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New Design Books

Meg — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:07:14 +0000

With Borders closing very soon I decided that I should get my butt down there and see what design books they had left. I was in denial for quite a while, I didn’t want the one and only book store in town to close down. I hate seeing business which bring culture to the community leave. Hopefully another book store company will pick them up.

Anyways back to my point, books! I wanted to share with you which books got at a good buy. I was surprised how many design books there were left. So far I’m really enjoying Breaking into Freelance Illustration it is easy relate to (even though its not a work of fiction) and has a lot of helpful information.

Renewable energy- graphic design

Meg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:35:37 +0000

Its the start of a new semester, and hopefully they last, this also means a set of new graphic design projects all having to deal with renewable energy. The first project is a combination of two items a content map and a poster. This is my version of a content map on renewable energy. Its still a rough so don’t judge. There are so many different content maps out there and mine are not anything like them.

I was planing on redoing it after seeing everyone’s version and how they are graph like and organized different, but it ended up the teach liked it! Yay! Still a lot of work to go and 3 poster roughs due Tuesday.

ps sorry for crappy version of image

Project Three, finaly

Meg — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:40:11 +0000

Here we are at the end of the semester with only days left, and I haven’t yet put up the third project from graphic design class. I can’t feel to bad because the teacher hasn’t handed them back yet graded. The triangle piece was the item turned in, this did not stay 2d this was made into a 3d triangle object. This wasn’t exactly a challenging project, it just got my mind thinking in a different way. The cylinder down at the button was a runner up for this project, but it would have been harder to construct and I was taken more with the triangle form.

Here are the instructions the class used:

Use either a cylinder, rectangle or triangle in a 3d manner.
Must use words or phrases.
Must have some opposing aspect to composition whether it be with the object or text.
Must use 3 pantone colors, able to use screens and the color white.

Update

Meg — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:02:15 +0000

Man! Its been busy since Fanime getting stuff done for school, and working at the same time. At least I’m working more hours since school is out for the summer, yay more money! As for school after I registered I had to pay for class just two days after! Now they didn’t tell me anything about having to pay for classes just 2 days after registering, those damn money nazis! I was able to get on their payment plan for paying for school $45o a month till October. There goes my savings. . .

As you can tell I have changed the lay out, I liked the other one but not everyone was able to see the formatting. I’m hoping with this layout that people everywhere is able to see it. It does have the same basic ideas of the other, but with this one I need to change the photo size so that when you click on them you don’t get the side bar in the middle of the pic. This lay out also doesn’t show the pages that I have set up of my portfolios, links and about. So I’m trying to play around with code a bit to see if I can manually try and get some buttons on the page under the banner. I might be able to make in dreamweaver. So if you see something funny on the front page don’t be alarmed, its just me messing around. edit: disregard this paragraph, I have changed things once again.

As for the photo goes, this is lil Davenport being shy for photo so he turns his head hince making his hair look like a sauve shampoo comerical. I looks kinda cool.