I am a designer at heart. I started as a graphic designer fiddling with Adobe Photoshop and applied my skills in Adobe InDesign for school publications. As I grow as a designer, my perception of design has evolved into a vehicle for problem-solving and innovation across disciplines. I love everything about design: how we interact with it and how we manipulate it; how we affect design and how design affects us in turn. I value the design process as a way of thinking and improving, of learning how to create for ourselves and make our own mistakes. Design takes all the thoughts floating inside my head and makes visual sense of them.
Design functions as an ongoing, evolving conversation between art and technology. Graphic design principles
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We always seek to make our designs as beautiful as they can be. I am eager to discover what the cities of Milan and Siena are trying to communicate through their design—to the unfamiliar visitor, to the long-time resident, or to the curious explorer.
I am most excited about the part of the summer where we are tasked with designing a logo for the program. Logos are engineered to convey as much information as possible with as little space or decoration as acceptable. Logos must be visible and readable on a small scale, yet also attractive enough to capture the attention of audiences on a large scale. I love logo design for what it represents: the first, most essential line of communication between the brand and the audience. I am intrigued by the opportunity to form my own thoughts and attitudes about the program, its coursework, and Italy itself as it relates to my own identity. The logo will be a visual hybrid representation of my existing design background and the experiences I will gain over the summer.
I am similarly fascinated by identity design. Identity design is the careful balancing act of presenting something that is both cohesive and comprehensive yet also wholly captures the essence of the brand. It must bridge the gap between originality and marketability. I have tinkered with concepts of identity design by creating mock-ups for fictional brands. I tried to
Identity is what makes a person unique. It is the soul and the essence of a human being. People are not born with a fixed identity. Identity is inherently dynamic; it changes and evolves over time. A person’s identity is ultimately shaped by their decisions. My identity is different from those who surround me. I create my own identity.
Identity is what defines us as a person. Everyone one on earth has their own unique identity. To showcase my identity, I created a collage of images and descriptive words, called an identi-kit. This identi-kit shows what I feel like is my identity to myself and the others. My identi-kit identifies me as a mixed martial artist. The identi-kit has images of a deadly shark with mixed martial arts gloves on that say mixed martial arts on the front and fight shorts with the words competitor and warrior on them. It also has descriptive words like “killer instinct” and “fight” which describe my spirit. There are three assumptions that come to question when asking about one’s identity. The first is if you were born with this
If we examine our existence through a dichotomous lens of internal and external experiences, it is easier to understand the importance of graphic design. Everyone, to some extent, is trapped within themselves. There is me in here, and you in there—a separation exists. We find common ground in the external world where there are certain rules that most of us have agreed to play by. Graphic design functions as a catalyst for either strengthening or disintegrating these rules. It screams, “Continue! Begin! Stop!” The graphic designer must work through the external world, understand its rules, and journey through their internal world in search of a project’s solution. If the solution is successful,
Logo PowerPoint – ICT used in order to put the resource together, relevant images and activities included in order to meet the aim of the lesson which is for learners to share their experience of logos and to gain a full rounded knowledge of why they are used and to produce a logo from a company that they are aware of and share any interesting facts about why it has been chosen.
Webster’s dictionary defines Identity as, “the distinguishing character or personality of an individual”. It is the sole factor of what makes a person unique from the millions of others. Finding a person’s identity can be a difficult task. Equality from the dystopian novel, Anthem by Ayn Rand has to go through an immense journey of self-discovery before he found his identity. His journey was one that was filled with hardships and difficulties but in the end his goal was met. Similarly, Mario Della Grotta who was popularized by the non-fiction article, who holds the clicker, by Lauren Slater also had to go through a similar journey. He had to give up everything he was in order to reach his new identity. An identity that is divergent from anyone
Many stories of the floods that washed over the city have been told, speaking of the sorrow of the people who were forced to move from their lifelong homes, the struggle to rebuild. Then, innovators, engineers, architects and planners banded together. Ingenuity spearheaded the movement to drive Genoa, Italy and all of Europe towards the future. Easily accessible, comforting and natural environments found in public spaces will greatly boost happiness and contribute to good health of the everyday citizen. Public space is a very powerful tool and Genezon aims to achieve full potential. In the eyes of the people of Genezon, old or young, there’s always that spark of hope, the hope of the people with the firm ground beneath them and the stars above them. The future is now and Genezon is on that horizon.
You’re working with a new brand identity. How do you develop a solid understanding of what it is and where it’s going?
