FINAL DAY!

Today is my last day EVER in a class at CSU. I cant believe the year has already come to an end... It is really sad that this is my last time I will be taking a class with everyone in here :( I have really really enjoyed all of my graphic design courses I have taken this year. I'm going to miss everyone SOOO much. Professor, Thanks for everything you taught me about graphic design! Hope everyone enjoys their summer!

The Winning Designs

None of my designs won.. but I'm really glad I entered the contests. I have never done any logo contests before, so it was a really good experience. I understand what i could have done to make my designs better. My designs were too simple for some websites and too much for others. I plan on entering more logo contests in the future :)

Essay on Desktops..FINAL PROJECT.

This final project is EXTREMELY hard..its taking me forever to finish. We have to write an essay about how a desktop computer works, but we have to include graphics. The essay has to be 750-1200 words. I haven't finished this thing yet, so im hoping it will be done in time. The positive side to this is I don't know a lot about the inside of computers so I'm learning more and more.

Tutorials

This semester we worked a lot with tutorials that helped us through Microsoft Office and Adobe Illustrator. I'm pretty familiar with word but, I felt that it was VERY helpful to work with the Adobe tutorial because I was very new to it. I still have a lot to learn about these programs considering there is SO much you can do on them.

Mr Sparkle

A couple months ago we were asked to create a logo for "Mr. Sparkle's" Glass Restoration Company. This logo is one of my favorites. I traced a fairy and made him my own and hes flying in front of a "sparkly" window with his magic wand. I liked this logo because I was able to make it colorful and make it either really plain or really detailed. The man that owns the business told our professor that he liked the more simpler logos. I think my logo was cute and colorful but not too over the top.

Logo Remakes.

Last month we were asked to pick two logos and remake them. I chose In-N-out Burger and Radio Disney. My favorite logo was my In-N-Out Burger one. I changed the colors around from the original logo and used the palm trees and colors from the cups and containers they use. My Radio Disney logo is Mickey Mouse's silhouette with ipod speakers on and The font they use already saying-RADIO DISNEY. The logo reminds me of an ipod logo. I chose these two because In-N-Out is one of my FAVORITE places to eat. I chose Radio Disney for my second logo because I am a HUGE Disney fan and still listen to their station to this day!

Logo #2

The next logo contest I entered was for The Desoto Fire Rescue. They needed a good logo for their firemen's T-shirts. They asked that there was a fire maltese, there was the letter B somewhere and that we used navy blue for the logo's back round since that was going to be the color of the shirts.I made the font of "Desoto Fire Rescue" orange and yellow so that it would show up on the navy blue. I traced a fire maltese and put a silhouette of a firefighter in the middle. I put a yellow B on that silhouette so it would look like it was part on his uniform. My logo was very simple compared to the rest. For a back of a T-shirt, i think its very appropriate.