Type | Poster (again)

 

Yes, I am still revising my poster for typography. I think this is my favorite right now. I haven't decided if I like the white text though. I also need to change the picture of the little girl. I was told it would be best to use an older child. So I am on the search for a very blank stare/sad teen girl. I have thought about going out and taking a girl's picture (by permission of course) and get the shot I cannot seem to find online. But then if this poster does win, I doubt that girl will want her face plasterd on a sex traficking poster. Lastly, I need to do more color corrections. I was trying to find the correct color this afternoon, and I seem to be getting a dark-purply color. Trial and error, right?

VIS COM | 2nd try on icons

This is now my second try on the icons.

We decided to further explore the negative, background, and repetition traits for my icons.

They still need a lot of work, of course. But I really like the background and negative ones. Even though the negatives are the most challenging for me. 

The sink icon is my roughest drawing, it doesn't seem to portray "hospital" to me... I had tried a few drawings of a scrub sink like the sinks doctors use. But it honestly didn't look like a sink, or it was too complex when joined with the other icons.

 

I am excited to see how all of my icons fit together. I am ready to start working on the others. Like the gloves or the hospital bed. But I am really not looking forward to the operating lights. I believe these will be hard to recognize or too complex, like the scrub sink.

IMAGE MAKING | the constructed image (Lucille Ball) #one

 

This is not the piece I printed off, but I really like the close shot. I believe the quote is easier to see, but I really think the television brings a lot to the overall setting of the objects. 

The objects I used were a clock (timeless), a baby rattle (motherhood, her children), lipstick and pearls (two very strong staples of Ms. Ball), a burned picture of Desi Arnaz (her divorce between her and Desi was messy and very hard for her), chocolates (symbolizes her humor, the candy factory episode on 'I Love Lucy', and lastly cigarettes (she was a smoker and a cigarette girl when she first started out). 

  

I ended up printing this one. The only difference is that the inner television is black and white. I did this because most people recognized Lucille Ball in black and white (color television was not invited yet, silly. Though half the show was done in color at some point)

The only thing I do not like about the poster I printed was the angle of the shot in general. I wish thewhole television was visable. But the setup wouldn't allow it. Plus I didn't think it looked right anyways. 

But it will be something I know I will need to work on of course.

Lastly, my quote for Lucille Ball reads "I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one." 

I choose this quote because her life was revolved around her career. And her children.

This is the tiled piece I printed out:

 

Found this:

Ring Clock

I liked this.

Link to PDF

So kann mann meine PDF shen! Es rocktger Welr.

Type | Poster

These are my posters for type, on sex trafficking. There are a few errors with the screen shots. The first and last one should be totally black backgrounds. Not sure why they are like that (printed version came out)

 

  

 

Type | Poster Photos

I just wanted to post a few photos I was thinking about using for my sex trafficking posters. You are more than welcome to tell me what ya think:

 

  

  

I am going to mess with these images of the guys and see if I can make silhouettes of them, or darken them someway you cant tell who they are. Only that they are men.

  

  

 These are just photos I am getting together. Now here are a few layout I am working on:

 

  

 

 ( All of these posters will have hotline info and of course more text. I am open for criticism!)

IMAGE MAKING | Final Project #one

 

Screen shot in InDesign of my project. (I am getting use to InDesign, finally)

Icon:

 

This of course is a candid shot of me. Showing my enjoyment of laughing and what I believe to be my natural state. I really believe this shows who I am in a single shot. 

Index:

 

For those who do not know, this is my massive lime green purse I always carry with me. Inside this index I carry a number of other indexes of me, like my aprons for work, my moleskin, and a huge wallet (which never contains enough money)

I believe this indicates me always on the go and my bright personality.

Symbol:

 

Lastly, is my symbol. Incense. I believe this symbolizes my calm side. I enjoy hanging out and just relaxing. I am pretty laid back and honestly just really enjoy the scent.  

I thought this was a great way to start the semester. It seemed like a laid back and open assignment. It gave me a chance to brush up on my photography, and play with Photoshop a little bit. This assignment also allowed me to get to know my peers and what they thought about themselves and knowledge about composition, color, and design.

VIS COM | Readings #one

The article "How to Think" from Ed Boyden's Blog was basically what the title reads, how to think. Boyden creates a proposal to teach classes, ten "rules' which focus on being creative, thoughtful, and powerful in today's world.

Reading this lists made it apparent how these rules would help you reach a goal, maintain a great work ethic, produce solid projects, or just succeed in life really. All of the rules were helpful, but I really believe collaborating, learning rapidly, making your mistakes quickly, and documenting everything are a few that I believe are very helpful to me.
As a graphic design student collaborating is a tool I use very often. My peers and I are constantly discussing and combining ideas.
Learning rapidly is so useful! Ha. Boyden made an excellent point about today's standards, that its so important to be able to learn skills quickly. Boyden also gave the example of how he is able to use his brain to the fullest, by learning what helps him retain and produce to his fullest. Smart.
When it comes to making my mistakes quickly, I think I have a hard time. Though I believe I am getting better at accepting my mistakes, learning from them, and moving forward. Lastly, document everything. I believe I do this very well right now, cause I throughly enjoy collecting items, and scraps of things that I believe spark my creative nerve. Or even that just seem really neat and interesting. (If you do not believe me, just look at my desk. Ha.)

Type | Poster Ideas

Idea #one: Sex Trafficking
Idea #two: Making college's affordable



What ya think?

