Graphic design: Zachary's menu

                                             Hello! today's project consisted of putting our
                     skills in Illustrator. we had to redesign a menu for a restaurant ( as a practice
                     activity . I used my knowledge of the color wheel, text hierarchy, font styles, and
                     many more adobe illustrator skill that we have learned to make this menu look
                     more appealing. The top one is the original, and the bottom one is the version I
                     created. I hope you enjoy!

My Logo

                                                     Hello! this is another project we have
                          been working on. This project entailed sketching out different designs that involve our initials. Since my name is Christian Owens, I used CO. Out of nearly fifty designs, I choose the one of a fox curling up, making my initials in cursive. I scanned in the sketch and traced the design in Adobe Illustrator for the first "Fox". The second one, I changed the colors to a simple black and white, so its more simplistic. For the third one, I brought into Photoshop and gave it some texture and new colors. BAM! This is the result. Hope you enjoy!

Text hierarchy

One thing that I have learned in graphic arts class is the importance of which  words are arranged, or text hierarchy. The size, font, and where each sentence is put impacts how the the piece will turn out. for example, the bigger the words are, the more the eye is drawn to it, that is why news papers have headlines, to grab the readers  attention. Text hierarchy usually has at least three levels. One that grabs the reader, one that briefly explains what it is, and the actual information. You can see this in action with the advertisement I made with the 1939 Buick. It had the tittle, then the motto, then a small description. A prime example of text heiarchy.