Project 1 book finally done!!

Our group had 3 different objects that were a watch, nail polish, and a jump starter cables. We decided to title our book Crime of Passion because the story that we are telling is based on a person is lonely, but then finds someone and they end up getting into a fight. In the end one kills the other and ends up alone again. The use of each object was important to tell the time, the action, and what the character is going to do.

Over all this project showed how people can work together as a group and pull things together to make a story make sense. What I learned mostly about this project is the process of gathering group members work and hoping they'll work and not be fuzzy images, in which case still happened no matter what we would do. With the group I was in, I was happy that we were able to pull together and get things done and work around the crazy schedule that we had. Our group I think had great motivation to put this story together.

OH...the history of icons in sports

One of the main images we know that has to be universal is the Olympic's icons, they have to be clear enough that anyone can get the picture of what is going on. Over the years of coming up with there icons, they had the ups and downs to them. But in the end the creators have kept to a system of how munich ad montreal had done with the simplicity.

I just hope that when i'm finished with my icons they will come across easy to read and stays interesting to anyone's eye.

Update for image

New approach

New approach to Edgar Allan Poe!

Process for image

So far for image this what I'm working with....still a process to go through as I am still looking for more black and white photos to work with to keep my conception still old fashion.
This another part of my process a little farther into it. For the required quote, I'm thinking I might write out in my handwriting and then scan it in so it keeps the content unity.

Working on icons

So, I have come aware that making icons is actually funny, but I guess it is because of my approach is a very systematic and in this case it is the best way for to go towards. I have also come across the fact that my line and combination of line and fill are probably my best ways of coming up with a icon. I'm gonna keep exploring right now, so until next time there will be more.

Vis.Com. 2 proj. 4 part 1- 3 of my favorite layouts final book

I just thought I would put this photo in as a prospective view so you are able to clearing see that are some wrinkles of worn into the journal based book.

The layouts that I choose were the ones I thought had a good sense of understanding considering the tonality of colors and the feeling you get as you look at them.

This layout is FIRE. The image selection that I went with this object per say was camp fire, that went into subcategories of wood and a lighter. With this layout, I considered the basis of how a boy scout would approach to making a fire on their own. I also included some of my own belongings as visuals to help get the image of how a fire would work in different ways. In the upper left corner, I taped in a twig as the representation of how you can get started with the fire which is filled in more on the page. Hopefully the layout gives a warm feeling since I kept the layout with warm colors.

The process of gathering items for this information to clearing come across was pretty easy to find, it was just how would I position the images to get the idea of how a teenage boy is thinking and how they would put something in their journal.

The Second layout here is MUDDY SHOES. The way I approached this page was thinking of things that would or could happen in mud, as well as better and after. On here I created mud as to the page after this layout I had put the dry dirt in. I wanted to get the sense of how it would look dry and wet. With the images I chose, I choose to have old pairs of shoes and muddy ones as well. The overall concept I kept with this layout was to see the main sense of brown since it represents the ground. The reason why I chose to have muddy shoes instead of dirty clothes was the meaning behind muddy shoes can go deeper in the fact, they get you from point a to point b and your feet mold the shoe over time.

Gathering for this object, I found to be hard for the fact that you start to just see feet that are muddy. Then you realized there are many points to this as there would be to fire. DIRT+WATER= MUD! Also the fact you have to keep in mind of the person feet too.

This layout is about the TEENAGER that I made into a Boy Scout. I made the teenager into that because then I would be able to somehow tap into my brother's mind when they use to be in it. I guess it worked because I was able to remember what there honor was and badges. With this layout, I considered to have in a journal manner with what a teenage boy would be thinking or interested in. I hope the impact of this page will give the sense of direction of how the journal can be like which is controlled chaos. I still kept the tonality of warmth to it too.

Gathering information for this page started off difficult until I thought more deeply. I feel I was able to tap into a teenage boy's mind a bit.

Overall the process of making this journal was fun, yet difficult as times. I started off with the idea of making my own journal but instead going out and buying a sketchbook journal and spray mounted the pages together to make it more durable. The hard part for me was considering what type of images to choose and how I was going to damage my book because of the weather is horrible, but you'll have to find that out in my journal. Hope you enjoy the child of me in this.

