Wednesday, February 25, 2009

I <3 Blogging Design Contest

Hello, everyone. So I recently entered a design contest where I designed a skin for the iPhone or the iPod touch. My concept for the contest is based on the dandelion which can spread its seeds (or information in reference to blogging) very quickly and efficiently. For this design, I turned the seeds into keyboards on the Mac. If anyone would like to see it and vote for my design, please click here. If you voted for me, I really appreciated it. There's 4 more days for my design to be voted on, so vote now before it's too late!

I originally had everything with just a fill and no stroke (no outline), but when I saw it like that nothing was standing out. I then thought about the ukiyo-e prints I saw in class and thought, "Okay, how about some outlines?" I think it look a lot better with outlines. I varied the stroke width to add some dynamics to the lines.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

GOOD magazine graphs

Good magazine has a ton of fun icon driven graphs.

The Trilogy Meter


Design which rates purely on Danmeth.com's enjoyment level on each film.
It reminded me of the informational design discussed in class this morning.
The design is simple and to the point!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Your winning U-STORE-IT ad by April 24th

Create print and Internet Yellow Pages advertising for a Yellow Pages advertiser.

$10K in prizes

Check out the winners from previous years - you can do better! Let me know if you want to participate - I am happy to be Faculty Sponsor, and will donate any prize money to the GSU Graphic Design program. - Liz