Design I Like

This poster is very simple and straightforward. The background is black while all the fonts and the outline of the pictures are white. The font that says, "You are not just burning off calories..." are in bold and in a bigger font compare to other fonts on the poster. The human in the picture looks just like those human figure in bathroom signs or street signs. The human is completely white with three teardrop shaped sweats in the color blue. The human figure looks like he/she is riding a bike but the two wheels are depicted as two globes. This poster is telling the viewer to drive less so that it will help save the Earth. On the bottom of the bike, it says, "you'll save one pound of CO2 for every mile you don't drive." The composition of the picture works well because the words on the top are aligned left and the whole biker figure is aligned right while the bottom phrase centered. This effect allows your eyes to flow from the top, to the pictures then to the phrase at the bottom. As your eyes land on the bottom phrase, it led you to the last phrase in the corner that says, "Do your part. Bike, carpool, ride the bus, or walk to help make a difference in the health of our planet. Everyone is responsible!" This poster is very effective because the white color font just pops out from the background. I hope everyone can get this message across.

Final Blog

The overall of this class was very interesting. I learned a lot during our lectures because Professor Lucas did an excellent job at explaining every aspect of the lectures. He also provided a lot of visual so that he can get his points across. What I like the most about this class are the labs, because I can actually interact with the instruments. I feel like what I learn from the lectures, I can test it out in our labs. This gives me a greater understanding of things. I really like the idea of sharing our work in lab after we are done because I can get feedbacks from the teacher and the students. The one "take way" I will remember is probably our Photoshop lab exercise. I love working with Photoshop, designing the stamps and using different tools. There are so many tools that I have never used before until that day, and I love the magic wand tool. It just takes everything away and leaves the image that I wanted. It is magic! I wish there were more labs so we can do more on Photoshop and designing. I also wish we had more instruments to deal with but overall, this class had been a great experience. I enjoyed it very much.