OZ Poster (CARP)

For this project, we had to create a poster for he Wizard Of Oz, using C.A.R.P.

Contrast

For contrast, I used different color contrasts to make certain things stand out, like the title. I also used size contrast to make the more important things stand out. When looking at the poster, the title and "Olathe Northwest Theatre Presents" really stand out, because of the size. A small detail you might've noticed is that certain letters in "The Wizard Of Oz" are bigger, to make them seem more important. "Wizard" and "Oz" are bigger than "of" and "the."

Allignment

Mostly everthing is alligned to the left of the poster, but the title and visual of the characters in "The Wizard Of Oz" are in the middle.

Repitition

There's a lot of repetition in the colors of the poster. The colors, green, yellow, and white are used a lot throughout the poster. Also, a lot of the poster aligned to the left.

Proximity

The information about "The Wizard Of Oz" is all grouped together at the bottom, and above it is another group that has information about ONW. The title and date/price are all grouped on the top half of the poster.

Typography

 

Overview

The project was to type our name in a serif style font and put extra thought into the font. You had to look at each letter of your name and find 10 different parts of the font. Beforehand, we took notes on different types of fonts and the characteristics of that font, so we would know what to look for. Mostly everything that was in my notes, I used in the project.

What I Learned

Before even starting the project, I learned that there's certain types of fonts, also known as typefaces. The main typefaces are; Sans-Serif, Serif, and Decorative. In the project, I used Serif. The Serif typeface has brackets and serifs in the font, as you can see above in my name. Sans-Serif fonts don't use serifs or brackets, but still remain very simple and straight. Sans-Serif is most likely to be used in essays/papers. The decorative typeface should never be used to write essays. Decorative fonts are a lot more distinct and stands out. The decorative typeface is mainly used in advertising and posters. Overall, I know a lot more about fonts now.

How It Went

It was easy at first, when all we had to do was type our name and put a couple lines through it and label them as x-height, cape height, and baseline. After that, it was challenging. My name is Connor, which was unfortunate for the project because my name has a lot of the same letters. My name only has 4 different letters, so it was hard finding enough parts of each letter to label.

10 Strengths

My 10 Strengths

1. I finish most of my homework
2. I know how to use Photoshop well
3. I'm very good at using Sony Vegas Pro 14
4. I'm good at math.
5. I prefer working independently
6. Learner
7. Belief
8. Empathy
9. Competition
10. Analytical

Logo Examples

Logo Color Schemes

Analogous

Echoing Green uses the analogous colors of green, blue, and blue-green. I think the company probably chose these colors because green is a very peaceful color and blue is a professional color, which are 2 characteristics that suit their company.

BP uses the analogous colors of yellow, green, and yellow-green. I think the company probably chose these colors because they wanted people to think that bp was healthy to the environment, and that they care about nature, even though they're an oil company.

Complementary

Fanta uses the complementary colors of orange and blue. I think the company probably chose these colors because orange is a fun color, and they want people to think of Fanta as a fun drink.

Mountain Dew uses the complementary colors of red and green. I think the company probably chose these colors because red is a very energetic color and red also makes you feel hungry, because of how often red is used in the food industry.

Monochromatic

Holiday Inn uses many different shades/tints of green. I think the company chose to make their logo green because green is often a relaxing, peaceful, color, because so many things in nature are green, and nature is relaxing to look at.

A&W Root Beer uses many different shades of orange/brown. The company probably used these colors because orange is seen as a fun color and brown is seen as comforting and organic. Both of those are good for a company that makes drinks.

Warm

Red Bull uses the warm colors, red and yellow. They probably chose these colors because red and yellow are very energetic color, and Red Bull is an energy drink. Yellow is also associated with happiness.

Dunkin' Donuts uses the warm colors, orange and red-violet. Once again, I think they used orange in the logo because orange is a fun color, and they want you to have fun eating their food. They probably used red-violet because red makes you hungry, and violet is a symbol of luxury and elegance.

Cool

Intel uses the cool color, blue. The company most likely used blue because blue can be thought of as professional and trustworthy.

Sprite mostly uses the cool colors, blue and green. I think Sprite used blue and green because those 2 are what the Earth mostly consists of. A lot of nature is green, but the sky and water are blue. Green and blue makes you think of being outside, along with yellow. (Which there's a little bit of in the logo.) When you're outside, you might get exhausted and you'll want a refreshing drink.

Triad

Superman's logo uses the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. They probably use blue to show that superman is trustworthy. Yellow and red show happiness, because people are happy to have superman protect them. Superman obviously isn't real, but his logo is.

The Color Wheel

Overview

For our first assignment in graphic design, we had to create a color wheel. We used Adobe Illustrator to make the project. The color wheel is to show the 3 primary colors, the 3 secondary colors, and the combinations of primary and secondary colors, which are called tertiary colors. The 3 primary colors are yellow, red, and blue. The 3 secondary colors are green, orange, and violet. The tertiary colors are named based on the 2 colors that were combined to create it. Every tertiary color starts with the name of the primary color then ends in the name of the secondary color. An example would be red-orange. It can't be called orange-red because the primary color comes first.

What I learned

I learned how to use Adobe Illustrator. I learned that the undo button is very important in graphic design. When designing something in Illustrator, you're going to make mistakes. If you undo your mistake and try to fix it, you'll improve as a graphic designer. This first project was very simple, but it gave me a basic understanding of what graphic design will be all about, and I look forward to learning more about Adobe Illustrator.

What I Did

I started off by creating a circle that I was going to put all of the other shapes onto. Next, I placed 2 triangles that were going to connect to my primary colors and my secondary colors. After adding the primary and secondary colors onto the triangle, I added the tertiary colors in between the primary/secondary colors. Lastly, I labeled the colors and added a title onto the top.