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WIX


Wix is a platform where people can create their own website and design it how they choose to. People are able to express themselves by creating a site exactly how they want it to be. Wix gives you many templates to choose from and topics your website will be. Sites like this are able to give people a way to publish their work and make websites for themselves for people to use, explore or have people discover their work or what they are selling. People could also use Wix to create websites to be able to stand up for something they believe in or to create blogs. I think websites like these make it easier for people to create their own websites and show their work and what they are capable of doing to show future clients or to show future job opportunities their talents. It is easily accessible and easy to figure out based on directions they provide on how to create your site perfectly.

/https://www.wix.com/

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Self-Promotion piece: Jessica Walsh

For this blog post I found Jessica Walsh’s website eye catching. After looking at her website and her work I was very intrigued with the colors she used and how her pieces are all clean but catch the viewers attention to make them more interested and invested. The point of putting your work on a website is to be more known and discovered by more potential clients. The first image I added to this blog is a really good image to catch peoples attention and promote her work. First, because the bright colors tend to catch viewers attention more. Secondly, It is made with the women wearing colors of the rainbow and posing in many different ways with different backgrounds and colors to show inclusiveness. The second image I included in this blog post is more simple however, Jessica Walsh uses her symbol a lot in her work. This symbol is simple yet bold since it is in majority of her work in a very large size. Jessica Walsh is promoting her use of design as well as photography and direction in her work. The pieces she has on her website are made to show clients what she can offer to them for any project they need. I really enjoyed looking through Jessica Walsh’s website and looking at the work she has created and what she is able to create. I recommend looking at her website and looking at her work.

https://andwalsh.com/

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Information Design: Suicide in the United States.

I chose to do an information graphic on suicide because I feel that not everyone really knows how often it happens and the information behind it other than just the surface. In this information design the creator uses their images to show the information they are trying to show other people. The percentage of depression is represented in a ring by different colors to show how many adults have depression in a year. The design also uses symbols of men to show how many deaths are caused by suicide. Each drawing of a man represents 1,000 lives. The grey men show how many lives in total are taken and the black ones represent the 5,500 people that are age 15-24. On the left hand side, there is a list of the top 10 causes of deaths in the United States and each section of it is drawn to length of how many deaths are calculated by that cause. All of these design factors such as color, symbols, size, shape and more all help portray the information that is meant to be heard.
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Great Design Blogs: Women Of Graphic Design

This graphic design blog caught my attention because it gives women a place and chance to show their work. This blog also explores issues of gender-equality by designs. I really liked this page seeing art showing their stands on political and economic issues and more. They took their designs and made it more related to the world. This blog includes many different forms of art between website designs, logo designs, typography, magazines and more this is a safe space to upload your art on different issues for it to be seen. If you are looking to see artwork with deeper meanings and pieces to take a stand on many problems this is the perfect blog post. The designs on this page take art and use it to express themselves while still creating work for clients. I really enjoyed this blog page and recommend it to any other readers looking for this type of blog.

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Bang Energy Logo and Packaging

The packaging for the Bang energy drinks caught my attention because of the color choices and the design to it. The flavor of this drink is cotton candy so using the bright colors pink and blue helps contribute to the feeling that it is a happy and sweet flavor. Also, the colors pink and blue are commonly associated with cotton candy. This is an energy drink so the design should symbolize being energetic, upbeat and strong and I think this design portrays that perfectly. The vibrant colors, font size and illustration make this drink seem more aesthetic and appetizing to the customers. I also believe that the “b” is made to look like either a speaker, a wave of sound or to catch your attention to also portray that being loud is apart of being energetic from the item. Already, the flavor being cotton candy makes it stand out over other energy drinks but the logo design with the splashes of color behind it make it much more appealing to people looking for this type of drink. I think this design works well because it is a simple logo that it is not too busy but also is not boring where the person looking at it is not uninterested.
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Monster Drink Identity System

