Journal 10

After watching a view of the videos on Good is.., I realized that there is still a lot about After Effects that I don't know and would like to learn. I am very interested in the program however also very frustrated with it. I think that I need to just sit down and mess around with it for hours, I tried to do this in our last project using it, however just ended up getting frustrated and gave up. I know I am not at the level where I need to be with After Effects but am trying my hardest to do whatever I can to figure it out.

The video that I was the most taken with was the "State of the Planet". Not only was I interested by the facts in general but I also found the transitions and the effects to be intriguing. That is what I am trying to accomplish with my video, I want it to be intriguing for others to watch. I know I can only use my speech as the sound so I need to make the effects and graphics going on more interesting... now the question is how do I make my ideas come to life??

Journal 9

Jakob Trollback as a self-taught individual has done wonders with motion graphics and design in general. In his three part talk he covers a lot of ground speaking of anything from the work he has created to his personal beliefs about design and creativity. Many of his motion graphics were very powerful in their use of type and sound.

Journal 8

"Type Means Never Having To Say Your Sorry"

After reading this article, I was really interested with the content. The author talks about how people overuse Futura. I actually could not agree with this because I think I have only used Futura once or twice on a project. But after reading this I kind of explored a little and started using it a little bit, haha I know I went to wrong way on this.

Michael Bierut also comments on similar issues in his "Designing Under The Influence." He discusses the possible influence that prominent designers have on the work of others, and also questions what can be considered "influenced by" or just plain copying.

I think Univers can be used in exchange for Futura seeing as it is also a sans serif font... and I just love Univers

Address to the Nation about Tearing Down the Berlin Wall

You have been hearing and reading reports that nothing was really accomplished at the summit and the United States in particular came home empty handed. Well this was my seventh summit and the seventh time I have heard that same chorus. You know it might be appropriate, a noted

bull-fighter wrote a poem, a few lines of which do seem appropriate, “the bull-fight critics ranked and rose, fill the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who rea

lly knows, and he is the one who fights the bull.” The truth is we came home from this summit with everything we had hoped to accomplish. And tonight I want to report to you on decisions

made there that directly affect you and your children’s economic future. I also have a special message, one that’s about our own economy. About actions that could jeopardize the kind of progress we made towards economic health last week in Venice. As well as the prosperity that during the last six years all of us here in America have worked so hard to achieve. But before beginning, I must make a personal note about something we saw on the last day of our journey when we stopped in Berlin to help celebrate the 750^th anniversary of that noble city. I know that over the years many of you have seen the pictures and news clips of the wall that divides Berlin,

but believe me, no America who sees first hand the concrete and mortar, the guard posts, the machine gun towers, the dog runs and the barbed wire can ever again take for granted his or her freedom or the precious gift that is American. That gift of freedom is actually the birth right of all humanity, and thats why as I stood there, I urged the soviet leader Mr. Gorbachev to send a new signal of openness to the world by tearing down that wall.

Speaker: Ronald Reagan

Why was the speech important to society: informing the American public that they tore down the Berlin wall

What is the emotion, mood, tone, personality, feeling of the speech? Important and powerful, very informative tone and nice spacing and meaning

What is intonation, emphasis, what is loud, stressed, or soft. Where are there pauses... pauses are all emphasized by multiple spaces if they are not paused on a period or comma. Most of this speech seems not extremely different in the words he emphasizes.

What do you FEEL should be loud or soft, long pause or rushed? Underline words so be loud. Rushed are italics.

Is there a call to action? When listening to it what are key/em

phasized words? Could animate the things he sees at the wall before it was torn down or the word tear down could be animated.

How does it make you feel? Like you just listened to something that is going to have a great impact on the world

How do imagine that the audience felt? Inspired and informed

Could there be another interpretation of the speech? It could seem that the Americans forced Berlin to tear down their wall

Write/find a short bio, of the person giving the speech.

Innovative president Ronald Reagan was born to parents Nelle and John Reagan on February 6th of 1911 in Tampico Illinois.

Ronald Reagan spent his high school years at the school in the nearby town of Dixon and spent his college days working his way through Eureka college. While working his way through school Ronald Reagan studied economics and sociology, was a star football player and took a great interest in the theater community of the school.

After he completed college Ronald Reagan began a career as a sportscaster before a successful screen test in 1937 brought him to Hollywood. Over the course of the next two decades Ronald Reagan appeared in over fifty motion pictures. Disagreements over the communism involved in the movie industry raged as Ronald Reagan served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild. It was during this time of turmoil that this future presidents political views turned from liberal to quite conservative.

Ronald Reagan's first marriage was to Miss Jane Wyman. The couple produced children Maureen and Micheal. Unfortunately the marriage ended in divorce. In 1952 Reagan married fellow actor Nancy Davis. Their marriage produced children Patricia and Ronald.

In 1966 Ronald Reagan was elected the governor of California by a huge margin of one million votes. He won reelection in 1970. Ronald Reagan soon became the Republican nominee for president and choose then Texas congressman George H. Bush as his running mate. They won by a decisive amount over President Jimmy Carter. Sixty-nine days after taking office Ronald Reagan was shot by a would be assassin.

