some logo ideas

these are some of my logo ideas in black and white.

slice

Today I had a demo on Photoshop on how to use the slice tool and how to centralize a page in Dreamweaver. The first thing I did was open the he image from moodle into Photoshop and selected all the image layers. The next part is to select the slice tool and draw around the text; you can resize the cutouts with the slice select tool if you want. After this go to file then save for web devices, from this you can add or take away colours for any image that you want. Then save and make sure the format is HTML and images. The second part is to make it central on page, you do this by opening the image with Dreamweaver clicking on the image and then clicking on table, alignment and central. After this you can make the background black by going into page properties and change it to black.

Wall Rubbing's

These are different textures that we found around the college that we captured by using a stick of graphite and paper and rubbing over them. The different textures leave imprints on the paper.Some of these are off of walls signs buttons and even the floor.

website proposal

Design proposal

For this unit I would like to redesign George Whites Motorcycle shop website http://www.georgewhite.co.uk/  because I the store its self is impressive and their website isn’t and I feel that the George white franchise could do a lot better. Their current website has all the images of the products that they sell but is very limited on the information that they have.

Bad points about website

·         Limited information

·         Layout

·         Too much happening

·         Home page has way too much on it, need to spread out the information

·         Could make deals and adverts on separate pages.

               Good points about the website

·         High resolution images of products clothes, bikes ect easy to see

·         A lot of categories have potential

·         Good ways of advertising (eye catching)

·         Up to date information that is there

·         All buttons and links work

I have been doing a bit of research on motorcycle retailer websites to see if there are any features that I should use or stay away from when I’m recreating the George white’s website. For example one of the features I would like to is a 3D rotation of the motorcycles for sale; I have seen this on the Honda motorcycles website. The showroom gallery for the website will also have stats and reviews about each bike.

In the new website the offers and sales for different products will be laid out according to the title page not just plastered all over the main page.  

Motorcycles shop

• These are some initial ideas of mine for the website
•  Photography
• Clothing
•   New bike deals
•    Used and new bikes
•   Classic bikes
•    3D models
•    Stats
•     Women’s clothing
•   Security

This is kind of standard compared to some websites. The only subject that doesn’t appear on most bike websites is the women’s clothing. Some of these subjects are going to be easier to do than others for example all the products are going to be standard photography but the 3D shot are going to be a little bit trickier.

I am going to only stick to road legal bike not off road bikes, quad bikes or track racing bikes. The reason why I am doing this is because I have chosen an audience to suit the purpose for the shop.

The logo

I would like to rebrand the logo for George white because I feel the current logo is not going the distance to be recognized as their label. The current logo is too standard compared to other retailers e.g. Honda, OCC and GT Motors. My current thoughts for the new logo was to have the name included in the logo and somehow fit in with the logo shape.

logo research

 Logo research

When first creating a logo for a business it is a sensible idea to have the business name with the logo so that the audience recognizes the brand. Some businesses are now recognized on massive scale that they don’t have to put their name with the logo any more. These are a couple of examples Nike, Adidas and Apple.  Sometimes the business logos are just the name of the business it’s very simple but effective; some of these companies are Nokia, Sony and Microsoft.

I have noticed that quite a lot of big labels have very basic shapes and fonts for their logos, these are the logos that stand the test of time. 

Banksy

Banksy art and history

Banksy is a British graffiti artist who has no confirmed identity. He was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol; his dad was a photocopier technician, Banksy trained to become a butcher but got involved with graffiti art in the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s. Banksy does not sell his street art himself but some of his work does get auctioned off. In 2001 Banksy started freehand graffiti and evolved his work and identity into stencil work and started to become recognised on a national scale as a political graffiti artist. Most of Banksys work tends to be in black and white with an area in colour to emphasize it.

One of Banksys main pieces of art is the destroyed phone box were banksy and his friends stole an ordinary phone box took it back to their work shop and welded it in the middle and stuck a pick axe in it to show an other side of vandalism.

identity poster

This is my identity poster. The brief was to create a poster that has a part of you in it for example a hand, face or even a shoe. It also had to have some typography in it.

