Color Design Form

I have made the following observations and revilations in Color, Drawing, Form class.
Takeing a formal aprouch to how you display, phograph, or illustrait an idea will drasticly effect how the viewer see's the composition as a whole.
Drafting skills are extremly helpful in designing things in an acurate perspective as if it it were occupieing space. (illustraited 3D objects or diagrams of 3D objects with flat artwork projected on them)

Color is one of the most complicated yet descriptive tool in a designers study and practice. if one can utilize the effects of color one can create visualy stimulating work that has a powerful way of moveing eyes to a larger understanding of what the creaters messege is about .

These three Aspects of Design will be very usefull in what I choose to do, and how I observe the world.
My awareness of  form and the presense of color has stregthend in my observations and i will continue to use all that i have learned with a much broader understanding.

This year i could have produced more in sertain areas but i need to attack my studies in a less stressfull manor.

a saddening world

A Saddening World from jimi Isbell on Vimeo.


so heres my flashy flash for visual communications. after waiting all day to upload i come to find out that the quaity is all janky and leaveing weird lines so i must re upload and re post

Find And Share

For my find and share I chose to share a flash game.
This flash game relates to class because of the real world elements used as components to the flash game
All the objects and subject matter that is visual in this game are all hand crafted out of cardboard.
I thought it to be an excellent example of taking hand made works and images and using it as content for the game.

Click here as i cant post it to my blog

flash games are all over the internet, but there are lots of awesomely put together games that feature hand made marks and visual content this game is a great example of this

reading response vector vs bitmap

So in response in the article that i read about the diffrence in use between a bitmap and a vector image pretty much told me everything i already know. 
Vector formatted images are very much use full for files that will be up scaled or down scaled such as logos, graphics for billboards, silk screen graphics like t-shirts, and many other things.
Bitmap images are pure oposite from vectors because they are perfict for photographic images and web images as opposed to relitivly flat artwork like a vector.

the big diffrence between the two is how the computer functions with the information.
Bitmaps have tiny cells of color more comfortably known as pixels, these pixels in one image can be millions of difrent colors. if you scale a bitmap image down the pixels still look great as a whole composition or image. but the downside to a bitmap is if you try to scale it up the computer cant create colors with no instructions to follow therefore incresing size renders you a blurry, foggy image of lesser quality then the original.

a vector image is quite different and computers love to scale them ( so i think haha!) vectors are shapes made with points and lines and solid colored fills and gradients. these you can scan because instead of remembering single pixels the computer remember the geometry and mathematics to recreate something to the given size any day or any time. (computers love math, I don't, that's why I love computers ;D) any how with a given set of instructions ( the math and geometry) the computer can recreate your image with no problem or distortion

Josef Albers and his incredible color plates

Color, color, color,  on the left is a color wheel constructed from my color aid. I felt very acomplished after succsesfully arangeing these hues to make such a fantastic wheel of color.
My apologies for the green back ground, but because of it i can tell you that the green color is affecting the wheel in all of its colorful glory in look and appearance. This is due because of subtractive and additive optical mixing that occurs with color

We took a field trip to see Josef
Albers's original color plates at the library.
This was a lovely exsperience to behold!
I did noy reolize that our library had a rare collection of information such as these color plates.
With so many color plates to see it will be hard to talk about.
The image to the right------>
I believe this was a fancy study in how 3 colors can look like 4. There is a flap that if lifted, reveals that the half circle shapes are conected. This elegant study was one of my favorites to observe first hand.

This last study above  is a study of additive and subtractive transperncy.
Albers is adding and subtracting light for the viewer's eyes. The left plate is additive transparency,
the right plate is subtractive transparency. Keep in mind the terms are referring to the mixture of light which can be confusing if not explained.

haiku words: revised : give me some imput and help me make further revisions

Revised haiku:

So this revised haiku will work well, well at least better then the previous

I changed the poem cause i could not think of very many objects.

"a saddening world:

flowers whose sweet blooms must fall...
as we too, alas..."

