Logo's

I mademy first logo idea in Illustrator. I started by opening a new anvas and selecting the pen tol. I then typed my logo name 'FreeRideBMX' and made it a black text. I then added a dark grey stroke to it so it had an outline. I then changed the size to a bigger size so it was easily visible and then changed the font to something bold.

 

For this logo i used the exact same method as i dd to create my previouse one except i flipped the 'e' horizontaly. I done this by making my first logo again and rubbing out the 'e'. I then used the text tool and typed the letter e in the same font, size and colour as the main logo. I then transformed it to a vhorizontaly flipped position.

With this logo i used the text tool and typed my logo's name. I then changed the font and size to make it look bolder. I then changed the colour to a coloured texture and this was the outcome. The one thing i did do wrong ion this logo was at then end of the text i didnt make th 'mx' in bmx capital letters like i was meant to.

 With this logo i typed the words at three seperate times and moved them into a stair like position. I then cose a reasonable sixe for them and changed the font of all of them whilst making sure they were still black. I then opend this logo that i have made in photoshop and used the magic wand tool to select the area of the first letter of every word. I then made these areas my work path. i then used the text tool and typed the letter if the first word around the origianla letter. I then did this for the other two letters and erased the first letter of every word by using the eraser tool.

With this logo i used the text tool and then typed the three wordsof my logo at sperate times rather than all in one. I then made the first to words a samll size and made the last word a bigger size. I then placed these words in order into a specific way so that the two first words were ontop of the third and not bigger than the width of it either.

With this logo i opened up apicture of a man with his arms spread in the air nad used the pen tool to trace the outline of him. I then made this line that i had created a dashed line and delete the original image of the man. I then went on to making the text in which i would place between his hands to make it look like he was holding my logo. I done this by using the text tool and making a thick blue stroke on the text. i then warped it so it was an arced shape and placed inbetween his hands. I then added scissors on his arm to make the man have a cut out effect.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. He is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and Hornsey College of Art and Design, and is known for his work on The Face magazine and Arena magazine as well as for designing record covers for artists such as Cabaret Voltaire and Depeche Mode. He created the company Research Studios and is a founding member of Fontworks. He has been announced to be the new Head of the Communication Art & Design department at the Royal College of Art commencing in January 2011. I like his work particularly because he doesn't just make an image from letter, he makes them with an image in the background or foreground which makes it a bit more of a complicated image overall rather than  just a text based image.

Flash Website

To start with i opened action script 2 in flash. I then made 3 new layers so i had four layers and then named them. I then, on all layers, made them 40 frames long with a key frame at every ten frames. I then made a square and filled it with a colour and then copied and pasted it into the other for frames of ten key frames but a different colour each time. I then, on the buttons layer inserted buttons so when i click them it would take me to another page. I then added text on the contents layer on each ten key frames with a different title each time. After this i placed stops in the actions layer at every ten frames. I then, in the actions part, made each button take you to a specific page.
Once it was set up i started to place stuff into it such as text. I done this by copying some text from a web page then went into flash and made a box by using the text tool. I then added a scroll navigator to the side of it. I then pasted the text several more time so i had something to scroll through.

My BMX Logo Animation

I made this animation in photoshop. I started off by opening my logo that i have previously made then editing it several time until I had 11 layers. The first layer would have one letter on it. I then, on each layer, added one letter at a time until the 11th layer in which had the full word 'FreeRideBMX'. With this done I added it into the animation area. I Made the first scene blank and then the the next one to have the layer with letter. I kept adding these layers onto new scenes until it counted up a letter at a time until I had the complete 'FreeRideBMX' logo I then created a new layer, out of the animation area, and made my logo decrease in opacity by 10% . I done this 9 more times onto new layers until it was not visible. In the animation I added these layers onto new scenes after my previous part that I made. The overall effect was my logo would appear one letter at a time until i had the full logo, then it eventually disappear.

seagull animation

I started off by opening flash. I then I opened imported 5 seperate images which i previously cropped into the library. With these images i made a seagull flying across the screen. the first image was the segulls body, the others were 2 wings up and 2 wings down. I placed the wings onto the seagull and made the wings flap. I then saved it as a movie clip and opened it up gain and placed it onto frame 1. I then went to frame 40 and pressed F6 and moved it across to the other side of the scene. I then added a classic tween. With this i can add many more seagulls into different layers to make them bigger or smaller and fly in the background or foreground at different time. I could then add a blur to the ones in the background. The ones further away would have more blur to make the scene look realistic

