Weekly Design #10 - Fear

For the last of the May Typography designs I wanted to do do do a negative emotion.  I played around with a few different ideas and ended up going with Fear.  Fear is an emotion that has a lot of 'faces'.  It can refer to uncertainty, distress, apprehension, or the fact that we are just plain scared.  I tried to approach this design with these thoughts in mind.

Let me know what you think.

Weekly Design #9 - Peace

I know it has been a while since I posted a design, but now that my life is starting to return to normal I wanted to start posting again.  Since I only posted one design last month, I am going to continue doing the Typography designs for this month as well.

The word I used for today's design is 'Peace'.  In this design I wanted to use brighter colors, and also play with how the text is displayed more than I did on the last design.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Almost Done...

For the last two weeks, my senior project group and I have been getting ready to present our senior project.  We did an initial presentation last week, and were selected to present at the UVU DGM Senior Project Showcase, which was last night.  Because of the work that we needed to do on our project in order to make improvements, as well prepare for the presentation, I did not have the time to create a design for last weeks and this weeks posts.  I am going to have one done for next week, so that there can at least be two design posts for this month.  In the meantime, I thought some of you might enjoy seeing our senior project.

It is a Flex based interactive map / virtual tour that we created for the UVU Web Resources department, and you can find it at www.uvu.edu/tour.

I hope you like it, and let us know what you think!

Note: You will need the Flash Player installed or enabled in order to view it.

Weekly Design #8 - Hope

While this was supposed to be last weeks post, I decided to post it this week because of how busy things were last week with school and my getting ready for the "An Event Apart" conference.

So here is the first of my typographic designs.  As I am still very much experimenting with typography and how to do it well, this is a much harder project for me than the last two design themes.  That said, I am looking forward to learning from the experience, and the feedback that is given.

So here is hope.

April's Design Theme

When I started thinking about doing some kind of weekly post / design / drawing / ect, one of the things I wanted to do with it was to explore the different areas of design that interested me.  I especially wanted to use it as a way of exploring the aspects of design and art that I was not as familiar with; things like character design, typography, interaction (or user experience) design, and other topics along those lines.

Because of how my life was at the beginning of the year, and how school usually tends to go, I wanted to make sure that the first few monthly themes were fairly simple and familiar, mostly so that I could get into the habit of doing it.  Now that school is starting to wind down for the semester, and I am more in the habit of creating the designs, I wanted to start moving into some of the more unfamiliar areas.

For April, I decided that it would be a fun challenge to have the emphasis be on Typography, and the use of text.  I have never done a great deal with Typography, but have always been fascinated by the many ways it has been used.  One of the other aspects I want to start incorporating into the designs, wherever possible, is some kind of message or story.  Often times it is the emotional connection to a particular design or work of art that causes people to really like it, and I think this is true regardless of the medium used.

So, in addition to using typography as the primary medium for April's posts, every design will have an underlying theme based on a basic emotion or feeling (such as fear, hope, love, and so on).  While I haven't completely decided on what the theme of each week will be, the theme for the first post will be "Hope".

Check back on Friday for the first of April's posts!

Weekly Design #7 - Triangles

This week my goal was to use a triangle as the focus of the design.  I wanted to keep it simple, but use more color than in the previous one.  Because of this, I thought it would be fun to create a stained glass object in the shape of a triangle and use that as the primary element in the image.

Let me know what you think.

Triangle Man Will Just Have To Wait...

Due to the many things going on right now, I am postponing todays post of until next week.