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.