Creative Anarchy Review

    This article is about how the rules of design need to be known before being broken. These rules should be broken in the right way for the scope of the project. The author claims that poor design creates chaos. This is true, because if certain important rules aren't followed and a design is made improperly, the world that sees it will not understand it. It is important to know the rules and only bend or break the rules of design. Denise Bosler uses examples of rules from everyday life that are crucial and anecdotes of actual client scenarios to support her argument.

    Much of the article is well written and I can relate to. Unfortunately some paragraphs contradict one another in the way they are written. The article also seemed quite vague when mentioning the actual rules of design. They were never clearly stated. 

    Ms. Bosler concludes that a project is never complete until the creative anarchist within is fully satisfied. The designs one creates should never stop evolving and a designer's learning is never finished. She states that designs should be outside of the box and more personal and relatable. I enjoyed the article, it was very intriguing and involved. It was a fascinating point of view on design. The author argues that each idea should begin with previous creations and then your idea should be similar but changed in a risky way. And always keep your eyes open to new ways of creating. 

    The overall article was interesting and well written but sometimes contradicted itself. I enjoyed it and connected with it throughout reading and annotating. I also learned things I can apply later to design class.

Silhouette Overlay Tutorial

  Before I begin with the tutorial, I would like to show you the final product to give you a simple idea of what the finished product can look like.

    The concept is to put something as a silhouette with words over a photo that helps to create the environment around the silhouette and sets the tone of the lettering used.

First begin by creating a new document, as seen above. I just created it as a normal piece of paper although you can make it any size you want as it will be finished as the size of a photo you choose.

After you have created your document begin brainstorming different ideas for the lettering and overall concept, I will be showing you the bird "Free as a Bird."

Once you have chosen your concept, simply search for the main subject (in this case the bird) and the background (in this case the sky and sun photo).

These are the two photos I will use.

  Drag or copy and paste your first photo (the bird) into your document. Then, using the pen tool with no fill, outline the subject (the bird) fully.

Once this is done, remove the photo and fill the outline in black. Take away the stroke and select the Blob Brush tool. Give it a white fill and write whatever you would like on the black subject. In this case the bird will have "free as a bird" on it.

Now drag in the the secondary background photo (the sky here). Then resize it and place it behind the main subject. The only thing left to do is select everything but the background photo and make the opacity 80%.

You should then have something similar to this, you can move around the silhouette as you please in order to get the desired finished product.

 

Japanese Patterns

   My motif is many different ellipses rotated five degrees. It then has squares and hexagons within it done in a similar fashion in one solid gray. It resembles some pieces on backs of cards. I was actually inspired by cards and simply started rotating ellipses to see how it looked. The idea of this project was to make something that radiates out from the center and creates a pattern.

   My repeating pattern is hexagons and diamonds moving downward and left and right. It looks similar to beads that hang from doorways or streamers. I was inspired by a hexagon pattern that used multiple different colors but because it did, I couldn't use it here so I made my own. The idea was to make a pattern that repeated from all sides.