2b Type Collage

Type Collage:
This was one project that I didn't mind doing at all! It was very time consuming, but very fun. making type function as a purely compositional element took a bit of thought and a lot of work to make it all come together.

Type functioning as line:

This one came to my mind as soon as I got the idea of type being used as line. The salmon was from an older fishing photo. Then I took a picture of the hook with my iPhone since we were out fishing and it was right there. I wanted to use a font that was all capital letters so that the line was uniform. My husband really liked how this turned out, but then again... he is the fisherman.

Type functioning as Shape:

I've always loved this saying and since our little three-year-old totes stools around to get into everything, I thought I'd use the words to make this composition. Picking the fonts before putting together (different programs) was not easy, but after getting it all in place, I really liked it. I used four different fonts from Corel and manipulated them in Photoshop.

Type functioning as Texture: I just had way too much fun on this one... although it did not quite turn out how I was wanting it to (fonts), it was close enough. I used the Corel Photo Album to insert different texts over and over in layers. I couldn't begin to say how many texts were used. The picture of the Raven I found from www.rspb.org.uk the photo was called "raven in flight". I just had to add something to give it more of the effect of a sky since I didn't quite feel like it was getting where I wanted. I ended up liking the end result.

More finals submissions

Okay, here are a few drafts and sketches of a variety of book cover ideas. Absolutely none were done using the computer. I tried to used many different ideas. The first examples of bookcovers given and discussed were so similar that I didnt think it much of a choice. I am hoping these are closer as I was thinking that before an architects work goes into drafting details, the client needs to see some rough ideas before settling on which it is he/she wants. I figured it must be the same for what we are doing?

Final: first rough draft

I had submitted this as a first rough draft, but it was too much of a "photo shop" look to it. Here were a few words I had used:

The style of the design on top of the book kind of reflected a similar style to the logo she used. The actual photo is one I had used from an image online from a book titled "Photographer's Legal Guide, Carolyn E. Wright, Esq." I cropped the name out and focused on the main part of her photo that appealed to me which was the name "court house" and the elegant architecture which kind of reflected the client's appearance of elegance in her portrait and what I would imagine would attract a potential reader with this type of interest. To me, it displayed a more beautiful and inviting look to a courthouse. The colors I had chosen because of the client's interest in a natural look. The softer and more natural tones also have a calming effect as opposed to the red used in the examples. This is just one of the ideas for book covers I was tinkering with and leaning more towards thinking the client may approve of or consider.

7b Hierarchal Progression

I am hoping I am not alone in this endeavor of understanding, but I tore the words for the assignment discription apart in my head while reading it over and over. Ding dong...

I was looking over some pretty fun quotes and when I mentioned I was looking for a good quote for this assignment, my husband without hesitation said "The power of the pack is the wolf" and that it described our class. Seeing as we are all working hard individually for the same goal, I thought it was absolutely perfect (for our pack).

So I went online and found this sketched picture of a wolf on the site akvis.com this picture of a wolf sketched was an example of how their system worked to make a sketch from a photo in seconds. http://akvis.com/en/sketch-tutorial/examples/wolf-sketch.php Anyway, the sketched wolf was perfect for what I was looking for in this assignment.

The assignment said to make a series of five compositions in three colors, so I chose to use black, white, and blue. I tried to use the statement "the power of the pack is the wolf" in different linear ways, yet keeping it big enough to have the concentration on the words since it said the linear statement can be curved, straight, or as thick as you want. The statement was exactly the minimum of 8 words. I chose the Matisse typeface since it had a slightly wild look to it, but easy to read. I tried to keep the pieces balanced and added accents of blue in the eyes at times to balance the typeface. I was happy with the finished compositions and happy to be finished with them.

I must say our text is quite vague in a lot of areas. Good for making you study outside of the text as well as in, but bad when you really want to understand what it is trying to say.

