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Weekly Design #13 - I Love Design

One of the more powerful aspects of a good design is the emotional connection that is formed between the design and the viewer.  The ability to effectively incorporate emotional design into any work not only makes the design more memorable, but also changes the way we view it.  It also is an aspect of design that can be extremely broad in its implementation, giving the designer more freedom.

For the rest of July, and possibly August, I am going to be focusing on including emotional design principles into the weekly posts.  To start things off I thought it would be fun to do a post about how I love design, using the classic "I Love *insert topic here*".

Let me know what you think.

Weekly Design #12 - Star Spangled Banner

Because it is the Fourth of July this weekend, I wanted to do something a little different.  I threw this image together, and while I know it is not finished yet I wanted to post what I had done.

Since it is a little rough, it looks a little better when zoomed out.  You can get the gist of what I was going for though.

Enjoy!

Watchtower - Update

I spent a little more time playing with the drawing, and made some changes based on feedback I got.  This change was done to help make the perspective better, and to help the overall composition.

Weekly Design #11 - Watchtower

I'm sorry that this is the first (and probably last post) for June, but life has been keeping me busy.  I have been working on a drawing for the last week or so, but I never got around to posting anything.

This drawing is unfinished but is turning out pretty nicely so far (I think).  It still has a long ways to go, but you should be able to get the gist of it.  It is supposed to be some kind of a watch tower.  I used various asian buildings as reference to give it a slightly different look than I might normally do.

Anyways, let me know what you think.

June's Design Theme - Concept Sketches

Since I have been doing typography(ish) designs for the last two months, I have been feeling that it is time to change things up and do something a little different.  When I started this project at the beginning of the year, the goal was to help motivate me to 'design' things.  Since the word design is so broad, I have tried exploring some of the different things that I believe the word encompasses.  In that though, for this month I want to work on concept sketches, or the idea of doing a quick sketch of something and then elaborating on it.  While I don't consider myself to be a great artist, and these works will probably be very basic, I think that this will be a fun change from what I have done so far.

Look for the first of these sketches this weekend (probably tomorrow).

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.