What Graphic Design means to me

What does Graphic Design mean?

Graphic Design is well known as communication design, and we really deal with it 24/7. Most people think this only done on computer but you need to realise that they are wrong and graphic design in done everywhere, all day, everyday.

What does Graphic Design mean to me? Well actually graphic design means many different things to me, but if I sat here and listed them all you would get bored because the list would really long. Anyways graphic design lets me explain who I am through my art and my designs, and that means a lot to me because in the real world with the real people I can't be who I want to be without everyone judging every single move I make. With graphic design it's like I can be free and not have to hold back on who I am there are no limitations, other than being myself and thats it.

Pencil Project

Part 1: The Basic Skills; 
For part one I just followed the instructions to the best of my ability even though it was kind of tricky at first. Even though this pencil isn't the best I still had fun making it, because it taught me how to use new tools to make very cool things, such as my pencil. The hardest part for me was creating the cup because every time I would try to make it, it would never work for me.

Part 2: Creating my Own Pencil & cup;
For this part I took my knowledge from creating the first pencil and applied into a more cool looking pencil with a somewhat matching cup for the pencil to go in. I changed the pencil a bit and even added a piece of paper with some "writing" on it. That was actually really fun for me to do cause I was practicing new skills that I have not learned yet.

Part 3: Making my 3rd pencil;
For my 3rd pencil I attempted to make a tree pencil, which was actually really fun to make, even though it wasn't the best quality at all it was still fun to try and get it to look like a tree. I think this was the hardest part for me for the main reason being I couldn't get anything to look like and this was the closet I got, if I had a longer period of time I could have come up with something a lot better than a "tree pencil".

Part 4: Two things that relate to each other;
I put a speaker and a "boom box" because they relate to each other and I really enjoy music. More than people realise because I have grown up on music and it explains me. I don't know anything else to write about this other than I made this because they relate to each other and I really love music.

3 Sites, Than and Now

 In 2005 Youtube opened and created there very first layout. They had the same logo but a different color scheme and a way different layout, because when it first opened you couldn't even see recommended videos or what your subscriptions were. But now the layout is way different there is a lot more things you can do, you can see your history, subscriptions, and a lot more.

 As you can see the coding is very different, the one on top is from this year and the one on bottom is the one from 2005. The one from this year is a lot more complex and has a lot more components because it has a lot more to it than it did back down. And the the older coding is so simple because there was hardly anything on the website when it first opened.

This is the microsoft windows website... they both have a lot to them, but as you can see the new one is more appealing to the eye than the old one. Really the old one had only what you needed and maybe a little bit more, and they probably didn't have as much information as they do now.

I would say that this coding is more complex because they both had a lot of links in them so ofcourse it is going to have a lot of link coding

They is the internet archive wayback machine, as you can see the new website is more appealing and there is more to do, because obviously they have upgraded overtime. And as to were the old one is a little less complex but still has some components to it.

The top coding is for the new website and the bottom is for the old website. Can you guess why? I bet you guessed right it is because the new website probably has more links to more websites than they ever did before. The new coding probably has more layout codes to because the layout is completly different then it was before.

Final E9 Blog Post

For this project I helped with a lot of stuff. My main things that I worked on were the website and the graphic design, I did help with everything else but not as much. I did have a lot of fun with this project and I felt I worked with my group very well and we got a long pretty good, besides when we would come to a disagreement.

My process for this was pretty good once I got the idea for everything that we were doing. Something different I would do next time is make sure my group and I have a better idea and have an actual plan of where the project is going, instead of just coming up with an idea and then just winging it. Something I would do the same is I would work with this group again, cause I felt like we did work very well together once we all saw eye to eye on something.

Some new techniques and tools I used for this project are the magic wand tool and deleting white space and fading things out. I think the most challenging part about this project was since this was my first photoshop project, was everything. Just in my opinion. I overcame this by asking my neighbors what I needed to or how to do something.

Some new techniques I learned are how to make something look like it's flying, or the fact that I learned how to use the magic wand tool to copy something and change the color on both sides. I think  the most challenging part about this project was that with the magic wand tool I had to try and get it to look the exact same on both sides. I overcame this challenge by asking how I got it to go to both sides and once I learned how to do it I pretty much had it from there.

I didn't really learn any new techniques in this one mainly because I have worked with photoshop plenty of times by now so I already knew how to use all the tools we used in this project. something challenging about this project was getting the pictures to blend together well without looking to choppy and put together.

I didn't really learn any new techniques in this one mainly because I have worked with photoshop plenty of times by now so I already knew how to use all the tools we used in this project. Something challenging for me was getting the gradient just right I understand many people did get it right the first time but obviously I didn't, and no matter how many times I did it i'd always have the browny type color that okay because I like it.

Here is my Oz Poster

My logo is my name within a softball. My letters implementing the stitches on the ball. I chose the font mainly because it looks like the font we use for my jerseys on my softball team. Also I chose the colors because I do plan to try out for the ONW softball team, and I'm confident that i'll make it! Anyways I don't know what else to say about this cause its not my best work ever but I tried!