You will find an artist in your field: Animation, Graphic Design or Film.
Provide a link to their website, and you will be critiquing their work.
They can be from anywhere but must have a website that has their work or samples of their work.
(DNM2 students: you may NOT use the same artist as your current assignment)
You will list three of their pieces of work (your favorite pieces) and write these 2 things about each piece:
-Brief Description of the piece
-The strength and weakness of the piece.
Your blog comment should look like this:
1. Artist Name.
2. Website Link.
3. Piece 1 Title.
a. write a brief description of piece 1.
b. write the strength and weakness of piece 1.
4. Piece 2 Title.
a. write a brief description of piece 2.
b. write the strength or weakness of piece 2.
5. Piece 3 Title.
a. write a brief description of piece 3.
b. write the strength or weakness of piece 3.
Make sure you include your first and last name on your blog comment.
DUE Friday September 17, 2010 at 3:30pm.
1. Joshua Davis
ReplyDelete2. http://www.joshuadavis.com/
3. Kimono Blue
a)It is a very busy piece with a lot of color, shapes and design.
b)I really like the colors used and all of the different shapes. The only thing i don't like is the background, i think it should either be solid or have a washed out design.
4. The Snow Owl
a) this piece is less busy, more put together and solid, and it has less variety of color.
b) Contrary to the last piece, i like the background and i don't like the color choice on this one. The background matches this piece better, but i don't like the redish color in the middle.
5. Oleander Vine
a) This piece has more large areas of a single color, and the whole thing follows an olive color scheme with some other vibrant colors.
b) I like how this piece looks like it was pasted together in the middle. I don't like the corner in the top left where in the olive area there is the glowy pinkish are, it doesn't fit, and it doesn't match the rest of the piece where half is olive and half is color.
1. Milton Glaser
ReplyDelete2. http://www.miltonglaser.com/
3. Tomato Record Company Logo
a. The design is very simplistic and captures the eye using a bright red as the base color.
b. Strength: The color is distracting and attention grabbing, drawing more interest in the company.
Weakness: I think the teal color should lean more towards a green to compliment the red.
4. Barron's Book Publisher Logo
a. It is a black and white logo showing an open book laying open from a parallel angle with the company's name under.
b. Strength: The use of negative coloring brings out the key aspects like the company name.
Weakness: I think the book is alittle to busy with only being black it creates a sort of illusion as the lines go to the middle.
5. Positano Restaurant Logo
a. It is a nun with here vail blowing up in the back and creating a mermaid tail. The nun is a dull green and has a faint texture.
b. Strength: Only using one color and using negative space to help mold the shape forms a very clever logo.
Weakness: I think it needs to be more simple its throughs the attention everywhere not narrowing it down and highlighting the key aspects.
1. Jessica Greenwalt
ReplyDelete2. jgreenwalt.com
3. Yellow Flowers
a. An illustration of several yellow flowers
b. The bright yellow monotone color scheme works really well, and the flowers look intricately detailed.
4. Mandy
a. Vector illustration of a dog
b. The fur looks very detailed and almost realistic.
5. Morro Bay Harbor Festival 2008
a. An advertisement poster created for the Morro Bay Harbor Festival
b. The colors are very warm, the logo doesn’t look out of place and distracting, and the whole advertisement just catches the eye.
1. Kate Quinby
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3. Don't Forget to Write*
a. Kate uses 3 colors, red, yellow and white. Red and yellow are said to make people hungry, and she is using a minimal amount of colors to create an eye catching design.
b. strength: The color scheme and the design.
weakness: small gray letters on white, making it hard to read
4. 3 Leroys
a. A wine bottle design.
b. strength: font and design
weakness: small letters at the bottom are hard to read
5. Ethiopia Sidamo
a. Peacock design for starbucks coffee bag
b. strength: colors and patterns
weakness: background is hard to tell apart from the peacock
1. Lucie1
ReplyDelete2. http://www.Worth1000.com/artists/Lucie1
3. Flower Power
a. it is a bee taking pollen from a flower but in side the bud of the flower there is a battery.
b. I like this piece a lot but i would make the bee look crisper because it looks blurry right now, also i would add a little more pink around the left side of the flower. The strength is that the battery does not look added in it looks like it was already there.
4. Slow Sundae
a. This is a picture of a snail with a scoop of ice cream on top.
b. I think that the artist should make the ice cream and the fudge look more realistic, and to take away some of the white specs on the ground. The strength is that the snail looks realistic and even glossy from slime.
5. Upgrade
a. This is a picture of Big Ben in London with instead of a hand clock it has a digital clock on it.
b. To make this photograph better i would try and make the digital clock look older to match the rest of the building. The strength is that the building does not looked changed in any way and you don't notice the change (digital clock) until you really examine it.
1. Artist: Marco Suarez
ReplyDelete2. Website: http://marcosuarez.com/
3. Work
a. Piece # 1: Peery Homes Brochure
i. This piece is a brochure for a home building company that is used to attract potential clients.
ii. Strength: Excellent photos that show off the homes.
