Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Final Magazine Spread and Poster for Typography

I will definitely continue to work on my poster. I want to make it better and print it out again for my portfolio. As for my magazine spread, I'll make the suggested edits, but I won't continue to with the piece. It was good to do, but I'm most into the poster than magazine spread.

Basically I just need to keeping working with text, it's placement, and choosing the appropriate typeface to go with my design. I do well with layout and composition, but I need to the whole piece to come together and sometimes it doesn't because of the typography.



Pics coming soon!

Final Piece for Final Project in D.A.

Overall I think this turn out well, with the exception the we didn't get  to print it how we wanted, and some elements of the magazine definitely needs more edits. My classmate and I did put a lot of work into, trying to combine our different ways of designing, and make a cohesive piece to present.

From the critique we were told the magazine has potential, just need to work on the text alignment and style. It is an inspired urban magazine, so we need to make sure each page elements matched that genre.

Here are the final results:





Saturday, December 7, 2013

Rhythm & Type Project


So this is my final and I really took to heart what the class critiqued about it. I focused the light more on the door and not it bushes and I brought the characters out more with making the background behind them look more like a sunrise. Someone mentioned what it would look like if I made the quote look like its following them on a journey. I got a lot of positive feedback with it so I decided to stick with it. It gives the poster more flow and energy and gives it a sense of going adventure. 

Overall, I am very happy with how it turned out. It was the most fun I've had with a project in Typography and it really helped me think more outside the box. 








P.S. Go see The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug! In theaters December 13! :)

Process for Magazine #2

For my final I have tweaked my magazine spread and took in consideration what my peers have given me during critiques and outside of class. I believe that it turned out better than what I thought and I'm glad with the process of this piece. The advice of my peers really helped out where the direction I should take it further and without it I would still be a bit lost.
Here is my final for the magazine spread project. The white line is suppose to give you an idea of where it's suppose to be folded.


Progress for magazine #1

Starting on this project I knew I wanted to do something on an older picture. I also wanted to so something about someone that wasn't from this country and that not too many Americans are well aware of. The photo I chose was of a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk by the name of Thich Quang Duc who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. a lot of Americans believe that it was in protest of the Vietnam War. It was actually in protest of the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngo Dinh Diem.

Here is my rough draft for my magazine spread.



Thursday, December 5, 2013

Poster

So I was inspired by the song "Cinderella's Waltz" for the live action movie. It's full of orchestra music, with flutes, violins, and bells. At first it evoke the feeling for dreaming and being in a fantasy. Then I thought about it a little more and after some critique, I want to incorporate bineg imaginative as well.

Here's idea 1 that got critique in class. I was told enlarge the image and the words. I made some other small adjustments.

This poster is my second idea. I wanted to have a angel-type character or fairy to be the main image. It symbolizes more of being fantasy or magical.
 
This one is my final idea...I'm still working on it. The left bottom corner of the previous posted seems empty, so I'm trying to figure out what to put there.

FInal Project for D.A. 1

Well I know that working on a website is not ideal for me to do as my final project for class.  So I'm doing a 8 paged magazine with Shara about music. We'll make it so it can be shown on the web and be printed as well. We're still figuring out some of the details, but here's a "sample" cover we're working on in the meantime.The magazine is going to be called "True Jams" and is targeted for the age group 18-30.

More details to come as we work on our project.


Wednesday, December 4, 2013

This poster here is one of my inspirations for my poster project. I love the pasted on and busy look of this japanese posters. With one of my posters, I tried to turn this idea into my own interpretation. It is one of my favorite projects yet, and something I will continue to work on even after this class..

Geisha Makeup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOymi3Cr9eY

Geisha makeup is a ancient tradition. It is done very carefully and skillfully by the Geisha women. The traditional makeup of an apprentice geisha features a thick white base with red lipstick and red and black accents around the eyes and eyebrows. Here in this link, you can see how it is traditionally applied. Watch how skilled and smoothly this woman puts on her makeup!

Poster Project

Our current project is to pick a song that is lyric less or lyrics you do not understand and make a poster (the music must inspire you). I chose a song by the japanese pop group, Kalafina. I love them, and the song To the Beginning is beautiful and used in the anime, Fate Zero. I'm excited to show my final results for this project at finals week in our typography class!

Website Final

http://artweb.stritch.edu/mrnieves/art202/colorspot.html

Here is my latest work in Digital Applications I. Our class had to make websites from different categories, such as narrative, business, portfolio, etc.. I chose a business website based on my closest family friend, Amy Johnson's hair salon. Although she has been very busy and unable to get back to me on information, I did the best I could.

Group Project


Here are mine and Lena's final for our text image-trace project. We did it on sleeping habits of a horse. We used a blue and white gradient in the background to resemble the sky. We also used the silhouette of a horse standing and laying down to show how a horse can and does sleep.

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Poo?

The Milwaukee public museum is holding an exhibit called, The Scoop on Poop. Basically, I learned about what animals left behind from the dinosaur age. It was pretty interesting, and also sort of gross at the same time. I learned about what poop is and how animals along with humans use it. Poop is used by animals to build homes, hide, attract mates, (some even eat it…EW), etc… Some tribesmen use it, companies use it, farmers use it, etc… I learned how scientist figured out all about an animal when it leaves its poop behind.  It was a very easy to understand exhibit. It was mostly for kids, and it was kind of funny to hear all the kids go, “ewww!” It was colorful and inviting. It captured the kid and both adult audiences with its scientific facts and children like colors. 

Theater Production

As a class in Women’s History, we went to see the Shakespeare’s Women production here at Stritch. The production was lovely. There was an outdoor garden with a little table and two chairs type of set with two benches on either side at an angle along the seats of the audience. There were vines along these stone like walls with beautiful decoration of flowers that were made by one of the girls I’ve known at Stritch since freshman year. The actors and actresses held power, emotion, and passion in their voice. They are actors and actresses that we are very proud to have at our university. They remembered all their lines, reciting some of the hardest lines I ever heard.  The lines in Macbeth were my favorite because it was so passionately told. It was my very first production at Stritch, and the talent here is amazing.