Serenity Hernandez

Here is our final poster design/icons for your group collaboration. I enjoyed the project and my partners. It was nice to speak of ideas we each had and add onto them, which is just like creativity overload! I think our overall design for our project was a success, and we are all happy with the outcome.  Our poster design is more of a safety sheet and warnings for Apocalypse, such as alien, zombie, and nuclear. We brainstormed on what would make sense in these scenarios and what would inform survivors in certain situations through this apocalypse. Overall, it was a fun design to make and bringing our creativity and styles within this project!  

  https://homepages.utoledo.edu/Shernan11/index.html The critique of my website was very useful and helped guide me on how to improve it. Some suggestions I received were to add more contrast to my color scheme within my site, which I agree with, because the light purple in my website is too light. I had some text that was aligned correctly as well, in which I'm grateful that my classmates caught it because my eye didn't catch it at all. I am currently adding more work to my portfolio as well as a spot for my assignments. It’s very exciting because I get to create illustrations to present my work. I think I will modify the few I had on my website to make them all consistent with the style. I've been testing which style I would like to do.  Overall, I think the feedback I received was very helpful and allowed me to improve my website based on the feedback from other viewers.

 In contemporary art, psychogeography could be used to create maps or to represent a specific room or building. For instance, hospitals have a variety of navigation signs to guide you through their complex layout, while Google Maps is a digital map that has directions for anywhere you need to go. A more personal example is a drawing created by a friend of mine, depicting her bedroom with an angle on her desk space. The details of all her items in her room, including her desk contents and miscellaneous knick-knacks, effectively conveyed the space/atmosphere of her room. It was unique and provided comfort to it. It felt like I was in her room, and since charcoal was used, it was like doing homework late at night on the computer. The drawing not only shows the space but conveys a feeling behind it, which connects to the psychogeography idea of linking environment, perception, and emotion.

    These are my drawings for week 4! As you know, I'm continuing the alphabet for my daily drawings, and it's coming to a close soon! I tried adding some subtle designs to them, and it was fun to do each one. One that is quite different from the regular first letter theme is "T' and it has Teen Titan on it! It is an old show I used to love watching growing up, and it was the first thing that came to mind, especially since their headquarters is the letter "T".    The ostrich text was an interesting one I found on the web and recreated! I really like how it came out and would like to find a digital version of it or create one, hehe!      Not exactly on topic, but how I took the ogoti and how the lighting is. The glare and the rainbow streaks coming through are absolutely beautiful!

I am continuing the alphabet for my daily drawings, we have H-N for week 3. I've been thinking of different ways to express through design with them. I've been reviewing different fonts to try to use them as inspiration as well. As for the designs, I just go off of what’s on top of my mind and just design it. I try not to think so much about it, and I think it helps expand my creativity and helps me come up with designs quickly. Out of these, I like the joke one because it's just funky looking, which fits the theme  J for “joke”. I did enjoy the font for L  as well, I think it fits the theme of love! Overall, I think they turned out pretty decent, and I can't wait to continue and see where this takes me with the next set of letters for week 4!

 Within the article, it explained how, in icon design, one of the most useful constraints is the icon grid. As I looked at the Olympic icons, I appreciated the consistency in size and style within them. The icon grid provided consistency of structure and size for a variety of icons within the article. It also mentions Icon canvas, icon guides, icon key shapes, and icons in general. These elements all together bring structure and size consistency through icons such as the Olympics. If I'm being fully honest, I actually never used an icon grid.. I normally illustrate on a blank canvas, but going over the grid and seeing what they provide for designers to make those clean and consistent structures within their icons or logos. I would like to transfer myself to getting used to an icon grid so that I may continue making icons or logo design, but providing that structured base and layout. During our project, these elements will assist us in ensuring that when we size our icons, they are...

  As you can see here, I decided to create different fonts and designs for the alphabet. I attempt to do each one differently, whether it be the font or design. It's a little difficult working with permanent marker, but it's a good practice I would like to get better at. I enjoy doing this series because it's been helping me think more outside my usual drawing style, which can help expand my skills in a variety of styles. I would like to continue doing these and see where I go until the end of the alphabet! I think the one I do like is either cash or guitar.. Definitely can use improvement in the drawings, but I have some ideas in my head for digital designs! I'm working on getting the scaling of the big letters the same size as well, instead of just randomly drawing them, just so I can work on scaling as well when drawing.

  My first week of drawings! I just went with anything that came to mind and just drew it! A lot of it has to do with my life, such as my obsession with Snoopy...  My dad has a roofing company, so I've been trying to come up with ideas on how to remake his logo!  Some pickleball drawings as well for a pickleball facility. I want to work more on my illustration for that, so I feel that if I continue drawing it traditionally, I can also improve my skills digitally as well. We have "Bubble World," which I came up with when I kept trying with bubble letters, haha, and lastly Melody Pop! Which was just a soda design I was coming up with, inspired by my mom (her name is Melody)! I enjoy doing these drawings, it helps me become more creative, and I go away from a typical style I always do to doing something different now each day!

  A few more Icons we came up with in our group! We can develop a style with thicker outlines and a more straightforward approach. We also wanted to come up with a sign design, which is the red icons on the top. Our inspiration for these designs was the safety data sheets to guide survivors through the apocalypse.

     In class, we created  typographic characters or symbols within our groups. As said before, our group was focusing on the theme of apocalypse,   and so we tried to create around the theme as well. I used the letters A and S in which I combined them together to make characters that seemed similar to Apocalypse! I also cut some of our letters to create a smoke cloud, which I believe we could use within our project! We overall enjoy Matthew's creation (to the top left)! This assignment was very interesting since we each brought our own creativity through the letter we chose.

 Within our group, we decided to base our themes for icons/glyphs on the apocalypse. It was a topic that we each agreed on that was interesting and had a variety of ways we could take it. On the first day of working together, we came up with a theme and immediately began generating ideas on how it could potentially look. We did a variety of zombie apocalypses, alien invasions, bug viruses, and meteor showers hitting the earth. We also agreed on presenting these as safety data sheets. We felt as if it would fit perfectly with that kind of style of warnings or hazards. I believe we are on the right track in our vision, and I personally think this is an exciting and motivating theme due to the many possibilities we could go with this particular theme, so I cannot wait to see what we come up with in the end!

I kept it very simple due to wanting to explore more ways to bring more creativity to my website. The goal of making my website is easily accessible to users, showcase my work in a professional but fun way, and present myself in a friendly and approachable manner to visitors. I think this format will help viewers learn more about me and who I am as a graphic designer.