Weakness: Nothing that would draw attention, such as a bright color
b. Piece # 2: Michal Marie’s Business
i. This piece shows the logo, business card, and webpage for a company that makes cakes.
ii. Strength: A nice font for the words and a clean, simple design.
Weakness: Needs a better color for the logo.
c. Piece # 3: System WorCx
i. This piece is a logo for a company that builds eco-friendly facilities.
ii. Strength: I like how the clouds are implied instead of shown.
Weakness: I think this artist should try to fix the gradient.
1. JJ Abrams
ReplyDelete2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/
3. Cloverfield
a. Strengths: Relatively original, believable characters.
b. Weaknesses: Lazy camerawork, unclear ending, not in a good way.
4. Star Trek
a. Strengths: Good characters and dialogue.
b. Weaknesses: Slow at times.
5. Lost (Television Show)
a. Strengths: Great story.
b. Weaknesses: Story development took too long. Ending leaves people speculating on what happened in a bad way.
1. Robert H. Sickler
ReplyDelete2. http://www.rhsdesign.com/artist.htm
3. Logo
a. It was designed for Jett Williams to emphasize her specialization in rare vintage recordings of uniquely American Traditional Country & Western Music Artists. The compound logo was created to provide dual functionality for the web and offset press reproduction on two backgrounds.
b. I feel he did a good job on combining the country and vintage. The logo is perfect for a record company. The hat over the J was a great idea. The weakness of the piece is there is a lot going on.
4. Ad For the SHADOW X2
a. ad for the same company engineered to be less expensive to place, yet present a different and more economical use of two process colors rather than four. One color was chosen to highlight the ad's focus.
b. The strength of the piece is how he uses the gold color to make the most important things stand out. The weakness is you can barely read the SHADOW.
5. Catalog Cover
a. A simple, yet effective catalog cover utilizing an existing grayscale background photo. The photo was scanned and digitally colorized. The logo went through a makeover.
b. The Strength of the piece is the picture grabs your attention. The weakness of the piece is the text.
Le Thanh Tung
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1 Many erasers falling over eachother and one introducing itself to another.
It’s a cute, simple piece that gives life to an otherwise extreamly plain object. The image is a little to random, it doesn’t really fit the text with the image.
2 A banner that says Halloween in multicolored letters with light leading off, and a carnival in the backround that has button-eyed creatures on the rides and looking around in awe.
It has a really interesting variety and the characters are well done and interesting
. Only part of the image is colored, which makes it a little hard to take in.
3 a character with headphones on the top of a building in a fight with a monster with stereos coming out of it.
It is very visualy captive, and really makes you think about what it is and what it means.
It is a little bit too busy, there is too much going on
Hayao Miyasaki
ReplyDeletehttp://www.onlineghibli.com/
Spirited Away
a. an animated movie about a girl who is sucked into a spirit world wen she moves to a new town.
b. the movie is very interesting, visually and storywise, but it is also a bit confusing.
Castle in the Sky
a. an animated movie about two children who discover Laputa, a gigantic floating city made by an ancient civilization.
b. the characters are very fun and the visuals are amazing. There isn't really anything bad about this movie.
Howl's Moving Castle
a. a spell turns the main character Sophie, a young women, into an old hag. She goes to work as the cleaning lady for a wizard named Howl in the hope that he can get rid of the spell.
b. the movie's story and characters are great, but parts of the story aren't explained enough
Nicholas Jimenez
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Quentin Tarantion
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/
Inglorious Bastards:
a. It is about a group of american rebels that are dedicated to the takedown of Adolf Hitler. Eventually they succeed and end up killing him.
b. I did not like how he did not stick to the lines of history and made it his own unique piece. Some of the actors were a little bit unbelievably bad and i thought brad pitt's accent was very fake.
Reservoir Dogs
a. i liked the color correction in this film and thought it was creatively shot.
b. i did not like how he made the story go fast. i thought the movie was a little bit fast paced and went by me to to the point where i had to rematch it again to get an idea of what went on.
Pulp Fiction:
a. this is one of my favorite movies because of the way it was shot at the time and how everything was out of order, that you had to pay attention real well.
b. i did not like some of the acting in it. the only thing that was bad everything else was awesome!
1. Steven Spielberg
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3. Jaws
a. Jaws was a thriller film from the 70s about a killer shark, a shark hunter and marine biologist set out to rid of the Great White.
b. Good thriller for its time.
Acting was not enthusiastic and not very believable.
4. Jurassic Park
a. Jurassic Park was a fiction science thriller in 1993 about a team that created cloned dinosaurs in Costa Rica.
b. Good story line.
Effects were a little “cheesy”
5. Minority Report
a. Minority report was a science fiction movie in 2002 about a chief officer in the “Precrime” division. Which means that he would prevent crimes before they happened, when he was looking over a case he saw that he was a criminal and then went on the run to prove that the system was wrong.
b. Good special effects and acting.
Hard to follow plot.
