Weekly Inspiration#5 (Delayed)

Guild of Food Writers

http://www.logodesignlove.com/negative-space-logo-design

For this week's source of inspiration, I decided to point out the importance of both positive space AND negative space when it comes to design. I figured there would be no better way of doing so than to provide a set of logo designs found on this wonderful logo website, http://www.logodesignlove.com. This set of logos was produced by making creative use of the negative space of the lettering and incorporated hidden images to make the logo design that much more appealing. This concept of making good use of both positive and negative space shouldn't be limited to just logo designs, but to everything else design related as well.

7 Types of Websites

1.  Brochure
 
  http://www.sushiomaha.com/ – Provides menus for the three meals of the day and the history of the restaurant. The Website is very easy to browse through for easy access to the information you need.

2.  Social/Community

  http://www.stumbleupon.com/ – You can use this website to help you discover interesting web pages, photos and videos. Recommend your favorite websites and photos to your friends and people who share the same interest.

3.  Reference

  http://www.about.com/#!/editors-picks/ – With this reference website, you can search for what you need to know, or learn. You are also given the option of choosing the topic of interests from categories.

4.  Ecommerce

  http://www.millets.co.uk/home.html – This is an online shopping website that allows you to purchase a variety of outdoor clothing. It allows you to search by brands and the type of cloth ware that match your criteria.

5.  Flash/ Entertainment

  http://www.zunejourney.net/ – This is a cool interactive flash website that allows you to fully enjoy the follow-ups as you interact with the different options provided. There are music, videos, pictures, etc.

6.  Web Apps

 http://translate.google.com/ – This Web App allows you to translate from one language to a variety of other languages. It also gives you the pronunciation when attempting to speak in the other language.

7. CMS (Content Management System)

  http://www.blogger.com – This blogging site allows you to post whatever you would like others to view. You are able to edit your posts, and when you need to continue with them later on, you can save them and come back to it later.

Weekly Inspiration#4 (Delayed)

http://www.youthedesigner.com/2011/10/05/44-clever-outdoor-advertising-samples/

I thought that these set of environmental designs were very intriguing. It really does open your eyes to a variety of possibility when it comes to using the environment and integrating it as part of your design. Since our class is currently in the process of making an ad for a specific product, I thought that this post might spark some interesting ideas at the last minute. I figure this may also help everybody get an idea as to what medium may be used to put your ad on...whether it be billboards, webpages, bus stops, etc.

Weekly inspiration#3 (Delayed)

Have you ever been faced with issues related to kerning? Never knew how many increments you should move to the left or to the right? Well.....now you can improve on your kerning by taking a look at this link below. It is as fun as you make it to be, and it can also improve your kerning abilities drastically. You will be scored on how well you kern these letters and you will then be compared to typographers way of kerning. If you have trouble kerning in general, this is a MUST.

http://type.method.ac/

This is my score on the first attempt. Try and beat it!

Advertisement Project Compositions

Comp 1

Comp 2 

30 sketches

Word: Sonorous – Loud, deep, or resonant, as a sound

I chose the BOSE Noise Cancelling Headphones.

5 product ad possibilities with the theme "Sonorous"

Sonorous – giving out or capable of giving out a sound, especially a deep, resonant sound, as a thing or place


Synonyms: booming, full-voiced, loud, loud-voiced, powerful, resounding, reverberating, rich , ringing, rotund, thundering

Bose
Faucets (Moen or Kohler)
Alarm Clocks
Watches (Bulova Corporation)
Microphones