It was interesting to see how illustrations aren’t just considered drawings. Things such as paintings can even be considered illustrations. I suppose anything that is created by hand, whether it be a painting or a drawing can be considered to be a illustration.
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Type & Media: Wall of Neighborhoods – Brooklyn
Project #2: Song Book
In this project, the goal was to explore movement.
First, we had to choose a song that inspired us. Unable to choose just one initially, I created a playlist of songs on my iPod. The song I ended up choosing was “Very Loud” by Shout Out Loud. We were to listen to our chosen song and create thumbnails of movement in relation to the music we were listening to. We then had to narrow it down and choose two contrasting movements to recreate in our “song books.”
What I learned in doing this assignment is that visually implied movement is best created with diagonals, but can also be done with simple shapes rearranged in a space as well. Also, figure ground relationship with the latter is very important to keep in mind when creating design.
Project #1: Negative & Positive Space
In this project, we were to explore the relationship between the foreground and background using positive and negative space.
By placing simple geographic shapes within the frame, it was easier to see how both the black shapes (positive space) and the shapes formed by the background (negative space) can manage to compliment each other.
Once the four different windows were filled, one window was chosen to help create a pattern. The window in the top right corner is the one I chose to use.
Just by looking at it, it may not be so easily seen how that image managed to create the pattern in the middle. By rotation it every so often, the images pieced together to produce the pattern seen above. Being that the image originally had a reversal-ground relationship, it , maintained that relationship and causes the viewer to not only see the black inking as positive space, but also the white space as the potential positive space.
Spatial Depth & Layering Success
Three examples I found of spatial depth are:



Three examples of layering are:



Music Inspo
When it comes to music and inspiration, it usually sparks creativity in writing for me versus design. When it comes to designing, being that I’m a very visual person, I get inspiration from things around the world that I see and happen to come across. However, if listening to music when creating something, I usually like to listen to songs that are energetic and have an upbeat temp or a really good beat. Here’s a list of a few of the songs I have on my iPod:
- Dear Boy – Avicii
- Blood On Our Hands (Justice Remix) – Death from Above 1979
- Blue Jeans (RAC Remix) – Lana Del Rey
- Very Loud – Shout Out Louds
- After Hours – We Are Scientists
- Elevate – St. Lucia
- First Date – Blink 182
- Just A Girl – No Doubt
- Punching In A Dream – The Naked and Famous
- Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) – Panic! At The Disco
- A Sky Full of Stars (Robin Schulz Edit) – Coldplay
Textures
If this texture was ever used in digital form, I feel like it could be used in a couple of different ways. It could be used as a background fora website or character profile. It could also be used as a textile pattern or even as a decorative fill for a font. It could be one solid color or an assortment of colors.
Positive & Negative Space
Student Inspiration 2015
I was searching the web trying to find other current students within the design field, which wasn’t as easy as I hoped t would be. Alternatively, I turned to Instagram and looked through tags and such to find people. One person I found, and whose work I liked, was a girl studying in Australia named Jasmine Reyes.
The link to her online portfolio can be found here.
She has a few design items up and has not only a Facebook where she’s posted her works, but also an Instagram and a Pintrest account where she posts things that inspire her.
I like her designs because there isn’t a lot of the same stuff. What I mean by this is that she seems to be open to different concepts and ideas to create, and it’s always important to be versatile when wanting to create something. It can help show how open minded a person can be, which can help them not limit themselves. I also like how simple her designs have been thus far. It’s sometimes easy to forget how nice it is to look at something that’s simple and clean versus something that has a lot going on.