photos for photoshop

These are the photos I did for the photoshop project. I fixed everyone of these in photoshop, where it was lighting, fixing the surface, or making an image. I also made two ads. out of my images I did. I took the car and the sandwich to make my ads.

picture logo...

This project that we are doing in class now is where we come go out and come up with a logo or symbol. With that symbol we go and reproduce it in other materials such as making the symbol out of masking tape or other objects. With mine I have chosen a bug as my symbol. I have found many ways to to take other objects to recreate my symbol. This project really got me thinking on what to do and how to reproduce it.

Also we had to have someone to do one of your reproduction of our symbol. Since I live at home, and apparently I the only one creative one in my family (what my parents and sister said) I had a hard time to get someone to at least help me with this project. I told them about it and some of my ideas and see if they could come up with one that they will do to help me out. It was hard for me to get the help because "they aren't creative" but I do think that just their excuse to not help. But after nagging and persuading, I finally got my sister of at least help me out. I never thought it be that hard to get family to helping out with homework... Who knew. Next time I will just ask friends they are always willing to help out as much as they can... well most of the time.

Logos on Illustrator

I am starting to get the hang of Illustrator. My logo it slowly coming along. For this project I picked the money that is toilet paper. I have found it is hard to make money look like money. But over all the logo is coming along pretty good.

Within the last week or two I have been working on my logo design for class. I came up with a few ideas. 1. Was money as toilet paper; because it just seem like you waste your money by buying something your just going to wipe you butt with. 2. Was an alarm clock as a heart; just a reminder for people that there love life can be on the line, even more if you want to have kids. Mr. Babcock said I need to look at it another way which turned into a fetus as a wrist watch. It look almost gross and kind of cool at the same time. 3. I had a doctors stethoscope at the top and at the end of it was a noose. This one was a little hard. I need to show the rope but it was hard to get the rope part around the end of the noose. The 4. one was the one I pick to do my ink work in. I didn't really come up with it until the half way though one of the classes where we had to pick one out. It is a picked fence that are houses with a dog (or what can be a cat or thats what my niece calls it) looking at you from behind one of the ruffs of the houses. It kind of reminds me of a logo for a real-estate company, but it can be used for a few number of things as well. Now I just need to scan them to put on here.....  

Gestalt Psychology

Gestalt psychology is a theory of mind and brain positing that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies, or that the whole is different from the sum of its parts. In short term, means you may see one thing at first then you might see something else later. Lets put it at an example: 

   What do you see here? Do you see a dog in a park or something else? When you see this picture it might take you a while to see the dog sniffing at the grown. This is called emergence. Other pictures will do this to you too. Such as this one...

This one is a reification piece it is a constructive or generative aspect of what you see

For instance, a triangle will be perceived in picture A, although no triangle has not actually been drawn. In pictures B and D the eye will recognize disparate shapes as "belonging" to a single shape, in C a complete three-dimensional shape is seen, where in actuality no such thing is drawn.

Reification can be explained by progress in the study of illusory contours, which are treated by the visual system as "real" contours.

These pieces are multistable perception, these tend to pop back and forth unstable between two or more alternative interpretations. This is seen for example in the Necker cube, and in Rubin's Figure / Vase illusion shown to the left. Other examples include the 'three-pronged widget' and artist M.C. Escher's artwork and the appearance of flashing marquee lights moving first one direction and then suddenly the other. Again, Gestalt does not explain how images appear multistable, only that they do.

Invariance is the property of perception whereby simple geometrical objects are recognized independent of rotation, translation, and scale; as well as several other variations such as elastic deformations, different lighting, and different component features. For example, the objects in A in the figure are all immediately recognized as the same basic shape, which are immediately distinguishable from the forms in B. They are even recognized despite perspective and elastic deformations as in C, and when depicted using different graphic elements as in D. Computational theories of vision, such as those by David Marr, have had more success in explaining how objects are classified.

Emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance are not separable modules to be modeled individually, but they are different aspects of a single unified dynamic mechanism.

In seeing these pictures you understand what gestalt psychology is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology

Semiotics

Semiotics- Things you need to know if you want to design anything that is supposed to mean something. The study of signs, the production of meaning.

When you design you need to know what things mean. For example: leaf, you can have an icon of a leaf, you can have a symbol such as just the word LEAF, an index that connects to the word, or you can have metasymbol meanings, symbols that have a greater meaning to them.

In doing this you can show the representamen (the visual that grabs you), the interpretant (the meaning that you get from it), and object (what it is supposed to represent). Seeing becomes understating and that becomes what it all means. When you can get all that down, then you come up with design that will help you support the meaning you are tiring to get across to the other person.

Classes that happen and classes to come...

Since I am transfer student (which I probable said a lot on here already, sorry to repeat myself), I have already taken all my basic general education classes. Not to say most of my basic art class, give or take a few. I have already taken Design I, Drawing I, II, Painting I, II, III, Watercolors, Art Appreciation (which is called something else here), and Figure Drawing at my other school (some of the classes did not transfer over here with me). As you see I pretty much have taken all my basic art classes that is needed for my major.

Now going to UCM, I am taking Intro. Graphic Design and Illustration, Typography, Art Servery I, and Design II. I am not quite sure what I'm taking this next semester. I do know I will be taking Art Servery II, and Design III; other than that I will just have to see what falls into my lap.

Inks, brushes and so on....

Yesterday in class, we discuss what type of tool to use for graphic design. I had really on idea, until class. In class we talk about not drawing with pencils any more but pens; and to make marks that are bold. Not what my drawing teacher would like to hear at my other school, but that's ok. I am use to making bold marks and the pen thing. I will just have to get better with using it. Further more we also learn to use inks and brushes to make marks. This should be fun. I played around with it in my watercolor class later year. In all this should be different, but fun experience in the long run.

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