my favorite package designers

Philippe Becker
Brad Surcey

up point size by like 2 points.   mimic bold.  add slight tracking.   

don't need to zoom so much with the sand.

go into symbol .  command b.  go to paint bucket. and select black. and change it.

you can adjust the shell jump by using x y coordinates.

christmas quote ideas.

Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.     -Bart Simpson

I stopped believing is Santa Caus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked me for my autograph.   -Shirley Temple

reading for Nov 14.

when i was reading this i thought a lot about how people really do see basic shapes.  we don't need all kinds of detail in order to recognize an object.

i thought of type too.  you know the thing floating around the internet that just has the first and the last letters of a word and all the other letters scrambled inside the word, but it's still legible. 

ie. grifafe  you can still recognize it as giraffe.  :)

Bitmap vs. Vector

Bitmap:

Pros-good for photos, when scaled down, the image gains/loses pixels in order to keep quality,

Cons- when scaled up, the image becomes diluted,

Vector:

Pros-easier to see sharp edges, will not lose quality because it's nothing but points and lines,

Cons-images must remain simple,

I'm going to vector my images, because they don't have a lot of detail.

select image w/ direct tool:  go to transform on the right side of indesign. and you can change the size of your selected image.

 if not on sidebar go to window, object layout, align.

concrete-literal

iconic-less obvious; lines and shapes; basic shape; simplified forms

abstract- extremely reduced; form; almost completely unrecognizable without knowing word.

designers to look up.

shephard fairey- uses the sunburst lines in a few of his designs, does a lot of obama posters, 

BIO: Shephard Fairy went to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he created The Giant Has A Pose sticker.   These stickers were what made him popular, at least in the design world.  Now Shepard works at a design firm in Los Angeles called Black Market.  He's done designs for clients like Pepsi, and Universal Pictures.

the small steaks-the shins album, flaming lips album,

ryan mcginness-

koloman moser-

armin hoffman-

james victore- hand generated line making,

vienna secession-

Project 3 Vis Com

Mother of pearl shells                                      (sea shells, pearls, marbles)

both black and white sand beaches                (sand paper, sand)

place holds me captive.                                    (netting, hooks, rope)

Mother (provider, comfort)

pearl (beauty, jewelry, marbles)

shells (sea, ocean, liquid, fragile, beauty, protection)

both black and white (diversity, opposites)

sand (salt, fun, dirty, rocks, castles)

beaches (relaxation, sun, sea, seaweed, ocean, heat, vacation)

place holds me (rope, arms, ribbon,)

captive (hand cuffs, rope, ribbon arms)

Flash notes.

command shift 4=does a screen shot, from anywhere and it'll save to desktop. 

in Flash= go to Modify-Document in order to set document to 600 x 600.

insert-timeline-frame in order to add ONE frame.

Double click on rotation tool to show you what the last rotation was.

    divide by n to make an even rotation for this project.

I had a few combinations in mind;  darts and daggers, dominoes and dictionary, or dime and daisy, but i decided to use the transition between dominoes and dictionary. (how both dictionaries and dominoes are both extremely organized)

Letter D

damp

dime

dish

drought

dictionary

dagger

daisy

dance

danger

darts

demon

dessert

diamonds

dinosaur

disguise

domino

down

dirty

denim

disperse

dissolve

variables:

stable- dominant form stands out clear to read what is dominant.  you look at one point first, and it seems to be separate from the background.

reversible- can invert; any one can be primary; can't see both at same time.

ambiguous- no discernible dominant feature. can't tell if there's white on black or black on white.

object-> path-> outline stroke= took the lines and made them boxes.

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