Branding

BM

Colour Swatch

James Guenther.

Heighway Dragon Curve

So, I made a program that creates this cool fractal. Basically, this is how it works:

1). Start with 'XY'
2). Replace every X with X+YF+, and every Y with -FX-Y (so 'XY' becomes 'X+YF+-FX-Y' after one generation)
3). After a desired number of generations, remove all the X's and Y's from the resulting word and you should be left with F's, +'s and -'s.
4). Then start at a point and follow the directions like this: 'F' means move forward by one unit, '+' means rotate by 90 degrees clockwise, and '-' means rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise.

After following all the F's, +'s and -'s that remain, you get a cool image called the Heighway Dragon Curve:

Now, this above image draws a line one unite forward for every 'F'. If I instead draw an oval of a small radius, I get a smoother image that could be used as a topological map of sorts for games, etc...:

kuler swatch

Summative Grade 12 Graphic Design Part 1

Entire Project Due June 14 at the end of class.
The book
As your culminating activity, you will be creating a fully printed and bound book with a minimum of 32 pages in any size on any subject. Your book should integrate a number of ideas and approaches appropriate to a 21st century book market. This means you will be submitting your book in a physical form as well as an electronic form (ie. PDF). Be mindful of contemporary design approaches and environmental concerns. No copywritten material is permitted. This project is carried out individually.

Deadlines are extremely important in this project.


Research

Find at least 20 sources that you can use as influence for your book visual, technical or otherwise. Your sources must include books, magazines, internet, human, video,and virtual library sources. List each and write a short 1 line description of each. Include links in a bibliography. Be sure to cover all relevent material to your book including:

Materials and printing methods, artists, designers, writers, typography, layout, binding techniques, subject information for your content.

Decide on the materials and printing techniques you will be using for your project. Try to ensure as environmentally responsible a project as you can. List your intended papers for the interior and cover.



Content

Brainstorm and determine a concept or concepts that you will use for your book.

Describe what your book is going to be about. 1 page and answer the following questions

1. What is your book about?

2. What makes your content choice specific to you?

3. How are you going to represent your content?

4. How do you intend to communicate the content?

5. What content editing methods will you use?

6. What media are you using to make your imagery?

7. Why are you making this particular book?

8. How does your choice of content suit your skills, experience, and interest?

9. Describe the style and look of your book and how it is linked to the content.

Field Assignments Expansion Pack

Field Assignments Add-on

1. 
   
   A Gorgeous Graph: make a super attractive graph
2. 
   
   Make A Stamp: Make a rubber (or any other useable material) stamp and stamp something
3. 
   
   Try Bookbinding: No staples or glue
4. 
   
   Kuler: Create a colour pallette (name each colour) and upload it somewhere
5. 
   
   Laser Cutting and spot varnishing: Cut and varnish an existing graphic so that it looks better.
6. 
   
   Colossal Serif: make serif-based lettering that is bigger than your body
7. 
   
   Light Painting: Do a long exposure with a camera and draw with light
8. 
   
   Warning: Create a warning sign for a uniquely contemporary problem
9. 
   
   Algorithm: Develop an algorithm and implement it (computer or real-world)
10. 
    
    Colouring Book: Create an illustration for a colouring book
11. 
    
    Miniature drama: engage figurines in some kind of dramatic situation and create a comic or video
12. 
    
    Panorama Whodunnit: Create a mystery mise en scene and encapsulate it in a panorama
13. 
    
    Sign Painter: Try to replicate an existing typeface using paint and a brush.
14. 
    
    2 sided: Create a 2 sided illustration that juxtaposes the front and the back image
15. 
    
    Compass, Protractor and ruler: Create an illustration using only a compass, protractor and ruler.
16. 
    
    Tangled Type: draw or illustrate some typography that is completely tangled
17. 
    
    Bookish: Find and describe the most beautiful book you have ever seen
18. 
    
    Packaged: Make a paper package for a small thing
19. 
    
    Pixels: Make and use something as a pixel
20. 
    
    Secret Code Machine: Develop a coder/decoder ring
21. 
    
    Scandal: Using a found family or friend photo, write a scandalous article
22. 
    
    The Swiss: Do something that looks swiss
23. 
    
    Super tiny: Create the smallest lettering or imagery possible
24. 
    
    Repair a memory: use a family photograph and remove the embarassment
25. 
    
    Brand a friend
26. 
    
    Site-specific camouflage: make an image that perfectly matches its context
27. 
    