Photoshop Animation

I made this animation in photoshop. I started off by opening 4 different images.I then opened the animation programme inside photoshop. After this I only made the background image visible on the first frame. I then made the far left picture visible for the second frame and then the  for the third frame made the middle picture visible as well as the others. I the made another frame in which the original background image was only visible again but added a website name using the text tool. i the made the first 4 frames last for 0.5 seconds and the last frame with the website address last for 2 seconds so it gives you a bit of time to read it.

Web Design Research

The first website I looked at was rideukbmx.com. the majority of it was a simple type face but the logo for the website had a bold type face. it also had a fairly simple layout. On the back ground it was advertising a new game coming out on PS3 and Xbox and it used light colours on a dark background which made it stand out. because it was a bmx website it had a lot of links, videos and images of bmxing.

I then had a look at another bmx based website. This website was completely based upon their own company called Kink. The layout of the website was very plain as it had a white patterened background which ontop had a white box containing lots of images and videos of their bmx team. It also had a navigation bar at the top was black and white tabs and had a white logo aswell.

After that i had a look at a website which sell bmx's, bmx components, and bmx clothing. this website was called winstanleysbmx.com. This website was also a simple layout website. i had a white background whit a red navigation bar at the left hand side of the screen. the logo was black and red and part of the came off of the logo and carried across the whole web page which made it look like part of the web page, not the logo. Also on the right hand side it had bmx brand links to take you to their latest bmx selection.

iphone Web Design

I made this in photoshop. To start with i opened up a picture of the i phone which had many different layers and folders because it had all of the iphone layouts on each layer. With this i took what layers i needed which were the i phone with shadows and glares, the web browser tool bar and the title bar which includes the time, signal and battery content.
Once i had chosen my layers that i needed i edited the title bar and the web browser bar so it would fit my theme. I changed the name in the title bar to my name and the web adress to the bmx website i would like to edit.
I then used the rectangular marquee tool to select the area of the screen which would be my website background I then added a colourful gradient to it. After this i opened up a picture of my logo that i have made and got rid of the background. I then placed it into this image in the centre of the screen and put an inner shadow and an outer shadow into it..
 I then placed and eastern bikes logo in top left corner of my iphone screen and then used the text tool to type 'is changing its name to' and the word 'enter'. I then changed the colour of these two text images and placed them into a specific place in the picture.After this i opened up a picture of a dotted outline of a man and got rid of the background and then placed it into the iphone image as if the man was holding the word enter.

Rubbings design

I made this in photoshop. To start with i did some rubbings of interesting things around the college. I thn scanned one of these rubbings and opened it in photoshop. I then made 4 of the same rubbings fit into one page symmetrically and then duplicated this image and used the perspective transformation tool to make it look like a weird pattern but still symmetrical. I then made a new layer and filled it with white and added several filters. the first filter was noise, then i added mezzotint and the radial blur. I then typed the word imagination and used the magic wand tool to select the background and bits inside the text and inverted my selection. I then went on to my background layer which was the first thing i made and copied the text into a new layer so i was left with the text which was filled in by the pattern I had made. I then madde a new layer and filled it whit and added the noise, mezzotint and radial blur to it. I then added a lens flare to the top left of this layer. I then typed the word imagination 2 more time but changed the fonts of these 2 to wingdings 2 and wingdings 3. I then placed one above my main text and one below. I then added a shadow to my main text layer to make it stand out.

DSLR Induction

This morning we had to have a DSLR induction which involved learning how to hold the camera, taking the lens of of the camera, how to turn it on and off and how to use the basics of th DSLR. Once we knew how to set it up we had to learn about how to set it to diffent shutter speeds, focusing, when we would use a tripod and about the F points. having the F points set to a different setting will change the blur in the background or foreground.

