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Semester Review

How was your progress?:  I thought my progress was good, I had a good understanding of design before this class because i wanted to be a graphic designer beforehand. I learned a lot about more of the technical side and ways of conveying different designs.  What are your strengths? What did you struggle with?:  I believe my strength mainly is executing clean designs that do looks nice, however, I know i do worth fast but this has never been a problem for me. I still am satisfied with my worth even when I'm working with speed, I'm just like that but that can been seen as a struggle. Also linking HTML pages through computer links, that made me give up a bit since I'm used to linking real webpages from websites. I struggled with recording my progress too. What project was your favorite and why?:  I really liked and enjoyed the final project. It really gave me free roam to do anything I wanted and work on my future career within this class but with a different ...
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Final Design challenge project

Link to project : https://drive.google.com/open?id=10NIxK2jaSpRHvWIdBsN-DjuPGU2B5b77 ( Fury ending credit remake ) The quality is not as great since I didn't save it to the highest quality due to time. process: ( it's hard to show progress through film editing, I thought it would be easier to show a tutorial at the end. )  I first began this project with making a separate font in Photoshop (the tutorial is in my other reflection) After uploading WWII footage from youtube (downloading through mp3 converter) I added a red and black colour gradient using a sequence, allowing all of the footage to be edited at once. I then did some fine tuning with certain clips, reversing, speeding them up etc by right clicking on each specific clip and personally changing each. Then, I added title cards. I referenced the Fury title sequence using http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/fury/ ( 10/10 useful for reference and describing the sequence.) Soon, i then dragged my Photoshop 'FUR...

Update #1

I'm currently working on a title sequence in adobe premiere pro. I'm taking WWII clips and making a sequence like that of the movie 'Fury.' At the stage I'm at, I'm just putting final touches and title cards for directors, producers, etc. Then I'll possibly try to add some music if it's possible.

Ted Talk: Rory Sutherland

The shreddies branding is genius (diamond shape) people actually believed this marketing technique. Phones are possibly the most innovative piece of modern technology (with location etc)  You knew perception was a huge part of marketing and an equally significant factor in generating sales. proven fact that cheap, undervalued products can be completely revamped through developing a new perception around it.  all value is subjective, BUT an intangible change can be just as satisfying as a physical change.  Frederick realized the farmers would rather be jailed than forced to grow potatoes. So he took a new approach, and decided to re brand the potato – changing its perceived value. He declared that potatoes were only for the royal grew them in his garden, protected around the clock by his guards.  “When you place a value on things like health and love and learn to place a material value on what you’ve previously discounted for being merely intang...

Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8, 1920 — April 25, 1996) was a graphic designer and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his design of film posters and title sequences. During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese. He became well-known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm in 1955. For Alfred Hitchcock, Bass designed effective and memorable title sequences, inventing a new type of kinetic typography, for North by Northwest, Vertigo (working with John Whitney), and Psycho. Saul Bass also designed emblematic movie posters that transformed the visuals of film advertising. Before Bass’s seminal poster for The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), movie posters were dominated by depictions of key scenes or characters from the film, often both juxtaposed with each other. Bass’s posters, however, typically developed ...

Designer Research 5x5x5

Armin Hofmann - He began his career in 1947 as a teacher at the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel School of Art and Crafts at the age of twenty-six - He is well known for his  posters , which emphasized economical use of colour and fonts, in reaction to what Hofmann regarded as the "trivialization of colour." - He was also an influential educator, retiring in 1987. In 1965 he wrote the  Graphic Design Manual , a popular textbook in the field. thought that one of the most efficient forms of communications was the poster - His  Graphic Design Manual  was, and still is, a reference book for all graphic designers.        Saul Bass - was an American  graphic designer  and  Academy Award -winning filmmaker, - During his 40-year career Bass worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers, including  Alfred Hitchcock ,  Otto Preminger ,  Billy Wilder ,  Stanley Kubrick  and ...

Personal Project - Opening Film Titles (WIP)

Opening Title sequences set the mood of an entire movie. With my personal project, I'll replicate styles used by graphic artists in films (mainly focused on war films.) And also study some of the artists creating these pieces that can draw people in or out of a feature film. Dunkirk (2017) Directed by Christopher Nolan In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated. The graphic designer for the title is unknown (cannot seem to find them) but none the less, the opening title for Dunkirk tells a story. In my version (above to the left) I used the font style Franklin Gothic Heavy and overlayed a layer of the sea within i...