    Gourmet McD's: Create a menu for your favourite fast-food restaurant to look like a high end restaurant.
28. 
    
    Design Nerds: Follow a graphic design blog for a week and write about it
29. 
    
    Draw with media that wasn't intended for use as a drawing material
30. 
    
    Pointalism: Using a pin (or other pointy object) create a design on plain paper

That graph

This is some of the stuff i do during the day. This is what occupies most of my week

T.A

Branding Assignment

Logo

Sketches

Business Card

                                              Sticker

My brand is for a sports apparel company. The company is called AC Sports.  AC stands for my initials (Alex Copp). The logo is very clean and simple. It uses only grayscale (black and white for AC and gray and black for SPORTS). The curved thick letters with the thin black outline create smooth, 3 dimensional effect for the AC that contrasts the simple sans serif text of the SPORTS. The logo is supposed to appeal to anyone involved in athletics: sports teams, athletes, coaches, etc. The benefit of the logo being simple is that it can be easily embroidered on the company’s apparel. This company will design almost all sports apparel imaginable: custom jerseys, sports equipment, water bottles, gym bags, T-shirts, etc. The 2 identity system pieces I have chosen are a business card and a sticker

AC

Identity Stuff

This is my brand. The aesthetic of my design has always been pretty simplistic so I decided to maintain this look. If you know me, you know I feed myself a disgusting amount of fast food and I thought what better way to identify my work than to make it fast and fresh like our beloved McDonalds. So the first three pictures here are from my website, and the last image would be the front and back of my business card.

More will be coming.

M.L

My Average Week

AC

Graphic Design Work Term 2 or whatever this is...

Although I will admit, I haven't been around much to do work in class this term, I HAVE been doing some design work. Here's a few things

So I've been coming up with logo / identity concepts for an upcoming stock company in Calgary.. My client doesn't respond too quickly, So I'm not sure which logo we're going with yet.

This big mess displays my various ideas for the E.S.A logo. Not a fan of any of them really. Very 1990.

I've been working on a little publication here at my co-op for a client who's in the construction business. Slowly learning InDesign. 

Here's a website I've designed in Dreamweaver. It's not running on the internet quite yet, but hopefully come summertime it will be up. It's a cool business they've got going here.

m.l

Field Assignment: Found Letters

If you don't involve yourself with drugs, but want to look whacked out like I do.. go onto somebody's computer and make words out of their application logos.

m.l

Bish, please put up new assignments. Frankly, I'm a little disgusted with my work

The pie of daily life at the cottage

BM

Graph

James Guenther.

bleh

Time Spent on Video games K-G

i dont always plays games but this graph shows how much i play compared to the other games i play

Time Spent Doing Things

I go to school. See the friends. Come home. I eat a lot while studying. Then I play games on my laptop for wayyy too long, also while eating. Then around 12:30-1 am I play the piano really loud and wake up the whole neighbourhood. I get very little sleep. I play soccer in the summer. That's pretty much me. -R.R

April's Chart

Blah :P

Personal brand

The names says it all. we don't sell soft goods.ta

My Graph

So I did a graph of my average weekly sleep cycle... it's kind of erratic and fuzzy and messy.... much like my actual sleep pattern...
all the images were kinda ment to look like dream bubbles... but it failed a bit..
the higher up the image, and the larger the image, the more hours I spend doing it....
also adorable kittens, like promised...
why kittens you ask?
1. I love kittens and sleep with my cats each night
2. I sleep a lot, much like kittens and cats
3. why not kittens?

Graph

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Meh.

m.l

Brand

I apologize for the inconvenience, but I tried loading my brand onto this blog over the weekend and was confronted with an error in the HTML (something about META or MATA) which barred me from posting it.

However, it's on my memory stick and will bring it with me the next time I am in class.

I also apologize for the inconvenience (wow I'm causing a lot of inconveniences, I'm sorry about that too) that I couldn't be in class today, and regret to inform you I won't be able to make it to the && meeting after school, in which case I have posted my picture here for you to use.

I realize this is a materialistic, developed nation  "problem", that of texting, so if you'd like me to change it simply comment on this image.

-Elaine

Graphing assignment

So I did have this done last class... and it was full of adorable kittens
yes you read that right
HOWEVER
my computer crashed when I clicked "save"... and evidentally it didn't save
I'll re-do it ASAP
Sarah :)

Graphing Assignment

Graph containing what's fun and what i spend my time on! M.B.