Destination Motif Board

Okay. I had already started this before realizing it was extra credit, but... I had thought of a few different destinations, even Hawaii since I had a few pictures from our trip there last Summer. Seeing as this was supposed to be a group project to work as a team to share background and possible direction, I decided that I'd go with a destination that I knew and understood and at the same time is a very inviting tourist spot for it's culture, my home of Metlakatla, Alaska.
I thought I'd stick with the traditional colors of the native dancing, black and red. I had quite a few photos to choose from and after getting them into a folder of their own, I tried placing a few onto the canvas. It seemed like too many and too cluttered. I wanted to keep it simple with the main idea of what is here in Metlakatla.
I put new the photo of the William Duncan Memorial Church would have to be the first photo, because it is what our town was historically based upon and the first main building built. I tried a few more pictures, but removed them.
The next photo was the one of our oldest daughter, our beautiful Megan, in my mother's native regalia I had taken for her graduation (2006). Indian Dancing is always alluring for a visitor to watch and her expression was a sweet smile which is also attractive for a possible tourist... warm and inviting.
Hence, I had to have a picture of our long house. I drove down to the longhouse to take a picture and ended up catching one of a totem with seine boats docked in the background. We are a fishing community, so I thought the boats tied that in nicely. I had tried a picture of our boat, but had to remove it because it was just getting to busy.
With that, I played with each photo bringing them to the front then back again, giving some a soft edge, cropping, giving the main photo a beveled edge and a light reflection. The reflection of the canoe almost gives the illusion of the white part of it being a whole different boat on water (this canoe was not there last Summer and I was surprised to see it). Giving the right amount of reflection filled the bottom space between the two photos wonderfully and in a pretty fun and imaginable way without being too much.
The black and white canoe gave me the idea to make the picture of Meg black and white so it balanced out the layout with the picture of the church. I tried to chose a color red for the main title font to match the totem red in the opposite corner instead of the centered to balance out the layout again. Plus I tried to use a font that looked kind of tribal and the one I usually use was not available in this program, however, the one I chose was called "Bradley Hand" and I thought it ironic since my Meg's Boyfriend's name is Bradley. The second font, I wanted to go with the gray tones and more subtle to offset, yet compliment the main title.
When I was finished, I showed my mother and she was so impressed that she said I should show this to the people of our community. Ha! That was compliment enough for me...

5b Proportion Study

I didn't think I'd have time to finish this one, but seeing as I had so much done, I figured I'd put up what I did for the optional 5b project anyway.
It took a bit of looking through photographs for a "force of nature" and I found a few with "Snow". I liked how the activity brought in darkness which is a nice contrast to what we think of when we think of snow activity, but my friends and I used to do so much in the snow at night: ice skating, sledding, snow mobiling, you name it...
The grid system really dictated how I placed these photographs. I especially liked how our little one was looking up at the snow and as if toward the kids on the hill and the church.

Letterform Study (5c)

Alright, this project was very interesting. So I read the basics... black-and-white studies, 3 inches by 3 inches, Variety, etc... and took my endeavor online and into my computer. What a task. I did notice that it didn't say use any one specific letter, so I chose a few familiar to myself.
I used photoshop to piece these all together in a design that was pretty fun. Then when I went to prepare to upload this to this site, I thought I should re-read the instructions one more time and I saw a little error I almost made... "arranged in a nine-unit grid, three studies across by three studies down". So back to arrange these into a nine-unit grid.
After all that work, I sat for over an hour trying to upload this and my connection wouldn't allow me to get around and upload. I moved to another part of the house and my connection was much better.
I really liked a lot of the different shapes I found in these. One that stands out is how the "E" appears to point up to the "V" which helps to complete the second name in my letters. The variety of lettering was easy to find, but a bit of work to apply when you have something specific in mind. I tried to keep the variety balanced using different means like arranging by boldness, boxed, fancy, simple and complex...
Determining the character and quality and deciding questions such as, "how much is enough?" and "what kind should be used?"

Contrast Studies (5a)

Random and Orderly

I have come to the conclusion that maybe I overthink on these and decided to try to keep it simple. Then I still overthink... ugh...

I was browsing for ideas and thought that the idea of spilling a liquid like paint would cause a random pattern. Creating this spill pattern was not as easy as I thought it would be. I studied a lot of pictures online and had to play and play with this using photoshop until it looked realistically like a random spill to me.

Random:

Orderly:
On the opposite end of the scale of accidentally spilling paint would be the idea of purposefull spinning it to create a more uniform and orderly pattern. More studying online led me to creating this on photoshop, too. Again, this was not easy to create, but I liked the contrasts between the ending results of both compositions.

