Balance

This is a design piece done for my favorite musical artist, Lecrae. It is a album cover  found online at communication arts and it is for the song "fear" and you can see the story being told through the artwork. The contrast between black and white surrounding him as he looks lost adds a sense of his fear of what's right and wrong. The color scheme is very appropriate and gives the viewer a sense of dark feeling and portrays the emotions better. The composition is very asymmetrical and it is like a complex ying yang. The dark side of the face is complemented with light birds and vice verse.

Compostition

This design is a poster for the film "Book of Life" found in communication arts online.  The design is very simple but has a story that is told through it. The two skulls are put next to each other and join and make a broken heart. Having this design, the designer chose to use symmetry. The textures and colors that are used within the piece also give a sense of setting and style of the movie.

typography

This is a design from communication arts that I loved. I was immediately pulled in by the typography and the use of design that flows out of it. All the type flows around the paper giving each word movement instead of having the type on top of the design they incorporated it. The colors inside of the type also show movement because of how it goes from one color to another through gradients. 

Illustration

This weeks blog is about illustration so I chose to display this Instagram page called logoinspirations. They display very modern and simplistic logos. Every piece is very inspiring and will make you want to pick up a pencil and design something. It shows you the major keys for having successful and simple designs.

photography

This is a piece I found on the communication arts Instagram page. This is a design that describes her emotions that are associated with Los Angeles.  This piece has a very great use of photography and has such a simple and effective message that is described with it. Even the choice to use a black and white design makes it as simple as possible. It has a great use of contrast and positive and negative space along with a sense of movement from an originally still image.

Young Graff

I found this piece on an instagram that I follow called, YoungGraff.Psd.  Although it is not from a larger and high up design I though his work is amazing.  This piece is about his skating life and his representation of his feeling for it. I loved the simplicity and super modernized design.  It is very easy to understand and can be looked at for a while which is very contemporary. I also loved the color scheme that was chosen because it works very well with the design and what the subject matter is based upon. I definitely recommend checking his other work out. 

Legal Sea foods poster

I found this piece in the online communication arts website and this one stood out to me.  I enjoyed this one for the twist it has on it. The design itself is extremely simple but the idea behind it has a lot of meaning.  It will make everyone second guess and stop and think, which is the main goal of graphic design.  I think designs like this will be the future of design and simplicity is taking over.