Josh Knapp
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Christopher Walken
It is a black and white vector design of Christopher Walken
I thought the hair was really well made
I thought the face looked a little clumpy
The Terminator
A a Black and white picture of the terminator in vectorization
I liked the style
not original
The Sun
A drawn cartoonistic sun
I like the colors
It's to flared
1. Anisha Palmer
ReplyDelete2. http://www.creativeshake.com/profile.html?MyUrl=anishapalmer
3. Petals, San Francisco, CA
a) This is a picture of about 1/4 of a purplish pinkish flower and
toward the center it is a deep purple.
b) I think that a strength is being able to capture the actual beauty of
the flower while only showing part of it. One weakness of this
picture, I think is that the tips of the flower is a little blurry and im
not sure if it was on purpose or not.
4. Dried Corn, Watertown, MA
a) This picture is of 3 pieces of corn. The 2 in the front are a bright
but pretty red and the one in the back is a rich yellow color.
b) I think that a strength of this picture is the awesone colors of the
corns but a weakness is the placement of one of the red corns in
the front.
5. Twigs, Barnard, VT
a) This is a picture of snow on the ground with twigs sticking out and
snow also on them. The snow is a light blue color and it looks
sparkly.
b) I think that a strength of this picture is being able to make the
snow look like it sparkles in the light. Also, the picture could use
more color or extra detail because it is kind of plain.
1. Christina Selter
ReplyDelete2. Exraydesign.com
3. Ocean Pacific piece # 2
a. It is a collage. The main color is green and it also has black, blue, and white. It has a very boyish look to it and it also has a rough style.
b. I know the artist was looking for messy as her style but its too messy. You can’t really tell what’s going on.
4. Mazda piece number 3
a. It seems to be a brochure of some kind. Uses yellow and black as the main colors. It looks kind of modern.
b. I don’t really like her design. I don’t usually like black and yellow together and personally the design looks old to me. And when people try to sell cars you want it to look new and modern.
5. Lincoln mercury # 1
a. This is the logo of Lincoln mercury Whistler Bound- dealer spa & sales competition. The logo has cool colors and is more about the type then the picture.
b. I think the logo would be good without the little purple swirl things around it. They don’t look good and the type is really strong by themselves.
1. Clint Eastwood (Director)
ReplyDelete2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
3. Million Dollar Baby:
Description: This movie was about a woman whose dreams of being a boxer are put to the test by a trainer and manager.
Strengths: Phenomenal acting and story with deep character explanations
Weaknesses: Predictable Ending
4. Gran Torino
Description: This movie was about a vietnam war veteran who tries to straighten out a homing neighbor after an attempt to steal his Gran Torino.
Strengths: A genius movie that was very well directed and written
Weaknesses: Too long
5. Flags of our Fathers
Description: This movie was about the six Marines who were involved in raising the flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the after effects of that day on their lives.
Strengths: Very well acted and edited
Weaknesses: Too long
1.Emilio Jimenez
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3.El Carmen
a. The color scheme is reds and hot pink and black which insinuates hostile environment. The person to the side looks like he’s praying but he has a monkey mouth that makes him seem very angry, right by his hands is a skull.
b. Its strength is that you can really capture the feel of the environment and. to me, it looks like Mexican art so it makes me think about a revolt or some kind of uprising because of colors and the faces, and the signs. Its weakness is that there isn’t a whole lot of flow, although that might be his style, the randomness of where people pop out is strange.
4.Little Paris
a. The style of very linear, like they used mainly a pencil tool because nothing is particularly straight. There’s three main colors pink, white, and black, the second has a little bit of blue. Some of the blackness has actual shapes, but most of the scenario is in pink.
b. Its strength is that the colors go really well and the way that it looks like splatter paint in some areas, but the style is very strong with the whole lines not being totally straight. That is, however, its weakness, it doesn’t look very clean, and it looks unfinished.
5.Choose
a. There’s a sort of pixilated/graphic style. The top one looks really cool with the way it looks like its disintegrating, and the clumps make it look really dramatic, and the color scheme clashes really well. The bottom is really computerized. The center looks 3D by the way that he shadowed it. It looks really cool the way that the lines interlace looking like fishnets and then continuing on.
b. The blue one’s strength is the way the black looks like a silhouette and it looks a little pixilated by the way it looks like it’s disintegrating. It’s flaw is that it looks a little dirty in the bottom right corner, like he smudged it, but it doesn’t look like its on purpose. The strength of the pink one is the way that the shadowing made it looks like 3D. Its flaw is that maybe the lines could’ve been a little closer together so that that one spot with no lines doesn’t look so weird.
