I worked on more tumbnails for project 2.

Ah, here is the first round of thumbnails for the second project.

Here are a bunch of the thumbnails i neglected to post previously

It is quite an image batch. All those old thumbnail pieces.

Ah, now here is a new addition to our network. Our good friend Gates.
He has his own particular brand of reviewing and now he has a blog up and running.

Game Tirade Blog

Shortly here I shall set up a page on the main blog for the Tirade Network linking our other contributers personal blogs so you can get a view of our projects on our own and also what we are working on individually.

We are growing faster then your average Zombie Outbreak.

Final Piece

Alright. I have worked on the helix piece and did two versions. The one closest to the original I preferred more, but I did steal elements I liked to add back into the final piece.

My chosen final piece.

I really like the bottom of this piece just because the bottom looks like i is unzipping to replicate. Ah, dna is fun.

 

And for the essay for the final piece. Similar to the last one. But more condensed.

Again the project was to utilize the basics of graphic design to exemplify themselves. I believe it did a decent job of this utilizing the elements in a way more to my liking. After numerous iterations this was the one i could deal with.

Emphasis itself again is the main factor. Forming the primary helix line. The top is closest to the middle to try and draw attention to it first. Being one of the first visibly readable portions i believed would also draw attention to it.

Balance is the counterpoint in the helix, with contrast forming a linking section. I went with lowercase letters for all but the starting b itself to make the text slightly smaller to try and keep attention a little more away from it. I stuck with Blue-Green for the main lines and contrast I set as yellow/orange for contrast to set it more at the opposite end of the spectrum to support contrast. I kept contrast darker as well to differentiate it from the lighter blues as well.

Flow is a semi background element. Faded out and given a lighter yellow hue with it dashed across the bottom section of the piece. It was kept a more simplistic element. Other ways I tried to use it generally drew to much attention to it. I wanted it to be more sedate, calm, and still distinct segment.

Repetition forms the background, with both the repetition of the word and the dna sequence nucleotides for added effect as dna information is stored in them as a coded pattern. I didn't wan't to use them in contrast, though it seemed it would work as a perfect background element however.

Alignment is an alternate background factor, forming an line running with the orientation of repetition itself. All of it has been fairly lightened to keep attraction away from it. Though it gives a sense of unity to the piece as it all follows the same basic tilt.

It was all about that form of cohesion. It echoed the floating of dna in a solution, and also the end seems to be unravelling like dna sequences in a stage of replication. I liked the effect myself, and tweaked it to fit that so it would be less uniform.

This piece turned out alright. There will always be work to do. Always be changes to make something perfect. Someday I shall strike such a note with my pieces and be totally happy. That will be difficult.

The alternate piece next.

This had a similar idea.

I took some ideas like the version of alignment simply because it was kind of interesting and added it back into the final piece. A full second background helix just didn't seem as interesting to me.