Photography Blog Assignment: Week #6 (Due Friday, Nov. 4th)

Hello fellow photographers!  For this week's photo assignment we are taking close-ups of images in nature.  Our assignment will be to turn in one photograph that is in color, and one that is in black and white.  For this blog, discuss which format (either color photography, or black and white) that you like the best and why.  Make sure to support your conclusions with evidence citing the work of

 professional photographers as examples. Discuss which format you feel is the most artistic - meaning allows for the most effective use of the elements and principles of design.  Finally, discuss what you feel are the strengths and weaknesses of both formats and
what challenges you might meet when taking your own photographs.  Happy blogging!

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #7 (due Friday, Nov. 4th)

Graphic Designers!  For this week's blog assignment post your completed logo design (you may have to save it as a PDF file first).  After posting the picture, describe your company in detail as well as the products you intend to sell.  Discuss your targeted audience and how you plan to capture their attention, and eventually their buying power through your logo design.  Finally, discuss your process in creating the final design.  What did you enjoy, what was challenging?  If you could do the design over again, what would you change?  Happy blogging!

Photography Blog Assignment: Week 5 (Due Friday, Oct. 28th)

Photographers!  Welcome back to blogging from an extended break!  For our upcoming project we will be taking photographs of extreme closeups of objects in nature.  For this week's blog assignment, post a photograph, by a professional photographer either living or dead, that is a photograph of a closeup of an object in nature.  After posting the image, analyze it for the elements and principles of design, the composition, and then what you think the artist's intended message was for the piece.  Make sure to cite your sources and give credit to the photographer.

Photograph by: Ansel Adams

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #6 (due Friday, Oct. 21st)

For this week's blog assignment, please post a finished jpeg image of your Typography assignment!  After posting the picture give a brief explanation of the text that you used (it's lyrics and meaning) and how your image connects to that text.  After this explanation, talk about what it is in your image that you think is very successful.  Then discuss what you would change about your typography design were you to do it over again.  Happy blogging!

Photography Blog Assignment: Week 4 (Due Friday, Oct. 7th)

For this unit on self-portraits we are exploring the work of Cindy Sherman and connecting her ideas on portraiture, especially staging and dramatic lighting that she executed for her Untitled Film Stills series, to our "B Movie" self-portraits.  To get us thinking about how we can place ourselves in a "B Movie" environment, please post a picture of "B Movie" poster on your blog for this week.  After you post the picture briefly describe what you imagine the movie to be about.  After that brief description, discuss how you would create a self-portrait done in the style of that poster.  Your description should be realistic as to what you personally own for costuming, where in your community you could stage it, how you would create dramatic lighting, and finally what emotion or mood you would want to create in the photograph.  Your description can even include a back-story or script to your own "B Movie" if you want, but this is not required.  Have fun with it!

  

Graphic Design Blog Assignment: Week #5 (due Friday, Oct. 7th)

Welcome back from a short blogging break graphic designers!  Our next project, after we complete our typography image, will be to design a logo for a fictitious company using your initials or name.  To get us started and our creative brains in the right mindset, we will be analyzing a series of professional logos.  For this week's blog, please upload a picture of at least two logos that you feel are highly successful.  After uploading each picture describe why you think that they are successful.  How is the logo associated with the product that it is trying to sell?  Is it associated to the product at all?  What emotions or feelings do you have when you see the logo?  Answers these prompts for each one of the logos that you post (two total).  Make sure to cite your sources and also list the company that the logo is trademarked to.  

www.starbucks.com

Registered Trademark of Starbucks