(first verse)

teardrop
sad
rain
emotion
greif
matter
mineral
earth
everyone
spheare

(2nd Verse) 

flowers
pettles
witherd
falling
sweet
fragrent
blossum

change

seasons

windy

(3rd verse)

comparison
human
forshadowing
death
grave
life
ashs
skeleton
remains
tombstone
simularity

japanese haiku

possible haikus for the moment

dewdrops, let me cleanse
in your brief
sweet waters...
these dark hands of life
Baso

a saddening world:
   flowers whose sweet
blooms must fall...
as we too, alas...
Issa

old weary willows
i thought how long
the road would be
when you went away
buson

Prepared statement

I present to you a book of lines, positioned in a sense of similarity. The concept i tried to capture within the photography side of this work, are the different angles and views of things i catch myself observing everyday. I believe most people don't even notice the intracit curves of a curb, or the interesting reflections in a window on a bright sunny day. Taking the line studies we created through out the project i have selectively chosen those lines that best represent the photographs i have taken to bring into the prospective of the viewer an appreciation for the environment they live in and the beauty within the concrete structure of Westport in Kansas city.

color project ideas

Falling Gradiants / Falling leaves
For concept one i would like to photograph all the subtle colors of fall leaves as the colors range all over the place as they begin to fall from the trees. depending on the tree and amount of sunlight hitting the surface of the leaves changes the color mixtures of leaves. for example top of tree will be bright yellow middle section red and the bottom are green with a mixture of hues were they intersect.


Produce Abundance
For this idea I would be going into to various food markets, farmer’s market’s, or anywhere I could find produce. The range of color in the produce section is fantastically abundant and a range across the color wheel. Depending on the produce type the hues and colors will contain a variety of richness.   (Like a pile of pumpkins of different hues)

color in Textures and flat surfaces.
  I will photograph textures and flat surfaces of all kinds. for example i would have one photo of a blue texture next to a photo of a flat blue surface.  there are an infinitive amount of possibility to find textures of all kinds. the pairing of flat and textured surfaces would be a great combination of image pairs to convey contrast in feel but similarity in hue's and color.

fun design related videos

next one is pretty old  i think but still thought it was funny

scher video

In the video we watched in class Scher talked about how new york inspired her work.
so i started focusing more on what kind of things were subconciously affecting my work being in kansas city.




Being a Graphic designer in Kansas City of all places is pretty inspiring. the environment in kansas city Westport area can be pretty inspiring at time but it doesn't really affect my ideas iterated in my designs. However for this project allot of my images i photographed are different perspectives I tend to take more then a few seconds then glance to notice. I always catch myself staring off at large parking garages, paint covered stair steps, and more then anything else textures. some of the textures of this city are older then probably everyone in studio combined. These stained concrete surfaces, muck covered ally walls, are beautiful compositions created by thousands upon thousands of people for a very large undetermined amount of years. thats the big difference from being in the suburbs and the city as well. This city is its own entity, it has created its own identity though the work of millions across time. especially West port, being older then kansas city and one of the last trading posts until the west coast at one point in time. This place holds many stories and to much history for any one person to focus on. I would say the sheer mass of history this place has is the most inspiring aspect for me.

SEQUENTIAL PROCESS-viscom-finale statement

So to wrap up the project on lines and juxtaposition, i am writing this blog post! yay.

So the process of this specific assignment was very lengthy, but full of good processes to learn. Given the chance to repeat the whole of the assignment again I believe I'd have a much stronger outcome from my pairs. I personally think that having a slight idea what the final product of a lengthy assignment is a detrimental aspect to keep in the back of my mind.  If I would have known that we had to pair up photos with line studies for example, I would not have used certain techniques while doing my line projections for the vertical line studies. (Why?) Simple I crumpled some of my studies to project on the wall which was completely unmatchable with any photograph I took.  This cause me great peril when tring to find some vertical studies and sent me on a few more photo shoots for completely new material with only 1 clear vertical study.