1. Gottfried Helnwein
ReplyDelete2. http://www.helnwein.com/
3. The last Child
a. a photo set focusing on the loss of innocence and brutality. It is installed throughout Waterford, Ireland.
b. weakness: the set as a whole isn’t completely cohesive
strength: each photo has a compelling subject and can stand alone
4. Ninth November Night
a. a photo set of children that lived in Germany in 1988. It is installed in Cologne, Germany
b. weakness: the installation isn’t stable
strength: although each photo is of a different child, there is a sense of unity
5. American Prayer
a. a boy representing Pinocchio is praying to a floating idol of Donald Duck
b. weakness: the color scheme is limited to blues, blacks, and white
strength: there is intricate detail in all aspects of the piece- texture is created, light is created, and the boy looks realistic
1. Mitchell Davis
ReplyDelete2. http://mmitchelldaviss.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mm
3. MMIII
a) A artistic piece set to beautiful, slow music. It appears to be a montage of blurry street lights. That description sounds boring, but the film is beautiful and also seems to be something that is not too challenging to make. It creates a mood of sadness about motion.
b) The strength is how such mundane objects can evoke emotion. A weakness is perhaps it is too lengthy, and some shots are less then perfect.
4.MMXII
a) This piece is very simple. It is a clear cup of water with drops of red food coloring. What makes it so fascinating is the way that the cuts of the film alter the stage the color spreads, and also shots zoom in and drops spread into the water to the beat of the music.
b) A strength is how food coloring and water become so fascinating, A weakness is that its is only one color. If other colors were added in separate cups would be really cool.
4. MMXVII
a) This piece is a montage of footage simply of an adorable puppy. It is full of sharp, interesting shots, and paired with lovely music.
b) A strength is how well the film is put together. A weakness is that it drags on just a little.
Simonne siad...
ReplyDelete1. Artist: Amy Decaro
2. http://www.youtube.com/user/amydecaro
3.Pez:
She made a stop motion video, its super smooth and took 1,475 pictures to make it.
3.The Phoenix Zoo
She went to the zoo and got really good shots of the animals eating and running around. Super clean close up shots. Put them together with pretty music setting a good mood through out her piece.
Strengths: Super good stop motion
Weaknesses: opening to the piece, doesn't go with the rest of the video.
4.Alians love coors light
She made a stop motion of a alien hugging a can of coors light. I don't love the them, but her stop motion again is super smooth and well made.
Strengths: Really smooth stop motion
Weaknesses: Bad theme
5.My doll
This is a music video
Strengths: really cool effects, i like how she did credits
weaknesses: crappy sound
^ meant said
ReplyDelete1.Gris Grimly
ReplyDelete2.http://www.madcreator.com/index.cfm
1. The Unconventional Amour
a) This peice is of a zombie girl sitting on her grave with a flower, while a grave digger watches on in the distance.
b) A strength of this ink drawing is how desolate and alone this girl looks in her undeath. A weakness is how blank the picture is.
2. Blood Clot
a) All I can say about this picture is it is a fat vampire going "grr."
b) The strength of this peice is the slight adorableness of this tiny vampire. A weakness is how little detail there is to it.
3) Zombie Affection
a) This peice is of a girl in a pink, floofy dress hugging a very burly zombie.
b) A strength of this peice is how well put it is on the murky background. A weakness is how little there is to it.
Gus Gagne
ReplyDelete1. Matt Groening
2. www.mattgroening.com
3.Good Night (The Simpsons short)
a) Brief animation appearing after the "Tracey Ullman Show" b)weakness: The characters and animation are crudely drawn and lacking in depth.
strength: Despite this, or maybe because of this, the animation is very unique and original.
4. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (Christmas Special)
a)The Simpsons' attempt to have a merry Christmas.
b)weakness: Sometimes the voices didn't match the facial movements.
strengths: Aside from that, it was pretty good animation for the 80s.
5. The Simpsons Movie
a) A larger, over-glorified version of a Simpsons episode that even tells you at the beginning that it's an over-glorified TV episode.
b) weakness: The animation was actually rather spot-on, so I'm going to have to say that the only real problem was some of the plot details.
strength: Very smooth animation, excellent voice work, and the occasional 3-D effects created without a 3-D software program.
1. Amalloc
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All links lead to korean pages of the website. If you choose to explore, I suggest Google Translate
3. There She Is!! Part 1
a. An animated story about a cat and a rabbit. Oversimplifying; the rabbit has a crush on the cat, but the cat dislikes the rabbit.
b. I've been a fan of this series since the first part came out in English. I love the interracial social commentary and characters involved throughout it's entirety. My only wish is earlier parts were at the same quality as later parts...And that would be continued.
4. There She Is!! Part 2-Cake Dance
a. The rabbit girl is having a birthday, so the cat guy goes to fetch a cake. Some frenzied antics occur for the delivery, and in the end the cake is flipped right at the door step! The rabbit is just happy that he made it, and the flipped cake is eaten anyway.
b. Quality takes a bump higher, the background of the couple become even more deeper as relatives of the rabbit and other characters attend the party. It dwells away from the inter-species bit, but it's a fun episode.
5. There She Is!! Part 3
a. This part is about their first date; cute, fun, and foreshadowing events take place that really set the direction of the rest of the parts.
b. I enjoy all of this episode, and I say the same for the last two pieces as well. I like to recommend this to people interested in animation because it is part of my inspiration to get involved in it.