My idea was to take a picture of my hand and have my name and date of birth stitched through my fingers. I had to get a friend to take a picture of my hand because it turns out it’s quite hard to do it by yourself. Then once I had the image I opened it in Photoshop and changed the hue and saturation right down to black and white, then I made the image a cel shade image. The next thing I did was to duplicate the image and make them smaller and different sizes and place them next to my fingers. I also got rid of the smaller images backgrounds I did this with a layer mask and the paint brush. I chose a small italic font that looked like stiches.

tee shirt design

This is one of my tee shirt designs for Astor Park that I made using Photoshop. I started out with a standard light blue tee shirt but I turned the hue and saturation down to make it more of a light purple colour. The second thing I did was to take parts of the graffiti images I took from Astor Park. I took the parts I want and made a layer mask and selected the paint brush and got rid of the areas I didn’t want. To get the speech bubble I just went on Google images got the image turned down the image opacity and layer masked the edges.

3D max

This was my first time using 3D max. The first thing I was taught was how to use the move, rotate and create shapes. These tools are located on the top tool bar. The other thing I was taught was how to move the plane e.g. canvas floor and the views of the shape. These are located in the bottom right corner. The first thing I did when I opened the 3D max was to make a box any size I want and then experiment with the tools. One of the tools is a teapot because it has the majority of the curves and straights which are on most shapes.

The second thing I did was to take any word I wanted in 3D max and change the colour, font and change it, I did this just by rotating the word. Once I chose my word we then had to add it to a Photoshop image and try and blend it in.

For this I started out with just a simple box and added segment 4x4 and by clicking and dragging on a segment I created a new segment. Once I made a new segment I gave some of them points at the end, I did this by clicking on two of the four points at the end of the segment and rotating them. To make the new image have a smooth texture I just added polygons only 2 because the more polygons you add the more time it takes to render the shape, if I was to add 8 polygons to the shape the texture would be softer and more rounded but the amount of time to render the image would be ridiculous and would probably crash my computer.   

One of the other things I learnt about 3D max was how to texture. What I did was put my name in 3D max, then to go on google images and find an image with some sort of texture like rust or wood. I chose to do tigers fur, steel and the world.

i will upload images later blogger not letting me!!! 

sound capture

• set up pre set mp3 mono
• marantz
• format 

Today i learnt how to set up a marantz audio system and format it. The first thing I did was plug the marantz in to the mains for power.When I turned it on the LED screen it came up with 000, this shows that there are no recordings on the marantz. But its still a good idea to format the marantz when you get it. You do this by pressing    edit and shift at the same time and it comes up with different  menus, you can scroll across the menus by pressing  fast-forward until you get to the one you want.There are two mic ports at the bottom of the marantz that you plug any mic you want in e.g. microphone, gunmic ect. Microphones are mainly used for interviews and quick set-ups. The gunmics are used for sounds in the distance all you need to do is point at the sound and record.The headphone jack is on the side so you can play back what you recorded.The marantz can also hold up to 35 hours of recordings at different qualities.

keith haring

Keith Haring May 4^th 1958-Febuary 16^th  1990 aged 31.

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, and was raised in nearby Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He had developed his drawing skills at a very young age by learning how to draw cartoons from his dad and from Disney movies. 

Keith’s work is all based around cartoon graffiti. In 1980, Haring found a highly effective medium that allowed him to communicate with the wider audience he desired, he noticed the unused advertising panels covered with matte black paper in a subway. He created drawings in white chalk on blank paper panels throughout the subway. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring produced hundreds of these public drawings in rapid rhythmic lines, sometimes creating as many as forty subway drawings in one day.

He achieved his first public attention with the chalk drawing of The Radiant Baby and this became his symbol.

In 1985 Haring started to paint canvas. Simultaneously, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux opened an exhibition of his works, and took part in the Paris Biennial.

David Carson

David Carson is a graphic designer for magazines and is most famous for his own magazine Ray Gun wunique through his own use of typeography. Ray Gun was an alterintive rock magazine that was massive in the 90's. From 1982 -1987 David was a teacher in Torry Pines High School in San Diego.  add more later.

capture graffiti culture

Today I drew different ways of the word 'capture' using graffiti with pencil and paper with Roy Christie. I tried a couple of different styles for the word capture, but i only liked one or two of them. After that I tried writing my name in pen and pencil ,I thought it it looked quite sketchy but ok at the same time. After all the graffiti Roy Christie showed the class a short video of stop/start animation of graffiti that took around two months to from start to finish.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

3 ways of capture

The three different methods i have chosen  to capture the grafiti art at astor playing fields are photography, writing and memory.