Gracias

This year is almost ending, I believe that everyone is waiting for this new year to come. But before that we have be thanks full for what we have done so far. Usually in my family we don't celebrate thanksgiving. I know that is a tradition for the United States and I think for other countries. If I am being thanks full for something is that I am still alive and have the chance for being in this precious world that we have. I also feel wonderful because my family is with me. sometimes you don't even realize a lot of things you have done. There always an excused for not being thankful. People in these days seem to be very busy all the time, that there is not time for being grateful. I think we should be thankful with our selves because we have doing the rihgt and the wrong thing at some point. It is part of being human and we learn from our mistakes just as we learn to talk and write.

In my life since I have been which is about almost 4 year, my life have been so good in the particular. Sometime it is hard because you come to a differet place, you have to adapt to everything such as lifestyle, people, food, living. I am being thankful because I have met so much nice people that have show me that there is always a reason to live and keep going. People who like me have been and the same situation and that have been doing so well where they are now.

A lot of people have been helping in my learning, I can say thank you I wish all the goodness for their families and them. Thankful because I have the opportunity of having an education and becuase many of the friends I have are having different opportunitiese just like me. Thankful for having a food everyday. I hope that those people who do not have the opportunity to have the privilege the most of us have. I hope that one day they could have one.

Days ago, my girlfriend invite to be a volunteer. It was about to pack food for people who were starving in some part of Africa. It was about 25 people. We worked for about 2 hours. It was pretty cool, because everyone one was coming from some different schools. I don't remember where exclaty was but I remember that everyone had a good enthusiasms. We worked as a group. I was working with my girlfriend's mom and her cousin. It was fun, after we done we went to pray for the boxes we have packed and we hope to get these boxes to the destination.

I am being thakful because I have the chance to love and be in love with my life. I love my family. I love my mom because she is the best mom. She always working hard. That is something that I have learned from her. I love my brother because I know he cares about me. I do care about me. I feel sorry because for some reason I forgot his birthday. Nome of my family remember that.

I love my family and love my girlfriend and friends. Thank you everyone for being you. That is the best thing you have.

Blogs for Graphic Designers

The use of Blogs for many graphic designers has been a huge tool as writing your own graphic design blog. Writing  your blog can attract many other designers, people with differents ideas, it can also help you to promote your bussiness and help to encourage yourself as an expert.

Having a blog may attract clients. When someone relatively in design in desing look for person to create a logo or any other design. First thing they do is to look for your porfolio. So it is important that you impressed them with a blog that shows your skills and also shows your knowledge in the area. A constantly undated blog shows that you are active person in relation to the design. It also shows that you are really looking for ideas and always thinking in new ways for design. 

Who were known as the father of Graphic Design?

According to the research I've doing, I found that Piet Mondrian is known as the father of graphic design. He was born in March, 1872. He was descended from Christian Dirkzoon Monderyan who lived in the Hague as early as 1670

Benefits for Graphic Design

Most of the graphic designer who started in this career are self employes refering to they work under  their own restrictions. According to the reports, Graphic Design is the second in career in the advertising industry. Many of the benefits could be: If you really are an expert in graphic design you problably don't have to worry about losing y0ur job as long as you keep working and creating new and fresh ideas for advertising.

Also graphic designer with a huge talent could be making  $ 1000 montly,  sounds pretty interesting when you only have to work in your computer from home or any other place.

Graphic design include a range of many things as photography, computer advance technology, internet advertising, publishing magazine, title of books, filming, television, animation, art, printing. As you see graphic design can navigate in different was.

It is also important to know the basic of grapchic design. With this basis techniques you can also get into 3D design, web design, post-production, animation, comic,etc. It is important to learn the design basis.

Finallly, there so many advantages of graphic design technology, that is not dificult to use, in one month of training daily you can understand the graphic design software, four or three months you may be independent user. But remender graphic design software is wide too expanded, so keep working life long learning, with the spirit of creative growing.

 

Steal or not?

It is a bad thing that people steal from other especially when they take this as a form of surviving because they claim not having a job or just because they think It is the easiest way to get money. I think people are so wrong and this shouldn't be happening. I know that this is not a goodness and peaceful world. You really don't expect what can happen tomorrow. There is a also the type of person that are stealing because they are hungry. I believe there are others ways for surviving, perhaps you could borrow money from someone else and start from there. In the pirates thing, I think that these people are desesperated that they are just trying to look for a war of getting money. I don't know how this is going to end up. Hopely the mine of these people change and realize that what are they doing so wrong. The right of steal is not right.

Just another prube

Test are always a pain for us including me. I think that test or exams shouldn't atterorize when it comes to you. I think test are just paper that show what you know and you have learn so far. Nobody like test because of us. We been claiming what we have to do this and why we have to take it. It is true like Becky said we been living a culture of tests all the life. I think we must take test in order to graduate from a certain school. It is going to show what you learned. I think this is a good way to show your knowledge. Things are going get you freely, you must do and workd hard in order to get it done in whatever you want.

I feel ok, I feel motivated when I hear people to say: "Oh yeah, I remenber I took that test,..." so I said to my self if she or he have done it before why should I am not? I think it replies in every single person. Some really don't like to be tested for x reason. Some of them dont batter.