as far as the process as a whole,  I learned lot of things as far as how to make complex images out of something simple using tools such as scanners and copiers. I learned how to identify juxtaposition between images, i strengthend my own ability to place images with juxtaposition, i learned how to make a sweet style of book that has more user intrest then general book bindings.

as far as things I would do differently next time would be creating more subtle curved line studies, most of mine were overly chaotic.  and most importantly create a larger base of material to work with for easyer pair match up.

revised paragraph for line book

In Westport you can find many things, objects, places, and people. All of these things no matter what they are have one thing in common with each other. everything you perceive in this world is made up of points and lines. These elements can be curved , diagonal or as strait as an arrow. Lines are everywhere, and relate to each other more then anything else in this world. Every angle can have a reflection, every line will continue in space, wether it be physical or metaphysical space inside your imagination. Take a walk into the third dimensional world, and observe the wholesome power of the continuous point. Look at the harmoniously weaving curves curbside. Check out all the crossed intersecting lines that make up things like parking garages. Go take a walk and make your own line through this dimension and see the building block of form with appreciation.

3d letter form procces

Constructing an abstracted letter form.

In this post is a few shots of creating an abstracted form of an uppercase letter I. My focus on form was to bring more dynamic angles to the uppercase letter I. I personally feel the letter I is over looked do to its simple form.  What i did was play with stroke to make sections of squares smaller in scale to larger in scale. The project was constructed from foam core.

I feel i succeded in makeing the form of "I" more dynamic by adding such square angles. This idea was perfict for the shape of "I" and would not have worked as well with a letter form with curved strokes or counters.

I then spray painted the planes with a white surface. So far I've applied about 3 or 4 coats.        I feel my overall craft could have been more focused on do to a lot of seam issues along the edges. I fixed this by applying tape and a few more coats of paint.

After construction we began studting form in space with black and white digital photography.

the last of these three images is one of my outcomes. The cropping of the form in this picture creates a feeling of stability. its also a visual metaphor because you can also perceive a feeling of unbalanced do to the angle of the form.

later we will be constructing another accordion style book with photo pairs of our letter forms.

Lines, lines, more lines, maybe some curves too :)

Lines, lines, lines, lines,  

So here pictured on the left are pair options for page spreads. the images will be 7x7 and the book will be accordion style binding.

Not all of these pairs will appear within the book. The goal of this project is to create juxtapositional pairs, and help us refine our photography, abstract thinking, hand drawing, and craft skills.  So far I have learned a great deal about how images get chosen in the process of book design. some pairs are more stronger then others based on the photograph, line quality, contrast, depth, and various other variables. Some of these image pairs will be omitted from the book do to small things like alignment, or perhaps it needs to be replaced with a curved line to achieve a better balance within the books pages.  We want to focus on keeping each pair of images interesting compositional. The second pair of images, from the top of the image on the left is a prime example of a page spread that is not that interesting  compositional wise.

Flash animation recap

So in typography we created a flash video depicting 2 fonts and how they mesh together via animation. In an earlier post you can find the complete animation. in this post you will find the process of creating the content for the Flash video.

On the left is one of multiple scans of drawings cropped from 2 different fonts. My letter was m. This is a set of drawings for the font, ITC New Baskerville STD.
The goal was to crop interesting parts of the letter that have a good contrast in positive and negative space.


The other font chosen was Utopia.
further in the project I omitted utopia m's and replaced them with Bell Gothic STD to help the viewer see the change when we reached the flash portion of the project. Bell Gothic has no serifs which increased the difference in the 2 font choices   The change was good example to how 2 fonts can be similar and further more hard to tell apart based on what your using the type face for.

This second image are the vectorized versions of my chosen cropped views. notice Im still using Utopia at this point. (both sets of four have serifs)

All are re sized and have cleaned up appearance.