There are many energy drinks such as redbull, bang, rockstar and more. However, the packaging for the monster drink catches a customers attention more than the other brands. Monster has designed its cans with a variety of vibrant colors for each flavor. The monster logo on each can remains the same but the silver pattern and color changes with each can. Monster is a huge company and a huge product that is very well known today. I think its design has something to do with the huge compel to choose monster over the other branded drinks. The bright colors are meant to catch your attention and draw you to their product. On their website, they have many different options of energy drinks such as Monster Energy, Monster Energy Ultra, Java Monster Coffee+Energy, Hydro, Rehab Monster. All of these different categories make monster more compelling to buy. On the website they say “Sweet and salty- It tastes like Monster!” The advertising with this product and the logo has made monster a very popular drink.
https://www.monsterenergy.com/https://www.monsterenergy.com/us/en/products/monster-energy?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=green_brand_exact&utm_adgroup=general&utm_objective=traffic&gclid=Cj0KCQiAmpyRBhC-ARIsABs2EAoL9NjK_aHqQkuHD_uG8xe3P9LwrQHkgrj3Gfr1rAPDDwTCxzyh5sIaApoiEALw_wcB
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Starbucks Logo

Terry Heckler is very famous for creating the logo for the very popular coffee chain called “Starbucks”. This logo looks simple although it is complex. It has positive space such as the face, crown and more. However, it has negative space as well which is the green background which makes the white logo stand out. The green symbolizes nature, healing, protection as well as wealth, and money. The logo is supposed to represent an old 16th-century “Norse” which is supposedly a two-tailed mermaid. It is also described as “the siren”. Even though, the symbol looks like a regular human the two little things on the sides are supposed to represent two mermaid tails making her a nautical character. The green symbolizes nature, healing, protection as well as wealth, and money. The space in this logo works really well because it is also outlining the image of the lady.

https://www.hecklerbranding.com/

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Beautiful Pages

These magazine pages made by Form caught my attention with how they altered the normal use of these materials to create their own creative images. The first image has piano keys coming out of a pair of lips. Even with that to catch your attention there are more random objects and colors behind it to draw your eye over to it as well. The color use in this page is very well done and how some of the patterns and colors overlap shows depth to it. The second image is a mans coat and body and where his head is supposed to be is just clouds of smoke instead. These ideas take any object and alter it to however they want it to which is just beautiful itself. The third image, is a mans face and over his skin are these blue scales that range from light to dark blues. These three magazine pages are extremely creative and very well done. The text is simple since the background is so busy the text is centered in white to draw attention to it against the darker background.

http://www.formmagazine.com/en/

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Aries Moross

Aries Moross is an English graphic designer, artist, illustrator and art director based in London. They are known for typographic illustration as you can see in the image above. Personally, even though Aries is a current graphic designer I think their work still relates to the topic “History of Graphic Design” because their work is powerful and most of the work is supporting of LGBTQ which is a topic that has been around for a long time and is very significant today. After looking at Aries work, I became inspired with how they have so many different forms of their art. They use color but focus on typographic illustrations and shapes but they create a beautiful abstract piece with it. Aries has done multiple projects such as the Love & Mickey Mouse Collection. They wrote a book called “Make Your Own Luck” which features chapters on how to thrive in art school, develop your own style, self promote and more. Even though Aries was a designer for Nike, Topshop, and Google it has not always been easy for them. This book was written so that Aries could help and offer support to other graphic designers starting their careers. I have included some of Aries works below.
The Knot Collective, 2017
Netflix Transgender Awareness Week
New Balance 247, 2017
Can’t Cancel Pride

https://www.ariesmoross.com/

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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser is a Graphic Designer from Bronx, New York. He attended Cooper’s School of Art and graduated in 1951. After that, Milton founded Pushpin Studios with several of his classmates before he went on his own. He has completed projects in a wide range of design disciplines, including graphic, environmental, and interior design. Some of his works include an AIDS poster for the World Health Organization, a poster to promote the 1984 XIV Olympic Winter Games, Give Earth A Chance poster and the one above “It’s Not Warming, It’s Dying campaign” is a poster to raise awareness for climate change. He is most well known for the famous NY logo that is still used everyday. However, he is still very well known for his countless campaigns to raise awareness for many different humanitarian issues. He has countless posters and designs he created to advocate for numerous topics.

Climate change is an issue we face everyday and this campaign was created to raise awareness and support to the issue. This campaign aims to create a greater sense of urgency to the issue of climate change and to show how serious it really is. His design looks like a simple green and black circle however, the black part that is majority of the circle is symbolizing the smoke and pollution on Earth and the small bright green part at the bottom is symbolizing the little life remaining on Earth. There were buttons created of the green and black circle that are available to buy on the campaign website for $5 for five of them.
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/08/04/milton-glaser-its-not-warming-its-dying-climate-change-campaign/

https://www.miltonglaser.com/