Blog buddy

My Blog Buddy

He is my blog buddy.

His name is Santiago.

His blog address is santiagodmu.blogspot.co.uk

we are going to share our ideas and blog postings.

we look forward to getting positive feedback each other.

create a website

How to build your website.

This week, we started to build my own website. we used WIX.com for creating a free website. First of all, we chose blog templates by purpose. I clicked a portfolio&CV part.

Wix.com (link)

there are many templates on this page.
we can view more and chose to edit.

I started organizing website based on this form. 

I changed a name of the main title and font style, layouts.
next, I tried to change the layout of gallery.

Also, I filled my bio on the website and changed pictures.

To introduce myself, I thought I need some keywords. so I decided to draw myself.
this is the process of my work. I used photoshop to draw.

Finally, I finished about my intro.

the Wix program is easy to make the website. I didn't finish yet.
I will continue to fill my portfolio on the website.

Major project idea: study of shadow #2

Artist research.

Alexey Bednij

Shadow portraits

 

 

 

 

Major project idea: study of shadow #1

Major project idea

I am interested on book design. so I would like to design mini book by project.
I have 5 weeks for creating my project. I thought It quit short time to make the book.
I decided to make mini photo book about one of my interesting. therefore, my project is make a mini photo book and design book cover.

 

My major project will be about study of shadow. I've been wanted to make project of shadow by object for a long time. I am looking forward to expand my idea and create project.

concept example:



 I'm not there(photo by Pol Úbeda Hervàs )

shadow portraits photo by Alexey Bednij

 shadow by Adam Frank and Zack Booth Simpson.

 source by google

I will be using canon camera to take picture. but I don't have one, so I need to loan it from student IT support. I will try to take photos in black and white. 

This is my first idea sketch of photo book.

this is plan for main project.

week1 - I will make sure my concept. I need to research about photo book form, layout and shadow. and keep sketch on my idea.

week2 - design cover page and start taking picture of subject.

week3 - taking picture of subject and expand my idea.

week4 cover design, start editing photos and layout. write intro.

week5 -complete book form. try to print out and take a picture.

Reference:

http://www.adamfrank.com/shadow/shadow.htm

http://petapixel.com/2013/01/16/photos-of-empty-shoes-with-shadows-and-reflections/

http://www.designcatwalk.com/alexey-bednij-shadow-portaits/

advertisement group project #2

Feedback reflection.

After finishing a presentation about our advertisement, we got many feedback from other groups.

It was great experience as we can get how do other people think about our advertisement. 

At the start, I was worried about presentation. But when we finished, I feel confident and proud of my work.





We got positive feedbacks from friends.

  -"good idea, using a pen to substitute the letter 'I'."

  -"great explanation. simple design and clear with what they're trying to saying."

  -"final piece is bold with a clear logo and design. text and colour work very well together."

  -"I like that they used a different graphic software."

 

this feedbacks make me encourage and be happy. there are some drawbacks about our work as well.

but I was happy to know the problem and have a chance to develop better.

advertisement group project #1

Process of advertisement group work and Final result.

graphic design group : Dowhee, Sujin, Adrian, Angel

we started creating an advert of digital pen tablet.

Wacom website (source)

The first stage, we researched Wacom product and advertisements from Wacom website.

Wacom is one of a popular company of tablet PC for designers.

looking at the below pictures, that are real advertisement from Wacom.

 

(source by google)

The next step was planning and sketching.

We had time to think about ideas in a separate way.

Then, we shared each idea.

This is our idea sketches. 

We decided simple typo concept. Our target is young designers. 

To grab attention, we think the simple and powerful tagline is

a good way for advertising.

Also, the vivid background makes our advertisement more powerful feeling to targets.

The tagline is "DESIGN NOW"

software : Canva

we used this software that called 'Canva'.

Adrian recommended this software because this is easier to create poster than using photoshop.

There are simple categories of editing poster such as layouts, elements, text and background.
Therefore, we thought this simple process of canva is suitable to make our advertisement.

At the beginning, we tried to rotate vertical mood.

After trying vertical mood, we changed rotation again.

Then, it looks more stable than before.

And we looking for long shape of font due to match tablet pen.

Finally, we found this font named 'oswald'

To make our purpose recognise, we put the image of our product on the right end of the board with adding short explanation of it.

Also, we tried to use vivid colours such as orange, red, lightblue etc.

In addition, we tried to put Wacom's logo on our advertisement.

After lots of testing, we got final piece.