1. Takeshi Obata
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3. A painting of the character, Light, from the series "death note" with patches sewn together making up his body.
3a. The strengths of this painting are the way Obata makes the face look. The character looks as if he's killed someone (which he has). And looks virtually dead himself.
3b. The weaknesses of this piece is the color scheme. I think the pastels he uses are a poor choice, considering the dark feeling of the picture
4. A painting of the character, L, from the series "Death Note," standing in front of the Virgin Mary, a bleeding heart, and an angel pendant
4a. The strengths of this painting are within the symbolism Obata uses constantly. The pictures of the Virgin Mary, etc. send a very strong message of what this character stands for. Justice and salvation.
4b. The weaknesses of this painting are once again, in the color scheme (oh, Obata). The bright colors clash horribly with the strictly black and white color scheme of the character himself. The brightness makes the painting itself look horribly tacky.
5. The characters Light and L from the series "Death Note" standing in front of a skeletonized pope, handcuffed to each other.
5a. I love the symbolism of this picture, yet again. It gives a strong overall message of fake salvation and deception in general,hence the smug look on Light's face and the confused and curious look on L's face.
5b. The colors are, yet again, unforgivably bright. The orange skulls are horribly tacky yet again.
1. James Cameron
ReplyDelete2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000116/
3. Terminator 2
a. A combat robot in sent into the future to protect John Conor
b. The action scenes were well done and the “terminators” accent was good
4. Titanic
a. The sad story of the giant sinking tub the titanic
b. The plot line was easy to follow
5. Avatar
a. A story of humans mining out a beautiful alien planet while fighting of an alien indigenous tribe.
b. Stunning special effects and an intense plot line.
1. Fred Figglehorn
ReplyDelete2. http://www.youtube.com/user/Fred
3. Fred goes swimming
a. Fred goes swimming in his kiddie pool and has to run away from the school bully, kevin, and avoid his crush, judy.
b. Strength: The voice editing, Weakness: When the camera is handheld it is extremely shaky.
4. Fred loses his meds
a. Fred loses his ADD medication and tries to find it
b. Strength: transitions, Weakness: the outcome is not very clear
5. Freds mom is missing
a. Freds mom forgot to come home
b. Strength: frees acting, Weakness: fred's mom's voice is very fake sounding
Nielsen said...
ReplyDelete1. Eminem
2. www.eminem.com
3. 25 to Life
a. The relationship problems and emotions involved between him and an old girlfriend.
b. His strengths are his voice and his lyrics, he can really make you feel the emotion he's portraying in his lyrics and his lyrics are the works of a genius.
4. Not Afraid
a. After going through some hard times, he's "not afraid" of moving forward with his life.
b. His lyrics are really good, most rappers just rap and say stuff that rhymes and a lot of the time it doesn't really fit, but eminem is able to find rhymes and still make his lyrics flow better then someone just talking.
5. Love the Way You Lie
a. Like 25 to Life, t's about a relationship and the love that went on between the two people who keep coming back to each other even though it's not working out.
b. Again his lyrics are pure genius and the only weakness i see is using Rihanna for the chorus, i think he should have rapped the whole song himself.
1. Meats Meier
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3. Carver Wall Sculpture
a. A Wall Sculpture of Carvers carving more carvers
b. The Strength of this piece is it is very intricate and well detailed. The weakness is it all in one color and you cant tell what is going on at first.
4. Maya 7 Signature Image (optic version 1)
a. Electrical cords creating a human body
b. The strength of the piece is it is moving and inspirational. The weakness is the camera work is jerky.
5. Ripper Head
a. A face looking at the camera that is separated into shreds
b. The strength of the piece is the detail and the angle it is looking at you. The weakness is texture variation.
1. Stephen X Arthur
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3. Anizen
a.) representing creation of universe
b.) animation is smooth, but you wouldnt know what its about unless it told you.
4. the Recess
a.) deals with discrimination and the problem of social identity.
b.) its cool how he used pictures of real faces on cartoon bodies, but animation wasn't as good.
5. Transfigured
a.) represents Jack Shadbolt's paitings. looks really cool, really good transitions. can't really tell what's going on, kind of random.
1. Barry McCabe
ReplyDelete2. http://www.goodjolt.co.uk/
3. Italian Aroma Coffee
a. This is a website template, designed for an Italian Coffee Company. It uses dark, red tones and the color of the backgrounds are very rich. There is a big title in white with a following paragraph with a small font in a light golden-yellow. On the left of this text, there is a picture of a latte, which has a heart on the foam, made out of cinnamon. On the right of the text there is a blonde woman with her head turned towards the text and dressed in a dark red dress. The artists incorporates a swirling design in the bottom left corner and once again in the top right corner of the background to the text.
b. I think that the strength in the design is the color choice. It feels rich and luxurious; it gives the impression that the product and company are of high quality. Something that I didn't like was the woman placed to the right of the text. She looks out of place and I feel that she takes the balance away from the text and the image/swirling details. By placing he woman there, it looks like they're trying too hard to make their product look desirable.
