What is Graphic Design
THIS IS MY FIRST COMPUTER GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT. I USED ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR. I HAVE USED THE RECTANGLE TOOL FOR THIS PROJECT. THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT WHAT I THINK GRAPHIC DESIGN IS. I THINK COMPUTER DESIGN IS LIFE, ART, BUSINESS, IDEAS, DESIGN, CAREER, ADVERTISEMENTS, MONEY, INSPIRATION AND FUN. WHILE WORKING ON THIS PROJECT, I NEVER REALLY FOUND ANYTHING TOO DIFFICULT, BUT SINCE I AM NEW TO ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR, I STILL STRUGGLED WITH SMALL THINGS HERE AND THERE, BUT OVERALL I COULD HANDLE IT :)
Typography
THIS IS MY SECOND COMPUTER GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT. I USED ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR TO DO THIS PROJECT. THE TOOLS I USED ARE THE PEN TOOL AND THE LINE SEGMENT TOOL. THE FONT THAT I USED FOR TYPOGRAPHY IS GARAMOND THIS PROJECT SORT OF TELLS US ABOUT THE PARTS OF A WORD IN THIS FONT. WHILE DOING THIS PROJECT, THE PART THAT I FOUND MOST DIFFICULT WAS USING THE PEN TOOL TO DRAW THE ARROW, I HAVE TRIED TO USE THE PEN TOOL A FEW YEARS AGO AT MY OLD SCHOOL, BUT I NEVER REALLY GOT THE HANG OF IT. BUT FORTUNATELY I MANAGED TO DRAW ONE WITH THE PEN TOOL :)
elements of art
This is my third project in computer graphic design class. I used adobe illustrator to do this project. The elements of art include lines, shapes, color and texture. For texture I have used a giraffe's skin pattern as an example. For this project, i was quite confused with what we should do because I was busy trying to make up the "Typography" project when the teacher was explaining, but someone helped me and I then figured out what we needed to do, although it doesn't look very good but i still managed to finish the project :)
Starbucks
THIS IS MY FOURTH COMPUTER GRAPHIC DESIGN PROJECT, IT IS CALLED THE EVOLUTION OF THE STARBUCKS LOGO. I USED ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR TO DO THIS PROJECT, I USED THE PEN TOOL AND SHAPE TOOL. THIS PROJECT IS PROBABLY THE ONE I ENJOYED DOING THE MOST. AT FIRST I WAS VERY NERVOUS BECAUSE USING THE PEN TOOL WAS NEVER SOMETHING I WAS GOOD AT. BUT THEN ONCE I STARTED OFF WITH THE CROWN, I FOUND OUT THAT IT WASN'T AS HARD AS I REMEMBERED, AND THEN THE REST OF THE PROJECT WAS LIKE A BREEZE. WHEN I FINISHED REMAKING THE LOGO, I WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY IMPRESSED OF WHAT I DID. IT LOOKED PRETTY MUCH THE EXACT SAME AS THE ORIGINAL (EXCEPT FOR THE STARBUCKS TEXT). I LEARNED A LOT OF STUFF WHILE DOING THIS PROJECT, I USED HOW TO TYPE IN A PATH, MASTER THE PEN TOOL AND OTHERS. FOR THE EVOLUTION, I USED ALL THE PREVIOUS LOGOS STARBUCKS USED AND PUT THEM IN ORDER, THE ARROWS SHOW THE CHANGE IN COLOR :D I HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME DOING THIS PROJECT AND I AM SURPRISED THAT I DIDN'T HAVE ANY BIG PROBLEMS DOING THIS PROJECT. WOOHOO!
