Thursday, April 9, 2009

Behold, My Design!


After doing some sketches and figuring out which
texts goes well with what graphics, I've finally chosen
the text " Vegans Kick Butts" with a little "kicking in action vegetable" which are beetroots. And a heart shape dangling below the letter S from the word "Butts".
With green and black text with a gist of yellow glow inside. Here is my design. I am proud of it and can't wait to see how it will turnout to be when it is printed on a white t-shirt. I will be presenting this in class.

What About Texts and Graphics?

I've almost forgotten on the texts and graphics. What's a t-shirt without any text or art on it, right?
You'll get a dull one that's for sure. So, I've also done some searching online for some interesting texts or quotes to be displayed on my t-shirt. Here are some texts or perhaps, quote that I find convincing:
- " The Perfect Vegan"
- " I'm 110% Vegan 10% Chocolate"
- " Veganista Baby"
- " Vegans Kicks Butt"
- " The Straight Edge Vegan"
- " The Hardcore Spinach-eater"
- " Behold! I've got Carrots!"
- " Let's Get Laid in Viva Las Vegans!"
- " Not Vegan, No Sex"

and the list goes on...

About graphics, should I use vegetables as an icon? Or should i use human figure acts eating their greens? Should they be cartoonized? These are the things that comes to mind. Hopefully, the perfect texts and graphics will eventually pop out from my imagination.

the SEARCH for ideas ideas ideas!

An ideal t-shirt for a person would be a design with interesting graphics on them, but not too much and not too crumpled. A few texts, but not too wordy. And colors that are not too bright or too dull. But, vibrant color pallets. As my main target is to cater to young teenagers like myself. Since it is all about vegetables and fruits. I've decided to go for vegetables. These are the three main things that I apply when search for some ideas online. Surprisingly, I've found quite a lot of interesting, quirky yet catchy ones. Here are some interesting ones that I've found.

Designing My Own Customized T-Shirt

I've given a task in the past week to design my own t-shirt. This will eventually be my first time designing one as I have never even come near into trying to make one. The main purpose of this task is to encourage or to persuade us to eat vegetables and fruits through t-shirts. Yes, vegetables and fruits. Overwhelming. I've been to various types of clothing stores, especially t-shirts with many interesting themes and messages on them. But I've never come across one with vegetables and fruits on them. This is my opportunity to design one. At least, to show and share with my colleagues and lecture in the following week.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

My First Work

This is my first work of this class. Did you know that this is all done by using Microsoft Word?
Have you ever wonder? I know I dont. But yes, surprisingly there is more to Microsoft Word than just typing here and there. They have editing tools too. It was confusing at first, but I manage to understand the concept and apply it to my work.

A Short Brief...

Hi everyone.
Frankly speaking, this is my first time having a blog. A blog that was specially created for one of my classes, Introduction to Mass Media Writing. That is, with a purpose by the way. From the course's name, we generally will think it is another boring class where you have to write, write and write. Writing is not really my cup of tea. However, I'm thriving to work on it and taking steps to improve it day by day. But, the good news is, I was surprised that my dear lecturer has given a new life to this new course.
The fact is that now, writing is not everything. I felt a huge relieve on that very day. We cannot survive in this media industry if we only know how to write. Which is, another relieve for me. I finally knew that we too have to be creative in this fast moving era. Let it be in designing or editing, you name it. No wonder it does not come to my surprise that some graduates of Mass Communication, tends to become a designer. I always thought once you're in the media, you'll just stick forever in the media.
Now everything has completely changed. It also change my perspective of thinking. Nothing is impossible. But all in all, it is down to this blog. My very first blog. Where I will post all of this course's classwork. Critics and complements are certainly welcome. Help me to help you. Cheers.