4. Gillian Fowler Designer Jeweller Logo
a. The logo has the text "gillian fowler" in a big font. In between the first and second word, there is a sunflower sign, but it just has the petals and they surround the flower's center, a white circle. The petals are spaced a little bit apart. The petals alternate colors every other petal, from medium gray (which is also the color of the text "gillian fowler") to a brownish-yellow. Below this text and this image, there are the words "designer jeweller" (in a smaller size font) in the same color as the yellow color of the petals.
b. I think that the strength of the logo is the sunflower image in the center. It looks truly luxurious and the white space brings a lot of brightness to the logo. It looks like a diamond, shining brilliantly. The weakness is the color choice. I like the gray, but the yellow in the petals and of the text underneath is a horrible color and makes the entire logo look very dull, which it shouldn't, due to the lovely little bright center of the sunflower. If it were a color that weren't so dull and reminiscent of mud, it would be a wholly lovely design.
5. MacTaggart & Mickel Press Advertising
a. The advertisement has two turtles, one with a shell and one without. The first turtle's shell, which appears closer, has a long, red, thin, rectangular sign with the word "reserved" on it in white. The shelled turtle is smiling while the other shell-less turtle has a distressed face. The text "Moving in or moving out?" appears below the turtles in big letters, and details follow. The outline of the paper is a rich red and several key elements of the text and description are also in this same color. The logo of Mactaggart & Mickel appears in the bottom right corner, which also has the same color red.
b. I think that the strength of the advertisement is the expression on the turtles' faces. It evokes the emotion of wanting to identify with the happy turtle. Nobody wants to feel like they are the sad turtle and if they do identify with the sad turtle, then it would most likely spur an interest in the rest of the advertisement and in the product being offered. I think that the con of the advertisement is that there is too much negative space. Although I do like the crisp look of the ad, I feel that it lacks a certain continuity.
1. David Airey
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3. Berthier Associates brand identity design.
a. It's a business card and logo design for Berthier Associate which is an architecture firm with extensive experience designing corporate office interiors.
b. The strength is that the logo is very simple and fresh. Weakness is the logo doesn't pop up enough.
4. goTeach brand identity design
a. It is a logo design for London-based startup that will offer an annual subscription to schools for unlimited online advertising of job vacancies.
b. I like the style of this designer. He basically only use gray black and white, and these three colors really made his design strong. The weakness of this piece is that maybe the font can be more round..
5.Tunelinks brand identity design
a. A logo design for a music website that provides the streaming and downloading of mp3 files.
b. The weakness is that he use too much of the square shapes. And the logo can't remind me of music. The strength is that fresh and strong composition..
1. Takashi Amano
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3. Red Fish in Ocean (second to last picture)
a) This picture shows the profile view of a giant red fish. It is glancing at the camera, and it's forehead seems to be the focus of the picture.
b) I like that the photographer made the focus of the picture the fish's forehead, which is colorful, and brighter than the rest of the picture. I think that the picture might have been stronger and more aesthetically pleasing if the background was more illuminated, with fish and coral reefs to add a bit of beauty.
4. Pink Water, Pink Sky (last picture in the second row)
a) This is a picture of an island of some sort, most likely taken in the early morning. This is evidenced by the thin fog settled over the surface of the water, and the pink hue of the sky.
b) I like how the photographer used the time of day to capture the island in unnatural colors. The soft pinks and purples, as well as the calm sky and clear water make one feel at ease, and I can almost feel what it was like to be there in the morning taking this picture. While it's the simplicity of the island, complimented by the beautiful colors, that really makes this picture, it might have been more interesting if there was more than just a tiny island to look at. A rocky shoreline might work.
5. Wildflowers on a Cliff (third picture, second row)
a) This picture shows a small patch of tall grass and various wildflowers, overlooking the ocean on a cliff. A giant rock (possibly an island) can be seen nearby on the horizon.
b) I like that the photographer was able to show the contrast between the vibrant green grass and colorful wildflowers, and the white sky and pale grey water. It might have been better if there were more wildflowers, or if the sky was a darker grey, with an ominous feel to it.
Artist: Mel Brooks
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-Film directer/producer/actor/screenwriter
1) "Blazing Saddles", Film spoofing the Western romance genre. It features clever puns, witty retorts and silly slapstick comedy. The general plot is a corrupt railroad tycoon hires a band of thugs to run the villagers out of the land he wants to buy. But the newly appointed sherif (who is Black) tries to stop them.
Strengths: Very overacted characters makes this film great, unpredictable and memorable gags.
Weaknesses: Sometimes a joke is maybe dragged on too long.
2) Space Balls: A film spoofing scyfy films (mainly Star Wars) that has an original, but silly, plot. It involves an space cowboy fighting the evil Spaceball empire to save the planet Druidia.
Strengths: contains hilarious parallels to scyfy films, characters are again brilliantly contrasted for great comedy.
Weaknesses; (apart from being overly quoted), I believe there no real weaknesses in this film (this was one of Mel brooks' last films, he had the right technique down by now).
