Lou

poster again

2010-03-11T23:39:00.002-05:00

New Fistula Poster

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Image with Article title and byline

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This is for my magazine project and the article "Pay Attention and Give a Shit" by Randy J. Hunt. The idea is for this two take up two pages.

PCDance Company Poster for Spring Concert

2010-03-10T13:33:00.002-05:00

Feedback and critique is welcome as always...

Experiment Tutorial..

2010-03-09T14:10:00.002-05:00

I want to keep playing with this and different photos that I've taken, to put in my mag. The tut called for text, but I didn't really think text would look well with my particular image, I'll go back and play with that idea... I know that it's a "rough" glow/harsh whiteness...

Buttons :0)

2010-03-09T13:45:00.003-05:00

I tried the button tutorial for this week. Ideally, I want to some how connect this with my magazine project, I'm thinking about making an advertisement and use this idea in one of my "pretend" ads of my project.

Completed two week ago tutorial...

2010-03-09T13:44:00.002-05:00

Prism Cover revamped...

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My Magazine Cover logo... perhaps?

2010-03-04T13:55:00.002-05:00

I decided to use the name FEM Stick, which represents women graphic designers. I've used pressed lips and a lipstick tube in the logo. I know this may me against some feministic values, but I consider myself a very pro-woman activist and love baring the rouge. Anyhow, the idea of the colors is to represent the different shades of designers personalities that are women. I'm thinking about adding the female symbol on the tip of the stick. Let me know what you all think!!

My Prism Covers

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Prism1

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What do you think about France' new smoking ban ad????

2010-02-24T23:03:00.001-05:00

Because Oral Sex Is Exactly Like Smoking A Cigarette

This would have NEVER flown in America - never!

An anti-smoking campaign in France has just released a series of posters advocating the end of teenagers smoking cigarettes. As we're sure you've notice, the ads liken the act of "sexual submission" to that of inhaling tar. Since we know most of you don't read French, the ~~punchline~~ slogan on these ads reads: "Smoking means being a slave to tobacco."

Naturally, people are pissed, calling the ads "inappropriate" and "counterproductive," but the head of the Non-Smoker' Rights Association, Remi Parola, says the ads were a necessary step to reaching out to the youth demographic:

"We noticed that the traditional anti-smoking campaigns no longer got across amongst the youth. We thus had to use another way in order to raise awareness…We were surprised by the extent of the media buzz. But it's above all a message of public health that got across."

Certainly got our attention, but is it effective?

What do U think?

My messed up Tutorial....

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After about an hour into this tutorial not I realized I was in the wrong program... So I'm currently starting over and doing this in photoshop.

Poster2

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Poster 1

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My VAG added to my poster!

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More V... From our last class critique as well from other classmates advice over the past few days, I've added a more vagina-like image on one of my posters... I think it does add justice to the idea of what's trying to be portrayed... Here's a picture of the poster without its text to show the new image. On a side note I didn't realize how hard it was to draw a VAG, considering I have one myself.

Tutorial 3

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Here's the link....

Poster Idea 4

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Poster Idea 3

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Poster Idea 2

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Poster Idea 1

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http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/how-to-quickly-create-a-stylish-retro-text-effect/

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thoughts

2010-01-26T13:55:00.001-05:00

An idea of what I would like to incorporate on a poster but with the information of what a fistula is making up her body...

Inspiration for social justice posters

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http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

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Project 1

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Poster project:

I've chosen "Fistulas" to be the theme of my Social Justice project.

Tutorial 1 Vector

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http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/metallic-styles-in-photoshop/

countdown again

2009-12-17T20:52:00.002-05:00

My Final CD Project Cont...

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My Final CD Project!

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2nd round of pages 6 and 7

2009-11-24T03:12:00.006-05:00

I don't know why the type is so bad to read now, maybe it's b/c I had to shift+apple+4 to get the image to upload to the blog... I'll fix that...

1st round of Pages 6 and 7

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2nd round part of pages 8 and 5

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A better version, and the type could be placed better with the title...

