PTP summer work outs

Soccer Team Poster

Artist Statement

This project was called 1,000 Things. It is a composition of 1,000 things drawn by 25 students. All the things in this picture are completely random and a lot of them don't make sense. This project took about 3 months to complete. It was drawn in pencil first and then outlined again in sharpies  Each student had to contribute around 50 drawings in order for us to reach 1,000. All the drawings were from our imagination. A lot of the normal items that we drew ended up with something else on them. Such as Hello Kitty smoking. It was a lot of fun seeing the whole project come together and fitting all the drawings into it.

Team picture

Railroad

Building the GE building

Paul Robinson

Concert

Time and Place

People I want to meet:
Jesus
James Bond
Arnold Schwarzneggar


Events I wish I could be at:
concert
Space shuttle

Muhammad Ali

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Black Hawk Down movie poster

In Time Movie Poster

Movie Poster

Favorite Recent Movies:

Skyfall
In Time
Act of Valor
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
The Crazies

Favorites:

Black Hawk Down
Titanic
Lord of the Rings
James Bond
Dark Knight

Examples:

In Time - Watch
MI: GP  - Ghost
The Crazies - still thinking
Black Hawk down - Helicopter crashing
Lord of the rings - ring

Nail font

Nail font

Hand written font

Hand drawn letter font

Fonts

FGH, 678 type face

Typeface

F G H
6 7 8

For my digital font, I will try using FontStruct. If I can't get the font just right, then I will go back and use photoshop to design the right font. For my handwritten design. I will just write down the letters and see where that takes me, I like to just start doing something and then it magically pulls itself together. I don't know what I'm going to make with the sculptural typeface yet.

42 Ideas

1. anchor
2. fish on the wall
3. otter on skateboard
4. rat with boots
5. hairy man
6. barber shop sign
7. plate of food
8. carousel
9. roller coaster
10. ostrige
11. bill board
12. plant growing out of shoe
13. tulip
14. iphone
15. toilet paper
16. LOL face
17. house on stilts
18. Stick person flying wingsuit
19. Cat swimming
20. Fly in nudist camp
21. cow tipping
22. famous painting
23. icicle
24. very long beard
25. a buoy
26. elephant swimming
27. checkers board
28. lunch box
29. a match
30. cornucopia
31. starbucks
32. deck of cards
33. hippo juggling men
34. McDonalds logo
35. penguin surfing
36. shark swimming
37. chicken flying
38. kangaroo in tench coat
39. turtle wearing party hat
40. pelican on moped
41. lion on jet ski
42. man robbing bank

International Club poster

Letter Composition

Letter "N"

Letter "P"

t1

6P

G9

4A

H8

V7

5C

E3

4U

Y1

Helvetica

I just finished watching the movie, Helvetica. I thought it was an interesting clip. They interviewed a lot of graphic designers or typers and asked them questions about their work or about the font type "Helvetica". It was intriguing to hear their responses and hear what they have to say about all the different types of fonts. Some of these men and women get so into their work and get so worked up about a font! They get so excited by their job and it interests them so much!

I thought this was awesome because this is their job and this is what they are going to be doing and it affects society so much and they are so into it! It's great that we have people like them to make the world a bit more creative and exciting. If we didn't have any of these people, everything would just be bland and not exciting. Billboards wouldn't be as creative, advertisements wouldn't be as funny or exciting.

Almost all of the people that were interviewed said that Helvetica was like a main font. We see it almost everywhere. It came out in the late 1900's and everyone started using it. They could use this font for nearly everything and didn't need to change their fonts all the time. They talked about the spacing in between the letters and how the area in between just holds the words together and that's why this font is the best. Each graphic designer or typer had a different reason for why they thought this was a great font.

Biker logo for trip from Holland to Alaska 

What is Graphic Design?

Graphic Design is all around us today. We see it on T.V and in magazines, we see it on buildings and on billboards. Graphic design is designing things to make a statement or say something. People use graphic design to advertise. It could be on the internet or on a billboard or just on the TV. Graphic designs are usually really creative and make a statement. They are done using programs on a computer.

Graphic designs are on clothes we wear, teams we support, schools, etc. The Nike symbol is a graphic design, Detroit Tigers logo, Hollister bird. My favorite graphic designs are the creative ones that are funny too. First when you look at them, you don't understand but then after a moment it clicks and it's so funny.  Another logo that has definitely influenced me is the Facebook logo, every time I see "F" I think of Facebook. Our culture is affected by Graphic designs all the time. They are a great way to advertise and sell products.