Midterm 2

Season and Color

I spent days going through all my photos for the color combinations for Summer. I started with shots from Hawaii, shots of the kids/pets, anything Summer and put them in one folder then investigated the different possibilities for color schemes. I wanted a different view, because it seems we always think of one way to do colors. When I came across the firework pictures I took on the 4th of July, it opened the door for exactly what I was looking for.
I decided to use Orange as the main color since it was present in every photo I chose. I will post both results to show how different just the background and text made the same layout of photos look different. The different backgrounds brought out different colors and gave each layout a completely different feel to them.
I wanted to bring in photos of the night since a lot of activity goes on at night in the Summer. However, I wanted to keep the feel of the fun daytime activity as well. So I started my photos with a bang of excitement of daytime water activity. The boat was orange and a part of it shows centered on the bottom. The person on that inflatable being towed by my husband, in his boat, is my Mother!! They actually enjoyed themselves and all I could do was laugh nervously while taking pictures from the front of the boat. The next photo is our 8-year-old son, Jackson showing one of his salmon trophes while he worked on a gill-netter (he wore my skiing goggles because he got red jellyfish in his eyes before). Next we have our 12-year-old girl, Alec winding down the excitement flowing the activity into a relaxed sunset (I loved how she had a mask and snorkel on and that is was blue, too). I kept the photo of her cropped to include her reflection, because there was still apparent orange in the rippled water. Steven on the bottom left, has the sunset rays on his face and his boating activity is coming to a close as opposed to the first photo of him heartily enjoying whipping my mom around the water (FYI, they really like each other). The photo on top on the lower right corner is our oldest, Megan lighting off two roman candles. If you look closely, there are at least two angles of her face- one looking at the candles shooting off and one turning to the camera. The sky in this shot had an amazing blue color. Then lastly, we have our youngest (just barely turned 3), Jace Z "Cabee" winding down the explosion of fireworks to a sparkler going out and bringing in the black night. I noticed that firework photos show people's faces looking up. All photo activity working from day to night (light to dark) and excitement to relaxation (bright to subtle).
I chose to accent the photo arrangement with a sunflower. I had taken a picture up close of a sunflower in a gorgeous flower arrangement my husband had given me on our 1st Anniversary in June (getting flowers from my husband is one of the absolutely BIGGEST highlights of our relationship to me, so I take many pictures of them from different angles -besides I have a passion for flowers). I manipulated the color of the petals by adding a splash of orange using the Photoshop paint bucket and letting it flow when I touched an area of the petals. The sunflower not only made me think of Summer and the sun, but with the added orange, it gave the feel of picnic fires and evening bonfires. It is a great complement to all the activity on the page.
I had so much trouble with my computer and trying to figure out how to post these from where I had created them, but here they are none-the-less and much to my satisfaction:

Here it is! This is my interpretation of Season and Color. I chose this for many different reasons:
Black is not a usual color you associate with Summer, but so much activity happens at sunset and night as well as during the day. At night, the color schemes I noticed were black (also apparent in every photo, including the day), Orange tones from the reflection of light on faces and objects or from the light source itself. Black and Orange are match colors. The accent in this arrangement would be blue as it is present in strong and subtle ways and blue is a complement to orange. The background is the same top left section of the sunflower photo cropped. The leaves appeared to light up a night with fire. Then the black empty color on top left to the bright of the petals on bottom right, went well with contrasting the photo color arrangement of bright to dark with the bright photos against the black background and the dark and the dark photos against the bright background. I liked how the opposites attracted. All the bright colors bring out the excitement of Summer -the black just seems to compliment it all and make it more energetic and vibrant. The contrast seems to bring harmony and balance.
The font I chose because of the fun colors against the black and the text appeared to work well with the rhythm of the flower petals. I used a different font for the "Southeast Alaskan Style" to still look fun and have an Alaska Native feel to it while keeping with the rhythm of the flower and using the accented blue didn’t take too much focus away from the Title and theme. I believe I got the mood I wanted to convey for the emotional response I wanted to elicit.