Pages 8 and 5

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First round...

2nd round part of page 4 and 9

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This is the second round of pages 4 and 9!

Pages 4 and 9

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This is the first time around for pages 4 and 9...

Round 1 & 2: with page 10 and page 3 and then a

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So after I made this... I decided I didn't like it when I began to put the artist information inside so I changed it around...

Part 5

2009-11-24T02:31:00.002-05:00

Like I said in the previous posting, I decided to keep the right side which is the front cover and I played with the back and the name/artists of my cd... I'm still not satisfied with the back cover, so I began to play with the inside to see if anything would come to mind!

4th Part

2009-11-24T02:27:00.004-05:00

Left side back cover, right side front cover... I ended up liking the right side(front cover) and decided to get rid of the back cover idea...

3rd part

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I took this picture in Morocco...

2nd part

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I took this photo in Morocco

the first part of project 3

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I took this photo in Granada, Spain and then changed the right side of the picture... It's graffiti..

WorldArts in Raleigh

2009-11-06T12:17:00.003-05:00

http://blog.worldarts.me/

http://www.worldarts.me

You can become a fan of this site by clicking on http://www.facebook.com/worldarts.

Check out this blog site for artist. Former Peace student Taylor Coules who graduated in May 2009 works for the WorldArts Entertainment that is located in Raleigh.

Created by artists for artists, WorldArts is an on-line entertainment community. A place where you can look at stuff, listen to stuff, interact with stuff, buy and sell stuff. Music, film, fine art, you name it. But it's much, much more. A networking tool. Promotional medium. Revenue stream. A way to meet other artists, collaborate with them, or invest in their work. Even live events, featuring emerging talent in every medium. All on an international stage.

Mission:

WorldArts will connect diverse cultures and societies from around the world through the universal language of the arts. To accomplish this we will employ and partner with highly talented and professional artisans from every discipline, searching for new ways to evoke the senses and strengthen our abilities to imagine and make the virtually impossible - possible. We will develop and utilize cutting-edge technologies in all the work we do. We will see past geographical and political limitations, set strong and ethical standards in the ways in which we work and show generosity.

Products:

Creative design in all it's forms... film, music, illustration, painting, theater, jewelery, sculpture, digital media, literary works, dance, photography, etc., etc., etc.!

My new logo... I hope this one works~!

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Sample Back 7

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Sample Back 6

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Sample Back 5

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Sample Back 4

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Sample Back 2

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Sample Back 1

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Draft 1 with business card and logo

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and more....

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More Sketches for ongoing type II project

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Sketches for current Type II project

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Extremely cool photographer!

2009-10-26T13:29:00.003-04:00

http://www.mirukim.com/

Type 2 final of timeline

2009-10-20T09:21:00.005-04:00

I included a quote that I made up to demonstrate the idea of time and media.

Timeline draft 1

2009-10-20T09:16:00.004-04:00

This is the timeline draft of my numbers project. I decided to use different images of myself to portray the idea of action taking place over a period time. I'm in the media studio with the production tools behind me. I used a lamp and faced it on the wall of the opposite side of the room and turned off all of the lights. I wanted to create not online a timeline of me in different stages of doing work but also for the image to look in a past tense. That's why I aimed for a rustic black and white look.

Car Poster I made for a parade...

2009-10-06T15:49:00.003-04:00

I made this poster for a girl who's senior project is dealing with breast cancer awareness. She used these signs which were laminated and had magnets placed on them.

BTW <3 rip Poster #2

2009-10-06T15:47:00.004-04:00

This is about Brittany Tyler Willis. The words written in the middle are a 'Self Portrait' that she had written about herself in high school. And the notes around the image are just my personal thoughts spilling out about what happened to her and what was going through my mind at the moment. I will eventually like to make the words that are on the outside transform to angel wings, and turn this image into a "Be safe and Smart" type of ordeal.

