Coffee Carrier

Here is an image of a unique coffee carrier. At first I thought this was so cool! I have never seen one like this before. I loved the simplicity of the typeface and the overall design. Then i got tho thinking, What if I actually had to use something like this? My luck I would be carrying it around the covers would pop off and there would be coffee everywhere. I then also realized it only holds two cups. I have two hands. I could hold two cups with out this holder. I was so distracted by the design and newness of the carrier I didn't realize a first how useless this would be to me. That is the power of design my friends.

Advertisements

Today while I was perusing Pinterest, I came across some very clever fitness advertisements. These advertisements were on everyday, commonly used items. It is interesting to see advertisements like these. Other advertisements I have seen simply put the name of the company out there. These pieces are conversation starters, making them so much more effective.

Check them out! http://www.boredpanda.com/fitness-and-yoga-ads/

Music posters

Our newest project for Typography is to create a music poster. At first I was not really sure of what direction I wanted to go, but as I was looking for inspiration, I feel in love with simplistic designs. I know that my design will not end up being simple because I can not seem to ever keep it simple.

I found this image when I was browsing the internet and I think it is great because of how straight forward it is.

Final Project

For my final project, I want to create a magazine spread in InDesign. I am going to steal the project from Sarah’s typography class. I want to create a 4 page spread including: pull quotes, images, and a story. I want to create a spread based on an interview of a famous someone (Subject to change).  My audience is going to be young adults. I want to choose someone that is relevant to the young adult world. For the final project I want to submit a digital rough of my spread. I would eventually like to print the spread and out it together, but I think in the time we have left I would rather focus on my design than the technical aspects of printing it out and putting it together. Realistically in the two weeks we have left, it is going to be challenging to create and design four pages.

Milwaukee Skyline

Here is our InDesign project of the Milwaukee skyline. We created the shapes and filled them with facts about each shape. The sun is filled with facts of the sun, the skyline the fact of Milwaukee and so on. I really enjoyed this project, but I was often frustrated with Indesign. There were many instances that I had an idea in my head, but I didn't know how to do it. I am happy to be a little bit more experienced in InDesign.

InDesign Practice

This semester was the first time I have really used InDesign. There are a lot of really great tools in InDesign. It is similar to Photoshop and Illustrator in many ways.

Here is what I have done for our first practice. I tried to incorporate everything we learned in class. I could not figure out how to get a better variety of swatches. I really like that there is a place holder text option. It makes it very easy to get your design done first.

Portfolio Website

Who thought this day would ever get here? The day where we can say we are finally done with the midterm project! Now that I have completed this project, I have a greater appreciation for Dreamweaver. I never thought I would figure it out, and it turns out the more I struggled with it the more I actually learned. I am very happy with the final result. The only thing I am not happy about are the blue lines around my images when I open the home page on the web. I am not sure how they got there or what happened.

Here is the url to my website: http://artweb.stritch.edu/kaspillane/Art202/