Assignment 9

Assignment 10

For my cover page I wanted to have a clean and simple Logo and tag line. I like the flowing lines of the font for the Meliorist title. The font would work well with pretty much any picture I think, I chose it so that the title would be interchangable for each issue.

My two page spread I think worked out very well. I used a fairly large image to draw the readers in, I think people respond more to photographs than if there were just plain text. I chose the picture because it shows alot of pollution being distributed into the air and the colours are very vibrant. The bottom picture shows the pollution left from oil sands projects after they leave a site. Even though the crews are gone the pollution left behind lasts many years after they leave.

Front Cover


Page Spread

Assignment 8

Assignment #8

When I was first looking for designers to research, I kept stumbling across the name David Carson. His name popped up every time I searched influential designers of the 20th century. It seemed to me that he was definitley one of the designers that made the industry what it is today. I really like the way he can take text and transform it into something that looks very complex but really it is just a bunch of letters, which is basically just a arbitrary form. I also took a liking to Carson because he never actually took any formal training. I think it is amazing how people can come from nowhere and become one of the best at what they do. Carson set the standads pretty high for aspiring designers, but this is good because it makes everyone work that much harder to be noticed.

Assignment #6

I actually changed my assignment, I thought this was a better representation of what I was trying to do.

Assignment #6

The colors of my add continually show up as the ones you see, not sure why this is happening. But the cat is supposed to be orange, and the chickens are supposed to be royal blue, along with the feathers above the cats head.

I chose the font Pussycat Snickers because for one, I have never even heard about it, and the name is quite interesting I thought. It is definitely a font that would not be used everyday or for legal papers or something like that. The font I thought was very lively and playful, so I took that idea and tried to make a fun and enjoyable ad.

I really had a lot of fun with this assignment and thought that the final project came out pretty much how I thought it was going to when I started it.

Assignment #5

Assignment #5

Assignment #4

Single Font, No change in point size





















Single Font, Variable Point Size





















Single Font, Variable Weight






















Single Font, Variable Style






















Single Font, Whatever

Assignment #3: Thoughts

I actually had a lot of fun with this assignment. When I read the assignment guidelines I never really thought it would be as enjoyable to do as it was.

My favorite composition that I made was the symmetrical balance with the Circles. I am not sure what I like about it, except that I like the way the little circles appear to cut into the bigger one leaving nice crisp lines. I also really enjoy the low contrast squares design.

Assignment #3

Assignment #2

Assignment #1

The Blog Journal

Hello Everyone, my name is Connor McCord.

Biography:

• I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, I lived there until I was 7 when I moved to Calgary and have lived there ever since.

• Currently I am 22 years old, but this changes every year. I was born on October 21rst, 1984

• When I am not in school you can find me on the ski hill pretty much every weekend in the winter.

Aspirations:

• I was originally at SAIT taking Journalism, I completed my diploma but wanted to pursue design. I looked into a couple of schools but thought Lethbridge best suited what I wanted from the program.
• My goals are to learn as much as possible from every class and take what I have learned and turn it into educational tools I can use further down the road.
• I would like to become a Graphic Designer of some sort in the future.
  
• In this course I would like to further my education in the art of Graphic Design and hopefully get a better understanding of how to create unique and original designs.

Technical Skills

• Photoshop 80%
  
• Dreamweaver 70%
• Premiere 40%
• Illustrator 80%
• I currently own a Canon D60 DSLR and a Canon Powershot SD630

Photograph


Favorite MP3s

• I wanna love you - Akon
• Mud on the tires - Brad Paisley
• Ridin dirty - Chamillionaire
• Giving up - The Darkness
• Wasting my time - Default
• Cant take it with you - Eric Church
• Sinner like me - Eric Church
• Red to Black - Fort Minor
• Better than me - Hinder
• Get stoned - hinder
• Beach chair - JayZ

Favorite Websites

• www.nhl.com : live scores and stats of the National Hockey League
• www.atlantathrashers.com : favorite hockey team, has live radio links, biographies of players
• www.sportingnews.com : sports pools
• www.newschoolers.com : forum for skiiers, updates on ski hills, etc.
• www.facebook.com : links people to each other, post pictures
• www.yourtvlinks.com : streaming videos of all your favorite TV shows

Favorite Films

1. The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer, 1995
2. Super Troopers - Jay Chandrasekhar aka Broken Lizard, 2001
3. Snatch - Guy Ritchie, 2000
4. Fargo - Joel Coen, 1996
5. Man on Fire - Tony Scott, 2004

Favorite Books

1. The Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
2. Discover your Destiny with the Monk who sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma (reading)
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (reading)

Favorite Magazines

1. SLAM
2. Freeskier Magazine
3. Shutterbug

Self Portrait