Logo

I made my logo mainly in illustrator and a bit in photoshop. I started off by opening a new A4 sized document in illustrator. I then used the text tool and typed my logo name 'FreeRideBMX' three times. I arranged them so they were on top of each other. I the change the top ones font to wingdings 2 and the bottom one to wingdings 3. I left the middle one as a readable font. I then made the top and the bottom text white and the middle ext a light blue.
I the took this image into photoshop and as a background for my logo i used the gradient tool and chose a colourful pre set. I then clicked and dragged a little bit in the bottom right of my logo to make the effect i have. I then went onto the layer with my logo on and applied a drop shadow by using the blending options

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Square apple

To start with i opened up a picture of an apple. I Then, on a new layer, used the brush tool to draw green lines to make the outline of a cube over the apple. I used the shift button to help draw straight lines. Once i had my cube outline on top of my apple i went to liquify it. In liquify i used the freeze mask tool and filled in the cube shape. I then used the forward warp tool to bring any parts of the apple which were outside of the cube, inside the cube. I then exited liquify mode and used the brush tool again to draw the inside lines of the cube again but in white. With these white lines i turned the opacity down and added a gussain blur to make it lok like a shine on the edges of the square apple. After this i opened a new picture of a sliced apple. I then used the magic wand tool to get rid of the background then copyed it. I then , on my square apple, used the lasso tool and went around the edge of one side of the apple.i then special pasted my sliced apple into this area of the square apple. I then adjusted it in free transforn to make it look more reallistic and finally used the burn tool around the edegs of the sliced apple.

Pool Ball

I made this ball in photoshop. I started off by using the gradient tool to make my background. After this i used the elip[tical marquee tool to create the outline of my snooker ball. i then filled it with an orange colour. After this i used the dodge and burn tools to make the ball have a slight shade and to make it have a lighting effect on it.After this made a shadow underneath also by using the eliptical marquee tool and filled this with black, i then added the gussian blur to it.

Ride To Glory Poster

I made this poster in Photoshop. I started by getting a picture of a BMX photo. Then i went on to use the magnetic lasso tool and polygonal tool to go around different parts of the image, such as the sky, hills in the background, foreground and the big bush. Once i chose one of these i added a filter to it. I did this for each part of the picture. I then got a logo for the film off of the internet and got rid of any unwanted background. i the placed it onto my poster and used the polygonal lasso tool to make triangles over the title then move that area within the triange. I done this to give the title a shattered effect. I the Put my own 2010 symbol underneath the title by using the text tool. Also using the text tool i made the '5 teams go head 2 head for the title' and changed the colour of the top line to make it stand out. I then made the 'its on!' text by using the same method but i added a drop shadow and an inner shadow to make it really stand out.
After this i got pictures of the BMX teams logos and placed them at the bottom followed by each team members names.After this i placed a 15 certificate into the poster to make it look a little more realistic.

Photoshop tutorial

In this demo i sterted off by opening a picture of a boy and a picture of a beach . I then used the quick selection tool to select the most of the boy that i could. I then clicked refin edge and put the view mode to black and white and then the output to new layer.

Shatter Text

i created this image in Photoshop. I started by making a black backround with a hieght of 4 inches and a width of 8 inches. I then created a new layer and used the text tool to type my name. With this i changed the size of the text and the font as well. I then edited this text by using the bevel and emboss effect. This gave a silver chrome look once i had finished playing around with these settings. I then selected the polygonal lasso tool and made several triangle shapes over the text and moved each triangle away slightly to create a shattered effect on the text.

After the text was done i created a new layer, whiched was placed inbetween the text layer and the background, and used the lasso tool to create a circular shape. I then put a cloud effect on this and then added a radial blur to make it look like an explosion. Once that was made i created a new layer which was a explosion for the text. I then moved this explosion slighly to the left and merged this layer to the main explosion layer. Then with the explosion and text explosion layer i chose the hue/saturation tool and adjusted the settings to make the explosion green. Once i had made the explosion i created a little shadow behind the text by using the stroke and drop shadow options on the text layer. I then moved this shadow and turned the opacity down aas well.

Astor Park Poster.

