Expressive typography

Project Description: Using Adobe Illustrator, I made four different types of logo designs. The first one that is one the top is called "Stacked Text" and I just flipped every other one in the order. The second one, under the stacked text, is "Figure Ground Reversal" and to make this we typed the alphabet and placed it into a shape and started using a positive negative affect. The third one is the "Ligature Example" and I had to connect the letters together to make a ligature. The examples on the bottom are called "Letters as an object" and we had to put a picture in place of a letter.
New Skills, Processes, and Tools Learned: Create Outlines and Ungroup letters, align tool, gradients, live trace.
Self Reflection: I think that this project was the most fun because it was our own idea. We had to come up with the designs ourselves. The hardest part was the negative positive examples.
Proj/part: 9/10

Days 8-12

Project Description: The project that we did on Adobe Illustrator was from a tutorial on vectordiary.com. We used the shape tool for mostly everything we did and we focused more on using colors, gradients, and stroke.
New Skills, Processes & Tools Learned: Shape Tools: Ellipse, Star, Rectangle/ Drawing Tools: Brush, Pen
Self Reflection: This project was easier then the last one. The brush tool is simple compared to the pen tool because the pen tool has anchor points as if the brush tool just draws wherever you want it to. Using the gradients and the color was probably the hardest part of this project.
proj/part: 8/9

Days 1-5

Project Description: In the project above, we used a tutorial on how to use adobe illustrator. We became comfortable with using the shape tools and eventually the pen tool. The pen tool was very difficult for me. At first I din't understand how to use it but then after awhile the pen tool was no longer a challenge
New skills/processes & tools learned: I learned how to use the pen tool, along with all the shape tools
Self Reflection: This project was very frustrating because I was just learning how to use adobe illustrator and the second thing we had to do was use the pen tool. I eventually was able to accomplish the project after trying and trying a million times.
Part/Proj: 8/7

Spaceship post

Project Description: I learned how to create this spaceship off a tutorial; the program we used was adobe illustrator. The spaceship was made up of different shapes and I used different tools. The link ishttp://www.denisdesigns.com/blog/2009/03/create-a-simple-spaceship-in-illustrator/ for the tutorial.
New Skills/processes & tools learned: I learned how to use the shape tools as well as the pen tool. At first it was a struggle, but after using it for about two classes I became comfortable with using it.
Shape Tools: Rectangle, Square, and ellipse
Self Reflection: Making the spaceship was easy at first since I was already comfortable with using the shape tools. At about Step 14 was when it started to get harder. The hardest thing in this project for me was making the flame on the ship.
Part/Proj: 9/8 

my first blog post!

        So, this is my first blog post, and I don't know what I am going to talk about. So I am going to tell you about my day so far. I woke up around 6:10 in the morning and had 2 waffles. Yum. I got ready and left the house at 6:50. I got on the bus and sat next to my friends Alex and Judith. As we got off the bus, we walked all the way to the fourth floor to go to our lockers and talk to everyone.
        After the bell rang, I had to walk all the way to the first floor to Culinary class. We learned about cooking terms and measurements. Yippy. When the bell rang, I walked to the Main Gym for gym class, then I realized that I forgot my gym shoes. I met up with my friend Emily and we ran all the way to the fourth floor to our lockers. As we were going, we got stopped by a security guard who was asking where we were going. As we were being questioned we slowly walked away to our lockers. We were able to retrieve our gym clothes and we sprinted back to the locker room to get dressed.
        In gym class we did weigh lifting with our "funny" teacher, Mr. Iyza. After class, I got dressed and came here, to Graphic Design where i made this blog. fun day.