I have not had the fortune to travel to many places, but did not really need to in order to write about one of my favorite places. I have chosen to write about Vizcaya, a place in which I have personally been able to experience and enjoy many times throughout my life. Although Vizcaya was constructed in what would be considered modern times, Vizcaya’s Gardens were inspired and designed in a European Renaissance style. Its formal gardens and design are reminiscent of Italian home and garden design of the late 15th to 18th century, influenced by Veneto and Tuscan Italian Renaissance. These splendid gardens are very formal and orderly, created for the environment of the user. They are very symmetrical and include all sorts of fascinating elements
Looking back at the main building lies the main east façade with its beautiful porch leading up to the main structure. The size and exquisite decor is what takes the mind of the city view and into the past of a revival architecture. Constructed by Henry C. Trost from Trost & Trost Architects & Engineers, this building serves as a revival evoking memories from Greece and Rome. The façade itself consists of six shafts or columns which indicate the ionic part of the Corinthian style structure. The Corinthian style capitals are a piece of work; they take the viewer back in time. The Corinthian leaves and beautifully carved flowers are clearly visible as if time had no effect on the buff terra cotta. The detail is acute and precise, to the extent that beautiful is a dull word to describe the vision. The bases of the columns are like a perfect structure that hold a grand shaft that leads to beauty on top. Furthermore, each column is big, no, in fact they are huge, they are elegant in their design and seem to fit one another as they stand side by side. Above the six columns lies the architrave. The architrave is a small part of the structure but fine to the last detail, it is astonishing the level of perfection that was achieved down to the last inch of this structure. Above all this is a
Learning the fundamentals of Digital Media is essential to laying a solid foundation to allow for a sturdy backing in digital design. Digital design theories, practices, and technologies can provide designers a stable of skills to build core competencies and over time wisdom. Mastering digital design fundamentals will provide opportunity for career growth. Depending on the industry, an entry-level designer can rise from senior designer, to art director, and then creative director. As digital media continues to mature, categorical design disciplines will continue to evolve, shape, and style the visual culture. From magazines to web pages, the spectrum of visual design will continue to move people everywhere on an emotional level.
Meredith Davis’s book “Graphic Design Theory” was published in September 2012 by Thames & Hudson. This book blends a study of historical thinking of design with contemporary / modern approach to it. It also suggests students to critically analyse their work and asks them to adopt the design theories to embellish their practical design work as it will help them construct better work. This book also helps in understanding the consumers and the history of Graphic Design and also talks about a range of theories and introduces a collection of concepts and sources for future use and reference. In this book, Meredith Davis talks about the relationship of visual representation to the contexts of design. It talks about focusing on the broad and long term aftereffects of design and not to design only for the moment and responding to prompt needs.
Art. To me is something undefinable, what I want my art to show you is a piece of myself and a piece of yourself. Something we can all relate to; a memory, a song, a poem, art should make you feel something. Art is a gift, a tool we can use to hide beauty in ordinary places and things. I want to broaden my understanding of design and the world that art is beyond my knowledge and experiences. Because my love for creating burns so bright and deep within me, I am determined to find a career path that will allow me to explore the world of design and art every day. A number of art forms are endless and this seems like a daunting task to find just one path that can express the enjoyment and involvement I want to have with art. Throughout my life I have been endlessly drawing, painting, sculpting and creating--often times I feel almost cursed with such talent to create because the ability seems endless. I have taken a number of art classes exploring my passions as a High School Student and created many different types of works including oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; etching, embossed, and screen printmaking; charcoal, graphite, and pastel drawings; Sculpting with ceramics and plaster as well as wheel pieces. I find that there is few mediums I have yet to experiment with. I have become accustomed to Acrylic paintings as I have recently started to create paintings and sell them to community members. I participated in a local art fair and it opened my eyes to what art
Based on the society of interdisciplinary business research, corporate identity has eight different determinants that are corporate design, corporate culture, corporate vision, corporate, industry identities and auditory. The term of CI design was first put forward by American in the 1960s,which means the enterprise management concept and spirit culture, using the whole communication system, especially the visual communication system, convey to the enterprise internal and public, and make it produce a consistent identity or values of the enterprise, so as to form a good corporate image and sales promotion product design system. CI includes mind identity, behavior identity and visual identity. Firstly, MI is a specification of mind, do is thought, how to walk one, must have a set of enterprise culture philosophy. It is the enterprise management macro and micro political instructor, playing contradiction adjustment role in the enterprise. Secondly,BI is corporate leadership and the worker's behavior norms because it is nonsense if there is only
Designing a city from scratch is a remarkable thought experiment but ultimately fails at implementation because we always approach it from the perspective of “how can we create a new city that solves problems of existing cities.” It’s less a process driven by design and more by critique. Urban living has paved its way into modern society, yet the vision for a city has changed over time. Large settlements need planning to grow; yet differences in minds is what leads to the modifications of a city, in return makes a city so unique. Alterations in opinions are what thrives urban life, still these differences are what skews the view of how others see a city compared to myself. They say the eye of the beholder deems beauty; this could explain
The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built forms that people invest their time in. It tries to cover a specific topic in each chapter that in order to deconstruct the book, it is necessary to cover each chapter individually.