 

The third image is 3 diffrent animation sequences.
This is kind of story board style. By adding this part in before hitting the flash tools, a designer can help map out directional movement to get a more natural movement. Its also useful to help show your ideas for an animation to team members, other designers, or colleagues before the actual animation comes in. This will help save a designer lots of time in case he makes an animation and the client doesn't like the movement of the object or type.

next we chose images to mask in our animations, from this point on everything was primarily digital.
we ended with our complete animations.  Mine was not furnished with sound at the turn in date. But i utilized some digital sound editing and recording tools to create a music loop featuring myself on dejembe and my girlfriend Harmony lovell on guitar to add into my animation.

reading response-color

So to recapture my thoughts on what I read (page 1-11) in Interaction of Color i will write this post. basicly what i read reiterated my previous thoughts surrounding color. Color is reconizable to every single person, but not distict hues or shades. when someone says red all the listeners are familure with red, but each person will have a different shade or thought or memory of the color mentioned.

color is prevalent in our world EVERYWHERE. But not naturally as a single hue. given the natural light and direction of light colors will change either lighter or darker depending on the viewers perspective.   i might be staring at a huge completly red billboard head on with the sunlight shineing right on it and it would be a bright shade of red. However, if the sunlight was behind the billboard, the shade of red would be much darker given the shadow.

color is an amazing phenomenon in my perspective of this world and I'm absolutely stoked to start our color theory.

Flashy mushrooms

Mushrooms and mandalas from jimi Isbell on Vimeo.

I did it i uploaded me movie !! woot woot

playing gig open mic style at coffee wonk on broadway tonight

the music featured within my flash vid was composed by my girlfriend and I.

Pertaining to lack of blog updates

So I have realized that i need to start documenting what I'm doing WAY more often on this here blog.
so within the next week One Of my prime objectives will be to get this blog up to date with all my projects that have ben going on.

soon i will try to have my typography project uploaded and posted
as well as the process of constructing the 12" inch letter form for color drawing and form along with the 6" letter, and any other things i cant think of at the moment.

sorry for the inconvenience..

an another note I am going to start posting dates and locations relating to my music projects.

AS well as a section of awesome websites pertaining to design resources and tutorials

Title and content options for Line project

Title Options

• Walking With Lines
• Home-ward Line
• Juxtapositional With Westport
• Point to a Line in Westport
• The Second Dimension of Westport
• West Line Port

Paragraph One

My perception of this world is very fond of me.  In the immediate proximity of my location on this gigantically small world Is small part of Kansas City known as, Westport.

West port is my home in the third dimension. This part of the big city contains all the things my mind is aware of when I notice. All these things are made from lines of all sorts and sizes and different relevant similarities. This book of selected as well as crafted images are a few things I took the time to notice and create within this small town. From the creation process of this book I have realized no matter how small your world is it is still gigantic in comparison of something else with all the angels and curves and strait on perceptions it contains.

Paragraph Two

In Westport you can find many things, objects, places, and people. All of these things no matter what they are have one thing in common with each other. everything you perceive in this world is made up of points and lines. These elements can be curved , diagonal or as strait as an arrow. Lines are everywhere, and relate to each other more then anything else in this world. Every angle can have a reflection, every line will continue is space, wether it be physical or metaphysical space inside your imagination.

Paragraph Three

Lines can turn up or around anything. Don’t believe me? then take a walk through the pages of this book. then when your done, take a walk into your world. Everything around you is made up of lines. Every curve, angle, edge, face, rock, tree, door, window, cloud, car, and everything else can be seen as lines. all these lines can relate in many ways as well depending on placement size or similarity. This book contains lines that were photographed in Westport in Kansas City, Missouri as well as hand crafted lines from various methods and assembled to create contrasting similarity between the physical world and the world of lines.

Interesting architectural find lovely organic curvy structure

So there i was browsing the internet for images of mushrooms for my typography project and I came across this project being constructed. The project is the remodeling of Plaza de la Encarnacion in, Seville, Spain.