VIS COM | Two Story Ideas

Story One:

Preforming Surgery

Objects:
1) sink
2) gloves
3) stethoscope
4) IVs
5) operating table
6) lamps
7) clip boards
8) syringe
9) scalpel
10) pain killers
11) hospital gown
12) hospital bed

Story Two:

Building a Treehouse

Objects:
1) tree
2) wood
3) screws
4) nails
5) hammer
6) screw driver
7) pully and pale
8) overalls
9) wood glue
10) saw
11) drill
12) bandana
13) plans
14) carpenter's pencil

Just a few videos I enjoyed:

#1- Color

#2- Beauty Kit

#3- PIGS

#3 is probably my favorite. Great work.

Yeah this was cute.

Ten Thousand Pictures of You from Robin King on Vimeo.

CDF | Colormark

I only magaged to get a few pictures before my camera died.
This was our final day in CDF, and we went to Colormark. I was really cool seeing how they create all different prints. They do a lot of local pieces like Sprint and random busniess around KC. Very neat expericence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VISCOM | Taxonomy Redo

My first taxonomy was in desperate need of change. After brainstorming and coming down to a solid plan, I created an entirely new taxonomy. I have to say I am much more pleased with my final piece. I am proud to say I created a much more creative and complete piece.
Originally I had wanted to create a taxonomy that related to nature, but not parallel to my haiku animation. My first taxonomy was much too simple and was not fully thought out.
My final taxonomy molded into a journal of field notes. I created narrative of a nameless person hiking/researching in state of Wisconsin at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge. Throughout the handwritten notes the writer documents their findings and shows the denotative and connotative concepts. The small brown booklet is being written in a journal like narrative, complete with the writer's doodles and thoughts. Along with their doodles includes samples collected from the research and diagram drawings.
The entire book has a handmade scrapbooky feeling to it and would be considered a personal belonging:

Cover

Inside Title Page

Entry with layered transparency 

Entry without transparency

Wheat artifact

Wheat artifact closeup

Entry

Entry

Entry closeup

VISCOM | Final Project | Part B

Line #1 using woven wheat

Line #2 using leaves

 

Line #3 using leaves

tool(s) > mark(s) > pencil sketch(es) > analog shape(s) > digital translation(s) > composed w/haiku text 

After completing all three projects I have noticed their parallel of progression. Honestly I did not understand the importance of so many iterations of the dot compositions. I slowly began to understand the importance of the progression when we began the line juxtapositions. It was important to reiterate your first try's when deciding on the correct juxtaposition for the environmental line study.

Throughout these projects I have learned to think "outside the box", and not to act only on my first idea. Most of the time it isn't the best idea. Which goes hand in hand with progression. Just like reiterating dot compositions, retaking pictures of juxtapositions, and revising symbols; when one doesnt succeed in their first try, they should try a different approach. And not go with their first idea.

When the spring semester rolls around I will remember that craft is just about the best thing you can master, mini crits from your peers are always a wonderful idea, and that without a well throughout idea, your piece will not hit it's greatest potential.

These are my first drawings of my haiku. The first two lines are my iterations for my first line ("Wind-blown rained on") As you can see I was looking WAY too much into the poem. There are pictures of rocks, which I was trying to show that the rain and wind had created erosion in the rocks.

I now can see that the pictures were much too  literal. I believe I wasn't thinking abstract enough. I have been working on my progression and plan to continue to think more abstractly.

CDF | Final Post

 We have been working on a group project between the sections, creating a calendar. This calendar uses our delineated 3D letter forms and our color notions. The months were given a specific color concept and they were assigned to a person in the group. We also divided out jobs like color group and graph layout to insure accuracy and equal cooperation.

My month was March and my concept was transparency. I had a difficult time with this concept at first, due to the fact that my 3D letter form had to appear transparent. I used both subtractive and additive transparency concepts from one side of the form to the other. I really enjoy my color pallet and I think it goes very well with the month of March.

I am excited to see the final piece completed.

VISCOM | Final Haiku

Haiku from Loren Cook on Vimeo.

Music: Breathe Me by Sia (instrumental)

VISCOM | Final Project

 Above is my final storyboard on my flash haiku animation. At first I was having a difficult time transitioning from this simple storyboard to Flash. But quickly managed to produce a short but pleasant piece.

 

 The sequence above is the creating of my 3rd line symbol of "You make me, narrow path indeed".

Which describes the path one makes as they walk among grass. My object was a mass of plastic grass. I chose this material because my haiku deals with grass. I explored/created my marks with India ink, and mostly slapping or dragging the blades along the paper. These created almost teardrop shapes which also resembled grass shapes. My shape sketch iterations were shaky at first, but I finally created a symbol resembling blades of grass descending back, making a path. After scanning the symbol into Illustrator in I vectored the lines and imported into Flash. The transitioning of this object emphasized the creation of a path by breaking the symbols into two separate pieces. The two pieces entered the frame from opposites side and simultaneously met in the middle. I believe this forces the viewer to focus on the middle where the narrowest part of the joining objects.

Music: Breathe Me by Sia (instrumental)

Taxonomy

Though our taxonomy did not have to relate to our haiku in any way, I decided to stay with the nature theme. I stuck with a simple binding and light brown, semi textured paper. I also used white labels (which I dyed) for the text, giving it a more homemade feel.

When classifying my marks into denotative and connotative I also tried to stick with a simplistic layout, using a spread to spread approach. For each object I snapped a shot of the mark-maker, which is the denotative. On the fallowing spread, four marks made by the mark-maker were placed evenly about the pages, labeling them with my connotative words.

 

Cover

 

 Table of Contents

 

 1st denotative

 

 Close-up of label

 

 1st connotative

 

 2nd denotative

 

 2nd connotative

 

 3rd denotative

 

 Close-up of label

 

 3rd connotative

4th denotative

4th connotative