Thursday, September 29, 2011

5 Blog Exercise: Design Success and Failure in Relation to Syntactical Guidelines


Above we have a logo that i feel is a clever and well designed logo that follows much of the syntactical guidelines. It combines the ideas of a chef's hat with the mushroom cloud from the aftermath of an atomic explosion, hence the name "Atomic Chef." The Idea of a mushroom cloud and chefs hat is a very symmetrical object, however the designer varies the each of the vertical axis sides to help create balance. Further more there are other aspects that also help to balance out the image such as the two variable sized rings. The design is simple in the aspect of colors and design, the eye easily flows and follows the lines of the designed image where the eye isn't draw too much to one area.

The next image that i chose for an example of a design that didn't work out so well is of an Hungarian reale state business. The image that they chose to reference was a cavernous hole. Due to the detail and variation of lines, color, size and shape to the logo, your eye is drawn directly into the center of the hole. This makes the viewer seem like they are trapped or confined within the hole. Which is not the type of persona that i would not be looking for, especially in a real estate agent. To further create a confined space the logo and text is again outlined by this gray brush stroke border. 

Thursday, September 22, 2011

4 Blog Exercise: Visual and Symbolic Language




1. Long lines/Endless lines
2. Many different people of all races and color
3. Faces of anxiousness, concern, and sorrow/unhappiness
4. Sides walks filled with trash and people
5. People dressed up in business suits
6. Looking for work
7. Resumes in hand
8. Faces tired and hopeful
9. Black snake of trepidation slinking through the streets of the city’s business district.
10. Cellphones in hand
11. No conversation
12. Strong tension

Like a snake slithering through the streets of the city’s business district, unemployment lines filled with people of all shapes, sizes, and colors are dressed in what was now considered their finest clothes to sell themselves in hopes of being chosen for a job, if any. Black suits, ties, blazers, slacks, dress shoes, briefcases, and fake smiles cover the bodies of the people who fill the city street sidewalks like an oil spill contaminating the area with trepidation, concern, depression, sorrow, and very little if any, hope. Like cattle entering a slaughterhouse, the cattle are guided what to them could mean salvation, or death, as they walk a few steps and wait, walk a few steps, and wait, with their resumes in hand, as they slowly make their way to the interview room in hopes that they will be chosen.

Friday, September 9, 2011


Name: Luis Marcjay Pascual
School: San Francisco State University
Major: Visual Communications (DAI)
Level: Senior