Project 1 Image

After I printed it out I included some of my own handwriting and some lines to create a frame. This assignment was interesting because I had to think deeper into my thoughts for the symbol which the rusted bells to the right.....They represent my Family's history, on my mom side her last name use to be Flagg, and then I learned I'm related to James Montgomery Flagg who drew the 'I Want You In the Army' poster. It is something important me to. My index which is my flip flop can really tell it is me because everyone knows I wear flip flops in any type of weather. and my icon of course is me, enough said.

Put type within the image

Adding the text within each image came across better than just on the other half of the page. When bringing text into the piece, you get the character of each image to come out and say what it really means. It can speak on their own.

New Title is......

Wild Adventure

and the 10 words are:

mountain, backpack, blood, snacks, sleeping bag, bear, fire (wood and lighter), weather, muddy shoes, teenager

New titles for Vis Comm??

Here are a few new ideas for a two word title that would give the other one more meaning but in a different way.

Deep Contemplation
Interior Thought
Inner Peace
Self Discovery
Left Behind*
Wild Adventure*
Teenager's Adventure

One of these hopefully will be able to replace Runaway Child, but I would still keep the same concept of being on their own in the world.

WATCHES :)

These three photos of a watch are probably my favorite because you can get a good sense of a story that can be told.

The screen shots shows how I was picking and choosing words to go along, hopefully they seem to fit. I think they show some great potential.

Visual Communticaton 2 proj. 4 part 1 and reader's response

Within the start of this project I was able to comprehend the matter of collecting even the strange and the funny objects that could go along with each small step to completion of a story. Also to reconsider that a drawing can be 'disposable' rather than a keepsake. I think that everyone should keep some kind of documentation about their life or what is going to happen with in it.

We should blog to reference where we started from up to where we are at today. No matter what we do, we still look to the past to keep gathering information. With blogging every moment or small step will help to see how our own minds work. I think blogging more this semester will help me improve with my outcome in class and also with my vocabulary of coming up words for a theme or story to be told.

With that in mind my goal on blogging is to keep update more on my work just like I did on my process binder(s). I know there will be a lot of thoughts flying my way and I'll have to consider what is a good idea. Blogging for me can be a way of relief or break in a way from stress or just another way to express myself in a different way. The main goal of my blog will be for me to express myself in a deeper level of understanding and to reflect what I'm learning, and then try to communicate it to others in class with speaking.


For PART ONE. PROJECT ONE.

My two word story that I have chosen is Runaway Child. I chose this one because I could imagine what the outcome of the child being out in the world by themselves and trying to make it on their own. With that in mind 10 words that can be associated with my story are:

backpack, old shoes, child, money, stick with sack, tree house, milk carton photo, teddy bear, flashlight, sleeping bag

additional would be: snacks, police, parents, door, weather

Here's the first day of TYPE 2

Within everyday, I always look to my watch to see what time is otherwise I would feel lost without it. When I was younger, I use to think when I didn't wear my watch, I would be going to the future of time or even back to the past. Those were the days.

But that was just the beginning. I still wear a watch, but I look more towards designs of how I can stand out from others yet keep it to my style.

This project that we have just taken on is about an everyday object that is universally understandable, this why I choose the watch as my object.

Just some of the words I can work from are:

history, future, quality, jewelry, fashion, identity, electric, awake, white rabbit, look, late, past, present, busy, deadline, death, tick, pinch, gift, organized*, time, timeless, analog*, digital, alertness, attention, aware, duty*, notice, observe, survey, period, check, continuance, second, extend, eternity, duration, interval, lapse*, measure, moment, cycle, extend, frequency, personality*, unique, self, classify, analyze, beat*, pulse*, limit, fad, configuration, convention, condition, standard* classified, systematic*, business*, commitment, obligation

*: words I think describe a watch so far to me

Thanks Michael Eppelheimer for letting me borrow your watch since mine wasn't what I going for, but yours was.

Another Semester Here I Come

So this next semester my goal is to try even more harder than last semester in my output of projects. I had a great break of traveling back and forth from home and KC, but I'm ready to settle down and get work done. One of the many things I will keep on doing is trying to have fun with whatever hard problem comes my way and figuring them out. I can't to get this semester started it shall be a exciting one.