What I have learned so far.

- Being punctual is always good

Competition is good since it forces you to be better

To humble myself specially being in a field where pride is  everywhere

To be more responsible

Being organize with my time

Learned how balance my social life and school life and my faith

Working ahead of schedule takes a load of your back

If in doubt ask for a colleagues opinion 

Teamwork is great since you learn how others work and you learn to adapt

Hands on work is great

Being surrounded by things and people that inspires you helps you become a good designer

There is always a room for improvement

Being open for suggestions and ideas of other people.

Be unique. Don’t steal ideas if you do. Take other bits and pieces of idea and make it your own masterpiece

Good design should give a nice feeling to the audience

Clients will not choose good designs so make a safe design and ones that you put your effort to.

There is no such thing as a stupid idea because it’s a start of a great one.

Be aware of your surroundings you might not know what can inspire you

Be good to others for they might be your colleagues in the future.

Instructors are great mentors.

Don’t have high expectations.

Ford "Powered By You"

So I was watching the NBA skills competition, but I was also trying to be aware on the commercials. One commercial in particular caught my attention and this was the Ford commercial "Powered by You". The commercials concept in summary is that a car is not car till it is used by you. The commercial would show what I believe are acrobats assembled into a exterior of a car. I found this commercial pretty amazing because of its concept and the whole feel of the commercial.

PATTERNS!! PATTERNS!! PATTERNS!!

I've always had a love for patterns and how it creates a wonderful design feeling. I have been recently using patterns more often for my designs, which is why this caught my attention, patterns of animals.

I saw this and I saw how fascinating the patterns on animals could be. Looking at these photos as national geographic channel. I was amazed and inspired because not only the patterns work together but also the colours. The colours in my opinion make a lovely colour palette for designs. So I posted this to share and maybe inspire some of you guys for your future designs. I hope you guys enjoy this

What most men dream of having

Being in a technology generation and a guy who is a sucker for media. I have always wondered how I would set up my house if I were to get my own. The first thing that always comes to my mind is my media or my multi-media room where all my technology paraphernalia would be placed, set-up and how the room would look. From time to time I would then look at magazines that shows such things, like home theater set up and looks because who would want a bunch of wires running around the room when you can make it look like there isn’t any.

So today while looking my trust worthy source of latest news I stumbled upon this amazing, extravagant, lovely, and every guys dream to have; The Ultimate Multi-media set-up that cost a whopping 6 million dollars. This is apparently a set-up specifically for ps3 which I thought was a insane idea, but at the same time I couldn’t help myself but wonder how it would be like being in there surrounded my many speakers. It would be almost surreal being there and watching movies such as 300 or playing the game Call of Duty 4 but all I

Superbowl Ads Analyss

Commercials have always been annoying for me.  Disrupting my limited TV viewing time just to see pointless ads about things that doesn’t relate to me. Not till going to college is when I actually do pay attention to commercial airtime and analyzing how the try to hit their consumers mind. The ones that seem to catch my attention are the commercials that have humour and brilliant concepts. This brings me to the Superbowl ads.

After watching most of the ads on the Superbowl Ads commercial, one thing stuck to mind, humour. All of the ads were interesting and even more interesting because I wondered why companies such as Pepsi, FedEx, and other alcoholic beverages would spend millions of dollars to air a 30 second slot commercial that in my opinion are all stupid even if it was funny. While watching I don’t feel as if their target are being hit unless they are intoxicated Though they are very humourous I believe the commercials lacked concept but not all.

The commercial, in my opinion had a great concept combined with humour is the tide to go ad that gets a message across clearly and straight forward. Showing the benefits and convenience of carrying a Tide to go sticks. This in my opinion is a more effective way hitting a wider target compared most other commercial aired during that day, in which in my opinion are targeting intoxicated people rather that the sober consumers.

What is design?

Design in my opinion has many meanings and cannot be condensed into one broad description. But I believe that Gyorgy Kepe’s description of design also best describes design. Design as the “language of vision”, communicating with visual elements that carry across a message or a meaning.

Translated in workplace description, design is a translation in which we are trying to communicate words in a visual way without losing the meaning that designers like me are trying to get across. Just as there is a language translator, we are visual translators which I believe where design comes into play.

