Intro to the Graphic Arts – GRA 217 – Professor Ken Harper

Hey guys,

I don’t know if anyone else needed new color schemes for their redos, but I officially love this site.

http://www.colourlovers.com/

Yesterday I was at the Whitney – and their font choice really bothered me. But my disdain abated somewhat when I saw the outside of the building (via google images – how did I miss it when I was walking in?)

The font seems to compliment the architecture of the building itself – that’s consistancy if I ever saw it. And it was a great museum, too.

I don’t know if you guys have heard of them or not, but improv everywhere is this group that kind of gathers lots of random volunteers and they pull of these big stunts or pranks.  It’s just a different form of creativity.  This is a video of one of my favorite stunts.

Frozen Grand Central

These are two pictures from a website that has help with photoshop as well as a gallery of different types of graphics. There are forums and newsletters and it seems like a good place for some information. www.graphics.com

This is a Sony Bravia commercial created w/ rubber bouncy balls… it’s insane.

I stumbled upon this picture and just thought that the red in it was really nice.  This is a picture of a partial eclipse over the Manila Bay

I think it is a self esteem booster as well. I actually wrote a paper on how beauty, sexuality, and happiness is all intertwined earlier this year.  I used the Dove Evolution campaign as a soure.  The video shows the viewer than even those you consider perfection are in fact not.  And the campaign shows you that perfection is different for each person.  It shows you beauty comes in many forms other than those pictured on magazine covers.

colors — white and black — her clothing and make up match the graphics, typeface, etc.

I was just watching this music video, and it seemed pretty graphically inspiring, I really like how they mix animated graphics with live action video, especially the t-shirt animation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Loe3XM7v0

I thought this was a really cool commercial, it made me want to go try to make a slinky out of sticky notes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1rZqw5bXb4