As expected my critique went very badly. Jason brought in a quest critiquer, who gave me very hard time. In part because I admitted to my dissatisfaction with my design, and I knew what was wrong with it. I always thought that showed poor charictor in a professor, if they jump on someone who knows what went wrong. Knowing what went wrong, is the learning process. And I can’t stress that enough. Knowing what went wrong, is the learning process.
Here is what went wrong with my poster. Early on in the design process Jason and I agreed the Mew would be a great name to build unique typography around. So instead of developing a strong concept to frame the typographic solution, I chanced after one typographic solution and then another, without really having a context for it. So in the end the design feels kind of hollow and unfinished despite zillions of hours being pured into it.
Thats it. It’s a hard lesson, but I ll never forget it. And for all you other designers out there. Don’t get too exited about a particular solution, get the concept down first.
It’s been two days and I still hate my final design for my poster in Graphic Design I. Here is the final design, and the mockups that lead to them.
I like this one, sorta, but the ‘e’ really isn’t working at all. But I love the brackets I design by hand, which were shot down during my semi final critique.
This was my first digital version traced from sketches. The ‘e’ is obviously not working, but you can see the influence it had on the final design.
Something weird happened with this post. I created it, and posted it, and for some reason wordpress freaked out and unposted it and deleted half of it. I didn’t notice for two days. Sorry everyone.
I am 30 minutes away from printing my large format poster, and I am very discouraged. I don’t feel my design is good enough, though I have spent countless hours sketching, tracing, and digitalizing my current concept.
It has consumed my life, much more than the logo project. Which is why I haven’t post much this week. No time. Tonight or tomorrow I will upload scans of drafts up to the current printed version, so everyone can see. Don’t be too harsh.
Wired reacently interviewed Aaron Koblin on his experiment in social art. Though Wired, calls it data art, I am not a sure. When I hear data art, I think of stuff like We Feel Fine.
But back to the experiment, Aaron used Amazon’s new service Mechanical Turk to hire people to draw sheep, at 2 cents a pop. Ten thousand people contributed, and each of their sheep was recorded. Check out the video.
This obviously has buckets of potential for randomization in art. I can’t wait to see what other people come up with. If I could come up with the cash, I might even conceive a project.
Jason handed back grades for our Graphic Design I logo projects. He is a strict grader. It was my impression that most people got B and C. It is almost impossible to get an A. Jason grades on four criteria, process, concept, presentation, function. Each category is give a grade between 4 and 0, just like letter grades. The four are added then averaged. So unless you get 4.0 on everyone category, the best you can hope for is an -A.
Here are my grades
Process: 3.88
Concept: 4.0
Presentation: 3.85
Function: 3.65
I guess I really needed to work on my Function area, which he describes as “clarity of communication and legibility of image.”
I just realized how annoying it must be for those of you who are subscribed via email, to receive my Stream Of Thoughts. So I have removed it from the content that is send via email subscription. RSS users will still receive it, I don’t think it will bother anyone there. If anyone has any thoughts on the topic. Leave a comment, or shoot me an email.
It looks like I am going to have a horrid schedule again. I am not even sure what classes I am going to be taking. I’ve talked to Kern, my tools instructor, and he agrees that I shouldn’t take Tools II (web design). The classes are too simple for me, and I should spend my time doing something else.
I think I’ll go talk to a councilor, about what I should take. Anyone have suggestions?