Pitbull Tilden! Poster 1

2009-10-06T15:32:00.004-04:00

This is a picture of my best friends pitbull Tilden. I took this photo when she was a few weeks old next to her cupcake squeaky valentines day toy. I decided to use Tilden because of all the recent negative news coverage on pits. Pits are a strong breed and therefore a lot of people who do take the responsibility of ownership aren’t responsible at all. With any pet, they are like children you have to discipline to a certain pedigree. If you look more into the stories of some of the recent cases such as the baby who’s toes were bitten off... Well my concern is why did the mother have the baby on the floor in the first place? Why was the mother so “knocked out” on her prescriptions that she couldn’t be responsible enough for her own child? That is her fault not the puppy pit. That’s neglecting your child. People such as Michael Vick who have a strong masculine persona. His involvements with pits I’m sure was also led to how pits have a masculine image. Well look how he treated them, he wanted to dominated another dominating animal in which he knew in fact he could manipulate and control. It’s not right. I blame the people who own the animal any animal for the way they react. Such as a child who bites all the kids in preschool, he’s teething and is curious. Well aren’t humans animals too??

Homework using the 1st PS tutorial...

2009-09-22T16:36:00.003-04:00

I used two of my personal pictures. The background is in Rabat, Morocco. The picture of the two people was on the side of a mountain of my friend and a little girl from a small village in Morocco's mountains.

Assignment #5

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HmwK cont.

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HmwK cont.

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HmWK cont.

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HMWK cont.

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HMWK

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HMWK

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SPA 213

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Hola!

Absence

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Pattern

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Isolation

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Contrast

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Movement-Dynamics

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I believe this one is Movement-Dynamics because you focus on the ladies face then you see that she is alone.

Placement

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I took a picture of my friends foot on the beach. I thought it looked interesting with the bright blue chair in the background.

Movement-Dynamics

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This is my dog. I´ve had him since I was 10 years old and picked him out at the pound. I´m now 22, do the math. I took this photo at night on the front porch. He obviously didn´t like the camera flash.

Nonpattern

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This is a picture of the back of a chair I took in Wilmington at an Oyster Bar.

HMWK Cont.

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Human Reference:
I used this picture of my friends daughter Maya and her dad sitting to the right in the background. It gives an idea of size. She’s a baby but yet she looks bigger than her adult father. They are also focused in the same direction and look as if they are in the same thought.

Context:
I took this picture from the mac screen. It was the reflection of the blinds and my hands in the background.

Internal Object (to picture plane):
I took this photo at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. You cannot tell the size of what is through the open window hole. Which is bigger than what it appears.

Contrast:
I took this picture at the Cliffs of Mohr in Ireland. The upper region contains the most contrast in the picture because the image of the rainbow. Then the clouds color is changed to a lighter grey than the background sky. The closer image of the ground is very vivid and has stronger highlights.

HMWK

2009-09-03T13:59:00.008-04:00

Figure-Ground:
I took a picture of this restaurant entrance in Lille, France. The reason why it is a figure-ground image is because it looks as if there is a glass door with the images painted on it, however it’s a long hallway with paint on the side of the walls.

Axial/bilateral Symmetry:
This image is two red cups that were sitting in a blue wired basket. The bright colors and the lines on the basket make it seem equal as if it were on an axis.

Radial symmetry:
I took this picture in Granada, Spain which was spray painted on a street wall. The image represents radial symmetry because of her hair. The artist used the idea of snails being her hair and making it look like a big curled bun.

Asymmetry:
I took the photo of the bench at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh. It represents asymmetry because although the bench is the same symmetrically on both sides. The way the photo was taken they don’t look equal on both sides.

