Stealing, Good or Bad?

The main point of these to articles was to emphasize the fact that there are no original ideas, but improvements or reimagining of existing ones. The way the two authors separate good and bad stealing is very much the same, with each one discussing the finer points of stealing ideas, and the way to do it without plagiarizing. Good stealing is when you take the ideas from another author or artist and you adapt it, making it your own in your own style. This is a good way to steal and is the most common way to do it amongst athletes and authors alike. A bad way to do it would be to completely imitate a writing style or a piece of work, because this shows no innovation and is basically plagiarism. A sign to know that you have crossed the line is to get it reviewed by a peer, or simply look at it and think is this my own take on this style or work, or am I just imitating who I copied this from? The differences in the way that you can apply this technique can differ, for example it is much easier and harder to catch if someone is ripping off a style of writing than it is a design. If you use some of the same phrases or write about the same topic it can easily be written off as a mistake and be ignored. On the other hand, if you rip off a certain design style it is obvious, because it is easier to see and nitpick the plagiarism in an image. I personally feel that while stealing is more easily noticed in design than it is in writing that it is more well accepted in design. This is because there are so many designs and images in the world that people are bound to copy. Also is a multi-billion-dollar company going to prosecute some old woman who used the same style or font for her knitting page that they used for their corporate website? I think not.

Deadly Killer

I had allotted of fun making this blog post, it was interesting to be able to break the rules and purposely make it bad. Making this blog post by far my favorite one, for the sole reason that I am already not great at design, so this gave me a reason to be myself. This flyer is great when it comes to breaking the rules from the centered words, bright and different fonts, to the random pictures. When it comes to whether my flyer is perceptually or culturally bad, I would say perceptually. This is because everything you see in it is visually bad, the bright obnoxious letters and the different fonts help to make this hard to read and look at. If you saw this flyer hanging up you would need to wrap your head around what exactly it is for, not only because the title is not that big or elaborate, but because of the random smatterings of words explaining what the disease is. All these things come together to make a perceptually bad flyer, if the Fish and wildlife service paid me to make this flyer they would be pissed. I believe that centering everything may change in the future, or at least become more widely accepted than it is now. I do not believe it will ever truly stop being one of the sins, but I do believe it will become less vilified. The only sin I believe would possibly ever cease to be one is justified rivers, because these can be useful when you are trying to include allot of information in small text. Though I do believe it will eventually cease to be a sin it will be a long time before this happens. I had allotted of fun making this blog post and am excited to see what else we do in this class.

A question I have is how does everyone get such cool colors and designs for the background designs of the deer on their blog posts?

A Memoir to Remember

A riveting story of love and regret

For the blog post I wanted to create something that showed my personality, making it lighthearted and fun. I did my best to stay true to the crap principles, making sure that it was fun to look at and easy to read. I made sure that there was contrast between the words and the background using a dark font. I made sure to repeat a few key words such as “sexy” in order to drive home that point, and make it more comedic. I also made sure to keep all of my text center aligned so your eyes would easily glide down the paper, not being pulled in different directions while trying to read it. I also made sure that the words were not too far away from each other, keeping the text boxes aligned and also making sure the text was easy to read. I had fun making this memoir page, but I have struggled using Microsoft publisher. It was difficult to design things and I did not have enough freedom to get things done how I wanted them to be. Also I struggled heavily with figuring out how to upload the page to word press, causing me allot of stress. So hopefully next time I will be able to have a better work turned in.

Why is it so incredibly difficult to share a image from publisher to word press, or is it just me?

First Blog post

“Graphic designers have to be professional communicators,” this is a quote that can also be applied to writing. Because no matter if you are a graphic designer, a poet, or a published writer you need to be able to properly communicate with your audience. Those who struggle to do this are forgotten, but the ones who are able to excel in this area remain timeless. One thing I was always criticized for when I was younger was my inability to properly express my thoughts on paper. I struggled in English not because I did not understand the subject material, but because I developed severe writers block as soon as pen touched paper. This problem went away as I got older but as a child my grades reflected this struggle I had, proving that in order to succeed in writing you need to be able to properly communicate your thoughts in writing.

2. When they said that computers democratized graphic design, they meant that graphic design was then made available to everyone, not just to those who worked at billion-dollar ad companies or corporations. After computers graphic design was possible for any person able to get their hands on a computer capable enough and were willing to learn. I do believe that the same is true for writing. But unlike computers the democratization of writing happened thousands of years ago. Ever since papyrus first arose in ancient Egypt writing become a well-known way to record information. While up until that point people used cave drawings or symbols, an alphabet was created modernizing words, and changing the world for generations to come. Computers changed the world in different ways, but one way that is not acknowledged enough was the effect that it had on graphic design. It forever changed the way we did things and helped us to be able to create these visual masterpieces that we have on film and television today.