Thursday, March 24, 2011

LA 6 - Whitespace

This Learning Activity asked that we find 3 examples of the use of whitespace. The first, from a magazine was this advertisement for a jewellry shop (presumably, as locations are listed) which uses a block of colour, diagonally cutting across the page, on a background of white, and a large closeup image of a diamond-encrusted ring. The whitespace takes up the largest area of space.


For the second example I used the shop window of Luxe in Liverpool St Hobart. It's an expensive shop and the window's minimalist layout indicates this subtly.


This last example is a website -it's a very simple, quiet design that utilises a lot of whitespace and means that the image at the centre is the definite focus.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

LA5 - Make 3 Logos


I really laboured over this assignment and found it very difficult, the examples of logos I looked at on the link Chris sent set an extremely high standard and were really inspiring. I started out with one idea for a 24 hour locksmith which went nowhere so tried these other three. I had another which didn't make it past the brainstorming stage either. I'm glad to get this one finished; it took about ten hours more than the 3-5 hours that the course estimated!