I created this poster in Photoshop. I stated off with a picture of a police car and several picture of graffiti in Astor park. My idea was to put the pieces of graffiti onto the police car. I started off by opening several images that i took of graffiti and then cropping them until i had the piece of graffiti that i wanted. I then used a layer mask on each one so i could get rid of any unwanted background. Once i had carefully made these pieces of graffiti to the way i wanted i moved them onto the picture of the police car. With the police car as my background I Put these other images of graffiti on top of the car. Once that was done i moved them into place to cover up as much of the police car as i could except the windows, lights and wheels. Because some of the images of graffiti had parts which were covering the wheels or a bit of it was on the window, I used a layer mask and selected the brush tool on the specific image to got rid of any parts covering parts of the car i didn't want it to. I then had an idea of being able to see the outline of the door and the petrol cap on the car so it would look more realistic. With this idea in mind i again used the layer mask and the brush tool to make a thin line on each layer of graffiti, each the size of the door crack and did the same around the petrol cap. I didn't get any of these images of graffiti off of the internet as you can see that some pieces of graffiti on the car are also in the background on the wall which is where I took these pictures.

3D text & Lighting

I made this in Max. I started off by using the text shape tool and clicked the centre of the canvas. I then typed the letter C and extruded it to make it 3D. After this i rotated from it laying down to an upright position. i then chose an easily readable font for the letter and changed the size to make it bigger. After that i cloned it as a copy so i can edit it. With this clone i changed into a letter A and then made it a bit smaller and moved it back and left a bit to make it look like that it is behind the first letter. I did this to all of the other letters, cloning it as a copy and then making it smaller and moving it back and left. Once i had spelt the word capture, I went into the material editor in the rendering drop down menu and chose compact material editor. With this i can make a pattern of a texture and place onto a letter. The first texture pattern i made was a blue and black smoke looking pattern. With this i dragged it over the letter C. I then made a green and black smoke pattern and dragged over the letter after. Once i had done that i dragged the blue and black over the letter P. I kept doing this until i had a pattern so every other letter was a different colour. The image above was my final outcome and i am pleased with it is a very bold model and that was what i was aiming to create.

3D Modelling in Max

T-Shirts

 To start with I opened a picture of a t shirt in Photoshop. I then opened 2 more pictures, one of the 'no!' graffiti and one of the eye with wings. With these 2 pictures i put a layer mask on them and got rid of any unwanted background and then placed onto my t shirt. I the changed the hue/saturation of the t shirt image to make it a blackish colour.

 In this picture I done the same process as i did in the previous image but used a 3D graffiti picture. Also instead of using a layer mask I used the the polygonal lasso tool and carefully went around the outside and inside of my image and deleted the background until I was left with just the 3D graffiti. I then placed this image on top of the t shirt and then edited it by rotating it and making it bigger. I then added the graffiti eye which i had already edited onto it as well.

With this t shirt I got 3 images of graffiti stencils and opened them up in Photoshop. I the got rid of all of the white on each image by using the magic wand tool. Once it was just a black stencil I placed them onto my t shirt image and turned the fill down a bit on all of them to make them blend in with the t shirt a bit more.

Cola Bottle Design

I made this image based upon me. To start with I took a picture of my bottle of coke by using the web cam on the computer. I then opened that image up in Photoshop and added a layer mask to it. With this layer mask I used the brush tool to get rid of the background. Once the background was gone I changed the whole picture of the bottle into black and white. I then Opened a new document A3 size ant used the rectangle tool and made it the size of the page and then I made the rectangle black. After that I made another rectangle the same size but white this time and rotated slightly to the left. I then done this process a few more times but made them go black then whit etc.. After this I put my image of my bottle into the centre of this black and white background image that I made. After this I got rid of the cola brand name by using the clone tool. I then created my name in the coca cola font and made it white. I then adjusted it to fit in the picture where the brand name originally was. Once that was in place I used the text tool to make the E.S.T 1994 part of my bottle. I made it white and put it on the bottle under my name. I then opened a new picture of a BMX and got rid of the back ground by using the magic wand tool and then on my bottle image I used the clone stamp tool to get rid off some text which was inside a bordered box. I then placed the image of the BMX into it as I like BMXing. After doing all of this I selected the magnetic lasso tool and went around the outline of the coke bottle and right clicked and selected make work path. After this I chose the text tool and typed my date of birth. I then copied and pasted my birth date all the way around my bottle.

Forms Of Graffiti

Stencils:

Graffiti stencils are normally made out of paper, cardboard, or other easy to use materials to create an image or text that is easily reproducible. Once the stencil is made then the desired design is cut out of the selected medium and then the image is transferred to a surface, such as a wall, through the use of spray paint or roll-on paint.