Logo
This is my Logo :) Ophelia Graphic Design :D
Landscape
Another project :) I used Adobe Illustrator for this project as well. In this project, we are supposed to create a landscape with illustrator. I used some new tools for this project, for example, the gradient tool, the symbol sprayer tool and the scallop tool. For this project, I kinda just played around with the tools in illustrator and tried out new things, at first i thought this project would turn out really weird, and it did because it doesn't exactly look like a landscape though, but after looking at it for a long time, it sort of made more sense to me. I didn't really know what to do in this project, i just threw a bunch of new stuff in there and tried to see if it would look good, seems like it did work a bit. :)
Logo Recreation
Another project yay :) I used Adobe Illustrator for this project as well, This project is pretty similar to the Starbucks one. The thing different is that we got to choose our own logos and we tried using the pencil tool, The pencil tool was kind of similar to the pen tool, so there wasn't much of a difference, I originally chose the twitter logo and the android logo, but later I found that it was too easy and it wouldn't be as fun or challenging, so I changed it into the American Eagle Outfitters logo, it was much harder because of the wings and feathers on the eagle. I changed my version to orange and it turned out well. For the other logo I chose to use the Playboy logo. One thing that really annoyed me was that when I was searching for the "Playboy Logo", apparently, Google found the word "Playboy" inappropriate and blocked it =.= I find it quite weird that the finding the logo was the most difficult for me. In the end I had to type "Play" and "boy" separately and then I found a logo that I could use. The playboy logo was obviously much easier than the American eagle one, but I still had fun doing it because the playboy bunny is cute :)
Business card/Flyer (with crop marks)
This is another project I made in class :) I used Adobe Illustrator. For this project, I used the american eagle outfitters logo I made on my previous two logo project. We basically just made a business card and an advertisement of out logo. For my business card, I just looked up the CEO of American eagle outfitters and used his name. The number and website are real as well. I originally wanted to make the background dark blue just like the american eagle color, but I felt that it would be to similar to the original so I changed the font and the color of the background. Now for the advertisement, I used the same font for the title and the contact information at the bottom. But for the clearance i used a different font to sorta make it stand out. The picture in the middle of the advertisement actually is a picture that american eagle outfitters took, I just used it to make it look as real as possible. Last, we made the crop lines. It was really easy because we just drew lines and that's it. But we got to use the ruler which was something new but that part was very easy. Overall this project was fun to do :)
Shirt design
In this project, we designed a shirt for Petaluma High school. I'm pretty sure that my design won't be chosen. I'm not that happy with my design because my earth is black and white, there's no color in it and it looks really bland. I originally wanted to make the earth blue and green but because they only wanted two colors, i had to take out the colors which made the whole thing look kinda awkward and not as good. As for the back of the shirt, I think it looks kinda unorganized and it's basically just a few tools scattered around and people can't really get what I want them to know when they look at the design. And on top of that, this shirt is for the teachers to wear and it's kinda awkward in this way..... so.... yeah I'm kinda disappointed with the outcome. :(
Sartain's Menu
This project took me a long time to finish, we used adobe illustrator and we basically made a bunch of advertisements for Sartain's menu. For the logo, I originally had another one finished, but I didn't like how the chili looked so I found another chili online and traced it. For the business card, I searched around to find the manager or whatsoever of Sartain's menu, and I found this guy called James but i'm not sure if his last name is Sartain..... The information on all the advertisements are basically all the same, it's all about the two sauces and what's on sale. I made up the whole "half off" thing to make it look more like an advertisement....(?) We also had to make a prezi to present all our projects, but that was much easier. Overall I'm kinda satisfied with what I did. :)
Holiday fair banner
This was a fairly easy project. But I don't think we're done with it though, I think we'll have to add something else later on. Anyways, I just traced santa and a tree and that's pretty much it.... yep.
Lee's auto body logo
We created a logo for Lee's Auto body, apparently they didn't have a logo, so we made one in class today. I chose a cartoon race car since that's what they were kinda about, cars and all that stuff. I just picked a random pic that looked good and was easy to trace. One thing that I didn't like about this project was that we were only allowed to use one color- Yellow on a green shirt. I couldn't fill in the car and it looked a bit empty and confusing. But anyways it was kinda cool in some ways.