This project features very elegant organic curved structures resembling a small clutch of mushrooms. The buildings will eventually contain a farmers market, bars, shops, as well as landmark to serve as a center space for the city for its occupents and tourists.
Im absolutly blown away by the design of this structure. An outstanding use of space, and the contrast between its surrounding structures will help it stick out on the map like the landmark they want it to be.


J. MAYER H. Architect
Project Team
Juergen Mayer H., Andre Santer, Marta Ramírez Iglesias, Jan-Christoph Stockebrand, Marcus Blum, Ana Alonso de la Varga, Paul Angelier, Hans Schneider, Thorsten Blatter, Wilko Hoffmann, Claudia Marcinowski, Sebastian Finckh, Alessandra Raponi, Olivier Jacques, Nai Huei Wang

                                                                Click here for web page

juxtaposition response

juxtaposition, <----- Big word ,yet useful design element. after reading the article i didn't really have any awesome thoughts spark other then some skepticism.    from my understanding juxtaposition is two unrelated images, articles, or physical objects that relate with each other visually. Useful for a designer when intentional and the sense of it is highlighted, or obvious depending on focal points and eye movement. what I was skeptical about was the times pages and the add on page three relating to the article visually. Ok, thats pretty neat, but if i could barely see the resemblance between the shape of some some sailors hat and a diamond earring or the point to make such a connection, how is some one not aware juxtaposition supposed to make such a connection? and what importance dose it make necessarily.  If the symbol on the guys hat, which is microscopic compared to the size of the image,  how could one make that connection unless squinting with the goal in mind of finding such a similarity.  Its like saying "hey! that cloud looks exactly like Jon doe when he did ___ on april/1/ 1890.


so my point here is juxtaposition can be a very kick ass design element when intentional, or the visual connection can be seen in an obvious manor.  something as subtle as some of the articles examples just don't really make to much sense to me. why? because why would i need to make a connection between some fallen beams of a blown up building and pretty rectangle shaped diamond earrings i cant afford?


how ever some examples were very good examples of juxtaposition. such as the follow the finger add and the movie poster.   follow the finger said " skip work" and point to movie poster.


chained thought i get from that is " skip work and go see a movie!"


rather then a poor example of hey these people are refugees, look at this demolished building; and these lovely earrings are made of finely crafted diamonds and are shaped like this demolished building's beams.


sorry but if i made that connection i would not buy those earrings cause i would be overcome by the thought of the demolished buildings.




juxtaposition can be useful if intended by designer, but allot of the times i think its useless unless its a happy accident.

Line Study

So we have been working on line studies in visual communication class. Im learning how a bunch of parallel lines can communicate a message such as progression, randomness, or balance.

we then took these line studies and flipped and added them to other studies with a cool outcome.
and after that we took all of our lines and combined line images to scanners photo copiers and projectors to further manipulate horizontal and vertical lines.

very curious to find out where this assignment is heading towards as an end product.

on a technology note this project has helped my illustrator work greatly learning about the alignment pallet . sweetness.

Displayed above are some of my studies.

will scan in manipulated images in a later post.

tootles

jimi

words for M : typography

m

mud

music

magic

mother

moth

mouth

mirror

matted

mush

mesh

marble

mandolin

monkey

mango

mayo

marshmallow

mandala

muskrat

mushroom
meditation
magenta

Word groups

Mango monkey mush

mirrored mushroom mandala

music(al) monkey mandolin

magic mushroom mandala

mayo mango mouth

Layering/Transparency

I found the assigned reading very inspiring in a manner of perspectives I've never focused much on.
The concept of using images from a 3D source (such as a photo of a room) on top (or below) an image of a 2D surface (a piece of lined writing paper) creates a wonderful feel of layering on a level of its own.
In the past I've thought the layering system as a way to organize different elements in a way of what is underneath and what is on top.  Now I have a much stronger idea of how to use the concept of layering to  make compositions much stronger through the use of layering to were the layers harmonize with each other rather then just sit on top of one another.
       The chapter on transparency was as equally pleasing to read, in fact, it inspired me to make a transparency study in photoshop.  The fact that layering and transparency work hand in hand never

occurred to me for some reason until after the reading.
i look forward to hopefully applying these aspects to an upcoming assignment.

