By Ryan Brown

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50 random words
sand paper, Bubblegum, Bible, war, skateboard, skunk, baby, The White House, Holocaust, euthanasia, poison, pole dancer, Peter Pan, cops, addict, kittens, blood diamond, heroine, Bill Gates, Lil Wayne, Church, Barbie, doll house, middle school , Scooby Doo, Colt 45, Zhenka, friends, noose, bath salt, zombie, trap house, dreadlocks, pirates, Jerry Sandusky, children, fish, My Little Pony, 4chan, Charlie Sheen, Jimmy Neutron, syringe, Michael Jordan, gambling, Fin the Human, Satan, frozen bananas, Santa, George Bush

20 Pairings 
Colt 45/Barbie, Satan/My Little Pony, Syringe/Scooby Doo, Jimmy Neutron/Pole dancer, Noose/Peter Pan, Middle schoolers/Blood diamond, Charlie Sheen/Doll house, Bath salts/Kittens, Poison/Santa, Bill gates/Frozen bananas, George Bush/Zombie, Jerry Sandusky/Skateboard, Bible/Zhenka, Children/The White House, Trap house/Church, Heroine/Bubblegum, Pirates/Lil Wayne, Sand paper/Baby, Cops/Friends, Gambling/Fish

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Last year in one of my into classes for graphic design, we went over some of the basic fonts. I truly didn’t understand why any of it really mattered because your still creating the words and putting them on a page so why did it matter what type face they were. but the foreground project gave me a strong perspective change. The type face you choose to use ultimately decides what the mood or feeling will be for the whole piece of work. this is why i enjoy using helvetica. its a strong and bold type face with no  crazy serifs or any unnecessary curves. It allows the work to look professional and also stern with out really having to think to much about it. As for the type face that i do not care so much for, it would have to be Bodoni, a lot of things with Bodoni bother me, for one im not a fan of how uneven the line changes can be, from thick to thin in some parts with longer serifs. compared to the togetherness and sternness of Helvetica i think its a weaker font.

Graphic Design is

Graphic design is…
To me graphic design is the ability to change or provoke human emotion by creating something that someone can get lost in. Whether its a car show, redesigned airplane hanger,  the graphics on the bottom of a skateboard or even a brochure on apple picking you could create a way to get some one more interested then they should be. I would like this to be my career because as i go further into these classes in GD i am learning that I’m more interested in than i thought. Graphic design is also a much larger field then i thought it was. I had no idea that you can design rooms or large spaces which is an area i am interested in. But lastly to me graphic design is radical, i say this because you have the opportunity to use as much of your style into every assignment or project you have to do. That sort of ability is something that really draws me into what graphic design is.

Bob Gill

“I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.”

Paul Scher

“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

this is the classic what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. you have to make mistakes in order to get better or learn what doesnt work. you cant get every design perfect every time because that is just impossible.

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Neville Brody

“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.”

Lindon Leader

“I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.”

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design comparison

The first designer that i was drawn to immediately would be Marcel Duchamp, last year my favorite class i took was art history. In art history we learned about dada and the culture behind it. fountain was one of his most famous works and it was ground breaking at the time. Just like the book says “The dada movement was a reaction by artist to what they perceived as a world gone mad” Marcel Duchamp put this in an art gallery and it made people leave because they didn’t like seeing such vulgar work in a formal setting. The idea behind this work was that since it was a urinal flipped upside down the pee would just drain right back onto your feet. doesn’t seem like such a big deal but at the time it was incredibly edgy. Marcel also continued to pursue work like this in order to push dadaism further, he did this with the concept of everything could be art.

Lester Ball

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i wish this was our first assignment that we had to do because it does a pretty job job of explaining exactly what it is that we are doing in our class. i agree with the fact that rules are important and learning the basics of anything really can bring you a long way. its not always about how creative someone can be, especially when that person cannot do simple things with the computer. The part about how its important to have a balance between theoretical and practical problems i think is a good thing to have, without it we would either never learn the basic of our craft and never get anywhere after four years, or stick to strict projects all the time and never learn exactly when to apply your own creativity. I think the whole part about how everything should be in a grid system is an interesting thought because when you think about it, it is absolutely true, books are mapped out the same way, flyers and ads have a central layout as well. I think after reading this i have a better understanding of simple assignments and understand why its a good thing to go over little things and learn how to pay such great attention to detail.

What is graphic design?

The area of graphic design that i am most interested in would have to be the creation of labels. I would like to work for a alcohol company and make all the labels for them, this is because you can be very abstract or make a crisp or incredibly clean and sophisticated label. But it could also be a design for any type of drink or food. I see a lot of things on the internet about interesting concepts for things so simple like juice boxes. I like the idea of taking something simple and giving it a great twist in terms of the design of it. I think i would do well in that area of graphic design. Another area of interest that i have would be designing modern offices and creating what would be on the walls and try to make it  look like something no one has ever seen before. The idea of creating an entire environment and make it look as futuristic. There are places that have this already and i think they look incredible, places like car show rooms for expensive car companies. My last area that i am really interested in would be designing ads. i have always loved the crazy type of abstract ads. I admire the fact that someone thought to put certain things together in order to draw someone in so much.  having the ability to be a creative as you can be and having the freedom to put together an abstract ad that actually works would be a great career for me. I think in general i just want to be in charge of creating something new because if i can create new things i could have a chance making my own business which would be the best thing i could think of. IMG_0152IMG_0155IMG_0153

 

Graphis DesignAnnual2005 was the book where i got these pictures