Yay School!!

I am in my last semester of school.. YAY I can't wait to graduate.. BUT I have a feeling I am not going to like my classes too much. Especially two of my classes (that's half) There are people in those classes that I think are just ew.. And when there are people like that in my classes I tend to disregard what they say in critiques. The good news is that in my Graphic Design III class the teacher is just as crazy about fonts and poorly designed things as me.. Example

He was talking about different logos and their meanings. We started talking about the the Ivy Tech logo.. It was a very interesting conversation I might add..
He was like, "What is this logo? What does it mean?"
And me being the outgoing loud-mouth I can sometimes tend to be with design I say, "I was told it's an Ivy tree."
He says, "When was the last time you've seen an Ivy tree?"
I say, "I have no idea. I actually don't think I've ever seen one."
He goes, "Class, when was the last time you saw an ivy tree??"
Silence.
I chime in and say, "I was actually under the impression ivy was an invasive vine and not a tree."
He goes. "EXACTLY! So how does this logo even makes SENSE?!?! Ivy isn't EVEN A TREE!!"

He proceeds to google the alleged 'ivy tree' and read the Wikipedia entry.
He then tells us that an Ad Agency designed it and didn't design it well considered the given facts of the ivy plant.
He asks what font the logo is in.. Of course I know what it is.. Futura.. Obvi.

He was like, "So tell me what is wrong with this logo. Why isn't it within design standards?"
I say, "The proportions are incorrect."
He says, "Good observation, but not the correct terminology. The WEIGHT isn't the same. The Y is very thick, the V is medium thickness and the I is scrunched and scrawny in comparison to the other letters."
I was just sitting there laughing, only because he is so right.


It's going to be a good class let me tell you!!

Longest day of my life..

So this happens to me all the time.

I'm sitting over here thinking that I have nothing to do for Halloween. People ask me,"Hey Marcie what are you doing for Halloween?" And I'm like, "I don't know of anything going on."  The next day I sign into my Facebook/ e-mail and I have like forty million even invitations. I always think to myself What is this!?!?! These people need to STOP inviting me to crap!! And OF COURSE it's Halloween parties. I always instantly dismiss things because of a preconceived notion. It kind of sucks at times. I mean I just got genuinely annoyed when I saw that I had two event invitations. I have ignored a lot of them. GEEZE. I really need to stop doing that.

RANDOMNESS
I was in class the other day and this girl seriously said to my TEACHER, "Hey I need some ideas for this project." My teacher looked at her like "did you really just ask me that question?" She did say, "That's not my job to give you ideas."
But like seriously WHO asks that sort of question when it's a project. Brain dead much? The teacher isn't going to give you the ideas, as a design student.

Project 3

           We are doing a type specimen poster. I choose Futura (Std Light). For obvious reasons, a. its a GORGEOUS font, b. it's used on the LOUIS VUITTON website, c. it's also used by ULTA, my favorite makeup store of all time. It's also  used by Shutterfly, a website where you can upload your digital photographs and then get them printed off; you can photobook etc. the possibilities there are endless. I decided to Google Futura, just that word, and one of the results was a website where there are tshirts for it! O M G I almost ordered one but the one I really wanted was going to be like 40$ and I don't see spending money like that for a shirt. It was a nice shirt, but I'm broke. :) It was such a cute t-shirt too! I need to stop talking about it.... It makes me WANT it.

   The requirements of the project are that you have to have at least 150 words of body copy, max. 300 (it'd be a novel otherwise, & who wants to read that much body copy on a poster?) It has to include Upper & Lower case alphabets, and all of the #'s. It doesn't HAVE to include anything about the designer because the main focus is on the typeface but I decided to make it noticeable.


               I didn't use color because I read in a book that Paul Renner believed that color was a way to cover up a flaw in the composition. So that is why I decided to only use Black Whites & Grays. The whole layout is at a 55 degree angle. I am just in love with this typefaceeee. It's amazing to me how often it is used but how little the majority of people know about it. I really like the simplicity of the typeface as well.

         During class, mind you we had to have our first drafts completed at the beginning of class, this guy asked me if we had to have our body copy done. REALLY? How can you do a design if you don't have body copy? The design should reflect what you say in your body copy so how could he even have any drafts? Maybe I'm just weird but I don't think that his process is being done correctly, but HEY it's his grade not mine.

Typography by Herb Lubalin

Coolest thing ever... By Herb Lubalin.
In my VIS113 Typography class we are doing Type Specimen Posters. I choose Futura because I really like the geometric look to it, but this girl in my class choose Avant Garde and my teacher was talking so passionately about Herb Lubalin and encouraged all of us to look at his work .. I want to be Herb Lubalin. He is amazing.