Media Arts: Logos

Logo 1: Starbucks

The first logo here is the starbucks logo that features a twin-tailed mermaid image on a simple circle as the now-famous logo. It is easy to spot out and can be seen in all of their franchises and on advertisements all around.

Logo 2: London Olympics

I also like the London Olympics logo because it is made using only one shape repeated in sync. The meaning behind it is that the rings of fire represent the different countries involved.

Logo 3: Adidas

The adidas logo also shows how simple shapes can make a big impact on your company image. It is made simple but easy to remember and thus can be recognized as Adidas right away.

Logo 4: Tim Hortons

The Tim Hortons logo is nothing more than a circle banner with a gradient applied onto it along with the company's name. It gets the point (that the object is copyright of the company) across and creates a familiar message in the viewers mind. It uses warm colors to attract attention, primarily red. 

Logo 5: Microsoft Windows

The Microsoft Windows simple is also simple and just four different colored squares with a circle that resembles a button on it. I like it though because it is simple but attractive in it's non-crowded shapes and relatively simple colour scheme.

Logo 6: WWF

This logo I like because it is using a type of illusion to create the image of us (the viewers) seeing a panda bear, even when the shape isn't completely filled in. Our brains automatically fill in the missing information even when it is not completely formed. The simplicity of this logo makes it memorable as well as the illusion that they have used.

Logo 7: Skype

Skype logo is again simple. Just an S in white on a blue background that isn't quite a circle.

Logo 8: Apple/Chrome

The apple/chrome logo uses the simple apple logo and makes a slight change in it by adding a streak in the middle to create a "branch off" of the original logo. It, like all the logos displayed here is simple and memorable.

Logo 9: Target

The Logo of target is simple, easy to remember and familiar. It is famous because of that and can be thought as being associated with the store upon sighting.

Logo 10: Firefox

Finally, we have the Firefox logo. It has become a famous icon of firefox search engine, and recognized by the fox circling the globe. It uses high contrast with warm colors surrounding cool colors and that makes it pop and stand out. Thus, it is memorable and attractive to look at. 

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Media Arts: Colour Wheel

So, this is my part of a project we had in class that was to create a colour wheel. We were to use only traditional media to create it and had to use magazine pieces from all sorts of different articles to get the different tint and shades you can see here.

I started with the more "easier" to find colours like red and orange. Oh yes, I found lots and lots of orange. We (my group, we all have our individual collages but worked together to collect the pieces) then proceeded to work on collecting greens and blues, topping it off with purples. We tried to make ours appear as if the colours were fading into each other but as you cans see with the purple section of mine that is easier said then done. Especially when you only have a handful of magazines to choose from. Never minding that, I am pleased with my work and here is my colour wheel for you to enjoy.

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Media Arts: Andy Warhol Tutorial

Video Tutorial

For how to make portraits of ourselves look like Andy Warhol's works of art.

 First we made a draft/practice piece of the work by selecting and coloring in Marilyn Monroe. This is my practice piece of it.

We then proceeded to make the first part of our Warhol project using our own images.

Afterwords we colored in six different boxes of the Andy Warhol style tutorial by using a color adjustment layer to create different coloring pieces for it. Above you see my final piece of this tutorial assignment. 

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Media Arts: MoMA Principles Of Design

The Gardener - painting- 2001- John Currin [Link to artwork on MoMA]

This painting titled "The Gardener" by John Currin has several examples of principles of design included within it. The one I wish to bring attention to however is the principle of unity. The two people featured in the painting are within close proximity and as such we naturally group them together. However, it is more than it seems. Take the tree to the right of the second person out of the painting and something doesn't feel quite as right with it. Like the balance has been cut off and that there is an wide and uncomfortable gap between the two characters near each other and the tree that balances the image out. By this regard proximity and unity are both high contributing factors to the overall impact of the image. It picture also mainly uses cool colors and has a light, calm and happy feeling. The bright hat and pants of the man though is what draws my attention to the painting first followed by the woman and her dark blue hat. Had the coloring or range of which the characters are portrayed varied from what it is now the image would have a completely different impact.