3) The Producers: A musical about a washed up producer going into partnership with his accountant to produce "the worst show" possible and profit off of it.
strengths: Catchy music and the overall ridiculous the situations makes this a funny film to watch.
Weaknesses: the reasoning behind the plot seemed to be very unbelievable and the fact they got their show on broadway from the get go
Tim Burton
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1.Nightmare before christmas
I like the animation, the story line,the characters with there arcs, and his use of foreshadowing. There wasn't much that i did not like in this movie.
2. Mars Attack
I really love this movie, almost every aspect of it. The humor in it is really well portrayed. The only thing that i didn't really like in it was the corniness of it at some points.
3. Beetlejuice
This was a great movie. I absolutely loved the story lines, also the characters were really well portrayed by the actors. When i saw it at first whenn I was young it was a tad bit scary.
1. Artist: Hayley Williams (lead singer of Paramore)
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3. Piece1: The Only Exception
a: Strength- can feel the emotions that are being expressed
b: Weakness- shots were a little too fast
4. Piece2: Crush, Crush, Crush
a: Strength- the colors were a combination of dark and bright, had good angles
b: Weakness- dont understand why they had rugged dirty scary looking guys watching
5. Piece3: Ignorance
a: Strength- The colors and shots matched with the beat, song was really good
b: Weakness- some shots were too fast and were disorienting
1. Mike Ott
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3. Pussies and Faggots Unite
Strengths: Emotional portrait of his personal experiences as a youth in Newhall, a recurring theme of his work involving the effects of place on a person's life. It's raw, the footage used is amazing. I know a girl who cried while watching it.
Weaknesses: I don't see anything that could be any better or different.
4. Analog Days
Strengths: His grad school thesis film, a portrayal of disaffected youth in Valencia and Newhall and surrounding areas. It resonates with you as a viewer, you can see things about yourself and your life in it's characters.
Weaknesses: I don't like the font he used in the credits. I can see the student film part of on occasion.
5. Littlerock
Strengths: A moody meditation on what it is to be an American through the eyes of a foreigner. The acting is superb, the characters have amazing chemistry. Cory Zachariah.
Weaknesses: Occasional indie cliches, rarely and forgivable.
Pixar
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the adventures of andre and wally b.
this piece is about a character and a bee. the character tries to run away from the lonely bee and ends up getting stung but the bee.
the strength of this peace is that its not too long. the weakenss is that it is not very interesting.
luxo jr.
this piece is about two lamps a baby lamp and an adult lamp. they pass a small ball until the little lamp jumps on the ball and pops it. then he finds a large beach ball and try to play with it.
its strength is that it is a little entertaining. its weakness is that it has no real plot and doesn't get the viewer anywhere
red's dream
this piece is about a unicycle that is 50% off and is not wanted. he has a dream of being in a circus but after his dream he realizes again he is unwanted.
strength: has a plot and is slightly entreating weakenss: its bad quality
1) David Yates
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4) A) Harry Potter has action love adventure
b) The strengths are good editing and you feel like part of the movie and it don’t have any negatives.
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=kgAyXgOruSk
a) The girl in the café is a love drama
b) The actors need 2 eat because it looks boring.
Harry potter
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14KlsramMHg
5a) action advanture love
5b)Great filming great sets
1. Brian Helgeland
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3. A Knight's Tale
a. The movie takes place in England in a medieval age on a jousting tournament where a peasant chases his dreams of becoming a knight.
b. The strengths of the movie, are the plot and acting, the only weakness would have to be the main character love interest.
4. Robin Hood
a. The story about Robin Hood before he became a legend, basically the origins of why he became an outlaw.
b. This movie has a lot of action but the downfall is that it is too long and it's not what people expect from it because of the title.
5. Mystic River
a. With a childhood tragedy that hunts their past, three old friends are reunited when one of them looses his daughter.
b. The story is absorbing and unexpected, and the mystery remains throughout the whole movie, but the actors were given no motivations or explanations for their actions
1. Brent Stirton
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3. Picture #19
a. Picture #19 is of a mountain and people hiking on it as the sun peeks through the clouds.
b. A strength of this picture is the ability to pull its viewer in. A weakness of this picture is located on the side of the mountain where a blue shadow cuts the mountain in haft.
4. Picture #21
a. Picture #21 is a tree fill with boys. The higher up the tree the younger the boy. It also shows a boy jumping off.
b. A strength of this picture is the ability to tell a story. A weakness of this silhouette is that one boy in the tree looks like he has a branch coming out of his head.
5. Picture #29
a. Picture #29 of clouds rolling into the forest. It looks like it was taken in the morning.
b. A strength of this picture is the repetition of shapes (trees) and the way the clouds look like a tidal wave. Because of the clouds and the color, Brent Stirton was able to create a mood. A weakness is in the center of the picture. In the middle of the picture the clouds meets the forest; if he had put this on a rule of third, then the picture would have looked more interesting.
