Global Warming

Here is an ad done to promote awareness for global warming done by Brian Maranan Pineda. This was found on Communication arts online.  This caught my eye because of how it stood out for its lack of major color and how simple it was. I clicked on it because I didn't understand it and it pulled me in which was the goal.  I love the simplicity and the symmetrical balance. It is a easily read ad without any type once you understand the purpose and it becomes very clever.  

Illustration

This is an album cover for one of my other favorite musical artists, Andy Mineo.  Because of our focus in class and making illustrations, I chose this because I love the simple illustrations.  The illustrations inside the type make it unique and all have very good unity.  The overall image has  a lot of texture that brings the simple design to making it look like a professional design.  The negative space is also used very well in the design making it very interesting to look at.  

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.