ETC - Chromogenic color print - 2010 - Roe Ethridge [Link to artwork on MoMA]

This photograph titled "ETC" by Roe Ethridge is an example symmetrical balance and emphasis. Without color the big white "&" is emphasized along with it dominating the photograph with it taking up most of the space. The reason I regard this photo as relatively even and symmetrical is that the artist decided to include a stick or pole in the photograph dividing it down the middle. Had these features not have been included the photograph, much like "The Gardener" would have a very different impact on the viewers. For example color  might strain the photo and take away from the attention that the "&" has. So it might be bland and tasteless simply because of it all being bold colors that pop. Considering this I have respect that the photographer decided to take the photo in black and white- or at the very least convert it to such a faze.

Air-Light-Shadow - Polychromed plaster - 1915 - Max Weber [Link to artwork on MoMA]

“to put the abstract into concrete terms” was what inspired Max Weber to create this structure. In terms of principles and design it has both rhythm and unity without variety involved in it. The repetitive side of it would be the triangle shaped figures on the top half of the sculpture. Repetition is also caused from the texture on the structure creating a "common" pattern on the work itself. In this light the structure is differently having element of design included within it- possibly intentionally. 

In conclusion these are the three different pieces from the Museum of Modern Art that I have selected to study and tell about how the different principles of Design are involved within to make them aesthetically pleasing to the human eye.

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Media Arts: Annie Leibovitz

This photographs is just one among million that Annie Leibovitz can proudly claim to have had the  honor of taking. 

This photograph features Tiny Fey, it was taken January 2009 for Vanity Fair magazine. It gives a "party animal" or "wild girl" feeling to it and displays Tina in different poses, and interesting concept for the Leibovitz to experiment with. What I like about it is that it was been placed together flawlessly and managed to get the point that Tina was hoping for across. Which is that she is wild and carefree. I also like how the lighting gives a more happy and upbeat feel to the image as Tina dances about. It is simple, straightforward and yet is complex and managed to capture with outstanding clarity the precision of Tina's movements. Overall these factors have lead me to take a liking to this image I found randomly while searching among Leibovitz celebrity photograph collection.

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Media Arts Extra: Pink Trees and Blue Macaw

Just an extra coloring warm-up that I have completed. I liked multiple different styles of the image and have posted them all below. The original lined art for this piece can be found here

Here is the basic Macaw image that I finished. I added all the flat colors to the image, although for the bird wings I had used the gradient tool to make the colors fade into one another. Every surface on the bird had a gradient tool involved, with the tail and wings having a slight gold bordering over it. For the background I didn't use gradient and instead used flat colors, and then continued to go over with the burn and dodge tools respectively. Finally, I added in a grainy filter to the piece so that it looks the way it does now.

I had made another version of it as well, repeating the process above, and instead adding a plastic wrap filter to it.This way you could see the affects I applied to each of the bird layer, making it pop.

 Poster edge style image. It simplified all colors and deleted the more complex areas of the gradient but still managed to make the picture look good. So these, in conclusion were the three different styles I added to the picture after I finished coloring it.

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Media Arts: Giant Food

So here today we have the class project we our class was working on earlier last week; but apparently couldn't post because of computer complications. I, myself was sick during the days we worked on this assignment so I apologize for any quality loss or very evident mistakes I made. Regardless please enjoy this picture I've titled Giant Food.

It was a very basic Photoshop project that involved taking the provided pictures on the SaundersASM3O website and cutting them out to paste on a single layer. For the curly hair it is suggested that you use the magic wand tool in Photoshop to select and simply go over selecting areas it missed. I, however do not like using the magic wand tool because I find it can be inaccurate and select areas I do not want from the original image. Sometimes it even skips out on areas at all and it annoys me having to rely on that particular Photoshop tool. Instead I used on my home computer the Polygonal Lasso Tool, simply because the magnetic lasso tool does not work well on my computer.(It will often close the selection before I have even reached the end or clicked to add a drop point.) Carefully I selected the entire giant image and went over briefly with the eraser tool after words in order to clean it up a bit. Then I repeated the process with the food image (the boy), which came in great help towards the bottom of the image since his shoes and pants blended in with the rest of the image. Finally I just took both images and stuck them onto the forest file, saved it as GiantFood as both a PDF and GIF image to be save.

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