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Emily Nguyen
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Shapes #2 --->
Project: Learning to use tools to combine and alter shapes to create a more detailed picture
Ideas: Organized the shapes to make smaller scenes and made it look like they were being drawn on an iPad. Added a window and bird in the back. Made of cup of coffee sitting on the table.
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Project: Learning to use simple shapes to create a picture
Ideas: Used a pastel color palette for the background. Added clouds, stars, and flowers. Added a strawberry on top of the house. Made a snowman holding an ice cream cone.
Silhouette
Project: Using the pencil tool to trace the outline of your portrait to create a silhouette
Ideas: Made the hair more detailed by tracing loose strands. Added my name using a cursive font.
Multiple Silhouettes
Project: Using the pen tool and having three silhouettes of yourself advertising a product
Ideas: Advertising rollerblades and incorporating the brand name. Rollerblades by itself in the foreground. Pathway leading from background to middle ground. I am sitting on the pathway in the background, and I am rollerblading in the middle ground. Using a gradient of purple and pink colors.
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Color Harmonies
Project: Creating 12 mandala patterns using different color harmonies and incorporating strong negative and positive space
Ideas: Used negative space to create an inner flower of some mandalas. Color-coded the border of all mandalas by their color harmonies. Made a decorative title matching with the pale pink background.
Self Portraits
Project: Creating a Shepard Fairey style portrait with a portrait of yourself and a prop/item or gesture that describes you
Ideas: Pose is looking at a notebook. Used notebook, pencil, and potted flower as props. Had a calm and focused expression, looking downward. Complementary purple and yellow color harmony with personal mandala as the background.
Paula Scher
Project: Creating a silhouette of yourself doing an activity that you love and adding 20 words that describes you as a person
Ideas: Pose is drawing in a sketchbook. Color harmony is monochromatic purple. Used different fonts and arrangements to portray the varying adjectives.
4 Rules of Typography
Project: Using the rules of typography (left/right aligned, centered, fit a shape, and staggered) to emphasize different quotes
Ideas: Emphasized key words in the quotes by adding color harmonies and choosing fonts that matched the meaning of the word.
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Victorian Quotes
Project: Creating quote posters, utilizing rules of typography, and Victorian Ads as evidence and inspiration for different Victorian fonts, elements, and color harmony
Ideas: Chose a song lyric by Taylor Swift. Used drop shadows, strokes, and arcs to emphasize more important words. Added Victorian elements, such as decorative banners, swirls, ribbons, and other small details. Had a blue and yellow gradient as the background.
What Decade?
Project: Creating a quote poster using a quote from a popular song lyric or movie from a specific decade
Ideas: Went with the 1970's. Chose a quote by Steven Wright. Used popular colors of the decade (avocado, burnt orange, harvest gold, teal and corrair) and common geometric shapes.
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Logos
Project: Creating a creative logo for a client's company and presenting it to them in person
Ideas: Nutrition Counseling is the company name. Designed logos representing nutrition and health. Included the MyPlate portions, fruits, and growing flower.
Monograms
Project: Creating a monogram with the first initials of our names and incorporating negative and positive space
Ideas: Initials are EN. Top monogram is a cat and the bottom monogram is a butterfly. Used script for my full name. Pink = calm, love, and sensitivity. Purple = harmony and creativity.
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