Erin's Blog

End of Year Reflection Summary Erin Johnson I learned a lot this year in e9. First of all, I was able to gain experience in every aspect of e-Communication: animation, graphic design, web design, and video. I learned how to work applications such as photoshop and dreamweaver, and how to edit a video. I also learned enough to distinguish which strand was my favorite (video, more specifically video editing). I learned everything i know now because of the awesome e-Comm teachers. Each was fun and nice, but also great at informing their students on what to do and how to do it. I liked how the teachers also gave us informative and encouraging feedback on our work.  e9 was important because it taught me everything I may need to know for my future career, since i want to have a job that is involved with computers and/or design. Because of e-comm, I may have a bit of a headstart if i ever want to intern at a place involved with the e-Comm strands.  ...

Our logo. The happy hampers group! My team name was EAMA (our initials). The product we created was the 'Happy Hamper,' a hamper that "does the work for you!" It was a hamper that washed and dried clothes. Coupon and Ad page. My team was very efficient together and we got a lot done. We all were flexible and managed to work after school on our product almost every day. We also were all very creative with our product. Our animation - i was in charge of this. We struggled with not working very quickly. We took much longer to finish our product than most of the other groups, and barely finished putting our website together at the last second. I also struggled with getting frustrated and angry while making the website under a time limit, and a lot of pressure.  the meet the team page. In the next group project, i will attempt to not procrastinate and get done quickly, and manage my t...

This week in e-Comm we have been working in photoshop. I mostly found difficulty in just finding the tools I needed to do each step for the project.  My final products...

For the past few weeks in e-Comm, we have been working on making our own websites. This website was the second one i have ever made, and also the most complicated. I am pretty happy with the result, even though the layout is kind of awkward and the color scheme isn't very pretty.  The home page.  Asian Carp page.  Zebra Mussel page - the sidebar was pushed down slightly for some reason.  Africanized Bee page.  Purple Loosestrife page. Emerald Ash Borer page.

For the past few weeks in graphic design class we have been learning about logos. Simple things such as shapes and color can make a huge impact on a logo and the feeling it gives to those who view it. We learned that circles like shapes are popular because they give the appearance of nature and completion, while upside down triangles are unpopular because they look unbalanced and 'dangerous.' With my logo, I knew right away that I wanted to have a calm, blue color scheme. I also wanted to incorporate my first and middle initials - EE - into the design. I had many ideas for my logo, but i had to scrap them due to them being too difficult to make in illustrator. I designed many logos, but ultimately came down to one I really liked. Some of my logo ideas, including ones that I scrapped My final, favorite logo design I came up with was a dark teal flower design with two E's facing each other. I really liked the design of the flower (made using the ellipse tool) and t...

This week in Graphic Design, we learned about the importance of logos, and what messages different shapes convey. For example, I learned that circles are the most popular shapes in logos, because they represent completion and are a 'friendly' shape. Upside down triangles, though, convey unbalance and danger, so they aren't as popular. Also, color conveys different emotions. For example, green conveys freshness while red conveys drama or romance. For my logo, I will probably use blue or green so it looks fresh. We were given an assignment to recreate famous logos in illustrator. These are some I did.

This was my second project in illustrator.  We had to 'dissect' our name in a font of our choice, using the terms we had learned about different fonts. The font I chose, Footlight MT Light, had a lot of serifs and was very curvy. There weren't any crossbars or straight lines, which made this project a little bit more difficult. The design I used for this project was based off of this image I found: