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Good and Bad Page Layout

Here is a good example of page layout.

 

The iPhone 5 is a good layout because it is very simple and has high contrast between the black phone and the white space/background behind it. The alignment of the two phone draws the eye because the edges are parallel and the top edges are angled to draw you eye in a different direction. It also has good placement of the large phone on the left side with a softer space on the right. It makes the balance flow between the image and text.

 

Here is an example of a bad layout.

 

I couldn’t find a really bad layout, but iv seen them before, but this isn’t the best layout. It has a lot of different sized text, different thickness, and different types of fonts. The text does not seem to line up at any particular point. There is kind an awkward white space next to the logo because they crammed in so much text below it. The boarders on the top and the bottom are different sizes and the text inside of them different colors. I have definitely  seen worse but the alinement most bugged me on this one.

 

JFF poster contest

GIG Poster

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For this project I started out knowing what band I was going to make a poster for because my friends band just played there first show so I wanted to push this project for that. Their show was at the Whisky a Go Go up in LA. There band is a kind of rock genre. I talked to the band and they gave me an idea of what I was going to do with the poster. They asked me to use a specific painting as a layout and with permission of the artist I recreated his painting. The painting was done by Ken Stratford and he told me that his painting would be classified as expressionism. When I was recreating the painting in vector artwork I tried to keep his style of expressionism but because it was in vectors I kind of missed the genre of expressionism and a little bit of pop art in the sense that there are no gradients and all the ayers are one color.

Personal Logo

 

Logo

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Vector Bouquet

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Image Prevalence

1. Why do you think the reproduction of image is so prevalent in the world today?

Art from the past influences artists today, so some artists are influenced by the past and they try and copy the styles in current images. When a art style is popular or if a single image /style is made famous, other artists will take that style and try to use it for there own. For me I am influenced by art that I see, and I try to recreate that style because I like it.

2. What do you think this prevalence bodes for the future of graphic design and your place in it?

I think that this does not mean too much for the future of graphic design. People have been reproducing images and styles forever. For me this is a normal habit because I try and reproduce styles that I like. It would be awesome if someday people would recreate a style that I make someday in the future.

3. Why do you think the John McCain drive for the presidency failed to use the Internet (or failed to use it effectively) as a means of communicationing with voters?

I do not know why he failed to communicate with the voters by using the internet, but I can assume that he didn’t use the internet as much as B.O. did. B.O.use text and images that were visually appealing to the viewers so that  probably helped him.

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