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No comments on mine? :(
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likely because he stole them from Something Awful
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So guys, i've got some questions.
I've gone to school for a bit for "Graphic Design" but sadly it was at a community college.
Not anything against Community College, but the courses were a bit limited. I learned a bit about everything really, but not a ton. I learned about photoshop, a bit about Illustrator, and a bit about printing and running a printing press.
So, i was wondering where is a good site to maybe get some good starting points to take what i know further.
Things about typography, logo design, things of that nature that would be helpful for getting more knowledge under my belt so that once i finish school this semester i can get started on making a better portfolio.
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I've found this blog is really good:
http://www.davidairey.com/
They have a specific section for branding, typography, colour etc.
really helpful stuff
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Apologies my good man. I actually convinced myself that I did comment on it. I even showed it to one of the other guys.
We both like it! The only thing would be if the feathers were in the other side of the hat and stuck in the "band" that goes around the hat.
Graphically, it is very pleasing too!
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woah so i clicked on that davidairey.com site and the first thing i see is this this business cards done by Moo. which i think sounds like a familiar company so i look on their website and i see their logo, which i know i've already seen somewhere else
[img]http://directory.ac/files/dumblists/.../logos/moo.jpg[/img]
a guy in the year above has pretty much the exact same logo in his portfolio, but as a logo for a dairy company and not for a design company.
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and it's obvious that one of these is a rip of the other (i'd struggle to believe otherwise) butttt, this carl guy (from my class) is a quality designer and i don't believe he'd ever rip something off, let alone present it in his portfolio so obviously the same design as Moo Print. but then Moo Print were founded in 2004, which was definitely before he started uni (i.e. created that logo) so i don't know who's ripped who off. i like to think Moo Print had a rebrand and stole their logo then but it could be the other way around.
it makes me sad. welcome to graphic design, where plagiarism is a very real enemy.
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the two moos aren't that similar, I'm sure there are lots of logos that have a curvy kind of fontwoah so i clicked on that davidairey.com site and the first thing i see is this this business cards done by Moo. which i think sounds like a familiar company so i look on their website and i see their logo, which i know i've already seen somewhere else
[img]http://directory.ac/files/dumblists/.../logos/moo.jpg[/img]
a guy in the year above has pretty much the exact same logo in his portfolio, but as a logo for a dairy company and not for a design company.
and it's obvious that one of these is a rip of the other (i'd struggle to believe otherwise) butttt, this carl guy (from my class) is a quality designer and i don't believe he'd ever rip something off, let alone present it in his portfolio so obviously the same design as Moo Print. but then Moo Print were founded in 2004, which was definitely before he started uni (i.e. created that logo) so i don't know who's ripped who off. i like to think Moo Print had a rebrand and stole their logo then but it could be the other way around.
it makes me sad. welcome to graphic design, where plagiarism is a very real enemy.
and I think the business card logo is meant to say 'COW' when it's upside down whereas his isn't supposed to
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(his is the business card)
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Oh, I don't think anyone copied anyone then
your friend probably just used a nice font and added the break in the O/C letter
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hm, i still think they're too similar. ah well, not like it affects me anyway!
ugh i'm waiting on the post to arrive so (hopefully) my cyan and magenta inks arrive so i can print my portfolio, all the work is done i'm just waiting on this bloomin' ink. i ordered it on monday night :(
(i also don't like how tab + enter doesn't hit the Post button any more)
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do my posters count. i sure hope so
here are some i like best
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I really like your posters rusty, though some of your best are the ones where you break from the beige, low colour number grungy style.
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which ones? i dont think i like many of the others ive done
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low colour number is good, so they can get printscreened
that shit costs per colour man
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The Union Jack would look a shit ton better with a Hammer and Sickle in the middle of it
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the fight club one's hand looks a little weird but the actual logo is lovely, and the rest of the posters are wonderful
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Anyone know what font this is?
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Just wondering, what dimensions is your portfolio? annd what type of printer do you have?
