Black Sabbath:

This logo is great  because it rejects convention just like Black Sabbath. The waviness of the words gives it motion, and the winged people on either side give it a hellish look which I like.




Led Zeppelin is also very cool. 


This is very nice because it communicates the image of a son coming over the sea in the simplest way possible. I like this logo because it smartly uses the R to complete the Q, which catches your eye and makes you go AHHHHH.
I like this one because it uses the figure of a man to also represent a 9, which is in the name of the brand. This is clever.

I like this one because it creates a sense of depth, and is very aesthetic. The color is also very soothing.

I like this one because it also uses an object to communicate a number that is in the name of the brand. It forces your brain to do a double take.

POSTER REFLECTIONkeno

I believe that my stance is clear with my poster. I am satirizing the ridiculousness and absurdity of the NYC subway system by exaggerating the MTA courtesy ads that you see on the train. As the posters progress, they get more and more absurd. The last poster does not even follow the format anymore. 

I feel like my thumbnail sketches were less successful than my actual pieces. All of my thumbnail sketches didn't end up as actual posters that I made, the final ones I made up on the spot. As I thought, the 25 thumbnail sketches that I hardly did, were worthless. I do like my visual outcome.

At first I thought I would be taking an original MTA image and altering it, however this proved difficult, so I ended up creating a completely new image modeled after the MTA one. This actually was the easier method. 

I think that I score most strongly in the Design section of the rubric because my colors are very strong and clear. The way I created the shapes was very efficient and exactly mimicked the way the real MTA posters were created. 

I think that I was weakest in the Skill and Techniques, (not that that area was weak). Some of my format is probably off or something I'm not sure. 

Conceptually, the only challenge was thinking of ideas that I wanted to portray in my poster and how to portray them. 

The most challenging part of my project technically was the beginning where I wasn't sure how to go about creating the shapes. After I figured that out, it was smooth sailing. 

Keno Burckhardt Response:

I am very against the war on drugs. Right now the government doesn't recognize the difference between soft and hard drugs. Countless people are in prison right now for possession of small amounts of marijuana. The federal government is spending billions of dollars on keeping these people in jail which is pointless because they are not dangerous and didn't commit any terrible crime. If marijuana was legalized the federal government would generate $6 billion in tax and would save $7.7 billion dollars not incarcerating people with little reason. This money is being pointlessly spent and could be spent on making college affordable and improving our infrastructure.

"Believe in yourself and your imagination will bring you happiness and sunshine" - Keno

Blog Reflection: 

1. My concept is that my I M A G I N A T I O N is boundless. I arrived at this idea by breaking myself down and identifying the most prominent components of myself. My image relates because the character's brain is out and pulsing, and the characters eyes are enlarging in wonder. Also I added the animated words "IMAGINE" to further convey my theme of imagination. 
2. My GIF didn't start out this way. I first started with the same face but wanted it to melt, but then that was negative, so I morphed my idea slightly to be positive. With Photoshop it would also be easier to create an image that doesn't chance size, but moves around the page like the brain. Making a melting face would simply take more time than the project allows. 

Jif peanut butter

This is my friend Danny, he went all the way down on his squat but the gif cuts off before that so yea.

This piece is playfully titled: Normal Day

1. The concept: My concept is the absurdity of everyday life, how things can get so crazy all the time so they seem to blend in with our every day lives. This is demonstrated by my mixing of otherworldly images with a Broad st background

3. I am very happy with the results!

4. Here are a few photos I edited to produce the final product.

5. I first made the street picture my background and then duplicated it so there were two layers. Then I took a photo of outer space and made it a layer between the two so it was invisible. Then I used a polygonal lasso tool to select the sky around the building on the right and then deleted it so that the space was showing. Then I took a picture of the cartoon spaceship and selected it so I could paste it onto my picture. I then resized it to fit my tastes. Then I selected a triangle coming from the ship and used the paint bucket to make it green. Then I changed the opacity to 38% so you could see the background and the man in the beam of the spaceship. Then I selected a picture of Barney the dinosaur and pasted him into my picture. After, I resized the image and put him in the shadows. Next I did the exact same thing with an alien I found online, but put him standing on the grate. After that, I copied a picture of a hole in the ground and selected roughly around the edges. Then I pasted it into my project and zoomed in to put it in the perfect position. While still zoomed in, I used the lasso tool to erase small edges, and then I intensely blurred the edges so it blended with the ground. Then I copied the tentacle (pictured above) and pasted it. Then I resized it and placed it on the hole image. Then I used the blur tool again to make the tentacle appear as if it was coming out the hole. I also changed certain lightings/contrasts of certain images. I probably left out other tools and steps that I used in this project but thats basically a summary of how I made this. 

Keno Burckhardt

Reflection:
Answer the following questions. Remember, this will help me understand your design while I grade your project. 

Describe your process. How was the process helpful or not so helpful to you? Show us your brainstorming ideas and thumbnail sketches. How did you arrive with your concept/idea for your letter? Did the peer feedback help? Show us your brainstorming ideas, thumbnail sketches, and two drafts. 

What did you do to represent your concept visually in your design? (Give 2 examples and post close up and full design images) 

What was the most challenging aspect of this project for you? Why?

Are you satisfied with your project?   Explain your answer.

If you can change anything about your design, what would you change or do different  

1. My process: At first my thumbnail sketches were very flowy and I freehanded it, however when I started to draw my final I used a ruler to be more precise. This changed the dynamic of my piece completely. It became less about the musicality and more about the instrument itself. In short, my process changed the theme/vibe of my piece.  Peer feedback didn't help at all because I knew from the start exactly what I wanted to portray. 

2. The most challenging part of the project was using time efficiently. I had a ton of time consuming sketching to do before anything else. I had to measure out each length and make sure it was the same as the other little cylinders. This took so much time that I was left with very little to color and prefect the drawing. 
3. I am pretty satisfied with my project. I love the vibe it gives off because it reminds me of Peru, however I think it could really be made better with more detailing and outlining the blue background. 
4. If I could change anything about my design I would add yarn strings on the instrument to make the drawing more complex. I like it but I would definitely like to see more overlapping of the individual bamboo reeds and the woven yarn. Otherwise I like the outcome. 
5. (which is actually #2 I skipped it). I used the Zampona, which is a pan flute type thing native to Peru and neighboring South American countries. I shaped the Zampona into the shape of a Z. This was harder than it looked bc I had to conceive what length each connecting reed would be because some lengths had to be different. I also used a lot of color in the yarn to communicate the warmth and happiness of the Peruanos I met in Peru.