FMX 210 - Ella Malmgren

  For my business cards, I wanted to incorporate interesting patterns and designs, but still keep the overall look clean. I did this by mirroring the colors used in my original logo designs, and kept the information side minimal, with only the logo, text, Instagram handle and bullets. The first card I went for a simple symmetrical look, with ovals mirrored on both sides. If I were to make a business card in real life I would want it to be simply black and white or soft gray and white. The second design is probably my favorite because I love the colors green and yellow, and they align with my brand messaging. I also just think the swoops look really pretty and neat. The last design I was a bit more adventurous with, and went with a fire-inpired design. Although I think it looks cool, I would not use the third design as my chosen business card because the colors are a bit harsh for a business card, I would want my business card to be symmetrical, and I would also want my card to be horiz

 https://youtu.be/8Tm690ENGwM This video shows how one can create a magazine, and pull photos and paragraphs of their personal work and compile it in In Design. I thought the tool that allows columns to be made was interesting and necessary to learn for my scrapbook final project. I liked the spacing and the fonts they used in this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2sjmoGCnMg I loved this unique idea for a modern magazine in In Design. I will be using their idea of having a larger first letter to start the paragraph, to give it the look of a real magazine. I also liked the placement of their photos – it looked like a real magazine rather than a paragraph posted with a picture. https://youtu.be/5Z3ZQmFM9LM This video is part of a playlist that shows unique magazine designs in In Design. I loved the page that has a dark photo with light text overlay – I will definitely be incorporating this into my scrapbook for the Illustrator poster page. 

For my Somewhere project, I wanted to place myself in a scene from Mean Girls. Although I've seen the movie many times, it's not my all-time favorite movie, but I chose it because the wardrobe for this movie is so iconic, and I wanted to try and emulate it. To create this scene, I first chose the mall scene from the movie to place myself in. I chose this because all of the characters are facing the camera, with little overlap between them, so I thought it would be the easiest to make it look realistic. On photoshop, I first overlaid the image of me over Gretchen to replace her. I then took the opacity down and removed Gretchen from the image. This was the most difficult part because she's in front of a very busy background, so erasing her hair in front of the stairs was hard. After that. it was pretty easy to complete. It was fun to toy around with the different coloring and lighting options.  

For my BW to color project, I wanted to use a lot of bright colors and pastels to fill in my photo. I liked using odd colors like purple and green for my hair because I thought it would look very out-of-the-box and cooler. The hair was the most difficult part to color in because it was windy that day and I had a lot of flyaways I needed to capture. Something I think I could've done a little better on is the background – If I had more time I would've chosen to make all of the flowers different colors.  

  I think this photo would be difficult to photoshop myself into because the lighting is very particular, and would need lots of editing to get the original, grainy, old-film coloring. Additionally, I'm assuming that Kirby had to photoshop himself onto the body of someone else sitting in that chair, which seems difficult. I thought this photo was pretty neat, and it doesn't seem to difficult to create. For y sorority, I made a Vogue-style magazine that was the same concept. I thought these photos were pretty funny, but I also think it was a really great showcase of James' photoshop skills. The woman's dress and hands weren't originally visible in the photo, but he made the photoshopped version look seamless. I've created something similar to this before, so I think this editing would be possible for me. I like the concept of creating nature where it's sparse, so this idea really interests and inspires me. 

For my tag brush logos I wanted to use pastel colors in order to draw one's eye to it. I also just used a single splatter for the background because I wanted the design to stay fairly simple. My favorite is probably blue, just because I think it looks the cleanest. I tried the red, one of the original colors for my logo, but it looked messy with the splatter.