My logo!

This is the logo I ended up choosing for myself

My Best Logos

LOGOS

Here are some examples of bad logos ...

These logos may need to be rethought...or censored...

These are well designed logos, the first is my favorite...

And these are successful all-text logos...

Midterm :)

our midterm...

We had to use all the things we learned so far in class...

Wow... forgot to post this...

This was my first homework assignment, it had to do with our walk that we took through the city, if you go to older posts you can read about my adventure. It may help to better understand this lol.

The evolution of Illustrator...

This is my own work as I got better at using illustrator

photoshop :/

This was my homework assignment, we had to alter an image from online to change its meaning.

Fun with text

This is a project i did in Illustrator using text in image form

Adobe Illustrator

This is a pattern I made in Adobe Illustrator. Can you tell I'm obsessed with horses. ;P

Into to Illustrator

We are learning to use Adobe Illustrator in class. This is my homework assignment, we had to create to symbols, one of ourselves and one of something we like to do. The activity had to be simple, but the self portrait had to be more detailed. I look like a Mii lol :D

Why? Just why?

Ok, so here's a topic that we all know, and unfortunately has become a norm. What is it? Photoshopping celebs and models in the media. And people wonder why we have body image issues?

Some people say we should pass laws to prevent this kind of distortion from happening, whether that would work, I don't know. It would be difficult to draw a clear line on what is going "too far", and where does the artist's realm come into play? Its a big grey area if you ask me. I personally love using photoshop, let's just say healing brush and I go way back. But the kind of things that are going on in the pictures above... uhhh, when did looking like a Holocaust victim help you sell clothing? This is NOT healthy!!! And letting people, especially emotionally crazed teens think that that figure is possible, let alone "cool" is wrong. But making a law is kinda wrong too. I think maybe a label on the photo stating it has been drastically altered would be good, kinda like the "dramatization" label that comes up in TV shows and commercials. Lets face it this is in a way false advertising, they should have to state it just like any other company. 

Some of the photoshops are so bad, you wonder how they ever even managed to go to print. Check this one out of Oprah! Pretty sure whoever thought that one up wasn't the brightest bulb in the bunch. Some stars are even getting mad (with good reason) about their photos being altered. They want to show their real bodies. I say good for them! It's time a little truth hit Hollywood.

Want more info? Follow the links below!

http://shine.yahoo.com/fall-beauty/image-of-ultra-thin-ralph-lauren-model-sparks-outrage-521480.html

http://blogs.photopreneur.com/the-worlds-most-famous-photoshop-fakes

http://www.more.com/news/womens-issues/jamie-lee-curtis-true-thighs

http://www.yourcover.com/Articles/Most-Blatant-Uses-of-Photoshop-in-Magazines-Ads/

http://www.eonline.com/news/254745/julia-roberts-and-christy-turlington-ads-deemed-overly-photoshopped-banned-in-britain

My homework assignment 

HAHAHA...Fun with Photoshop :D

These are my 5 favorite pictures I took on our walk to Blick... Yeah I had some fun in photoshop :P

Walk, walk, walk...

So, for one of our assignments we were asked to go on a walk somewhere in Philly, take pictures, do some sketches, find and pick up some random objects etc. Trying to kill two birds with one stone, my roommate, Julia, and I decided to head on down to center city to go to Blick Art Materials and get supplies for our drawing class. 

 Everything started out well as we left our apartment, we ran into a friendly Temple police man on a segway who let me take his picture, thanks man! We headed up the street and down to the subway. When entering our tokens, Jules accidentally put in two instead of one, and the stupid turnstile wouldn't give it back! (this is important I promise). Anyway, got on the subway and headed down to city hall.

Now I don't know about you, but whenever I get off at that stop I am so confused about which direction is which that I almost always end up going the wrong way. After a little walking we finally made our way to Blick. After shopping we took a few more pictures, until my camera died :(, and headed back to septa. Again I got us kind of lost, well not really. I just got confused as to where we got back into the city hall stop. The construction of the one portal did not help. But we asked a philadelphia cop/parking person, who also seemed a bit confused as to where things were, and eventually we got back down into the subway. 

This is where that part about the lost token comes in. As you know those token machines in the subway don't give change, and we only had a five or a ten, and the ticket man never has tokens or change. (again this has a point, just bear with me) So Jules and I are discussing our options, and all of a sudden this woman at the other token machine starts ranting about "white trash sluts" and "I hear you talking about me" and "Imma kill you" kind of stuff. Pretty scary. Needless to say we got our tokens and got out of there as soon as we could. We could hear her yelling until the point we got back on the train. I was legitimately scared. But alas, we made it back to our apartment safe and sound. Just don't ever take me into center city if you need to find a place quickly!

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

So, watched this video, It's super interesting and I think it is important to share it. It is all about creativity and piracy, and how society is dealing with the two. He gives a great historical perspective on the issue. I find this important because this is something that effects all of us.  I was always taught that as long as you change the image and make it your own then it's ok to use in your work, but some people may disagree. Where does our own creation stop and the stealing of someone else's work begin? I think that as we move father into the future and farther along in technology our perception of this will change, but who knows!  Anyway, check it out!!!
 

Fostering Your Creativity

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     So, for my first post I will be talking about an article I read on 99u about creativity and ways we can help ourselves be more creative. I find this important to share with you because, as an artist, getting in the creative mindset can sometimes be difficult. This article was also great for all you educators out there because it touches on having an environment that can really help to foster creativity. I personally loved one thing Tina Seelig said in the article:

"If there are rules in place where you get punished if things don't work out that's really unfortunate because you're obviously not going to try anything new."

     That quote really hit home for me, because I find I sometimes hold myself back because of my personal fear of failure, and I feel a lot of other people share that with me. One thing Seelig says is that leaders should "fail publicly" and instead of focusing o the failure, focus on the things you learned. I think this would definitely help people to not be afraid. Society today is so focused on scrutinizing those who fail that its turned into a taboo thing. There is nothing wrong with failing, its how humans are hard wired to learn. Think of a baby trying to stand, nobody is going to yell at it when it falls over. Only after falling a bunch of times will it learn how to balance just right. Unfortunately the world isn't run that way, you are too many times measured by your failures instead of successes. This is something that needs to change.
     Getting back to the article...After reading this, I think we as a society really need to rethink how we set up our places of work, it could help companies work better and employees to want to work harder and churn out better ideas. Maybe thats why some companies are having financial trouble these days.
     Whether you are an artist, teacher, or anyone interested in bringing more creativity into your life I highly suggest this article for you. Pass it on.

Seelig really does a good job explaining the ways you can help yourself, students, and peers become more creative in a TEDx video posted below.

(fyi its the same one posted in the 99u article)