New prompt/apology

I have been getting a little wrapped up in my other summer projects. I guess that about wraps that up.


Prompt: Message.

I had an idea for a prompt when I started this that involve three lines of text. I think that I should make it more specific, thus the message. The idea is that this design will help convey something that you would like to tell the world. To do this, the message should be legible and the ddesign should support the theme. Of course, the message content is up to you and it can be as political/personal/humorous as you would like. A possible idea is to use something similar to a facebook update. Conversely, it could be as serious as, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country." The last example is just for the sake of example, anything used in this design should come from your own brain so that you can 'own' it and create a more cohesive design. Just to clarify, the three lines mentioned are not part of this prompt, there should be as many or as few as required of your message.

I just took a look at what Kate did for the last prompt, it looks awesome. Especially the Gene Simmons tongue as underline.

Moving the due date/prompt

to sunday by midnight ya'll

Hey hey hey. ..

This week's prompt is inspired by an unrelated class. I am taking history of rock and roll 2 and I have to listen to listen to a lot of music, fer serious I have to write a paper every week. Anyhow, I was thinking that it would be cool to do a design inspired by a fave album or something. The only other concrete instruction is to put the name of the artist(s) and the album/mix title in the comments. In an effort to keep it design-y, perhaps it would be a good idea to try to make an album cover or a concert poster.

I imagine that this last week and especially weekend was pretty busy for everyone so it is no surprise that there weren't any submissions. I also think that the last prompt was a little on the complicated side. I think that I will try to come up with ideas that can be fully realized in under three hours, shooting for around one hour's worth of work. Then again, sketches are fine too.

I would like to compliment Julianna and Katherine's work. I really like the effect that Julianna got with the flower pot, I like that the colors are so different from the usual terra cotta. When I came up with the prompt, one of the things that I had in mind was like this, picture I found, shown on the right. In it, you can see how the adjacent colors can change our perception of those colors, mainly where the green becomes blue due the its proximity to the purple. Also when I played around with the transparency and stuff, I was able to mix the cmyk like paint, I didn't use that technique because it just looked like the colors that I mixed not the mixture of cmy if you know what I mean.

I would also like to thank Kate and Julianna for taking part in this excersize. I originally intended to do this by myself, I am pretty stoked to have other people involved.

I had mentioned that I intend to keep these prompts simple and hopefully less time consuming. On the other hand, you get out of this what you put in. To be quite honest, I haven't really been putting much time into this, but I intend to treat the subsequent prompts more like a class assignment. Just to be clear though, I still plan to make the prompts easy.

Happy 4th

I will put up the prompt tomorrow by midnight.