Saturday, November 8, 2008

Society Poster

This is another poster I made on my free time. This is supposed to represent the corrupt societies around our world in the current day. You can see a soldier which is supposed to metaphorically represent violence. There is a smiley face on him which is trying to show the corruptness within the soldier.

Note: It took me about 25 minutes to make. I will be posting a video tutorial on how I made the effect soon.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Anti-War Poster

This is a poster I made on my free time. It took me about two hours to make. The message I am trying to send over with this poster is that war never changes, and it is all about money. What you see when you look at the poster is two hands shaking each other and they are colored by money. This is trying to represent corrupted governments. In the background there are three nukes that have went off which represent anarchy and chaos that "wars" bring on. Last but not least is the rocket that is about to fall and hit the hands. It has the words "war never changes" on it. This represents the fact that war never changes and the fact that it is falling into the shaking hands it trying to interpret that all of the chaos that war make are caused by financial needs. You can also see that the direction the rocket is falling eventually will hit the bottom which is where you can a lot of graves. This is supposed to represent the deaths that the war brings.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Re-Coloring things with Photoshop Easily - Second Way

Video Tutorial I made




Presidential Elections Poster

This is a poster I made for the presidential elections. I used photoshop.
The date today is the 4.11.2008 - The day of the elections

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Article of the week

What is a logo?

A logo is a unique design, either sketched or graphically designed set to advertise a certain name. Logos consist of specific typeface or font. They are arranged in a unique way, with distinct colors, shapes, and designs. All of these things put together in a special way give a name for a certain company or an organization. A logo is a graphical symbol that describes a company visually.
Companies spend millions just trying to get the perfect logo. Companies such as Nike, McDonalds, Apple, and Universal Studios have such effective logos, that whenever people see them they know who they represent. A good logo is a key feature for a successful company.











Source: http://www.adigitaldreamer.com/articles/logo-designer.htm

Article of the week

How can you improve your website?

1. Format your text using CSS
- CSS stand for Cascading Style Sheets. It means that you only use one style sheet. This is very similar to the Adobe Photoshop layers. What they mean by when they are saying format your text using CSS is to make one layer for you text, so you can change all of the text easily without having to go to different layers and change the style.

2. Make the font size big enough to read
- This is a pretty self explanatory step. However this is extremely important and makes a drastic change to your site.

3. Make the text contrast with the background
- Once again this is pretty clear. Make sure you use contrast. It is a key design feature. Try to use black on white, or white on black. The might be the simplest contrasts but they are definitely the most effective.

4. Give the lines room to breathe
- Make sure you don't stack lines on top of each other. People don't get attracted to things which are too full. Give the lines space and people will enjoy your website.

5. Break text up into chunks
- Make sure you break your long articles into segments. You don't want to have endless articles, because people won't want to read them no matter how good of a writer you are. Also check your spelling, because a page with spelling mistakes reflects on the host. If there are spelling mistakes it just gives a bad image.

Source: http://www.pageresource.com/zine/cc_5easyways.htm

Article of the Week

What is Branding?

- Branding is how you display your company
- To have a successful company you want good branding
- Branding consists of a good company name and a good company logo
- When you start your branding process first think of a company name
- The next step is to think of a moto for you company
- The moto needs to be catchy and effective
- Lastly make a logo and apply it to the moto



Source: http://www.logobee.com/article1.htm