Embrace the Strain by Andrew Twigg
This article on AIGA’s website talks about how designers are having to work harder and faster to produce the same results as before the economy collapsed in 2008. It says that there are now fewer resources, limited time, smaller budgets, and higher costs for all the things designers need to produce a piece of work. It also talks about how there is much more competition today. Design companies have to go to extremes to get buissnes. Designers must lower their prices and meet crazy due dates. The article then talks about how designers should appreciate these restrictions. The due dates challenge their abilities and improve their speed. The competition make sure designers do their best work and help them work on their skills. The article concludes by saying designers must “make do” with what they are given under any circumstance.
AIGA, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, is an information/guide center forgraphic designers. It serves to help advance and enhance graphic works. Information,communication, inspiration, validation, and representation are the five critical functions that AIGA presents to designers. It is a place for research and creating. AIGA looks to help designers achieve their goals of visual communicatio
Sympathy Card- Callie Hand- categorized in handwritten under script; I chose this font for a sympathy card because the handwritten font gives off a more personal and sympathetic feel.
Hot Dog Stand– Harabara; categorized in basic under sans serif; I chose this font because it’s bold which makes it stand out and easy to read for people passing by.
Diner-Style Restaurant- Street Cred; categorized in retro under fancy; I chose this font because it has an old timey, retro style and is still easy to read.
Logo for a Financial Institution– Type Wheel; categorized in typewriter under fancy; I chose this font because it looks professional without being too decorative and is simple.
Certificate for a Prestigious Award– Old Script; categorized in calligraphy under script; I chose this font because its fancy and formal for an award.
Surrealism was developed by the 20th-century literary and art movement. Surrealism uses visual imagery from the subconscious mind to create art with out the intention of logical comprehensibility. It is sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind. Surrealism was said to be the origin of abstract art.
(Born July 9, 1937, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.) English painter, draftsman, printmaker, photographer, and stage designer whose works are characterized by economy of technique, a preoccupation with light, and a frank, mundane realism derived from Pop art and photography.He studied at the Bradford College of Art (1953–57) and the Royal College of Art, London (1959–62), where he received a gold medal in the graduate competition. He visited the United States in 1961 and returned in 1964–67 to teach at the universities of Iowa, Colorado, and California, and thereafter commuted between England and the United States until settling permanently in Los Angeles in 1978. That city’s intense, glaring light and sleek “California modern” aesthetic had a pronounced influence on his work.
Rating: 4/5
In 1984, Steve Jobs speaking to director Ridley Scott, who is in the process of creating the 1984 commercial for Apple Computer which introduced the Macintosh personal computer to an American audience for the first time. Jobs sees the commercial as a poetic statement of consciousness-raising, but Scott is more concerned at the moment with its technical aspects. Flashing forward 1997, Jobs has returned to Apple, and announces a new deal with Microsoft at the ’97 Macworld Expo. His partner, Steve Wozniak, is introduced as one of the two central narrators of the story. Wozniak notes to the audience the resemblance between “Big Brother” and the image of Bill Gates on the screen behind Jobs during this announcement. Asking how they “got from there to here,” the film turns to flashbacks of his youth with Jobs, prior to the forming of Apple. The first flashback takes place on the U.C. Berkeley campus during the period of the early seventies student movements. Jobs and Wozniak are shown caught on the campus during a riot between students and police. Jobs and Wozniak flee the riot, and after finding safety, Jobs states to Wozniak that it is they, not the protesters, who are the true revolutionaries.
I feel like the actors of the creators of apple in the movie did a really good job showing the pressures, stress, and talent it took to actually get the company up and running. The director did a nice job showing the timeline of how the two companies became successful. Although I feel like Apple was more the center of attention. Overall, I give the movie a 4/5 and would suggest this movie to anyone who wants to learn about how Microsoft and Apple started.
Over the past four years, a team of IBM scientists tried to build a computing system that rivals a human’s ability to answer questions posed in natural language with speed, accuracy and confidence. This machine named “Watson” was an artificial intelligence computer system that was going to compete on the game show Jeopardy! against the show’s two most successful and celebrated contestants — Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. The outcome of the competition was Watson won and IBM donated $1 million grand prize to charity. Ken Jennings placed second and won $300,000 and will donate half of his winnings to the Seattle-based non-profit VillageReach. Third place winner Brad Rutter earned $200,000 and will donate half to the Community Foundation. There were some advantages and disadvantages of Watson. Watson consistently outperformed its human opponents on the game’s signaling device, but had trouble responding to a few categories, notably those having short clues containing only a few words. I think this competition was really interesting. I think it is amazing that a computer could compete against humans on a game show and actually win.
The article “Erik Almas” by Ruth Hagopian is about photographer Erik Almas and how his camera “takes” him places. He travels to places like Thailand, Mauritius, Malta, Rome, Paris, Los Angeles, and Vancouver to take pictures of landscapes, lifestyle and fashion for global tourism. His camera even leads him to sky dive, parachute or scuba dive. He was a native Norwegian who originally planned to attend a small community college and shoot sport events for a local newspaper but a photographer convinced him to apply to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. The article talks about his photographs and his strategies, colors and details he captures. I think his photographs are beautiful and unique. I love the colors and details he captures in them.
EDVAC
1. The earliest computers were much larger than our current desktop and laptop versions. Find approximate dimensions.
2. What is the significance of ARPnet?
3. When was the internet that we know, world wide web, developed and introduced?
4. Two men are known for their development of the Apple I computer in a garage behind their parent’s home. Who are they? Are they still with Apple today?
5. Over the years, Apple has included “easter eggs” within their software. What is an “easter egg”?
6. Search for easter eggs within Photoshop and Illustrator. List a few in your post and find them in the software!
7. Where do you think computers will take us in the next 10 years?
The first computer was known as the ENIAC, this computer had dimensions of about 8.5 feet (2.6 m) by 3 feet (0.9 m) by 80 feet (26 m) and taking up 680 square feet (63 m2). ARPnet was the world’s first operational package switching network that late lead to the creation of the Intenet. The World Wide Web that we used today was developed in 1989 and produced by a computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee to let information to be shared with others. Apple was created by two men names Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniack and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Steve Jobs still runs the company while Wanye and Woznizk quit years ago. Apple beside Microsoft is one of the top selling computer companies to date. Easter eggs on Apple software are hidden messages in the icons. In photoshop there are easter eggs as well such as Merlin the Wizard, Adobe Space Monkey, Dark Matter, Strange Cargo Credits, etc. In 10 year I know that computers will be more advanced than ever. With touch screen computers, ipads and other hand held computers already out, computers will never be the same.
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