Abigail Good

Name Typography:  As the year started,  we received a name typography project. The goal of the project was to take our name and turn the typography into something that would reveal some of our personal interests.  For example, I personally enjoy jewelry so I made Abigail appear like it was written with pearls. This project took around three weeks from the first of the school year. I struggled with reaching out of my comfort zone coming into junior year. This helped me learn that it is okay to have multiple ideas and that not all of them will work out the way that you planned. I was critiqued mainly on taking some of the concepts too literally instead of pushing them outside of the box. I changed several of them by going all out with some of the ideas that I had started. Making my ideas stand out really helped make my concepts stand out on the page. I really enjoyed tis project because it refreshed my memory on how to use Illus...

Name Typography  This was my first project of my junior year. The goal was to take your name and alter the text to portray an aspect of your personality. I began by creating a list of words that I thought described me best. Including things I liked to do and personality traits. After narrowing the word list down to only 12 words I began to sketch how I could change the text to convey my ideas. I also began looking on DaFont.com for specialized fonts. I selected my favorite sketches from each word to try to pursue in Illustrator. As I began to manipulate the anchor points of the text I made ,shapes, lines, and curves, to give off the vibe I was looking for.  After I adjusted all 12 I went through with a fine tooth comb and began to pick out things that I thought threw off what I was trying to achieve or could possible make it clearer, after changing these few details I was left with my final project! During the process I learned many things. For example, I learned how to pro...

Google Play Logo!  This is the Google Play logo that I made with a tutorial. The logo was surprisingly easy. The most difficult part was creating the correct gradients to try and match it the best I could. Along with messing around with the opacity. I had a tom of fun making this logo and it only took me about 15 minutes to create!   

Creative Anarchy         Basically creative anarchy is learning when, and when not to break/bend the rules. The main point of this article was in order to bend or break the rules you have to know what they are. This reminds me of my english teacher who always justifys an authors reason to breaking grammar rules because they know how to use them perfectly and the broken rule they used adds affect to their writing. However the reason we cannot break the rules is because we do not know how to use them perfectly. we are simply just learning them. This just adds to the fact that we as graphic design students cannot break the rules whenever we want them because we don't even know whether are rules or not.       Without the rules how are we supposed to satisfy the very old fashioned clients that want a classic design with nothing exotic or inventive because it isn't needed to fit into the environment it will be put into. A great design is supposed to fit...

Motif and  Repeating Pattern      These are my two repeating patterns that i made for graphic design. A motif radiates from a center point while a repeating pattern can continue if you connect the two ends.        The scope of he project was to crete our own original patterns after we had done some tutorials and learned the skills. We also all voted on colors to use so that they had some form of uniformity. That taught me how to use the color books with a specific number to find the exact same shade as everyone else.        The day after I made my repeating pattern I went to the gas station and saw the same pattern in black on a door matt! I thought it was quite funny. It just showed me how patterns are just     used everywhere and that made me giggle.         I learned a lot during this project especially when i learned that making mistakes is sometimes good and thats how my moti...

Animation Article Review  Article       In this article they explain how google is now entering a way to render 3D animation faster called Zync. It is a cloud solution, it is live in beta and anyone who registers for an account can receive $300 worth of google Platform credit which is used for Zync rendering. They are trying to promote the launch of Zync through the Render More site where artists can get and extra $500 Google platform credit by filling out a form.     Within the article the author uses videos to help illustrate their cause about the new google Zync. However in the actual text part of the article they lacked some explaining points of how Zync is more beneficial and useful then other ways to render 3D animation.     Although in this article the author has some very nice evidence within the videos to prove her points about Zync. I did wish they explained a little bit more about the form that was necessary to fill out to...

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