This Design was done by award winner Radim Malinic. He is well known for advertisement and logo designs. He has done designs for Coca Cola, Dell, and a lot more. This is a design for car that I think is great it incorporates all styles of design from the photography of the car to the illustration of the city in the back. to me it looks like the car is speeding around the city with no obstacles that can get in the way. I love the color choice. it is an enjoyable image to look at.

 

This is a collection of images i found on Pinterest and I find myself keep going back and looking at it. they include very creative words or sayings that incorporate small images are symbols to make you feel like you are seeing an overall image as you read it. I try to use this as inspiration that things so simple can have a huge impact on design.  

Print

This is an image off of Print magazine. this caught my eyes for multiple reasons. The first is, my favorite kind of type is 3D and that is exactly what this is. It does a great job showing the TYPE & FORM in 3D and uses a drop shadow where as everything else on the cover is flat. The next reason it stands out is because the text is functional with what it says. it has the appearance of the text being formed in some kind of plaster.  I also like the arrangement. the one negitive I have is that it stands out so much that the title Print is second on the hierarchy.

Photography

This is off a cover of How. I did my magazine research in GDS 102 on How magazine and it has so much great info inside on graphic design and more usually broken up into specific topics. I highly recommend reading a couple issues if you get the chance. Anyways this cover incorporates photography on top of photography that goes very well together to make this composition. Not only is the images great it goes with the main topic of this issue which is break through.

Illustration

I found this design on webdesignshock.com. It is a home page for a website, and I thought it has great use of illistration that works with the text. I like how they placed the text "Blog" inbetween the two limbs and how they made it feel airy.

Fist Blog

This is my first blog so I figured I should say a bit about myself. I am in the graphic design program at Parkland college and this blog is for my GDS 120 class I am currently taking taking. I graduated back in 2008 from Mahomet Seymour High School which is where I also met my wife Ariel. Straight from there, I went into the Marines. I spent five years traveling the world and meeting people which was a blast but this past summer I decided to get out and try college. While I was in the Marines I bought a 24 inch vinyl cutter and I started doing signs and car decals for my friends. After awhile I got a couple leads and I was doing vinyl lettering signs and logos for store fronts. This is what got me interested in the Graphic design program. So far I have learned everything by just messing around with it, so I figure if I learn the easier and more proper ways of the trade I will enjoy it more.

While I was in I was lucky enough to have a sweet job that gave me the chance to go to advanced military schools and do a variety of things normal people don't get to do. In some of these fields they have a "Jack" . A "jack" tells your military skills that you have acquired over the years and your capabilities. It is comprised of multiple symbols  that all stand for something. I guess you could kind of think of it as a logo. The first photo below is a banner I was working on for one of my friends and the second is an outline of a Jack that tells my story.