Three Logos

For my project I wanted to make companies that were either based off of puns or just terrible ideas.  After a few prototype ideas I eventually came up with these three: Brown Knows Toilet Tissue, Wired Repair, and Grandma's Old Fashioned Taxi Service.

I created them by mostly using the pen tool and the individual selection tool.  However for some parts I made use of the brush tool for small details like the face on the toilet paper logo.  By using gradients for some parts and solid colors for others I made an image that can draw the viewer's attention at a glance.

For the Toilet Paper the light and dark brown colors on the face draw the attention over the light blue and white gradient on the rest of the image.  On the Repair logo I used jagged lines and a bright yellow color fill for the word 'Wired' to stand out from the smooth lines on the wire itself.  Lastly on Grandma's logo I wanted to simulate the traditional black and yellow color scheme used on most taxis.  I think however the yellow may pop a bit too much and detract from the actual image of the walker.

Nuclear Calligram

For my calligram project I decided to use the image of the Fat Man atomic bomb to tell the message of  not worrying about the small problems in life.  In a world so heavily influenced by technology that has the sole purpose of making life easier, why is it that people act as if there are still so many things to complain about?

The image that inspired my project, the Fat Man

Getting the best technology, technology not working quite right, or just technology not solving all problems seem to be things that everyone will complain about.  They need the new iPhone as there current phone appears to make their life so bad.  They need to have technology give them instant results and if they are slow their whole day is ruined.

Technology has made things so much easier that weapons are now so devastating   With the push of a button a nuclear weapon can wipe a city off the face of the earth.   In a world where people complain to make things even simpler how much farther will technology go?  Perhaps weapons will become so great, powerful, and easy that the world could end in an instant.

So dont worry about the small stuff and just enjoy life for as long as we possibly can.  There is no need to shun technology but rather just appreciate what technology we have.  You never know when life may change in an instant.

Using the pen tool as well as heavy use of the lasso tool and duplicating text on lines I was able to create this nuclear calligram.  If only I found out about the many different kinds of warps earlier it would ave been much easier.

Illustrator Practice

Last week we touched on Adobe Illustrator a little bit after we had finished working on HTML in Dreamweaver.  Although we only just started I can see the potential of the program.  It appears much more geared towards drawing than Photoshop does so I may be able to use it for much better results.