BOOK COVER_DIRTY CASH

This is the cover of the novel named "dirty CASH" that I designed for assignment 3b of DIM 2 class. Take a look at it and give me some comments. I'll appreciate all of your kindly comments ^^

BALANCE

Reflections are some of great examples of forming balance in images.

Belows are some examples that I found on the Internet to have a deep look at balance in composition.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/458402718_4a58585b26.jpg?v=0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpghouse/458428449/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/458402770/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/annkelliott/458402746/

The above images are not my work. It's just some of examples I found on the Internet to get the idea before actually capturing some by myself ^^

WEB DESIGN

This week, our group has made a presentation on a topic about WEB DESIGN. I posts this blog to check and summarize my understandings about this subject, as well as let other people who access my blog know more about how a commercial or an information websites are designed.

There are many types of websites. Depend on the way the website is design and the purpose why a website is publicized, we can categrorized them into 3 kinds of websites:

1. Personal websites
2. Commercial websites
3. Information websites

Personal websites are those that is non-professional and mostly are designed by 1 person or a group from 2 to 3 people. They makes their sites for a variety of different purposes. Some makes it for fun, others makes it to keep in touch with their friends and family. These sites usually contains their information, and their thoughts about life, friends, shcool, etc.

Commercial websites and Information websites are more professional and designed. Commercial websites are ones that are made up by a company or an organization to sell their products or encourage people to use their services. Information websites, however, are made up to give the viewers mainly information not only about themselves but also about other ones (happening in the world :))).

Commercial websites use a lot of graffic for their design, and their designs are based on the theme of the products or services they provide.

Followings are some images of commercial websites:

http://www.oneill.com/

http://www.imagestation.com/


http://www.icoke.hk/csol/00_csol_shell.jsp


When people access an information website, they mostly gotta read long articles of information. Most of the sites take advantages of using primary colors together with black and white to reach an obvious and simpliest contrast. As a result, people don't feel tired when read many long articles.

Belows are some images of well-known information websites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/


http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx?ChannelID=16


http://vnexpress.net/Vietnam/Home/

MP LOGOS

Background

My father has been operating a small company which produces a variety of clothes. The main market for the company is Russia. All of the products are transported to Moscow through the ocean by big container ship.

The need of a logo

The company has been operated for several years without caring about the identity of the company. All of the products were attached with marks of some other famous companies like adias, Nike, etc. Since Vietnam joined the WTO, such the products are not allowed to get exported. Therefore, the company needs to create a trademark, logo, etc. to get it identified and be able to get exported.

Response

I was asked to design a logo, a trademark for the company. It was such a difficult work because I had no experience about this. The only things I had was some concepts of design that I was introduced in class and amateur Illustrators skills. I got lots of questions at that time, how my design should be, which colors I should use, about shape, ideas, etc.

The best ways to solve the issue was to do research some other known company's logos. I did it :D (just to have the ideas, not to copy ^^). I recognized that most of the logos (in clothes industry) don't use lots of colors and are simple shapes. The colors of red, blue, black and white were used mostly. This made sense in terms of hue contrast in the theory of color of Johannes Itten. He has said about primary colors that "If you separate the colors by white and black, the individual colors will become stronger, but as a group the contrast is weakened." This was such a great meaningful statement and I have created the logos in response to the concept.

Result

Following are my final designs; I have taken advantages of red color separated by black and white to reach the simplest contrast for my design.

Logo 1

Logo 2

Logo 3

All of the designs above have been registered and play as the trademark of my father's company so that don't try to copy it ^^

Theory of color

In DIM2 class, I have been introduced a lesson about theory of color. This was such a interesting lesson. In response to this lesson, I have searched some examples on the Internet to extend my knowledge on this lesson. Thanks to Google searching engine, I have found a really good site giving all well organised information about this particular subject. I posted this blog attached with the link to this site so that some of you can get a look at it :). Enjoy and feel free.

This is the link http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/encyc_colorwheel.html