Lately I've been catching myself paying more and more attention to graphic design, whether it is on logos, books, ads, etc, I really enjoy the typography. It is interesting to see how letters, due to their shapes can be used to create interesting images. Aside from just simple letters, changing the size, the color, the background, showing the whole letter or just part of the letter, can really make something interesting. Even though I find it interesting, applying typography to my work is still a little difficult to me, because their is so many types of fonts out there, and finding just the right font can be a little nerve wrecking at times.

Style Sheet

Recently in class I've been working on a magazine spreed sheet. I've looked at magazines before but not as closely as I thought, because now I'm noticing that some words are more than one, even more than two spaces apart, which gives the text an awkward look plus it makes it a little difficult to read. Besides the magazine spread my teacher went over style sheets, which I am so glad she did because it makes it a lot easier to complete my magazine spread and have the right amount of spaces between my words. Plus I also learned that while in a school report, it is said that double space is needed between a period and the beginning of the next sentence, in a magazine article it is not necessary.

Logos

Creating logos is harder than you might think. I've worked on creating a logo for one of my class assignment a couple of quarters back and just recently I was given another logo assignment. Creating logos for me is really difficult because you don't want the logo to be obvious; however you don't want your logo to give the wrong interpretation either. Here are a couple of logos send by a friend that shows just how interpretations get lost.

Graphics in Politics

When it comes to politics, I believe a persons choice is made partly by their environment, and believes. And the other part by graphics. Political graphics intrigue us, especially if it is made abstract and simply because simplicity is attractive, it catches our eye in a pleasant way. As Americans we don't want to be told what to do or who to vote for; however without knowing it when we see something simple and American we tend to sway in that direction because it is who we are, it is who we want running our country.