I f I were asked what design as a whole I believe that design is every thing that is physical and can be see. Like what I said in my previous post I believe in an intelligent designer who created every living thing. Now, I believe design can also be described how art is described an expression of our inner feelings into something visual. That is why I also believe that there is not such thing as a bad design for design opinion is biased.

A Designers Responsibility

This is a late post from last week because I have overlooked the question. The question is as a designer what my responsibility is.

I believe that I many responsibilities as designer, a responsibility towards myself and the people I am communicating to. As cliché as it sounds as a designer I believe that one my most important responsibility is to be the best designer I could be and yet not distorting or compromising my morals as a born again Christian. To always speak of the truth, honesty and with passion through my designs that has developed.

Responsibility towards viewers, I believe that another important responsibility is to properly communicate a message towards a viewer to translate a visual message properly. In other words to be a masters of visual language just as Gyorgy Kepes would describe design.

The Future of Print

In-class assignment

Consumed Media

Applied Arts 

Metro News Paper

24 News Paper

I do not consume print quite much because most of my information are from the internet. But from time to time I would pick up the daily news paper from Subway station stands. Only to consume the travel time on the bus for most times I only look at the ads and interesting news to read, like hockey news, design news and or electronics advertisements.

How will the current state of the design world change the form of print media?
Looking at the design world today, observing how print is now I have noticed that print have become more visually pleasing to the eye making it easier and alot interesting for those who are more visual to read. Myself specifically, find that it is a lot easier to read a article when a visual is co-inside with it. It makes it alot easier for me to visualize a story that I am reading. Where we are now compared to 100 years ago, people are alot iletrate because people are reading less, not saying that people do not read anymore, people still do but readers reduced drastically.Because of the new technolgiy being invted today, I believe that print will still be greatly reduced. Who knows the next big thing might be a video visual book so words are not needed in order to get a message across. Let's face it, this generation are not technologically based and this is a generation where print is not highly appreciated. People would rather read news or get information online, it is just way faster than searching a specific news in a newspaper or a book when you can just Google it. But I believe that no one can be really sure where print will be in the future, a lot of things are unexpected. One thing is for sure print will not die.

Will print die?
Off course not, as I mentioned earlier I believe print is here to say. Yes, it is not as valuable because all information are online but it the end some people would much rather have a piece of print on their hand to get information from. I myself find it a lot easier to have a assignment sheet on my hand to read from. Than having to look online for it. There is just something different from having a hard copy of something rather than digitally. For my print seems more official to me than having it digital since there are a lot of bogus material in the internet.

The Intelligent Designer

After reading peoples blog today, one got me thinking about appreciation of things that are there but are often ignored and taken for granted. It got me thinking; about the times (many times really) I have heard this at Church or Youth Fridays (Yes Church). We have been told that an intelligent designer has created us. Yes I believe this. If I were asked who I believe the greatest designer is, it will be God.

He would be my number one choice since God designed us from His image. People are so precisely designed that every part of our body functions properly in order to live. Though this post would be a bit controversial because not everyone shares the same belief. I am just amazed how wonderfully designed humans are and even the place we live in are wonderfully designed in order for humans to survive and live in. I have read somewhere that even if the earth 2% closer to the sun, no vegetation is possible for it cannot stand the powerful radiation coming form the sun. Even 2 % further we could freeze to death. I found this amazing for no big bang could even precisely bring us to where we are.

That is why the belief n evolution would never cross my mind for humans are too wonderfully designed to be evolved from a tiny organism or if its only possible (we would be mutants by now.) I believe that everything has a designer just like the buildings, the watch we wear and the computers we used ever single day.

Ball Point Art! Stunning!!

Who said that fancy art materials are needed to create great art. I'v always heard from instructors to not let your tool design you and in my opinion this article is a great example. 

Who knew that a normal ball point pen is capable of making such an amazing art. This explains that it's all bout the artist and how he uses his material.

This photo is a whopping 10-ft high drawn by Juan Francisco Casas. Amazing!  I love drawing but I cannot even imagine how hard would have been to draw this stunning piece which almost looks like an actually photo. One single mistake could have made this art flop down that ground but this piece almost shouts perfection, what an inspiration!! Makes me want to doodle in class more and try it out.

I have read from the article that the artist have only used 14 ball point pen in the production and that this piece has already fetched 3,750 euro. The artist had mentioned that he admired the "simplicity" of a ball point pen . The piece took about 3 weeks in completion.

Does it not want to make you draw?