Finding Type

You must identify which category the type is under.

Where and what was the type used for?

Do you find the typeface to be appropriate for its purpose?

 1) Modern

2) It was used in a park as a sign to indicate to people that shoes need to be worn while in the park.

3) I find it appropriate because it seems very serious.

 1) It doesn't seem to fit any other than Decorative

2) It was used to "catch" buyers (pun intended) with the sleek design

3) I find it very appropriate because the snack is suppose to be friendly and expresses playfulness with its font

 1) Modern, Sans Serif

2) It was used to make people feel at ease around the neighborhood

3) It seemed appropriate because the multiple types of fonts help keep a welcoming presence

 1) Sans Seriff

2) It was used to envoke assurance and radical feelings

3) I don't think it was approprriate because it comes off trying to be too hip

 1) Definitely Sans Serif, trust me

2) It was used to assert seriousness and order to tell people to not do something

3) I think it's okay but the sign doesn't seem very convincign

1) Modern

2) It was used to show that the orange juice was truthful in its design

3) I don't think this typefont is appropriate because it seems unappealing and bland

Club Logo Club Interview - Ultimate Frisbee

So before I start working on creating a logo for the ultimate frisbee club, I had to get an idea for how it should be. To begin, I asked one of the members of the team about the club. Although I am a member of the team, I only joined recently within the last three months and having a perspective from a person who has been in the club longer would definitely provide a better understanding of the club. I asked one of the team captain, Nicole.

According to her, the main purpose of the club was teach more people about the world of ultimate frisbee. This is because ultimate is not as popular of a sport as baseball or football and those who cannot or do not want to play the more popular sports could try frisbee as an alternative and learn how competitive and fun it is to other sports. Although it is a sport, the club has a friendly environment from both Millennium High School and Millennium Brooklyn High School. Members collaborate and bond with others as a team. Getting to the practices is probably the most tedious obstacle because Millennium High School and Millennium Brooklyn are located in two different boroughs making a meetup at Prospect Park somewhat unreliable if the weather is extreme. Nicole says that five words that best describe the club would be life, new, stress relieving, talent, and especially fun. Five images that she says best symbolize the team are layouts, frisbees, teamwork, strategizing, and frisbee tricks.

The club originally started out as a small team of people composed of ultimate players and expanded throughout the years as more people wanted to learn and play frisbee. The key principles the club practices are communication and hard work. These key ideas allowed the team to grow and become better managing to win 2nd place last year in the b-league (open division). And whther or not the team wins or loses it is more important that we did it as a team. We will overcome defeat and achieve our goal as one. We are also developing our team this year by trying to go to state tournaments.

Good Logos

Create a blog post about your favorite logo(s).  Name one brand/logo that you own and enjoy and explain why you think the logo is well designed. Then chose one logo that you are not familiar with from the best logo design links I have below (the first two).  Chose one that you think is well designed and explain why. 

One brand that I own and enjoy is the Pepsi Cola brand because it is both simplistic and identifiable. The logo on the soda is a circle with red white and blue inside of it. The red portion is on top while a white curved line goes through the middle separating the red from the blue portion on the bottom of the circle. When I drink Pepsi I feel a refreshing sensation, but when I look at the logo I feel even more rejuvenated. The colors might seem patriotic but I don't get that feeling. Simpleness and the few colors used help make the logo stand out making it a good logo.

One logo I am not familiar with but is very popular that I have found is the Sop Wise logo. I think that this is a very good logo because it stands out and is very intriguing. I cannot recall a logo I have seen before that had a  bag-faced disembodied head with an outstanding mustache such as this one. The opaque glasses also emphasize the concept of choosing a good choice in shopping at Shop Wise.

Background Image

Starting - Before

Final - After 

For my portrait transformation project I initially started out with a different picture of a person with a hat in a souvenir shop transforming the background into a fashion show, but I later changed my idea because the image I had before was more complex to transform and too pixelated. Changing my concept I think it worked out better because the ideas fit well together. This time I wanted to communicate the idea of fantasy and imagination. The costume design in the picture was for a scene in Shakespeare's Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 3 for the 2nd Witch of the Weird Sisters. It was very successful to me because Photoshop allowed me to easily change the hue, brightness, contrast, saturation, and filter the picture. In the process of transforming the picture selecting the certain parts I wanted to delete was tedious but manageable. If the lasso tool and magic wand tool weren't so strict in what could be selected this would have been a breeze to do.