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New activity~!

I decided to pick a new activity because mario was going to be a lil too difficult for me to focus on 1st person and 3rd person...so I went with something more simple, feeding my ferret. Here are my story boards!!

Type choice: Frutiger

- Sans Serif

- Designed by Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger 

- Frutiger's goal was to create a sans serif typeface with the rationality and cleanliness of Univers, but with the organic and proportional aspects of Gill Sans.

- Frutiger was released publicly in 1976.

- Popular today for advertising and small print. 

Mario Storyboards

narrative activity perspectives

Jazz inspiration part 2

Here is a list of words I came up while playing gretchen parlato and Afinidad together to get a sort of feel what the two would actually sound like in an actual performance together. The deep, soothing voice of Gretchen is a very good contrast with the live up scale pace of Afinidad's music. 

Lively

Harmonious

Swift

Velocity

Energy

Dynamic

here is my visual inspiration:

Visual Inspiration from Jazz artists

This is visual images I grabbed online while listening to Gretchen Parlato's music. Her music is very girly and sensual. It gives you a feeling of love and carefree. She seems to be a very optimistic person. I also created an emotions list while listening to her music:

bubbly

sensual

welcoming

warm

soft

deep

dreamy

These posters hold they type of colors I may want to incorporate into my design. So far they have given me a lot of inspiration on coming up with a concept for my own poster. 

This was my visual images grabbed while listening to Edward Simon's music. It reminds me of a night out on the town. I picture a warm, street filled scene of people gossiping, drinking and just enjoying the night life. Here is the list of emotions I felt while listening to his music:

Mystery

Night life

Suspense

dancing

passion

drama

Very long but hilarious mario video

Idea for Narrative project 1

I have decided to choose the game Super Mario Brothers. I have a couple ideas on what actions I will be focusing on. My first thought is to capture Mario getting a mushroom and growing to a larger, more super size. I also thought of him going down a tube and into another world. I initially thought of summarizing a whole world or level, but the thought of taking a small action and making it in stages seemed more interesting and doable. 

Afinidad and Gretchen Parlato Research

Gretchen Parlato is a young jazz artist. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in Ethnomusicology/jazz studies. She is known for her addition of Brazilian and African elements with jazz music. She is notable for performing with Lionel Loueke, Wayne Shorter and Kenny Barron. Her music has a very magical, bubbly, and happy vibe to it. It feels as though you are in a happy dream and it is peaceful and optimistic. In the year 2001 she was the first vocalist to be accepted into the Theonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance. In 2004 she she won first place in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.  In 2005 she released her first self titled album which was named #5 best progressive jazz cds of 2005. She just recently in the spring of 2009 released her new cd titled in a dream.

Edward Simon's Afinidad is a band consisting of 6 people Edward Simon the pianist, David Binney the saxophone, Basset Scott Colley, Drummer Antonio Sanchez, guitarist Adam Rogers, and percussionist Dernell Saturino. Edward Simon was born in Venezuela where he grew surrounded and inspired by Latin and Caribbean music. He graduated from Philadelphia performing art school at 15. Edward then received a scholarship from the University of the Arts where he studied classical music. In the mid 90's he formed the band Afinidad.

Gutenberg Press

This film amazed me on how long the process took for Gutenberg to create a system to print. It took a lot of his time and focus to turn his idea and dream into a reality. It is also amazing how far our printing system today has come. We can print multiple pages in seconds. I feel sometimes we take printing for granted and dont think about how hard it was for us to get as far as we are today. Although we have all this new technology I still have larger respect for old printing styles because it takes a lot of personal time and care into creating one print. Printing was more of an art form setting type, inking the letters, then physically creating the print. Now all we have to do is click the print button on a computer and the machine does all the work. It was a very inspiring movie to watch because it reminds me if you take the time and care to do something It can be possible. 

Final Museum Materials

Summary of a semester with a kooky lady

Visual Reference/inspiration
The Icon that was created to support the visual reference
The color palette inspired by connotations of a kooky lady. 
The colors applied to the icon to give more connotations to support the theme
The color icons used in a system to help show information on a diagram.

Summary:  The Icons were made to show information visually without words and relay a meaning. The colors were to help support the theme of the system. Once applied to a diagram that showed information the icons worked as a system to help the viewer learn more about the topic. Then once the icons were applied to the museum merchandise they told a new story and worked with juxtaposition and pattering to make the show visually inviting.

Type magazine layouts

final 10

I chose these 10 because I felt these were the best ones to support the final 10. I was most successful with my first single icon with single image and splitting it in half and juxtaposing them together. This was used to create my theme for my museum exhibit pieces.

1: For Relay: Icon with image

2:  Single Icon with Word3: Icon with portion of diagramFor Anchorage: Icon with single image

2: Icon with Single Word3: Icon with research documentFor Harmony: Single IconMore than one IconFor Amplified Drama: Single IconMore than one icon

Iterations on Juxtaposition

final poster/flyer layout

This is work on my flyer...Not 100% finished yet.

Final poster..needs a couple tweaks but pretty much finished!

Beginnings on pattering and juxtaposition

This is the first group of a pattern I created. I was thinking of a floral patter or fabric for inspiration for this. 

I then took this idea and created another group of floral and made an overall larger more complex pattern.

Then I took the pattern and overlaid it on top of my actual floral pattern I used in my book and for my diagram. They seem to complement each other well.:)

Here is a juxtaposition I have been working on. I thought the purse icon had a pear shaped body so I found a woman who had this similar look and when placed together it worked very well. The lines line up almost perfectly!

final poster

transperencies

I really like this vampire energy. One: because it is a really good idea to think about how much stuff you leave plugged in and wasted electricity. Two: I like the character of the vampire and the connotation behind energy being sucked out of your house and raising your electric bill. The icons are also unique because they are all thing lines, very simple but still get the idea across. 

Posters I decided to tile