Logo Process

My logo is designed to be for personal use (it is for a fictional “French Inc. company), and I wanted to make it something simple that could appeal to all age groups. The lines are clean and simple, and it is basically just text, so I feel that it is timeless. I also think that it could work even when sized down, which is good for a logo.  

Text Design

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I believe that this poster (for the movie Burlesque), exemplifies the "master design" principles that we have discussed in class and read about in Go Mediazine.  Primarily, there is a lot of good contrast in this poster. It is all black and white, with the exception of the title, going down the center of the poster, and the main characters' lips and the tagline. This draws the viewer's eyes to the title and the tagline, and also to the actresses' faces. The poster seems simple, and not at all too busy.

Secondly, the designer stuck to two different fonts  when he or she was making the poster, which helps to make it effective. The title of the movie is the only text written in a designer font, which draw's the viewer's eyes right away. This font also conveys a little information about the movie (that it is about show business) which also is a nice touch. The rest of the text on the poster is in a normal, san serif font, which allows the viewer to read it naturally without being distracted from the major points of the poster.

The poster has a good layout, and a sense of balance (between the characters, black and white, and everything else) is definitely achieved. I believe that this poster is a good example of all of the Master Design principles.

Text

For this cover of "Hats & Scarves Monthly," I decided to use two fonts that I downloaded off dafont.com. I believe that the fonts work well together because they are different, but not contrasting in a way that makes the cover seem busy. The fonts just add nice variety without being overwhelmingly busy. Also, I decided to make "Monthly" smaller than "Hats & Scarves" to add more variety to the cover as well. The title is easy to read because the white font stands out against the dark, busy background.

Here's my "cover"!

Texture Blending

For this assignment, I decided to use one of my sculpture photos. First, I used a silver metal gradient fill, and changed the opacity to about 45%. Next, I added an Overlay layer using the blurred color streaks photo, blended that to about 55%. Third, I used the Weathered Paint photo with the Vivid Light Layer at 90% to add real contrast and over the top interest to my photo. Finally, I added a Hue Layer with the Paper photo at 25% to add some warmth and a vignette-like effect to my photo.

Here is my final photo!

New Background

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