This is my portfolio that I did for Graphic Design Principles 2.

 Now, I decided to change my quote because I see that the previous one is kind of giving a negative impression to a person to take his/her interest. Then I chose this quote which seems simple but have a big logical meaning. I just used one classification with one typeface (Bodoni-bold), but playing with the text size balanced the composition. The reason that I put a kid’s photo in the background is, children makes you smile when you see them playing around. You see that they are so pure and harmless for this world.

For the 2nd version of my quote’s image in the background is different. Ian Somerhalder is one of my favorite artist and when I saw this image it seems to me so naive and natural. Around the text I used a white box to make the text pop-up more than the background. Also I used Helvetica Neue – Ultralight Italic and I work with just black&white concept again.

For the 3rd version, the image in the background is different than others which is its a colorful image. For the text, I used red and orange tones. Last semester, I had to do a poster for one of my classes and I used this font for the text. I really liked it because the letters are bold and each of them seems converted into a shape. The name of the font is “Butterfield”. I put the word “curve”, in a different shape which seems like arc, and for the “straight”, I just made the text size bigger and putting a line underneath.

My first idea was to work with black&white concepts. Because the quote that I chose, it seems despairing in my mind and also it makes your motivation from low to high. I used Bodoni but different typefaces which are bold, italic and book. For “pain”, I used italic because pain makes you weak and desperate. For “power”, I used bold because power is your strength, power makes you strong to get over with the pain sometimes. Also, in my opinion  the image in the background is successful on representing the text.

My logo represents my initials of my first name and last name which are “Y” and “A”. It shows that two letters are combined with each other as a ligature. I used the paint brush tool to make my own serifs smoothly. So I can be feel more free on doing my letters.

From Project#2, I learned the balance between positive and negative shape does really matters in a composition.

• Leaving too much negative space will make your composition unbalanced.
• You need a strong pattern to make the composition better.
• Low visual weight = low contrast

It is a combination of 3 compositions of texture. It feels like really confusing because there are too much complexity, besides simplicity. Mostly we can see triangles or geometric shapes than organic shapes. Also the variety is different from each other.