Evaluation

I am asked to write a summary of what I have learned and how I showed it in my most recent work; this is a really had topic since there is so much knowledge I have gained and only so little space to explain which almost guarantees some elements, if not key ones, to be missing. First of all, I have of course learned the principles of design: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity. I have developed the understanding for these four much more than I actually thought was possible. I have learned a huge variety of tools in Photoshop, which in the beginning I thought would kill me, because I couldn’t deal with that program at all! Not to forget the most recent thing I have learned once again, the rule of thirds. Fonts as well as colors and its effects have also been part of teaching plan and have been incorporated into my designs.

Incorporation into my new designs:

In the tag we can see the biggest amount of learned skills in the class used in comparison to my most recent works. Repetition is used in the shape of texture that should be seen on the tag. It is repeated over and over again since it is a texture. Color contrast can clearly be seen between the three main colors: black/gray, red, and blue. The “Designer Line” as well as the “Denim Shirt”, “SIZE M” and $192,11” is grouped together via proximity. It is all blue which represents a connection between them as they are all providing descriptive information about the product. “Designer Line”, “Denim Shirt”, and the bar code are aligned on the left side. Photoshop tools have also been applied here. I overlaid the texture with color that I inserted from my brick design. The font used (all in blue), is called Helvetica Neue, is very clean, and I think perfectly fits on a clothing tag.

The logo I designed also included a few, but not too many things we learned. The time consuming part of this, was finding a design I like, since I had over nine different ones. Regarding Photoshop, I used a clipping mask to insert the bricks into the letters. The font is especially chosen and downloaded from the internet to match the theme more than any that are initially installed on the computer.

Many of the learned techniques and knowledge has been put into the poster. First of all, there’s a very nice contrast from the snowboarder to the dark brick and the white text. In addition a lot of Photoshop work is inside this design. I had to brush the entire outside of the gray snowboarder with a gray brush that I had to configure with a lot of settings, to make it look more like graffiti, not like an overlay and something posted onto the wall. In addition, I then had to configure the brush and snowboarder with a big variety of fx options. Last but not least, the font on this poster is pretty decorative, and perfectly matches the theme.

I think that all of these three designed parts show a big amount of understanding of the key concepts learned in class, and a good capability of working with the most essential program in this class, Photoshop.