This was our first attempt and although I didn’t choose it, it was still fun and gave the whole piece a totally different feel. I still liked it.
My oldest daughter, Megan, showed me how to watermark the background with images when my first attempt at filling it with a solid orange didn’t work on my computer (my system is messed up). She used the same photo of the sunflower for the background and set the filter to show it softer. Again, it looks like the sun or picnic fire. This background gave the entire piece warmth and the petals gave the feeling of ray movement or that of a soft, warm breeze.
The fonts I used (like the other) wouldn’t convert to her computer, so she used what she had and played with it and it has a simple and fun feel and looked great against the orange and yellow background. The blue ties in the feel of water and sky.
The color scheme in this arrangement is a more true triad built from two related colors of orange and yellow, with the accent (contrast) color blue.
This project result was our first attempt to turn it into a photo for uploading into my blog. The file size was very small because of how we did it, but I had much more success when I transferred the other project into JPEG format.

24 Shots

I have so many photos that I have taken over the years. Literally hundreds upon hundreds. I take a lot of photos of the same subject from different angles, so my project has essentially more than "24 shots".
I will display first, the photo I chose for each subject first and include my alternate choices after, but I won't always comment on the alternate. The first photo will be my actual subject photo.
This project took me days to put together... ugh... I think I put too much studying into them online and made them more complicated in my thinking than I should, but I really liked the end results:

Symmetrical balance:
This photo with the mirrored reflection of the mountain was just what I had first though of with symmetry. I had cropped this from one of my earlier blog photos below that shows my husband fishing (his favorite spot).

Assymetrical balance:

These rocks were simply amazing! We went to a cinder-coned beach in Maui and the hike in around a jagged beach displayed rocks strewn with the mixture of reds, blacks, and white. I had to try to capture that.

Color balance:

I took this photo of a local wine we had in Maui. It tasted like pineapple and I thought the bottle was just beautifully arranged with color design. Then putting it in front of the flowers my husband had bought me, it seemed to explode with color.

Dominance:

I knew immediately which photo I wanted to use, because the colored contact was an eye catcher on my husband this last Halloween, but I still had to fiddle with the other photo anyway.

Humans seem to be attracted to eyes and his contacts made him freak some people out, especially against the black and colored eyemakeup.

Repitition:

I took this photo at a winery/brewery in Portland Oregon this fall of the wine bottles. I immediately thought of it for repetition.

Scale change:

I liked how big our baby looked standing in the window compared to the crewman in the background working on the deck.

Orientation:

To take a different point of view, I thought that this photo taken from the angle looking up at the fisherman from the water (or fish) was different.

Rhythm or Movement:

This will be the only section that I used one photo for each. The first with the boat, I thought that the rhythm flowed with the top edging of the rocks, waves, mountains in the background, the clouds, and the birds in flight all appeared to have the same movement to them.

The dancing photo gave me the feeling of movement with the tassels flinging out in a twirling fashion.

Pattern:

I took this photo of a broken trellis outside a park here. I liked the pattern of the trellis and how it kind of flowed with the fencing. The reds of the berries and the rust colored mesh of the fencing blended the whole thing nicely.

Chapter 3 Graphic Animal

Now what can I say, besides "I loved this project!" Now that was just plain fun...

I felt that the final image did maintain the essence of the original object.

What I learned from the object from the physical analysis was that (and maybe this may be just the photos I looked at) the creature's tail would appear to be out in photos taken while on land, but the tail rarely stuck out while swimming.

I think what pleased me most about the final image was that it was exactly what I had envisioned it being.

I actually finished this a lot earlier today, but let it sit where I could see it throughout the day to make sure it was what I wanted. Obviously it was since it is now posted.

Graphic Animal Roughsketch

I free handed this from the photo I chose. It was the basic idea of what I wanted. I also thought that a slight flair of our Southeast Alaskan Native Art would help to bring in the flippers without everything being so blunt.

Graphic Animal Idea

The moment I saw what our project was, I knew immediately which animal I was going to use...
My husband and I went scuba diving in Maui this last June and got the chance to swim with sea turtles. I fell in love with the creatures immediately! What an awesome experience! The Green Sea Turtle was adorable and graceful in the water.
After viewing picture after picture online, I chose this particular photo by Jamie Harbord. I got this photo from www.greatbarrierreefinfo.com. I liked it for this project because the angle was really perfect for what I had in mind. The way the light hit the sea turtle was exactly what I was hoping to find and the flippers were displayed nicely.

Project 2A: Expressive Type and Design

Now that was just plain interesting and not as easy as I thought it would be.

