critic for computer arts images

Ministry of Sound

Tom Grant
Location: Manchester, UK
Job: Illustrator and designer

Raw 5

Tom Grant
Location: Manchester, UK
Job: Illustrator and designer

Dig-In

Georgina Luck
Location: Brighton, UK
Job: Freelance designer and illustrator

Each of these images are from their monthly gallery from different designers. These three and other images show a variety how each of them are approached compared to the rest of them. The first and third image focus on color that work well or are close in value while the second image focuses only on transparency.

Graphic Design At Its Best

On the first day of history of graphic design, my goal for this blog was to find any graphic design concepts around me and learned a lot from that class. Now these two images were taken at the Berwyn Train Station and were suppose to be used for my very first post (but that didn't happen because a lot of graphic design related concepts were around me). I found these two images to be intriguing because the first image possessed vibrant colors on a dull background/sticker that made it a focal point instead of focusing on all the useless stuff on the background/sticker and the second image has a transparency feeling for one color (which is black) and using that same shape on a neutral color background. As a result from the class and the blog, I'm really grateful for taking this class. I learned way more about graphic design than i did when i first became a graphic design major. We have changed drastically on what graphic design is and how we view it artistically and visually towards that person.

 

 

This now and officially the end of my Graphic Design At Its Best blog. I hope you like and gained some inspiration for your current or future projects/ideas. HAVE A SAFE, RELAXING, AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

what's growing on the tree?

This i did for my 3D design class in the spring. Out of all the projects i did for that class i thought this was my most successful one because of this ambiguitiy feeling of this color like moss/thing growing on a tree. Originally, it wasn't suppose to be on the tree; it was a sculpture. Apparently, it didn't work well like that and it couldn't stand up. So, it worked well with the tree.

amazing installation

While i was looking up images of anything art/design related about a year ago, i found this installation of these paper cranes hanging from a tree and scattered on the ground. This person took advantage of their surrounding and how to set up and place these cranes. If you look carefully, they're hung on a clear string, so the viewer will think that the cranes are floating. (I also don't know who made the installation, but it's a good reference for one of the 3D Design projects,which is the multiples project).

variety of ideas for a logo

So for this one, I thought this was interesting because the designer tried out a variety of ideas for one logo and how they went from two dimensional to three dimensional and from monochrome to gradient to rainbow from each logo. They also used line to make a pattern out of it. (I don't know the designer and the logo for it.)

look familiar?

Do these people look familiar to you?

Again i found these online and again i don't know the person who design these people. But, I personally like the little mermaid image because the person used vibrant colors on the little mermaid to look at the whole figure to the tail to the backgorund with the different shades of blue. This is also the same for cinderella: using vibrant colors for the whole figure to using the white swirls to lead your eye to look at the gray to black background. The difference between cinderella and the little mermaid is that cinderella has swirls while the little mermaid doesn't because the little mermaid's tail has the curvilinear shapes while the designer had to put in the swirls since cinderella was simplisitic.

an interesting business card

This i also found on the internet, and as you can see these are designs on a card. You're probably asking "what kinds of cards are they?" These are business cards with designs on it. It didn't say for what business, but what the designer was trying to do is to take advantage of the colors and the design of it and use it to make it appealing to the client. They took advantage of transparency, black-and-white, and geometric patterns and shapes.