Album Covers.

Album covers. 

Fantastic Five:

Some album covers are meant to grab the attention of your eye by jumping out to a specific type of person, or type of genre you like. Some covers can give you an idea of the kind of music that is in the album, the general feel of the music itself, or the artists that made the music. Either way, the design is to catch your eye, and help persuade you to buy it. 

For example, Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast album generated huge sales, and inspired a lot of up and coming metal musicians. The general idea is to show you exactly what your getting with the album right on the cover with all the colors, and the devil, along with the Maiden. 

Obviously that's a finger, but at first glance in a store, this is more than likely to make you do a double take at it, and be a little curious. 

This is obviously a statement about the music you will find in the album. The artists probably wanted to say right away by looking at the cover that this was going to be a powerful album. 

This also is a statement about the album. This group believes the music in this album, is they're greatest hits, and associates that with a hard hit in boxing. 

Not every artist uses this form of album to sell they're products, but it does seem to help catch your eye. 

Fantastic Five

Less is more. 

Words can have the most powerful effect on a person, without a clear message. You don't always need designs to capture your attention. 

We can use the simplest of words, and pictures to capture your imagination. You don't see the rest of this new truck, yet you  can imagine what it looks like. 

Less is more-No neighbors, no traffic, and no noise. This person wanted less of all of that, and succeeded in this amazing location for his home. 

We can influence peoples minds, hearts, imagination with words or pictures, without the need of a lengthy essay. Sometimes the less of everything, gets the point across just fine. 

Team Assessment

Fantastic Five

3/20/14

          Strengths:

1.)     We all get along together, and can communicate without interruption from each other’s egos.

2.)     We all have the same idea on what we are going to do for our presentations, and we all have the same interests in mind when it comes to the course.

Improvements:

1.)     We could improve more on our availability to be able to work on projects together, to be able to include all of our insights.

Short term plan is to try and communicate more though our cell phones, or e-mail, being that we are all from different parts of the US.

Long term plan for our lives would be to have better communication with whoever it is we are working with, or for, so there is no confusion, and we know exactly what is expected of us.

2.)     We could try a little harder to make our presentations better, to get better grades on them. I feel like we get to a certain point and say that’s good enough. I think if we don’t have that attitude, then we could pull out better grades on our projects.

Short term plan is to just not settle for “good enough” we have discussed putting in more effort into our projects, and try a little harder to get the better grades we know we can achieve.

Long term plan would be to take what we have learned from this, and just apply it to everything in our lives, to make us better working people, and to be more productive, with higher quality.

Insights:

1.)     We wanted to be a team because we all felt like we could work together as a team, and get stuff done.

2.)     We felt like we had the knowledge and will to work together and be able to produce high quality work.

3.)     We feel that all have things in common, which makes it easier to get to know someone, and cooperate as a team should. 

Team One- Shadow Play

Shadow Play is the art of using photography to convey a feel of depth and movement in elements that would otherwise be static. This is done by controlling light and shadows through lenses, mirrors and filters. The first to play with the idea of adding dimension to "flat" designs was Moholy-Nagy in 1929. As a design for a magazine cover he collaged together images of a metal type on a composing stick in a way that made the image pop off the page.

A Very Short Story- Fred Eerdekens
http://www.wikilinks.fr/typo-shadow-art-a-very-short-story/

City View- Kumi Yamashita
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/shadow-art/

HOW- Typography Served
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/shadow-art/

Team GER - Extreme Close-Ups

Extreme close-ups often take photographs and crop, distort, slice, enlarge, decontextualize them and/or place an emphasis on the difference between the foreground and background of the image.

Extreme Close Ups try to have an in your face effect that really grabs the attention of viewers, and it also brings out intense details that might not have been seen before.

-Deviantart

-Scraps

Close-ups on photographs show details and textures, as well as enhance the colors in the image. In this photo, you can clearly see the different colors of the dogs fur and eyes, as well as the texture of his nose, and his fur. The close-up provides a feeling that you know the dogs face would be very soft if you pet it. 

-DeviantArt

-By artist Dr4wingF4ith

Again, close-ups provide an amazing opportunity to show what could have been missed details. In people, close-ups show differences in hair, skin, and facial features. Far away, people may look similar. Up close, you can see just how different they really are. 

-DeviantArt

-By artist AtomiccircuS

Extreme Close-Ups are used by photographers/ Graphic Designers in order to emphasize the difference between foreground and background in an image. ​

-Tumblr.com

-Artist Unknown

Team Avatar-Vibrating Color

Vibrating colour is known in colour theory as what happens when two opposite hues meet at an edge that are equal in value and intensity. The resulting illusion is that the edges will "vibrate" or simulate movement. This is really cool. Opposing colours such as blue and orange can cause this effect provided the same value and intensity are present.
The result of using vibrating colour can often be whimsical, and in all honesty it can cause some people headaches. However, the use of vibrating colours help images stick in our mind and fascinate us. Simulation of movement can help brain teasers and the psychedelic posters displayed in head shops sell. In general, colour vibration is fascinating, and sometimes a bit of an eyesore.

http://www.jaimetreadwell.com/DCCC-Vibrating-color-project.htm
Vibrating Catarac

http://www.jaimetreadwell.com/DCCC-Vibrating-color-project.htm
Vibrating Justanczic

http://www.jaimetreadwell.com/DCCC-Vibrating-color-project.htm

Achievers- Night Spectaculars

Night Spectaculars-  something noticeable or dramatic, especially when something is notable because it is so beautiful.


Published by Steve Litchfield at 18:07 UTC, July 28th 2013
 PureView night spectaculars

Published by Steve Litchfield at 18:07 UTC, July 28th 2013

PureView night spectaculars

Disney Night Spectacular

By Tahoe South