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Stop Sex-Trafficking Logo by The Body Shop Review
These sketch design belong to The Body Show and was to help promote their campaign in Stop Sex Trafficking.
The concept of this design was the international hand gesture to stop. From there the designer saw the concept of the fingers as being a N and the palm for being an O which resembles the hand stop.
The design of this campaign logo is strong but yet simple. It delivers a powerful message to the public.
What are your thoughts on this campaign form The Body Shop to Stop Sex-Trafficking? Does it deliver the message across?
Support The Body Shop and its campaign to Stop Sex-Trafficking.
Source: http://www.logodesignlove.com/stop-sex-trafficking
Posted in Technology, Writing
Internship – Narrative
As a college class requirement this semester, I was required to take an internship class where I find a potential company to intern at and to gain experience in the field.
Before my class even began I was already on the web browsing for different internship opportunities for my major, which is Graphic Design Production. At first I was refining my search to Graphic Design Production which mainly deals with production such as finding media kits, scheduling and making sure everything is good before it is ready to print. There were not that many options for that particular Graphic Design field online.
After a good couple of weeks instead of narrowing my search, I broaden it to doing Graphic Design also. Not before long I had gotten a two replies. The 1st one had ask me to send in my resume and online portfolio to him, but that was the last I heard of him. The second one was another internship that had called me to schedule an interview on November 20th at 1.
The interview wasn’t really like a true interview to me. When I arrived to the interview I was the first interviewee. Two other interviewee came after me. I had notice that I was not the only one that was confused with the situation that we were in. Like I said before I had an interview with a small company, but the office we were in was a financial advising office. It had completely threw all of us interviewee off and I had notice that all of us were browsing the internet for information about the financial group. It was later on that it was reveal to use that we were not interning at the financial group but the small company that we had initially plan to interview at.
At first he did a group orientation/presentation/overview of him and the small company he runs, and ask us to introduce ourselves. Afterward was the individual interview. Unlike other interview’s that I have gone to, this one was different instead of asking me questions after questions, he only asked for 1 or 2 questions and then to show him my portfolio. After showing my portfolio he said that I am accepted and will be receiving more information next week along with paperworks that need to be brought in.
The following week I had brought in my paperworks and had began my internship the following day. I had to start quick because of how late it was already in the semester and that I had to crank out 120 hours of internship within 4-5 weeks that was left. So as of now I am 3 weeks in and have gotten 71 hours, and have 2 weeks left of internship and 1 week left til the semester is over.
The lesson of this narrative is, don’t limit yourself to a specific internship when looking for one. Broaden your search.
Posted in Writing
Blog Series part 4
Logo belongs to Adobe
Last but not least, Adobe Indesign. Unlike the other programs that we talked about, Indesign is not a program that manipulates photos or creates illustration. But, it is a program where it will bring everything together.
Adobe Indesign is a layout program and that is it’s sole purpose. It is where designer should be bringing in all their photos or illustration of the project and laying it out ready for print or for the Web. Indesign has the necessary tools for layouts out Designer’s work such as bleed and safety areas where designer’s main focus is safe if anything were to happen during he printing process.
Hopefully after sharing my knowledge from what I learn as a graphic arts production student, it can help you become a better graphic designer and understand the program more.
Posted in Blog Series, Graphic Design, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Writing
Guest Blogged
Visit Maria’s blog about photography and music. Just guest blogged on her blog.
Posted in Guest Blogs, Writing
Guest Post: By Maria Llanos
Hello! My name is maria Llanos
After reading you bio, I’ve noticed that we have something in common. I also took a Photoshop class in High School where i decided to continue a career in Graphic Arts Production. Its interesting to see how much you can do with all of these programs such as photo shop, illustrator and much more to bring out your creativity. That’s why i decided to create a blog about photography because i always enjoyed editing pictures, changing the colors and showing how much can be done with Photoshop.
I see that you have an introduction of you series stating that you will write about the different programs for design besides photo shop. Which programs will you write about and how will you break it down for the bloggers to understand? I would enjoy learning more about it because i normally use In Design but i would like to learn more maybe about illustrator or any others.
Some ideas i would suggest is maybe adding some visuals to your series showing a specific design you have created. It’ll catch your bloggers attention and it also shows what kind of design can be done in the program you chose to talk about.
So far your blog is great and cant wait to learn much more of it.
Guest Post: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/llanos/
Posted in Guest Blogs, Writing
Guest Blogger Alex Mohabir here
When the time of finals hit I usually get overwhelmed with stress and get partial anxiety attacks prior to my classes. The worst part of finals are final projects and papers because you have to prepare materials instead of having to just “study” for a test. Preparing papers and projects leave me with a paranoia feeling that i forget something vital or didn’t explain it well enough.
After finals and all my stress is relieved and gone my smoking patterns go back down instead of being very heavily due to the excessive stress. For fall semester finals I go shopping since it is close to the holidays and to celeberate one stressful semester done.
Usually buying whatever games that are out that I want and don’t already have; then spending a lot of time playing them with my friends. Dominiating all the games one by one. Kent if you would like to join us sometime we’d be glad to have another person with us.
After spring semester finals I usually just have a big relieving “sigh” to say well this years done and summers here time to celeberate.
Posted in Guest Blogs, Writing
Blog Series part 3
Logo belongs to Adobe
Adobe Illustrator is another great program. Unlike Photoshop, Illustrator does not deal with photos. Instead it deals with creating abstract designs.
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphic editor program where the program deals with fine lines to create works. Logos and illustration is mainly done in this program as it shows smooth crisp lines when it is saved unlike photoshop where text will also become pixelated.
Adobe Illustrator is also perfect for creating logos and branding from font. Creating these types in Illustrator is also easy where you are able to convert fonts into vector outlines and allows the user to manipulate the outline creating a unique font and design.
In the next series I will be talking about the 3rd Adobe program that is also essential to graphic designers.
Posted in Blog Series, Graphic Design, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Writing
Blog Series part 2
Logo belongs to Adobe
Adobe Photoshop is a great and powerful tool to do a lot of stuff. Majority of the graphic designer don’t know that Photoshop is not your one stop shop. In other words, even though it is a great program, it is not meant to be done for everything.
Like the hint in the name, Photoshop is meant to be dealt with photos. When I say dealt with photos I mean that it is used to manipulate photos or add special effects to it. However, this program is not meant to be dealt with for fonts or creating abstract designs.
The reason why this software is not that great with dealing with fonts and abstract design is because raster program. In better terms, it is only meant to deal with pixels which photos have. So when you save your project or photo that you have place a text in, that very same text that was looking nice on the computer will become pixelated. Making it not as smooth as it should be if done in other Adobe programs.
In the next series I will explain what Adobe programs should be used for text and design.
Posted in Blog Series, Graphic Design, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Writing
How to use the right program for Graphic Design Part 1
In the beginning, when I first was introduce to photoshop, I, like a lot of people didn’t know the fundamentals of which program to use for design. I only assume that with photoshop you can do anything and all you had to do was create it in photoshop.
After I left high school and went to college for Graphic Arts Production, my professors’ drilled in my head that there are other programs out there that do specific type of jobs for graphic design and that photoshop is not the ideal program to do everything in.
In the following series I will introduce the each programs and the reason why that program is good for those specific task.
Posted in Blog Series, Graphic Design, Technology, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials, Writing