I started on my laptop and ended up moving to my Mother-in-law's computer to use her printer so I could print, cut-out, and scan text. However, I had more luck with her Photoshop on her computer than with my own. So I didn't have to go through the effort of printing or scanning. I was able to do this all within the computer. I saved it and sent it to my own email and was able to manipulate it more using my laptop that I am more comfortable with.

I am so thankful to have gotten my book assignment in early, because I would have been cramming at this point due to the unexpected events that have happened in my home-life. I had fun doing this with the computer, but this amount took quite some time. It sure sounded easier than it was.

Even though I knew the basic meaning of each word, I still looked up the definitions online to be sure I was using the right idea of how to apply the text I felt would best fit the word. There were a few words that had more meaning than one such as "Stodgy" had both the definition of being heavy or very old-fashioned and "crush" could mean to crush an item or have a crush on another person. So I chose the basic meaning most people are familiar with.

I think this typeface does the best job of supporting the word "Sludge" for what fonts I had available. I would have liked something more expressive for "Ornate". I manipulated the "sludge" type by using tools like the move tool, smudge tool, and brush tool in Photoshop. The other words only required using the move tool to widen or squash down as well as arching it.

The type I used for "Sludge" gave a pretty good idea of the meaning of the word to start with then I added a lot of black to make it appear to be a murky hole of ooze and dripping. This style of type really made it easy to create the effect I was hoping for in the composition.

Metlakatla's AMHS M/V Lituya Accident

Not even sure where to start, but... My husband is the captain of the A.M.H.S. M/V Lituya that was aground on an island off Metlakatla. What a freak incident! Our winds were so strong that the vessel broke free of its mooring soon after midnight Friday morning (Jan 30th). The Lituya docks overnight daily in Metlakatla and was secured as usual, but the winds were too powerful.

We were awoke by a police officer banging on our front door and I received a text from my brother saying "The ferry is loose in the bay" (12:40 a.m.). As my husband threw on clothing to run out the door with the officer, I let him know I could see the Lituya spinning in the bay from our upstairs window as it was moving swiftly toward the direction of a couple of small islands we call the "Twin Sisters".

As he and others headed out in boats, I noticed it had stopped spinning and knew it found either an island or rocks that are abundant in our bay. The lights went out on the Lituya (batteries exhausted). The weather was nasty for water crafts, but our brave people didn't hesitate to get out there in pairs. One man even tried going out in a small skiff and its engine died causing a slight distraction for what was going on, but he was brought back safely into our breakwater.

My husband went out on one of our police officer's, Roger McKeehan's boat with Royce Hayward's seine boat as back-up to see what it looked like for trying to get onto the ferry. The Lituya was, at that time, brushing up against the rocks of Scrub Island, and the boats came back in for Steven to get on another boat (our Mayor Karl Cook's bow picker with Rich Hudson's gill netter as back up) to attempt to get onto the ferry(2:15 a.m.). The waves were 7 ft+ and as hard as he tried, it was just too rough. Our Mayor reported to me that Steven had actually grabbed onto the deck a couple of times but it was way too dangerous to continue. They came in again to wait for the weather to improve. however, the tide was changing and going out. It had been high tide and chances of getting it safely away were getting slimmer.

The weather improved slightly by 4 a.m. and they went back out in the same two vessels last tried (Mayor's and Hudson's). By what I could see from the window (and binoculars), I could tell Steven was successful at getting aboard the ferry this time, because the Lituya's lights came back on. Daniel Marsden's seine boat headed out as the Lituya's lights came on. From the chromium light of Daniel's seine boat, I could see that the stern of the ferry was definitely on the rocks and the ferry was listing horridly to starboard. I could see the area that they load cars on the starboard side rocking close to the water. The Lituya's lights went out again and the boats came back in. It was pitch black out there so we wouldn't be able to watch how the ferry was doing until daylight. There were other boats, but I wasn't sure whose they were, but thankful for all the people who didn't hesitate to help. The ferry was definitely going aground and the Coast Guard and tugs were called in.

7 a.m. and we could finally see that the ferry was aground and still mostly upright. Steven met the incoming tug at the state dock and they headed out to investigate the vessel to start planning how to get it off the rocks safely. I sat on the state dock to wait and watch and be there if Steven needed anything. They came back in to get my camera (the picture he took of the Lituya above). the town's people kept our ball field (closest open area to view the incident) constantly packed. The schoolchildren came in groups. Thank goodness the weather cooperated.

