Designs Reflection

I believe my final nine designs turned out pretty well. The ones in this process notebook are my preliminary prints so they are not the final versions that have been printed on matte. I really ended up liking the color schemes I chose. Originally I was leaning towards darker warm colors but I began to realize that saturated light colors popped a lot better and really evoked the meaning of ‘Intense.’

Following the instruction of my professor I tried an overlapping transparency technique with the exclamation point design. I found this to be a successful effect. This seemed to create unity among the letters “INTENS” and better created the shape of the exclamation point.

Little change was made to my cascading design. I moved the exclamation point so it took the place of the “I” at the beginning of the word. This seemed to better connect the concept of the exclamation point with the word itself and by extension its meaning.

The third design incorporates the same idea. Originally this design featured two contrasting panels one containing the ‘I’ exclamation point, the other, the letters “NTENSE.” I thought the original design was bland and uninteresting. I decided to spice it up a bit and add a bit of noise. I overlapped hundreds of little “INTENSE”s to create the left panel. This effect was quite successful in the end.

I believe my cascading green design and blue contrasting panel designs are the two most successful. I really like the base designs of these two compositions for the reasons listed above but I believe these two versions of their respective designs were most successful. The color schemes chosen for these two seemed to be more striking and “intense.”

The use of striking color, the high contrast, use of exclamation points, and movement combined to make these designs successful as a group and individually. Overall I am pleased with these designs. I am however disappointed with how dark some of the colors printed out. The dark colors appear almost black on the print out even though they were supposed to be dark versions of brown, blue, and green.