Ronald Reagan would probably be considered one of the most popular presidents in history. He strengthened relations with the Soviet Union and made the United States a strong world power. His graceful manner and warm humor where often the reason his popularity soared and will also be one of the many wonderful things this great leader will be forever remembered for.

Journal #6

I watched the video Thirty Conversations in Design where they asked 30 different designers two questions, What single example of design inspires you most? & What problem should design solve next? Here are 5 peoples answers...

Kit Hinrichs- Typography is the thing that most inspires him. The way in which

the letterforms are expressed, not the actual alphabet. They can be portrayed in many different aspects, bold, delicate, descriptive, etc. It is an art form and not just a hassle. Design should solve the problem of airplane secruity next. Having to take of half your clothes and put them on a conveyor belt that was built in the 40s is not exactly up to the 21st century. Some sort of design should be made to not have that process seem so painful.

Michael Lebowitz- The iPad is the example of design that most inspires him. Ho

w it is so interactive and easy to use. Its more human and more natural than things in the past. Software is the most flexible face of design. The problem we should solve next is how to create order and context out of things we have stores. We need to create meaning out of the data we have. Basically like an updated version of Google.

Tony Hawk- Apple products are the most inspiring to him. How they made a business only

product and transformed it into a product that is useful and fun and something you are proud to own. They made the idea less intimidating. That is what he sees as a problem that needs to be solved. Making the newer technology that has been coming increasingly more advanced into something that an be made fun, exciting and beautiful.

Tina Rothe Eisenberg- The swiss have an eternal need to arrange thing meticulously. That i

s what most inspires her, how they have influenced design. The problem she thinks need to be fixed is somehow providing safe drinking water to the world. Some engineers and designers to need to come together and fix this problem.

Ze Frank- (He was the most inspiring to me) The thing that was most inspiring to him was social design. It takes advantage of the immense complexity of our social interactions and simplifies it just for a moment so we can look at it through a different lens. Simply rules can get layered on top of interactions you think you understand but make you totally revaluate what you believe, how your manipulated and the way you think you can design the communications that your listening to. The problem he thinks needs to be fixed; all of the problems. "Even design should be redesigned." We need to see how choices affect how people can see our work. Everything should be exposed to the process of being interested. He thinks it would be interesting to see many people come together to try and fix one problem. He said that it would help him pay more attention to the world we live in.

My Thoughts- The thing that impresses me most is that fact that technology is increasingly getting more and more useful. Things you think you dont even need or realize you need are being created. Yes you can live without most things, but the fact that they are being created fascinates me. I think the problem we most need to redesign would be that fact that most people are just taking their own inputs and using them to create objects. I think everyone should put their ideas together because the more minds you have together, the more problems and ideas you can fix. Using this strategy you could eventually solve some of the worlds biggest problems.

Journal #5

Jonathan Harris is a internet artist and designer who has created many different works that aim to explore and explain the human world. One of his most famous projects was building the worlds largest time capsule. Some of his most recent work includes projects based on online dating, and news and language. I found this video very interesting because I think he talked about topics that we can all understand instead of making it impossible for non-artists to get.He made a good point in saying anybody can have ideas, do not be afraid to dig deeper to finding meaning. All of his talk about technology made me realize how much technology has an impact on our lives. It is really fascinating to think where we would be in this world today without things like the internet or god forbid blogger.

Questions

_ How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line? 40 to 50
_ Why is the baseline grid used in design? It gives a nice horizon line across the page and makes it clearer for the eye to look across your page.
_ What is a typographic river? The lines that the leading makes across your page
_ From the readings what does clothesline or flow line mean? Line across the top/bottom/ middle of the page that all the paragraphs hang on.
_ How can you incorporate white space into your designs? connect the text and title together or vice versa.
_ What is type color/texture mean? Using different bold, italic and size of text. Also the tracking, leading and weight of the text.
_ What is x-height, how does it effect type color? The height that the lowercase x meets. It makes it easier or harder to differenciate between capital letters and lower case which is what has to do with how you read the page.
_ What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules? Dont indent a the first paragraph, the size f the indent matters it should be less than 1/2 inch. There should be no space between the paragraphs if indented.
_ What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text. There should be no two letters left behind, no words shorter than 5 letters should be hyphenated. dont hyphenate names or proper nouns.
_ What does CMYK and RGB mean? cmyk- cyan, magenta, yellow, and black rgb- red, green, blue
_ What does hanging punctuation mean? The quotes or other punctuation that stand outside the text box.
_ What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe? foot mark- straight two lines apostrophe- curved two lines
_ What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)? Inch mark is straight while quote mark is curved
_ What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used. en dash- opt. shift, hypen-, em dash- opt. shift -
_ What are ligatures, why are they used, when are they not used, what are common ligatures. legability, using ffi, fi ffl, to be one letter. but they dont use when they are tracked out.