a must see for color and design students

For people who are or will be taking Color and Design, this image basically describes one of the projects.

I found this image of a transparency design about a year or two ago and thought this went well with what i learned in Color and Design. Again i don't know the artist behind this design. however, I like the places where they find the transparency useful. Also, they picked colors that would vibrate along with a solid black. If you look at it closely, it starts to turn into a three dimensional form.

unusual but unique

I would go online and look up any art/design images, and there was one image of a sculpture I found one time. At first, i thought this was weird, but it turned from unusal to unique.

To be honest, I don't know the person who made it, but I like how the shadow makes an upside down "L" form with the skull and the splattered color. Even though the skull is spitting out random colors, the entire scultpure has an unusual chaotic feel to it.

Critic for Communication Arts

Brittany Kleckner

History of Graphic Design

Professor Robert Jones

December 7^th, 2012

Communication Arts Critic

            When I first thought about “Communication Arts” magazine, I thought it was about art communicating to you through different visuals. As I glanced and read the magazine, it brought you the latest information and designs about the graphic design world. They interview current graphic designers and have up to date galleries every month with a small story behind each design. “Communicating Arts” focuses on two major sections, which are its monthly galleries and current events as interviews and articles.

            When looking through “Communication Arts” galleries, you see various styles from different designers based on how they approach and set up their project or idea. Each design has a small description about the concept and process of their design; they would even have little background on the designer. At the end of each description, it shares the designer’s success from their project with the client and where they are now. If you look at each design, they use everything they learn from art school and use it to transform it into an artwork from active and busy to simple and plain. As most of us know by now, a designer is given the idea of “less is more,” which is gestalt. These designers have simplified it to the viewers that make it look like it is more. Not only were the designs a major contribution to the magazine, the current events in the graphic design world are also a major thing in the magazine.

            “Communication Arts” have the latest information as interviews and articles about a designer. They would have many interviews from any designer. If you go to their website, they would have one preview of who the magazine interviewed and how important they are by making the preview, their design, and a picture of the designer  bigger than the rest of the interviews. This signifies that this person or group is important, and it is a recommended interview to read about. At the end of each interview, they always explain how successful they are and how grateful they are for it. They also have articles on current designers and firms and new software and technology. They also have articles on designs that are either controversial or currently well known to the graphic design world. AS for new software and technologies for a designer, they give up a preview on the latest materials that a graphic designer would have like an update on an Adobe software or how to make a design on a particular software. All in all, “Communication Arts” shares plenty of information and designs to soon to be or current graphic designers in order for them to recognize that this magazine shares events and designs as inspiration.

            Because of their current events and galleries, “Communication Arts” is a useful magazine for graphic designers that want to explore new designs and learn about how a designer or firm became successful. If they wanted to look at designs from every type of designers, the magazine would display designs every month to show to the viewers what they created and their story behind it. There is current information about the designer or the firm, and they would get the viewer’s attention with either a design that a person did or an interesting article title with a preview of what the whole article is about. For soon to be or current graphic designers, “Communication Arts” is for people who want to explore the endless inspirational designs and interviews that will help a graphic designer be successful. 

my all time favorite design from Moore

Out of all of his work, this one has got to be one of my favorites of all time:

Moore used the same design, but he used color and black-and-white to see the difference. It's obvious they have the same pop art feeling, but the one on the left has glows from the lighter colors while the black-and-white one feels more like you're being sucked in. I think Moore made a good decision about making two of the same design but change the colors and see if one says a complete different story than the other one.

If you want to learn more about his work, check out http://mwmgraphics.com/index.html. I will say this much: you will not be disappointed with his works. They are amazing!

moore's logos and designs

Matt W. Moore does more both logos and designs. I thought these logos were interesting and unique.

He uses line weight to this logo but reflects it on the other side by chaning the line weight from the middle outward (thick to thin).

He also did this as well, which left me curious about why he did this design and wha it meant.

I think it means that he wants world peace because the peace sign is next/wrapped around the earth.
If you want to see more of Moore's logo designs, go to http://mwmgraphics.com/logos_branding.html.

Moore works mostly with design. But these apparel/art designs forcused more on either color, geometry, or both.

Each one of these images focuses on how he uses the shapes, colors, and/or type to his advantage. He's mostly careful with color this situation because I think he wants us to look at its intricate details or its simplicity.

He did more than just these designs. If you're curious abou it, go to http://mwmgraphics.com/fashion_apparel.html to check it out.

the google logo

Whenever we go on google we always see its logo changed from a different shape to a completely new look. Well, while I was looking up an artist for my color and design class, I found out he was one of the designers who did this:

Matt W. Moore is the designer/artist who made this google logo. I really like how he uses the circles as line weight or end points for each letter. For example, if you look at the "G," you can notice that the top and where it starts to curve it gives emphasis that it's a "G."

This is not the only logo he made for Google. If you're curious about his google logo designs, go to http://mwmgraphics.com/typography_google.html to look at them.

real or fake?

I found this image from instagram and thought this was interesting. You leave yourself questioning whether it's real or a painting because the little girl is using the fire distinguisher to eliminate the dragon's fire.