Connotation:
The theme of this section is "components". Every image and exercise ties in with the theme and adequately conveys the meaning. Every sub-component within this element works toward the same thematic goal. For example each exercise has some relation to components. The activities include geometric icons and logos, legibility and text safe areas, color echo, word portraits, and combining fonts and images. Each activity is clearly labeled throughout this blog and shows clear thematic relevance. I believe that the component theme is not projected in a way that is too broad or too specific. If anything the activities may be shown in a matter that is broad, but I would say that in that sense broad is a strength. It is a strength to show ALL aspects of components from fonts to colors to icons and legibility. In every project that I work on I wait to put the final product on my blog unless I want to clearly show the steps. In this aspect I would say that I believe every final product for the most part reaches full potential and I would not adjust any proportion, color, quality of finish font within the graphic element. I think that it is always beneficial to show work created to other designers in order to get valuable critiques.
Attributes:
I would say that I am satisfied with the visual weight, structure, color and presentational style of the logo or graphic element. In viewing the overall graphic design of my blog, I enjoy the background of my blog as it is unique and colorful and good representation of my personality through colors. I also am proud of the images I have created such as the CampusCrush101 icon and the CampusCrush101 advertisement while creating emotional appeal. In regards to the overall look of my blog, I believe that it is strongly organized and does not need anymore establishment to the element's aesthetic and thematic integrity. In regards to the individual posts on my blog, I believe that line work is always something that I place heavy emphasis on and know that I have carefully placed items to create eye pleasing images. I believe the element of the coffee cup agrees with the backdrop and thematic theme of dark color tones and matching direct colors from the coffee cup. In this section of components, color played a huge role! In creating images, colors were always explored in order to make each image the best it can be. For example the exercise in which we had to take a common object and relate it to an emotion relied on the power of colors to portray the emotion of "love". The color schemes of all the posts do not particularly match the backdrop of my blog because my blog presents an earthy feeling through its color while some of my posts present bright and flirty colors such as the icon activity in which we created an icon for a fake company. I used my other blog, CampusCrush101 and incorporated colors like black and hot pink, which are not very earthy colors. My overall blog is intended for broad use as it is a way for me to document my designs in LTLE 372. By creating new posts, blogger allows me to write long and short posts that can include small, median and large images. All of my posts on my blogger are easily read by the intended audience. Within my designs and posts I have made sure that the font size in images such as the icon and advertisement for CampusCrush can easily be seen. While using PowerPoint in the word portraits exercise I made sure that the fonts were big enough to read.
Placement:
In comparison to the previous section of Composition, I believe that this section should have the starring role within the layout. This section of Components is much more complex with the use of many more design tools such as the puppet wrap tool, textures and others. In regards to each post I believe that my icon design deserves the starring role as it is one of my favorite designs. I think it looks sharp, elegant and sexy, much like the blog that the icon is for. In regards to the icon I believe that the placement of the lips should be placed in the center of the image because the lips should be presented as something bold and when bold comes to mind, you do not want to see an image in the corner or faded in the background. The text in the icon should not align with any edges in the image because it is in the center of the mouth. The mouth is something natural and curved. If the text were to form to the edges, the message may get lost in the lips, which is not the main message. To the overall blog, all posts are aligned straight down the webpage, which means that all the posts align in the same conventions and apply to every other post. I do not believe that the icon design should be grouped with any other designs on my blog because it will lose its vibrance. If the icon were to be added to the emotion advertisement then there would have been too much noise on the design. The icon could possibly be further altered in the sense that it could be bigger, there could be added effects like a fishbowl affect.
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