Wednesday, November 14, 2007

A image from parkland art gallery


I picked up an design by David Wuthrich in parkland art gallery.

Subjective criticism: This is a design for American Red Cross illini Prairie chapter. In order to convey the meaning "If everyone works together, we can save a life." The designer applied metaphorical thinking to connect Red cross icon "+" and the mathematic symbol "+".


Objective criticism: The designer applied asymmetrical balance. The whole image is unified by group, emphasized by size. You can see the letters "You + I" in the middle is much larger than the words on the bottom. They really convey the meanings to viewers.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Online Tutorials try!



This time, I picked up one part of photo shop tutorials about brush. This tutorial told us how to use brush to create magic image.

Do you believe that when I watch some complex images like this tutorials samples before, I usually marvel at them " oh, my god , the artists are so professional that they could create some complicated images in this way."

However, after I learnt from this tutorial, I knew the secret code. This is a link to the tutorial that I did: http://designfruit.com/jasongaylor/blog/?p=37
Thank to this tutorials since it explains the question that was in my heart for a long time.
From this link: http://tutorialblog.org/free-photoshop-brushes/

you can see some other external style brushes available there. Through them , you also can create some magic images.