2 p.m. and a half hour shy of high tide, the two tugs pulled the Lituya from the rocks of Scrub Island. Then divers investigated the Lituya's hull before towing it to Ketchikan. It was in amazingly better condition than it could have been for what it went through.

The policeman who first noticed it missing upon their security check had thought the Lituya broke its bow line, but after looking at the computerized equipment aboard the Lituya, Steven noticed it had broke free from the stern breaking all four cables. A man who worked in a huge warehouse above where the Lituya docks said the roof to their building had torn off in the wind and how wicked the wind gets in that area and very unpredictable.

There really was not much of anything that could have been done to prevent what happened and although it was a horrible accident, I thank God that the Lituya is still afloat and able to be fixed. I have been told that this is not the first time this has happened and definitely not the biggest vessel this has happened to here in Metlakatla. There have been log ships that have broken free from their mooring (from a very near location to the Lituya's dock) and drifted into the same islands or those nearby. My father told me his 92-foot boat did the same thing many years ago, but it had survived then.

I am even more thankful that my husband was safe in all his attempts to board the vessel and for his safety after successfully getting aboard and shutting down things and closing watertight doors. The Lituya safely awaits in Ketchikan for the dry dock.

Thoughts on Chapter One and more

Okay, so I thought the answers were going to pop up all too easy as the answer to question 1 appeared immediately, but... Not so. There were a couple of questions I actually used other internet resources to verify if I was actually understanding it. The book was a little vague to what one question was asking, but having used the internet, it made what was written in the book more clear.
The most interesting part of Chapter One to me would be the the Sagmeister poster "Sagmeister Inc.. on a binge" and not at all because the art was of interest, but that a designer would go to the extreme of gaining 25 pounds for a piece of his work. Wow... Us women would not risk that.
I could also understand the basic definitions of the principles and elements easily as I've done so much art and music growing up. However, understanding is different from remembering and reciting.
It has been a while since I've taken college classes, so it has been interesting getting back in the swing of things.

I was hoping for more color manipulation on this blog site. I typically use black, as a good amount of my wardrobe resembles that of someone in mourning. I will wear black until they invent a darker color. However, I have been vigorously trying to incorporate other colors. Black being the main class blog color led me to use pink. Pink is my favorite color, but I don't believe I wear it well and definitely do not like pink on the walls of my home. I was hoping for more color variation in this blog site. As much as I love pink, the combination I chose to use took a little deliberation as it was a little gaudy and bright, but then I thought... a little fun at that and different. Add a little brown-tone in sepia and title gave it an antique look. Absolutely none of which I would have chose given more options, but I liked the end result.

I also realized that the town I live in is the only place in Alaska that does not change time come daylight savings time. When the time switches this Spring, we shall be back on the same time as Alaska. As for now, we are an hour ahead of all of you. I do not agree with the reasons our community does this and there are so many reasons it should stay with Alaska, but until intelligence strikes someone who can change that, I'll have to remember to coordinate the time for meetings...

Image Resizing and a little more

This is one of my favorite pictures. I took this of my husband, Steven, while we were out trout fishing at a lake on our island. He called it his favorite spot.

So, I chose this one to resize. I used the information on our class blog site to make sure I was doing it right. I went into the "How to resize an image" in the image editing resources area and used the first You Tube tutorial by teachertube.com.

My Photoshop is an older version (Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0), but worked just fine. I was pretty sure, but had to check that Pixels/inch and dpi meant the same thing before applying the 72 pixels/inch. Yahoo! Answers had this comment, "The common display resolution is 72 pixels per inch, or dots per inch." in reply to someone's question about resizing an image. I had used this resize feature before, but to get the exact inches of a picture to fit a frame or scrapbooking, etc...

Getting set up for school for the first time was very crazy and time consuming. I didn't realize there were so many sites and areas for the University of Alaska. After getting into my email, I could see where communication with the Class Instructor was essential. My account was not set to have access to the blackboard, but the Help Desk worked quickly to correct this. Over the course of a few days, I was finally set. What a headache, but glad to be ready. I saved the Class Syllabus and Task and Assignment Timeline to my computer after reading them.

I can say that the delay in starting the class was a small blessing for me, because I must have been one of the last to enter the class and had ordered my book at that time and it arrived the day our instructor announced that "Class Officially Begins" being the same day I was able to access the blackboard.

