Saturday, October 23, 2010

New Recycle Signs!



Our group was Sam, Tessa and I, and when we started, Tessa had a great idea of making shapes of things that go into the bins on the poster, like the tree and bottle. We all then decided that adding the material that actually goes into the bins was another great idea. So we started making those. The "THINK GREEN" are both things that are written. We had scanned them onto the computer because we couldn't find a good font to match the mps recycles, because nothing really went well with it. We knew that we wanted the mps recycles to look like that, so we didn't change the font of it. We also thought that the white background was kind of boring on the recycling bins now, so we changed it to a tan color, which really went nicely with the pictures that we included. We wanted both to match really well together, so we just decided to change the picture that went on the paper instead of making a two different types of signs, so this way it matches. To us, it was nice because it was very simple and right to the point but it was nicer than what the bins have on them now, which, to be honest,  are very dull. We all worked together to make this happen, which was another great part of this project. I think we made the new signs much better than they were better and I really like them. Also it was great working with Tessa and Sam because we used the time wisely and we knew what we wanted to do! (:

Friday, October 8, 2010

Re-creating Bad Ad




Re-doing this ad was kind of hard for me to start because I didn't really know where to start on the ad. I really found it hard to get up and going on my feet. After I plotted some ideas down, I found it easier to start because I deleted and added things as they came to my mind. The colors were hard to also pick out because I wasn't sure if they always matched the colors that were in the pictures. When I started, I knew that I wanted to make the top centered align because thats the type of ad I like. The hard part of that was picking how to do the text because I wasn't sure on if I should make it center aligned also. I decided against this and put it all on the right side. The border was another idea that I added at the end because the ad felt like it had too much blank space left.  Overall, I think the hardest part of the ad was starting to re-create the ad because I didn't have an idea to jump right into. Also finishing was hard because I wasn't sure if it looked okay and if it needed more ideas to go alone with it.

picture from:  http://getsetimagine.com/images/colonial_drummer_with_color_2cr4.jpg