FINAL STATEMENT

So, this final product of mine required more then I can give personally. I feel that to much was required in to little of time and at a high grading cost.

I fully understand that a designer needs to be able to produce above and beyond in a short amount of time with next to perfect craft. but I also understand that Im in design school to learn these skills over the time Im here and not all at once.   The overall craft of my book is poor and Im not going to argue about it because i know it is, and i know thats what i will be told. I totally wish, however that I chose a different topic because it was a huge blow to the out come and my ability to find useable resources in contrast with my small budget.  If the whole of my project was just black dots i feel it wold have had a better end quality. 

Over the corse of the project i didn't think about a lot of the concepts we learned about because of the constant rush to make things work they slipped right out the window and came into realization after the book was completed.  

I am very displeased with myself, my work, and how much i was not able to apply myself because of the time. But at the smallest level Im happy I finished the book to a completed state.

The typography aspect of the assignment I complete enjoyed, I feel i was successful in the use of type in  most of the type compositions created.

I believe the thing i could improve the most on above all is craft,  it will be hard because hand craft is not my biggest skill unless ample time is given and i have a feeling it wont be. 

I took the liberty of smudging the front cover of my book with charcoal  to better relate the craft to the topic of history which in my mind has a grainy grungy dirty look to it.

Im hoping we will learn some more stuff computer related soon so can work more fluidly

digital Drafting

finished these last night
diagnal lines arnt preasent will be soonish

Vis Com! yea project update

So after night of extensive circle drawing, I've concluded with several drawing and one changed word to a synonym.   I changed the word -insert- to assist. the reasoning behind the change was similar ideas of compositions between the original and other words.

so far I'm enjoying this project i need to start hunting materials for the project. Im thinking my best bet would be to find some national geographic magazines will benefit in a great amount of textures and useable images.
Im on the hunt for images of old temples, nomadic people, indigenous people and agricultural and some other categories.

Back From the Sticks

So there is still absolutely nothing like being out in the wilderness. No internet or phone signal will turn most people away, but thats a good reason to go journey in the wilderness.  some of the workshops out at the festival were very cool.  i learned that you can make a hydrogen cutting torch with a battery, water, and some other doodads. Its also more effective then your general cutting torch because the hydrogen flame reacts to the material your cutting and changes the amount of heat to the ideal range to cut! as well as that cool effect with using this method another perk from the device is that the byproduct that is produced is structured water.

you can also make a super effective wind energy generator using a DC magnetic motor belted to bicycle wheel.  to help the wheel collect moving wind just add duck tape! You can seriously make allot with duct tape.

a good way to do a garden without tilling involves 5 layers of newspaper before winter and your seeds. the paper gets covered with snow and such kills off the grass/ plants in the area were you putting your garden and when planting season comes lay down composted soil and blammo you got a kick ass garden that you didn't have to spend hours tilling.

If you got a lawn by all means why not grow your own food for cheeper then it is you just go buy it. that way you know what went into what your eating.  all health problems start with what you ingest my friends. the more pesticides and fertilizers you eat the more unnatural chemicals you got in your diet and cells!

If you let your lawn grow itself including other things that are not grass you will attract more birds  then someone who tries to keep only grass. but what benefit do you have for only having grass next to nothing except a lawn full of a small plant that you can do somethings with but not much at all. most weeds have a use!  think of the meaning living off the land. Now a days people exploit the land, who likes being exploited? I sure don't why would our planet

9 Words For 9 Images

History's Cycle

The following words will be used in Project One.

The choice of these words will be to visually communicate basic terms relating to humanities' historical relationship with our planet and relate to our time, the basic elements that created, shaped, and collapsed civilization. Hopefully the viewer of the final product with make mental connections to these events in history and inspire an evolved state of consciousness of the world around us.