Whew...

CIOS108 KD1 Orientation Quiz

Orientation Quiz

A. What is something that is going well in your life?
My Marriage. Steven and I have been married for little over a year (June), but together for almost five years now. We've had our ups and downs, but going beautifully. He's my best friend.

B. What are your specific goals for this class?
I had begun working on a degree in Drafting/Graphic Design years ago at another college, but my classes were mostly general ed and the start of drafting. I had wanted to pursue Graphic Arts for a few years. I had always had the knack for art in general and love playing around with the computer and photo apps. I would just like to learn more about Graphic Design.

C. What was your first experience with design, computers and
imaging technology like?
Pretty amateur, but fun. Time consuming, but became an obsession. My experience was mostly with photos. My family is always investigating my digital images, because I've been known to "photo chop" heads of one person to another photo if they were not smiling or the whole person.

D. Do you usually work on a Mac or a PC and why?
PC. I haven't had too much experience on a Mac. My husband buys PCs and that's all I've had in work environments.

E. What is your experience level with any of the other image editing
or vector programs available?
Like I said, pretty amateur, but leave me alone with it long enough and I'll figure it out and accomplish what I'm trying to get out of it.

F. What is something you liked about your day today?
Waking up, looking out the window while it is still dark out, and seeing a seine boat brightly lit going by. Text messaging my friend who is diving onboard that boat to say hi.

G. How do you plan to use what you learn in this class?
I have a book I published pretty amateurly as well. I'd love to apply what I learn to being able to do something like this more professionally.

H. What would make this class go very well for you?
Well, seeing as this is my first distance class of this type, I guess by my emails so far... definitely communication. It has been interesting trying to learn the ins and outs of the UAS systems online.

I. How do you plan to make this class go very well for you?
I hope to stay up on assignments and make the most out of understanding what is being taught. Again... communication.

J. What do you do for creativity on an on‐going basis?
I am always drawing with my kids, decorative painting, photography, scrapbooking, playing with photos on the computer to share with family or to put on internet sites such as Myspace.

K. Who is Milton Glaser? Paul Bass?
Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the "I love New York" logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968. Wikipedia
I noticed you had a Saul Bass in your blog sample template and a Paul Bass in this question. When I google Paul Bass, I am not getting much results in the search. This little exerpt mentioned both names:
Saul Bass graphic designerAfter apprenticships with Manhatten design films bass worked as a free lance grahpic designer or commercial artist as they were called chafing at the contrast imposed on him in new york he moved to L A in 1946 freelancing for four years and he opened his own studio in 1950 he was mostly working in advertising till Preminger invited him to design a poster for his 1954 movie Carmon Jones he designed commission for two 1955 movies the man with the golden arm established him as as god of film title design the next ten years made his way by creating animated mini movies assisted by his second wife Elaine Bass created brilliant titles for other directors from alley cat to walk on the wild side in 1961 Bass retired from commercial graphic design in 1974 devising successful corperate identities for united airlines minolta bell telephone system and warner communications paul bass was a cinema legend he won three oscars 1958 forged a new collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock by designing a title for" vertigo " works with buff straub and hensman on design of his home

L. Do you own or have access to a color image scanner?
yes I do. HP Photosmart All-in-one

M. What software application will you be using for the course?
I have a few different software for photos and use different ones for different features: HP photosmart premier, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0, and Corel Photo Album 6. I will most likely use the Photoshop.

Seeing Alathka

After a year or so of being on Myspace, I've finally given into the blogging section. My sister-in-law is wonderful about blogging in her's and gave me a little inspiration to start utilizing my own. This endeavor started within this last week. There is not a lot of exciting drama contained within the blog, but for a small Alaskan town... that's a good thing!

My name is Bonna (sounds just like Donna). I live on an island in Southeast Alaska with my husband, Steven, who is a captain for the Alaska Marine Highway, and our children. We own a fishing boat called the "Rylie Alexandra". It is a trolling vessel that is rigged for gill-netting as well. Although this type of fishing is a main source of income for a lot of our locals, for us it is not. My husband is still very serious about fishing, though.

I recently published a book using a few of my many photos (like the one shown here). I love photography! This book started off as something simple and nice for my husband and our youngest boy, Jace Z, but it turned out to be a big hit for our area. Hopefully this book will find a good publishing home to bring it's cost down.