Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Inspiring book cover designs

Build a Web Site Now: Microsoft Visual Developer 2005CSS Anthology Essential: Tricks and Ha...

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Interesting Book Cover

In my opinion, this book is interesting because of several reasons. First, it keeps simple although there are many images are being used. Second, the incorporation of images is blending well without leaving the sense of art. Third, although there are many elements on it, the title...

Book Cover Project Re-designed

In my opinion, this book cover needs to be re-designed. The theme is too simple for a web design book. I think it could be improved with interesting images as background or repositioning the title. The author is Dan Cederholm, a web designer expert, especially in CSS development....

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Emotion in color

This design is obviously manipulating color to suggest emotional and burning feeling. Strong red lines with black background make a good combination and the image of a person really stands out. What makes this design very interesting is that how it can affect audience to have certain...

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Color in Use

This colorful picture describes the relationship between color and the psychological effect that it might give to us, the viewers. These bright colors are often associated with warm feeling and they are being used as elements which incorporated with motion. It's very interesting...

Ad Project

This is my example for advertisement project. I found it on a local newspaper. It's an ad of "It's Brothers Bar & Grill" which is located on Green st, Champaign. The main business is including selling food & beverage and a place for entertainment. There are several places...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Illusion of Depth

In my opinion, this pictures applies a good concept of illusion of depth. It has one-point perspective which manipulates the distance and the result is an illusion of a very long distance as if an endless journey through the tunnel.What makes this picture interesting is that we...

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Lines in Typography

I think it's an example of using typography as lines or we can say as line typography. The letters resemble directions and a sun as the whole design. It uses thin and relatively small letters and differences in value, between black, grey and white. The repetition of letters -which...

Lines in Sketch

In this sketch, I tried to combine between curves, thick and thin lines. The repetition of thin lines give a smooth feel, while the thick line gives a hard impression and clear division of two parts. Furthermore, curve lines in repetition pattern gives an impression of a progressive...

Friday, September 12, 2008

Balance

It's my sketch and I think it's an example of symmetrical balance. In my imagination, I tried to create an endless room which we can't see the end way of it. Furthermore, I divided my drawing area into two area -left and right-and gave a perspective look of wall, ceiling and floor....

Thursday, September 4, 2008

iphone advertisement

In my opinion, this iphone advertisement is very interesting because it applies an emphasis in contrast very well. The black background makes the light on the product really stands out. It's also simple but it delivers the message properly. Good example of strong contrast emphasis...

Monday, August 18, 2008