1. Evolution

2. crumble

3. community

4. nomadic

5. gathering

6. assist

7. Pattern

8. Growth

9. Nourishment

NOTE: Words might change by friday if better term is discovered to fit the ideal content I'm looking for

Find And Share

Below you will find a very remarkable image using elements of cropping, positive negative space, layers, scaling, and correspondence to achieve the message Displayed within the image quite perfectly I might say. The image Screams a riot of design elements. many more then I have listed. My favorite is the sense of depth using layering and negative space harmoniously together.

Design by: Neil Duerden

Check out the designers web page for other inspiring designs

Mind Mapping Life In History

Words spawned from mind mapping exorcize still thinking of a general topic other then the base word, History. Seeing as the words are general topics of history and some that are still present today a term will have to surface soon as a categorizing topic.

options for title

Life In History

History in life

Pathways in History

1. Gathering 11. Sustain

2. Fear 12. Fertile

3. Death 13. Advance

4. Life 14. Nourishment

5. Divinity 15. Growth

6. Evolution 16. Community

7. Pattern 17. Cycle

8. Crumble 18. Sacred

9. Fall 19. Nomadic

10. Rise 20. Memorable

Typography letter forms

Completed and critiqued , now uploaded to the all powerful inter web for your enjoyment.

Materials used; Sweat, blood.., just kidding brown paper, white paper, acrylic paint, and india ink.

I had a blast doing this assignment. still trying to adjust to the large amount work going on, but Im hanging in there.

I will try to update the look and feel of this page eventually as the year progresses and try to post some interesting reference material for everyone thats reading.

have a lovely day

Jimi

Transcendence Fest

Flyer Design By myself

Upcoming event on labor day weekend.

Transcendence Fest, an all weekend Green event hosted by 7-Rivers resort in lowry city mo will feature music and Absolutely fantastic eco-supportive workshops ranging from information on gardens to building your very on hydro-electric generator for your car that spikes your fuel mileage by 50-100%! don't miss the chance to get in on these fantastic workshops, and walk home with a bag full of knowledge.

check out EarthPeaceSystems.org for more information on how to aquire tickets.

I will also be performing on stage with my girlfriend, we are known by Mindzeye

Response to assigned readings

Type and Image, Meggs, page viii
Graphic Design Sources, Hiebert, p 9-10

How do these readings support, expand or contradict your definition of Graphic Design?

Design is apart of every person's life, wether they know it or not. The readings support my opinion that Design is interdisciplinary and requires that you take steps over boundaries of the general norm in every aspect. One must pull visual solutions to questions put forward from every angle of the social world with a pallet of information that might not always be clear at first. The job of a designer is to learn how to simplify and enlighten the information as well as the third party viewer. With the rapid change and movement of information a designer must be innovative and build ideas, and keep in mind that the information changes just as much as the tools he or she is using.

Road to the design cave.

Hello readers,

Fist off, my name is Jimi and its a pleasure to meet you. My formal name from birth is, James M. Isbell. My father gave me the nickname Jimi at birth in respect to Jimi Hendrix.

Design is much more then an occupation or topic for me. It has been apart of my life since the age of 12. I used to be one of those reclusive kids that spent 12 hours at a time playing Internet games. Despite what that says about a person, it brought me to forum style websites, and eventually forum signatures. After getting into what I believed was just a program to make things I soon was captivated by the amount of creativity that could be summoned from Photo shop. It's what killed my gaming addiction. I began making small html layouts for myself and friends for blogs and eventually got myself taking design classes in high school. From there a new addiction arose, the world of design. Now I can be found on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute, and I'm more then eager to see were this school will take me.

I chose to pursue a degree in design because I simply cannot stop designing things. After learning a good portion of how the programs work, I now want to go more in depth in every aspect of design. In my opinion knowledge is worth more then money, why it comes with such a price tag is beyond me but I will do what ever it takes to further my knowledge as far as I can. I want to be able to have a job doing something I love for the world we create together with our footprints.