy in the neuce refelecting in his glasses which could be refering to me that he wanted to see the same thing happen to us as we actually did to them. Death.

I like to see the detail that is in the facial features of 'The Enemy.' You can see the shadows and the highlights depicting that it really could be a real face even though it still has a cartoon touch to it. One blemish that I found when looking at it was the lips. His lips just do not look like they should go with his face...as if they are just sitting there not really attached to his face what so ever.

Post 2 - 01/24/08

With the image that I found below, I thought that it was an image that reflects America in general even after the war is over. Made in 1942 this image shows the answer to the needs of the US for the war. I thought that it was ironic that still today we produce many of the items we use here in the United States in order to meet the demands of many manufactures. One problem that still exhists is that America is outsourcing all of its manufacturing and slowly letting other countries take our technology to use it for their well being.

The overall graphic design principle is very well thought out . The hand with the leather glove turning the wrench is just a icon for what most of the factory workers still do "wrench turners". I really do enjoy the lighting of glove as if the worker is working on something that is hot and does not want to get his hands burned. The type is original by todays standards and would have been really good.

Post 1 - 01/17/08

Unfortunatly this week was a little busy getting my schedule organized to get to the library. Every Tuesday and Thursday I get to class by 11am and do not get out of Parkland until 8:45pm. There is not a whole lot of time to get up to the library in those two days. This upcoming week, I will make it in to Parkland to get some scans for this blog.

This week however, being that it is 10:20pm after class, and I have to work tomm. I went online to howdesign.com (how magazine) and found a neat item that I will post here instead.

The image is entitled Hurricane Poster and it attraced me because it is just so simple but it does send out a strong message. HOPE...for those who lost everything due to a hurricane, there is always hope watching over you. The tree in the water is a symbol of how it still stands strong even though its surroundings are gone. After the water resides, it will still be there...bringing hope to those who wish to return and start over with a new life.