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it's an A3 portfolio, and i have this printer, an HP officejet 7000
it's a wide format printer, but i've never used it for anything bigger than A3. i lurrve it, although we did have a bit of a falling out earlier today.
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Ahh, that looks sweet I really want a printer like that... I do love my laserjet though.
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eep. laserjets are rubbish for good quality printing though :(
but they are mighty fast!
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speaking of printers, are all inkjets bitches or just my one?
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inkjets are superior compared to laser when it comes to printing quality work.
a laser will easily beat them in time and quantity vs. ink, but the quality isn't comparable, and if you studygraphic design you want a nice quality printer
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ah ok
mine is incredibly unreliable and works about 70% of the time
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what model do you have?
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HP Deskjet F4580 (all in one)
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ahh, i used to have the HP Deskjet F4200 (also all in one)
it did me fine though, can't say i ever had any major issues with it. what sort of problems are you having?
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I've never used a good inkjet before, all the ones I've used have screwed up the colours and smeared all over the place.
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well a few weeks ago it was feeding the paper in wonky and always used to crumple it up and get jammed, but these days it just doesn't print randomly and I have to often unplug and reconnect the usb cable :(
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for the paper jamming, try using a thicker paper. before i got my printer i read several reviews that said that it used to chew and jam the paper when it was printing at A3 unless you used a thicker paper. general copy paper is 80gsm, but i bought a ream of 100gsm paper and i've never had a problem with it. also make sure you have the plastic guides set up properly to ensure it feeds the paper in straight.
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This comic really fits this discussion:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
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you should'a seen me earlier
managed to print out all of my portfolio bar one piece perfectly first time. got to this piece... it took me 8 times before it did it correctly. i'd already ripped up one bit of card in my rage.
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when do we get to see :)
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probably when i get it whapped on my website!
it's a joke, i've had webspace and domain for just under a year, and have never finished it. always get half way then change my mind about the design and forget about it all. ungh
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or i might just upload it here. but i don't know what you'll all think, because it's not what i think a lot of you have in your mind as "graphic design". there's some branding (i.e. logos) but there's also some projects i think you'll go o_O at.
but i won't know until i show, right?
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right
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Sucks you had such a limited experience. I wonder how a community college managed to skip by such important design basics like Typography and logo designs? 2 years is plenty of time to squeeze instruction of that nature in.
My community college design experience was pretty focued. Despite being a "2 year" program, it actually takes 3 years unless you take an extra class each quarter and don't have summers off. Covered pretty much everything from the basics to the programs and to finish off our big capstone project involved inventing a company from the ground up building an entire brand (all the logo design, signage, pictograms, vehicles, building design, etc) for the company. I should say though for my degree, in order to fit it all in within 2-3 years they didn't require me to take hardly any gen-eds other than 3 english, and a couple of other random ones. As such when I transfer to uni this fall I'm pretty much required to do a years worth of gen-eds to get my bachellors, which kinda sucks.
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I wish it had been like that.
It's a smaller community college, so the guy who taught the class was super cool, and knew a good deal. But his knowledge was mostly in the printing field, as he worked at Missouri University, and other big printing companies doing stuff like proofing, and running the machines.
But aside from asignments where we were told to pretty much use illustrator, or photoshop, or sometimes indesign to accomplish something, we really pretty much just went at it with the little bit he knew of the programs, and what we gathered from the internet.
I guess now's as good a time as any to start re-learning.
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The one Alcapwne made is perfect, too bad we won't be getting it.
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You can now :)
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Well, I guess I haven't really dumped any of my stuff here. Some is from 2 years ago, some is from this year.
Anti-religion, Kunst & Håndverk brochure and Creation Awards is collaborations with other students. (In the brochure I was first and foremost the photographer)
I did not expect the thumbnails to be so fucked up. Damn variable thumbs and not constant ones.
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I guess it would hurt to put a little of my recent stuff up here.
These two are for a contest on LogoBids.com
For a personal Source mod of mine that never saw the light of day.
Logo for an (hopefully) upcoming creative studio of mine.
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