Poster for the plays: "The Audition" and "The Twelve Angry Jurors"

  This is the best poster because it has just four colours: white, yellow and black. I chose these colours because they are strong ones that look good on black and attracts people to look at it and go to the play. It was done in Adobe Photoshop. It shows emphasis and the lights help doing it. It also shows contrast. This play is called "The Audition" and is performed by students of the Young Company. I chose this photo of the students because I wanted to show that it is done by experienced teenagers who want to give people a good show and demonstrate their talent. The lights show that this is kind of a scary play but also attractive. Also the back stage light looks like its giving sound at the same time it is projecting light with colour. The size of the words mean that there's important information that needs to be projected in a bigger way than the smaller ones that are not really important. The title is the bigger one to attract people for what is the name of the play. The space between the sentences helps to understand better what is going on and this way don't mess up with the poster and lots of colours.

  This poster shows the two plays: "The Audition" and "The Twelve Angry Jurors". However it is not so good as the first one, because it has lots of colours and the name of the second play is not well visible on the top of the chairs. This second play is a evil one and I chose the chairs because there are twelve jurors but one is different because is the most important one, the principal one that decides maybe when there's a tie between two teams. The colours I chose have the same meaning as I said in the first poster and the principles and elements of design too. However, here, in this poster, there is emphasis but not just on one point, so it's hard to understand what is going on and where to look first. The colours needed to be changed to the ones that are in the first poster.

I prefer the first poster because I worked hard on it and it is well organized, better than the second one. I used some special tools in Adobe Photoshop to do some special techniques, like the Magnetic Lasso Tool.

L.C.I. Young Company Logos

Logos with color:

Black and White Logos:

Written explanation:

  For the logos with colour I thought about the principles and elements of design. To be a good logo, I can't write to much text.It has to be clear and show to people what it means exactly. It has line, shape, space, colour, balance, contrast. emphasis and movement. I used all of this because I wanted to show that Young Company is a group of students in grades 9 and 10 who do the Young Company plays. It is a fun and familiar company that we know in L.C.I. They also are professionals that try to do their best.
  I used the girl on the top because this is a company of teenagers. I used the colour green because I wanted to emphasize the name of the logo. This colour is kind of calm, that expresses life and respect, balance, growth and freedom to pursue new ideas. I think this colour protects this logo. It shows that students of the Young Company want to show their ideas and they are free to share them. The black color is always used and it looks good with green (contrast). The leaf on the bottom has shows shape, line and space. Maybe movement too. I draw it because it helps to give comfort to the logo.
  I am happy with this logos. I think they express what I wanted to. I could put more teenagers to help people understand the logo, but I didn't like the way I tried to put them.
  I used the Pen Tool and the Paintbrush Tool. I didn't use any new tool.
  For the Black and White logos, I just selected the parts of the layers and changed the colour to black, light or dark grey.

Design

Sites of good designs

1. http://infosthetics.com/;
2. http://datadesign.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/cool-infographics-made-from-paper/;
3. http://datadesign.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/gareth-holt/;
4. http://datadesign.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/mapping-the-internet-2/;
5. http://datadesign.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/scale-of-our-solar-system/;
6. http://datadesign.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/landing_page.jpeg;
7. https://www.google.ca/search?q=design+inside+houses&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=daFNUv61BsafqwGJ8YDoBw&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=677&dpr=1.

Explanation:

    I chose these sites to show design, because they are daily things that we see. This means that we have design everywhere, every day. However, not good design if found everywhere. So, these sites have some examples of good design.

Beyond the good design of things in nature, we have inside our houses: the quality the furniture shows and how it was done, makes them look great, with design that everyone likes. Also, the disposition people give to the furniture they have at home, makes the difference. The frames they put on the walls also helps. 

Vector Tracing

First Drawing: free hand trace of a tuba

Second Drawing: trace of a tuba

Third Drawing: trace of a tuba with color

Written explanation

a) Elements and Principles of Design:

     All the three drawings that I did have line and shape. There is straight and curve lines most of the time. The shape is really well seen in all three drawings because of the forms they show with curve lines. There is no texture in my drawings. There is black colour in my third drawing. There is a lot of negative space in my first and second drawings. There is not positive space in these ones. However, in my third drawing there is positive space most of the time and few negative space. There is no balance between the two spaces. I also can see contrast in this third drawing because of the black and white colours. There is emphasis too. All the drawings have unity,the lines join together and form one object. There is not variety. Also I can't see rhythm in my drawings. There is no value.

b) Technical:

     In the first drawing I did a free hand sketch of a tuba. But before I sketched it in a paper with a special pencil called "canté". Then I scanned it and on the computer with the program Adobe Illustrator, I started the trace of it. I used the Pen Tool. Also, I created a layer for each part of the trace of the tuba. I created 4 new layers. When I finished the trace of my free hand sketch, I exported my drawing as a PNG file.

     In the second drawing I did a trace of a tuba. I started to create a new layer and lock the original layer of the image. Then, with the Pen Tool I traced all the curves, lines and small details. This process made me create 5 new layers. This way, if I had done something wrong, I could delete it and the other layers would stay in the same place. Tracing this image was the most difficult part because it had lots of details to trace. When I finished my tracing of the tuba, I exported the drawing as a PNG file.

     In the third drawing, I opened the second drawing on the computer and started to put colour in the instrument. Like in the last drawings, I locked the original layer and created another one. Then with the Pen Tool and black colour I just had to fill the white space inside the tuba. To do this I created 14 more layers. At the end, my drawing looked like a shade. I also exported it as a PNG file.

c) My opinion:

     The drawing I like best is the second one, because it took me a long time to get done and was really hard and confused to do. However, the final product was really nice and well done. I prefer this one to the others because the design is unique and has a lot of details. Also, this second drawing is the one that "works" as a good design because of its shape, line and volume. However, the one that isn't as effective is the first one because it looks like a rough copy.