3D Text:

3D text is form of graffiti which stands out a lot more or looks more realistic. Some artist use this effect to make their work, such as a well known graffiti artist called Daim. Daim is a German graffiti artist who first started spraying in 1989 and hasn’t stopped since. Daim has become one of the most sought-after graffiti artists in the world, and has even appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records for spraying the highest graffiti in the world. The only ‘traditional’ graffiti artist on our list, Daim creates 3D art on interior and exterior walls, canvas and vehicles and also works in animation and sculpture. 

Text:

Graffiti occasionally consists of text. There are many different types of graffiti text fonts, some simple and some complicated. Some of these fonts are called Graffonti, Ghetto Streetz, Most Wasted and Sick Capital Vice. In some cases there are whole alphabets of that particular font.

EXIT Through The Gift Shop

After watching the first half of Exit Through The Gift Shop i think that street art is a good way to express an artists feelings or their passion. Also Banksy is a specific individual as his identity is kept as a secret which makes people think more about who he is and why he has done this. The best piece of art that i have seen so far that i like is the one with the phone box that has been cut diagonally in half and put back together a different way which also has an axe stuck through it with red paint dripping down as if it were bleeding. He placed this piece of art in a public walk way once he had finished. I like it because it is different and makes you think why has he done this.

After watching the whole of the film I realised that this French person, who named himself 'Mr.Brainwash', who started off small, selling clothes in a shop for much more than their worth, then started going around helping street artists whilst constantly filming it all, basically frauded his way to the top in L.A and became a big success who basically copied other artists work. None of his own work was really self inspired and new to the world of street art. 

Typography Image

With this image I took a picture of myself and opened it up in Photoshop. I the put a dry brush effect on to it and edited the options with it to make it a simple looking image. After this I used the magic wand tool to select a certain area. On a new layer with this area selected I right clicked and chose 'make work path' to make this area selected have a black line as the outline. With this I chose the text tool and start typing the word sleep around the outline. I done the same process with several parts of the picture until my face had been outlined by the word sleep.

typography

 I created these text images in photoshop by using mainly the text tool. 






With this picture on the right I used the text tool to type my word and then changed each text by changing the font, font size and also using the warp tool which gave me options to warp the text into a shape such as fish eye, arc, arch and squeeze.














After learning this stage of typography I then went on to putting text around a particular shape or symbol. I done this by selecting the custom shape tool and then selecting a shape and making it on the canvas. After this I chose the text tool and clicked on the line of the shape and started to type my text. I did this all the way around the shape. After that I experimented with other shapes.














With this image on the right I selected the pen tool and then chose the paths option so I could create my own path. After creating my path I used the text tool and placed the alphabet around the curvy path that I created. As i typed the alphabet it followed the path.

typography testing

I created these text images in photoshop by using the text tool. I then changed each text by changing the font, font size and also using the warp tool which gave me options to warp the text into a shape such as fish eye, arc, arch and squeeze.

David Carson

David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. In particular, his widely-imitated aesthetic defined the so-called "grunge typography" era. He then went on to be the the art director of Transworld Skateboarding magazine. In 2000, David Carson opened a new personal studio in South Carolina. In 2004, he then became the Creative Director of Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston and designed the special Exploration edition of Surfing Magazine and directed a television commercial for UMPQUA Bank in Washington. I like David Carson work because in his pictures there's always one part of it that stands out.
   

Photography Investigation

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Photography uses foremost radiation in the UV, visible and near-IR spectrum. For common purposes the term light is used instead of radiation. Light reflected or emitted from objects form a real image on a light sensitive area or a FPA pixel array sensor by means of a pin hole or lens in a device known as a camera during a timed exposure. The result on film or plate is a latent image, subsequently developed into a visual image. An image on paper base is known as a print.

Methods of capture

These are methods of capture which i thought of. I will be choosing three of these in which i will be using. The first method of capture i will be using is photography. I will be using photography as it is a simple method but i will try to make the images really effective.




The second method of capture that i thought i will use is drawings. I chose this because a particular method of drawing is graffiti and this type of drawing can express feelings and emotion in a piece of art. I could attempt to draw my own graffiti picture and the edit it if needed to improve it.

The third method of capture i will be using will be markings. I chose to use markings as it is used to tell a story or sometimes can be used to mark territory. I thought this would be a good method to use as i could try to find out the story behind it or why someone has marked their territory.