Part 2 Categories of Imagery

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Rhythm:
9. Pattern- repetition of an image
10. Non-pattern- non-repetition of an image
11. Movement/dynamics- Dynamics are about movement, specifically the viewer's eye as it looks at a photograph. When looking at a photograph, your eye naturally moves from one object to another. Hopefully, that movement begins with the most important subject and then to the less important details of the photograph
12. Movement/direction - When the subject is capable of movement, such as an animal or person, it is best to leave space in front of the subject so it appears to be moving into, rather than out of, the photograph.
Emphasis/focal point:
13. Contrast - A light subject will have more impact if placed against a dark background and vice versa. Contrasting colors may be used for emphasis, but can become distracting if not considered carefully.
14. Isolation - It is the way in which you somehow have something, but do not have it, that offers the greatest potential.
15. Placement- the object in the image or subject that is being represented or focused on.
16. Absence - something is missing a since of emptiness

Part 1 Categories of Imagery

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Balance:
1. Figure-ground- In visual perception, figure-ground is a type of perceptual organization in vision that involves assignment of edges to regions for purposes of
The differentiation between the foreground and the background of a scene; this refers to all sensory systems, including vision, hearing, touch. 
2. Axial/bilateral symmetry
Axial Symmetry- Axial symmetry is symmetry around an axis; an object is axially symmetric if its appearance is unchanged if rotated around some axis in a way.
Bilateral Symmetry- a basic body plan in which the left and right sides of the organism can be divided into approximate mirror images of each other along the midline
3. Radial Symmetry - A form of symmetry, arranged equally in all directions from a central point, thus any plane through the central point will divided into mirror image pieces. Characterizing a body shaped like a pie or barrel, with many equal parts radiating outward like the spokes of a wheel; present in cnidarians and echinoderms.
4. Asymmetry- Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, especially want of bilateral symmetry; Incommensurability; That which causes something to not be symmetrical. not identical on both sides of a central line.
Scale/Proportion:
5. Human Reference – to show scale… the use of a human in a design to show a scale and an object. So the viewer can comprehend the proportion.
6. Context- consists of capturing context when taking a still picture, by sensing physical input in addition to light and representing it visually in real time. With this new concept, we explore alternative potentials of the digital camera as an everyday creative tool. We have developed a context photography application that.. Consists of capturing more than incoming light in an image, i.e. the context. Information about the physical context is gathered from various sensors and visually affects pictures as they are taken. The context camera therefore not only takes pictures of the visual scenery, but also of invisible things in its surroundings - such as sound and movement - in real time. As
Opposed to other projects registering context by augmenting photographs with e.g. audio [1][2], a context camera opens up a new dimension of what can be captured on a photograph by using sensor-based data to directly influence the appearance of the resulting picture. For instance, in a noisy environment, images will get a certain visual effect whereas in a quiet environment the pictures will look different. With the help of real-time image processing and rendering, this new type of pictures is created on the spot as opposed to the usual post-hoc image processing. This means for example that users can take still pictures that give a sense of movement or get a certain tint in a picture by producing sounds, for example by whistling, talking or screaming. The context camera enables you to interact in an untraditional way to take a new kind of pictures.
7. Internal (object to picture plane)- can’t tell the size of it until it is placed into another object. Ex. Pebble inside a river, or a pebble on the moon. By telling the object, you’re depicting its size. Trick the viewer.
Picture plane- two-dimensional picture surface
8. Contrast- is the dissimilarity or difference between things, telling that something is larger or smaller in contrast.

Yay for the UNA-NCA website

2009-08-27T15:55:00.004-04:00

I like the status of the UNA-NCA website. I just completed a summer internship in Washington, DC as the Communications Program Assistant. I contributed to the research, design ideas, text, editing of text, and imagery of the site. It's nice to look at the website and see what an outstanding job the other Communications intern has continued to develop. Kudos to Amy!

Torture: Too High A Cost; event flier

2009-08-27T15:48:00.003-04:00

This is the information of the event and the image combined. The date of the event was postponed in which I have to change the flier again. The event is sponsored by The American University Chapter of Amnesty International, Co-sponsored by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area and the World Organization for Human Rights USA.

Image for Torture Too High A Cost event

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This is an image I designed using a collaboration of different photos I've taken. The X represents the aspect of water-boarding being wrong. The words are just a repeat of the definition of water-boarding.

The 2nd day of class, 1st day of Typography 2

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I'll get to this eventually...