Sartain's Postcard
This project was fairly simple. I used Illustrator. For the front of the postcard I searched up Sartain's actual logo and a Christmas picture. For the back, I used a picture of the outline of a stamp to make it look better than just a box sitting there. I drew some lines according to the postcard layout format. And.... Yeah that's pretty much it :)
Santa Sartains
Okay this project just looks absolutely hideous to me... it looks so fake... =.= and it's just bottles of sauce floating around... sigh.... I used Photoshop for this project, it's my first time using Photoshop though, that's probably why it looks so bad. I hope it my Photoshop projects will look more... normal from now on.
5 pics in 1
Woohoo~~ congrats to myself :) this photoshop project looks much better than the sartain's and santa one... even though this still looks pretty fake, the mountains actually blend in, I guess. Anyways, I hope I get better at this after a few more projects.
5 animals in 1
Yay~~~ This is the third project I did using Photoshop. It's a 5 in 1 animal project, there's a penguin with wolf ears and cheetah skin and snow leopard tail and deer horns.....Even though this animal is obviously fake... it actually blended together pretty well I think :) Except for the tail which looks kinda out of place compared to the penguin/leopard whatever you want to call it.
collage
Last photoshop project of this semester~
This collage is about my past present and future. But I actually put more things that I like and enjoy rather than things about my future or present.
This collage is about my past present and future. But I actually put more things that I like and enjoy rather than things about my future or present.
final
The link to my final prezi presentation is above. I did the history of the Macintosh Computer.
pop art - Kim jongun
This project was something new. We did pop art. I chose to do kim jong un's face, cause it's just funny XD this project looks kinda weird, but I think that's the point...
casa grande box lunch
We had to design a logo for the casa box lunch. I just typed "Casa Grande Box Lunch" then I added a logo and a shining thing... whatever that's called. This project was actually really really simple.
CGHS shirt design
This was a fairly simple project, but I didn't really like using the skull cause it looked kind of weird :/
Old pictures
Color Image
This Project is one of my favorites. First of all I chose someone that I really like XD Anyways, this project turned out really well and I really like how it looks. It was fairly simple and wasn't difficult.
HUman animal
I actually did this project twice. The first one was pretty bad in my opinion so I redid one. I used the same girl and the same snake concept both times, but this one turned out better. I put a snake pattern and green eyes on her. I wanted add some sort of background so I put a fire gradient in the background. I sort of changed the hair color with the background as well.
Sartains logo
We spent so much time on Sartain's menu already and I'm kind of sick of doing it over and over. Anyways, I redid the Sartain's logo and the new logo is largely based on the original version but with a few changes. I took out somehtings and added some. For example, I took out "meet their match" because I thought it was kinda unnecessary. I changed the ribbon and the title and some things here and there.
Sartain's Bottle Label
I liked this Sartain's project a bit better because it actually looks really good compared to any other sartain's project we've done. Also this feels more interesting because we are also designing something for a product. But something went wrong and I grouped the whole thing then i found out there was some extra text on the bottom ... Please do ignore that.
sartain's bottle
Although the whole bottle is done correctly, it just seems really weird cause we can't crop it and we have to use two white boxes to block it... Anyways when i was just about to arch the label and finish the project, I found out that pictures on my label weren't vector arts, so I kinda had to redo the whole thing and come back and it annoyed me but it turned out ok in the end.
Link crew poster
Link crew poster
e9Design
This project is pretty cool. For the first logo, we actually didn't need to do one, I just wanted to play around with some effects and it actually turned our pretty awesome. The other two logos, I used the 3D effect that we learned and it turned out really cool as well.
Casa website home page
This is my new design for the Casa grande website, it's kinda similar to the old look but there are certain changes.
Casa website page
I made a page for the Casa website, this is the academics page. It's basically what you would see if you clicked into the academics page on my website design.
Mcdowell tshirt
A simple t-shirt design for McDowell Elementary School.
Casa Magazine Cover
This project was done in a rush because I missed one class. However, the cover turned out fairly good.