this website is awesome!! http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4076 It is a blog like site of inspiring magazine layouts! use some of them for inspiration for your magazine! they are really cool. My favorite is for sure the one from berlin fashion magazine. it is awesome.

this site is really cool as well. http://www.denisdesigns.com/blog/2009/03/inspirational-pagination-magazine-layouts/ it has some awesome layouts too!

Hey classmates...check out this awesome photographer and the fashion shoot i did with him this weekend! http://alecvanderboom.blogspot.com/ he is really gifted and we are shooting some of my own designs in the near future so check back and see!

Just wanted to get some feedback on my logo! I have my own alteration and design business and am thinking about using this for my actual logo. what would yall think if you saw this as an actuall business logo? what would your reaction be? check out my website if you want to see my owerall style and judge it by that...

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This advertisement is trying to appeal to a younger and more edgy audience. The Levi’s 501 “Live unbuttoned” movement is geared towards a rebellious and highly influenced younger generation. It uses the line, “Who do you want to unbutton?” to be relatable to many people. This makes it seem like everyone has that one person that they encounter every now and then that they have been attracted to or that they have wanted something more with. Maybe it is a celebrity, or a person highly out of reach, but either way, everyone has someone. Her answer, “The boy who makes my morning latte” makes her seem like a regular girl who has a regular crush on a guy who works in a coffee shop. The whole ad is relatable. Her handwritten answer adds to that as well and does her laid back dress and posture. It makes you want to be her. Makes you want to wear her jeans.

This website was really interesting to me. http://www.fashionillustrator.com/fashion-gallery.html It is a great example of what you can use illustrator for in the fashion design world. She uses illustrator to draw her sketches and designs and then she posts them on this site. It inspired me to learn more about graphic design and the fashion industry.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_ancient_wall
This article on yahoo.com was highly interesting to me. This layout was also interesting and worth sharing. Although there is a lot of white space, the overall appearance seems organized and the paragraphs well spaced. yahoo is good at making their paragraphs shorter and well displaced so it seems like an easy read. I appreciate this. There is a small picture which I think is a disadvantage. If it were larger i think it would grab more people's attention. I hope you check it out and I hope you read the article because its really cool! shout out to Dr. Edgar!

In taking this class I have learned a lot already. One thing that I am hoping to gain more knowledge about is layouts. I think that end design will help me greatly. I dont plan to use any graphic design after I graduate, but you never know! I think that end design will help me with my website though. I created it last year and use it for my business Sew Little Time. Check it out! http://sewlittletimetoday.com

In lieu of the opening ceremonies being tonight, I thought I would hunt for an Olympic picture :). This one would be a great choice to use when learning how to select one object because the background is not solid but out of focus. this would make it easier to grab the edges of this figure skater. I think the photo is also a great representation of centering and image focus. The main point of the photo is in focus and the rest is not which brings your attention to her. Great picture!

This blog http://www.amiedelisa.com/ is a fashion blog that post interesting pictures and concepts about the fashion world. I especially like the very first picture with the model and the surf board for chanel. It showed good use of centering and had a very old fahioned, edgy feel.

This Image is a great example of centering. The model is centered directly in the middle of the photo which draws all attention to her. She is also the obvious focus because of the subject background. It is not distracting and it is slightly blurry so it makes the focus most definatly the model. This picture was in a JPEG format. This is a good fromat for this picture because JPEG is a great quality format for photos.

This photo is a great example of lines. Even though there are not actual straight lines, the models form a line that firlst draws your eye from the bak to the front. the slight blurriness of the back of the phot also draws your eye to the front. The focus becomes the first model with the cut out in her dress. This phot is also in JPEG format which is a great choice as it is a very good quality format for a photo.

This photo is a great example of the 1/3 rule. The model in the red is in the first third of the page and she is the main focus of the photo. This is also a poor job at cropping. While the model in the black dress adds another element to the photo she also draws the attention away from the main focus and to add emphasis she should be cropped out. This photo is also a JPEG image which is a great choice because JPEG is a high quality format for photos.

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I think this smoking advertisement is a nice example of how white space can be good. while there is a lot of it it is pushed to the outside and makes the overall appearance of the ad look clean and organized.

I think that this glasses advertisement is an excellent example of continuity. The ad flows by using similar colors and pictures to emphasize their point.