1. Molly Della- art director, designer and illustrator
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3. Posters 14/14
a. Since there are 5 posters on the page, I will just describe one of the pieces. The green jellyfish poster. The green jellyfish poster is of a simplified green jellyfish on a white background with a wooden frame. Between the jellyfish tentacles are larger to smaller dots.
b. The strength of piece of Piece 1 is the vibrancy of the color and the simplistic nature of the jellyfish. It makes it easy to look at and easy to connect with. The weakness of Piece 1 is the contrast of the lighter wood. I understand it was the author’s decision to choice that frame, but if I had created it I would have put a darker wood color to contrast the green better.
4. Library Laureates 3/14
a. Design for the 2009 library gala identity. Molly Della created “save the dates”, invitations, event programs, and poster. This particular piece is a save the date for a library lecture. The piece on the left shows a creative evolution of librarian glasses.
b. What I found very powerful in this “Save the Date” is the design of each of the glasses. Even though, she must have looked up the styles of glasses throughout the decades, the way they are placed in a vertical line and all having one color really shows the difference in the glasses in an efficient manner. Also the font is very librarian. The weakness of this is it doesn’t actually have the date of the lecture. It is just the year.
5. Augie’s Room 10/14
a. Molly Della designed border wall art for a kids room based on a client’s favorite book. There are horses, the empire state building, an apple, snowflakes, the Golden Gate bridge, and a boat on the border, all in turquoise.
b. The strength of this work is that it must have satisfied the customers want of having the border based on characters or images in the client’s favorite book. Also children’s rooms usually have very basic designs and this artwork definitely fits the profile. The images are designed very well, however, the color is not as bright as it should be. It loses its strength with a white while entirely underneath.
Piece #1:
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2. Theresa, graphic design
3. Tomato Record Company Logo
4. The pictures are very centralized and the letters are set around it.
5. The polka dots and the set up is a little bit like something I could do, and the logo is really pretty.
6. The weakness would be the random white blocks that have writing in them, they’re a little out of place and they could have incorporated them in better by changing the color to fit the scheme.
Piece #2:
1. Kate Quinby
2. Jocelyn, graphic design
3. Ethiopia Sidamo
4. There’s a peacock and its tail extends out to surround the bag, and next to it there is a little person.
5. It looks kind of traced and its definitely something I do, also the colors are very nice.
6. The weakness would be that it the image trails off the edges and they could have fixed the picture to fit better.
Piece #3:
1. Marco Suarez
2. Karla, graphic design
3. Michal Marie’s Business
4. It’s very simplistic and organized and really cute with the logo because of the cartoony feature.
5. The set up is very organized, which is what I did in my brochure so that’s what I can relate to most.
6. The weakness would be that at the end of the spool thing the whole looks like it shouldn’t be there, it took me a while to figure out what it was, so maybe they could’ve fixed that.
Piece #1:
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2. Karla Sophia Zapata Garcia- Graphics
3. Michal Marie filed in branding, print, website, work…. 2nd out of 3 pictures.
4. It’s a business card for Michal Marie who is a cake designer.
5. I think the font she used reminds me of my style.
6. I really do like the design but I think it would work just as well without the background pattern.
Piece #2:
1. Emilio Jimenez- graphics
2. Viviana Ruiz- Graphics
3. Los Punsetes- third one on the page
4. Its abstract and dark and kind of gloomy and it has 5 people in it.
5. I try to make my designs modern and his design seems modern too.
6. The design was just a little boring, I didn’t like it very much.
Piece #3:
1. Amano Takashi-photographer
2. Larissa- Graphic design
3. Amazon landscape photographs- the first one in the second row
4. It is a picture of trees in a jungle
5. I think the clearness and crispness of everything shows my style, I like my photos to be defined.
6. The picture really has no focal point.
Piece #1:
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2. Teresa, Graphic Design
3. Positano Restaurant Logo
4. It is a picture of a nun with a vial that transitions into a tail.
5. This picture relates to me because I like to design stuff. This is a very simple design that I feel like I could do.
6. Weakness: The logo is very bland. Strength: The logo is straight forward and to the point. This is effective because It catches you’re eye.
Piece #2:
1. James Cameron, Director
2. Nils Marsolais, film production
3. Avatar
4. Avatar is about humans mining on an alien planet named Pandora. When the indigenous people are living on a major mining spot havoc breaks out. The movie is about saving their homeland.
5. The cover for Avatar most relate to me. I really like the design and the creativity that was put into them.
6. On the cover there are random smears. A strength of the picture is the pictures of the characters and the lighting and color
Piece #3:
1. Anisha Palmer, Photographer
2. Ciara, Graphic Design
3. Petals, San Francisco, CA
4. Petals is a picture of a flower in San Francisco, CA. It has light pink on the tips of the petals; darker pink in the middle and at the bottom of the petals there is a very dark pink.
5. This relates to me because I like to take pictures.
6. A weakness of this picture is that where the petals are connected to the center, the picture is slightly out of focus. The strength of this picture would be the focus of petals and the blur of the background.