Graphic design class - graphic production

In this class we learn about the basic graphic design theory. We did some basic exercise with fonts and layout as well. The final project is to make a logo design for our game/ an game you want. I decided to make logo for my orientation to game design class which I made a running platform game.

Muriel game logo project

Since the game is a casual game that targeting older kids and up, I want to make the logo design more "kids friendly". It should be simple and cute like, easy to read and remembered.

Here is some early sketches and concept I made ;

Then after I choose 2-3 best one, I made the rough version into Adobe Photoshop just to see which one work the best. Some of them are too much detail and some are too hard to recognize since I want the main character's cat (whose name is Muriel, hence the game name) to be visible in the logo.

And after more tweaking and choosing the best color, these below are the final version of the logo. I made it into colored version and the BW version as well. Personally, the curly style of the cat's tail is the cutest ;)

The Verdict

Even if you are an experienced graphic designer, it is good to always learning basic skills and having exercises. To be proud and love our work, it is a mandatory in my opinion to create a good design. This is what I always remembered when doing any kind of works. 

Webdesign basic class - Graphic production

Back then I've been into web design internship in some graphic company. Even if it looks familiar but I already forgot most of it. So it was nice to remembering and learning new tricks of web design in this class. We use Adobe Dreamweaver CC for doing the web design and code.

We did this codeacademy task which was super nice in my opinion since you can learn code anywhere, anytime, and its really easy to follow. I recommend this website for code learning basic (and did I mention it is free :3).

Simple web design project

This is the final project for the class and we need to make some simple, working website. I choose to made a website for my pug dog "Elwiira" since I don't have any other idea :p

You could try the working website with this link.

Art and media culture class - Graphic production

We learn about history of art and how art culture from age to age. We went to 2 art museum around Helsinki such as Ateneum and EMMA (Espoo Modern Museum of Art) and to the Helsinki national theatre. 

Museum and theatre visit

At the Ateneum museum, there was the exhibition for the famous Finnish composer "Sibelius and the world of art". They celebrating 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer.

The national theatre was fun since I never been at the backstage. There was a guide lady that explained all sort of what they do in the theatre. One thing that took my attention was the props room. It was huge room with all the props they used for the performances.

In EMMA they have various of exhibition since the museum are big. I'm so excited when I am allowed to take pictures in there, here's some of them;

Art movement presentation

At the end of the class we do a short presentation about art movement. Each group get a different of art movement, We got fauvism and expressionism. Other than presentation, we need to make some kind of "advertising" poster individually. 

To be honest I don't know too much about fauvism and expressionism so it was nice to do some researching and reading more information about it.

Here is my poster design for the project. It's bit tricky at first since I don't want to "just-slap-the-painting-work" in the design. So I decided to paint over it and combine it together.

The Verdict

Learning about history of art always good if you want to take part in graphics industry. Even if you don't, it is always good for having a new knowledge and information. I love the visit to all kind of museum and theatre so its a positive influence for me. The projects we were having in this class also helping me to be a better artist myself.