Text Designs with Reflection

Which one of the four of your Text Designs is the most successful? In what ways? Please be specific.
I think that my most successful Text Design is “A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.” This design is simple and it’s to the point. Even though it is simple it interprets the pun well. In the design everything blends in well and it looks complete, like an original picture, rather than being made in photoshop.

List some of the tools that you learned and used in this assignment. Which ones did you find the most helpful and in what ways?
During this assignment I learned how to use a variety of tools. Such as the magic wand, the stamp, the eraser tool, and the lasso tool. The tool that I thought was the most helpful throughout the project was by far the eraser and lasso tool. These two tools were very helpful when you only wanted to cut out a certain part of a picture, or when you wanted to erase a certain part of a picture. Once you cut out a piece of a picture that you didn’t want, you could fill that area in with its surroundings by using the stamp tool; this made everything blend together very well. Also, the magic wand was helpful because it made it easier to make an object a certain color altogether.

With regards to Design concepts and/or Photoshop tools, what do you think you need to know and what do you want to know?
Overall, I think that expanding my knowledge altogether in photoshop would be very useful, and in the end it will be very helpful in the outcome of my designs. By learning photoshop my designs will be a much better result. I know that there are a lot of tools and other ways to be creative while creating designs, but I am not really sure what they are, so I guess that I just need to become more familiar with the program so that my designs can be more successful.

Text Design #4

Text Design #3

Text Design #2

Text Design #1

Valentine

Type Design with Reflection

Are you happy/satisfied with your design? What are some of the features that make it so successful? If you are not satisfied, what would you have done differently to make it more successful?
I am very satisfied with the outcome of my design. I really liked the color scheme that I chose, and I like how I oriented the letters on the page. I also think that the focal point is very clear and that overall the design is simple, which makes it look well done. I think that the way I did the letter’s colors was also very well done because it looks like the letters belong there because they blend in with the color scheme very well.

List some of the tools that you learned and used in this assignment. Which ones did you find the most helpful and in what ways?
I learned how to do the text tool, became more familiar with the layers, and I became more comfortable with this whole process in general. I think that working with creating new layers and how to move things around on the layers was definitely the most helpful. In order to do anything on photoshop you need to be able to know how to work with the layers; and by doing this project you really learned how to use the layers. Being able to use the text tool was also very efficient because in order to have any designs with words, you need to know how to use this tool, and I really go the hang of it by doing this project.

With what areas/aspects of Photoshop do you have questions? What activities would help you better understand basic design concepts, along with more Photoshop tools, tips, and tricks?
I don’t have any questions in particular, but I do think that I need some more time to just explore the program. Being able to do more simple projects to help us become really comfortable and familiar with all of the tools that we are learning how to use. Especially some more activities that have to do with shapes; coloring them, moving them around, and adjusting the size of them would really help!

Pop-Art

Pop art is form of art that takes objects or scenes from everyday life and uses techniques of commercial art and popular illustration; pop art uses elements of pop culture and uses techniques from commercial art and advertising to make billboards, comic strips etc...

Stuart Davis was an American painter from 1894 to 1964. While growing up he was surround by art because his father was an art director of the Philadelphia newspaper. As he got older he began working with artists, which inspired him even more. He began with watercolors, but later on he discovered abstract patterns and he often used lettering in his designs. He was very original and became known for his distinctive American style.

The Mellow Pad
1945-51 (180 Kb); Oil on canvas, 26 x 42 in; Brooklyn Museum, New York




I really like this piece of artwork by Davis because you really have to concentrate on it. Instead of just looking at the piece of work and saying “oh that is nice”, you really have to focus on the piece of work. There is a lot of things going on in it, but I think that that is why it’s so unique! I love how abstract and original all of Davis’ art pieces are, but this one really stood out to me because of the abstractness and the high intensity of color.

In 1928 he was born as Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana, later he change his surname to his home state. Growing up his eye would always seemed to catch the highway signs while driving; they began to become really important to him. When he was older he studied at the Herron school of Art and then he attended a couple other schools to study art. His first art pieces had the contrasting colors that caught his eye driving down the highway. He is very well-known for capturing the American dream in his artwork. His artwork have given simple words a much bigger meaning. Artist: Robert Indiana

Title: The Book of Love 1
Year: 1996





I really like this piece of work by Robert Indiana. First of all, I love how it is set up and I really like the idea of an art piece being made up of letters. By making the colors black and white it really jumps out at you because of the contrast that black and white have. The contrast really makes the statement “love” be so much more powerful and it makes it have a deeper meaning, which I really like!