Patrick Regan

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Design Interests

Me
I am interested in graphic design because I love art and can’t draw, or do anything like that. I am also a big fan of computers so this just seems to fit. I have always been interested in design and aesthetics like why the Mona Lisa is such a big deal but my paper-Mache pig head that I made in 4th grade gets no attention. Graphic design is also the art form that is the easiest to come by. You walk anywhere and you will see graphic design. Just look at the guy who designed those Minions. You know the gross yellow people that seem to be everywhere. That was probably not a graphic designer but it was designed and now they are on posters and tee shirts and that very well could have been a graphic designer. This field is all about an art form that is a crazy attention to detail. A painting can have a lot of attention to detail but it is not always requited while a poster really needs to have a specific focus and a clear concept. It is the most prevalent art form of the current generation.

Publication Degin
I have always been a big fan of publication design. Two years ago I was on my lunch break and wanted to get a magazine to read during my lunch so I was looking at all of my options in the Hannaford’s I was getting my lunch in and I saw Vogue. There is a level of sophistication with Vogue that I really like. It is a magazine of clothes that no one can afford but for whatever reason I was into that. I have bought every issue since that first one. My favorite design vogue has done is there first covers. They used their covers to grab the attention of the public and before it was celebrities, it was the fashionable women of that day. I love the idea of a start up magazine because they need people to buy their magazines to keep working but I think that people can see though desperation. I personally find my skills to be with layout and organization and that is definitely something that is required of a publication designer.

Type Design
Following off of this trend I am very interested in type design. Typography is a difficult art form because there is only so much you can do with fonts that has not already been done. But what interests me about typography is taking something that has been used and changing it. I have a very simplistic aesthetic and type often plays well to that. I also have an obsession with the renaissance and what that meant culturally. That is how I would take my type aesthetic. Taking the popular types and making them define our new needs.

This is an example of a type that I like. It is bold but also simple. It grabs my eye without beating my eye up.