Adventurous Designing

Our assignment was to find a text effect tutorial for Adobe Illustrator and use it to create a replication of the text. When I got this assignment, I decided that I was going to do some stuff on my own. I chose to replicate the "Bang!" effect, but add a different background to make it more of my own and what i want. I learned how to use lines to break apart text, and how to make the chunks flying around the screen. I think what I did well was follow instructions and problem solve, as well as picking a color scheme that works. If I were to do this again differently, I would probably want to create a different background that maybe was striped or something else creative. I want to learn more about using different fonts ad creating shapes that blend into the background.

The Story of the Google Logo

When designing the classic Google logo we all know, the designers wanted to go with the natural colors of red, blue, and yellow. These are the primary colors, but you may have noticed that there is some green in the logo. The reason they chose to throw green in their is because "Google doesn't follow the rules." Rules is clearly referring to the fact that they didn't stick to their primary color pattern. The first official Google logo was created in 1998 by Sergey Brin, but the current official logo was created by Ruth Kedar. Google also has specialty logo designs that can be seen on holidays, famous icons' birthdays, days of major tragedies, and when Google has their "Doodle4Google" competition. Google also uses a favicon that includes a plain, white, lowercase g and a blue background that appears when in a web browser. The Google logo changes very often and their are different variations of their logo for different medias.

Personality of Fonts

After taking the font personality quiz, I got the font Marina Script. I searched for the font on countless websites, but could not find it available for download. So I found a font that was very similar called Edwardian Script. The words I got were emotional, understated, traditional, and disciplined. The font is very traditional, and that was one of my words. I don't however understand why this font is understated because it has very large loops and extra swashes. I had Mrs. Loftquists' help to make the perfect outline to a font.