Fourtanley, there is not a test about how to live and you have to passed in order to get married. This would be harder I believe.

What it is graphic design?

I choose this topic because it is one of my things that I am really interesting. I also would like to be one of this person who woks doing this.

What is Graphic Design?

Graphic Design is considered as a form of art converted in profession. The point of graphic design is to comunicate message througt this principals as images words or ideas. Graphic design is every world. We can graphic design in our favorite movie, favorite book or in a Stark Bucks coffee.

As you see graphic design has been developed so fast as equal to new industries whom desire to get people involved in it. They need advertise their companies. They need to show people they are there and they trying to sell products, etc. They would a graphic designer able to convert ideas and messages in a visual communication.

Timeline for Graphic Design

A. Beginning of the Industrial Design: Great Britian and Germany
1820 - Industrial Revolution :: early 19th century; patternmaker = designer
1849 - Journal of Design - by Henry Cole; design should encompass more than applied ornament; knowledge of manufacturing processes and materials.
1851 - Great Exhibition - decorative extravagance of Victorian design - Crystal Palace
1860 - Arts and Crafts Movement - John Ruskin, William Morris, Gustav Stickley, thought machine production degrading to both workers and consumers.
1903 - Wiener Werkstatle - Viennese group; similar to Arts and Crafts Movement.
1901 - Frank Lloyd Wright - 'The Art and Craft of the Machine'; basic principles of modern industrial design; future designers create prototypes for machine production.
1907 - Deutscher Werkbund - Hermann Muthesius...
1910 - AEG (German General Electric); Peter Behrens, denounce Art Nouveau for a spare abstract neoclassicism; products, lighting fixtures, fans, advertising, graphics, and the firm's overall 'corporate image'.
1919 - Bauhaus - Walter Gropius, union of art and industry; other figures: Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszio Moholy-Nagy, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld- [1933 - disbanded by Nazi]

B. Design Profession: USA1929 - US comsumer society emerges: commercial artist, advertising, illustrators
1940 - Design business practice common; independent consultants
1939 - New York World's Fair - visual coherence and social harmony; Utopian dream

C. Postwar Europe
1944 - Council of Industrial Design; stifled creativity
1947 - Swiss design: Armin Hofmann, Emil Ruder, Kunstgewerbeschule Basel
1960 - Pop art; Pentagram Design: Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby
1953 - Bauhaus tradition to Hochschule für Gestaltung at Uml. Max Bill and Tomas Maldonado; Dieter Rams at Braun AG.
1960 - Scandinavian designer: Alvar Aalto
1961 - Italian designer: Ettore Sottsass, Memphis group
1968 - Post-Modernism: Wolfgang Weingart, Steff Geissbuhler, Odermatt & Tissi

D. Comtemporary American Graphic Design
1950 - MOMA, promote good design, refugees Gropius, Mies, Breuer; New Bauhaus, Chicago, ID-IIT; Yale University: Alvin Eisenman, Paul Rand, Herbert Matter, Norman Ives
1960 - The New York School: Paul Rand, Alexey Brodovich, Henry Wolf, Herb Lubalin, George Lois
1970 - Corporate graphics: Olivetti, CBS, CIBA, IBM, Chase, Mobil, Mexico Olympic
1979 - New Wave: April Greiman, Kenneth Hiebert, Paula Scher1980 - Micro processor (1984 - Apple Computer, MacWrite, MacPaint)
1993 - Internet: Mosiac -> Netscape

A lot of many of the web sites that I have read about history of graphic design. I have found that many of the web sites doesn't say specifically where It started as a discovering or something like this. So I made my conclusion and I think Graphic Design start with the geroflycs that back in the day used to leave on the caves where they used to live. I think that this was perhaps the beginning of Graphic Design.  But I also think that the expanding of Graphic Design increases through the modernization and development of the civilization.

To be continued...

Another blog to the list...

I found this blog which is called amyinthewind.blogspot.com. This unknown write talks about mosty of his family as many of us. I think she mention what are the steps or some way of keeping you out of stress with a clearly mind of your life and your surroundings. she said that she tried not to drink too coffee because she has some issues s0 if she drink too much coffee could be a problem. She also talks about stories that she and her family has. One of her stories that come to my mind is that she has a daughert that she always complaining, she doesn't want to be alone.

Supposely google knows when you getting flu

I look this blog from blogs.com and I talks about Google telling you when are getting the influence of flue. I really don't believe that this searcher would be able to tell everyone that you getting flue within a few weeks. But since I read something that I probably never thing about it. Google won't call you and tell you " today is the time to getting flu be prepared." But what I notice is that this blog talks about people usually use internet to look for symptoms for flue. By doing this it is probably a wise idea of attacked it before the flue get worse. I also says that technology have been increasing so much in many different way that most of people look information before to going to the doctor.

Google claims that is have been recording the activity of flu in the United States. That is why they were able to create what is called " Flu Trend Page " where is show a graphic of how is the activity of flue in part of the United States. According to this page Minnesota is a minimal level of people getting the influence. It is pretty cool, more people healthier don't you think.

It is pretty cool that Google is taking over the place and most people go to Google and look information of what they want.

Thank you Becky

Thanks to Becky for having this class. I have never experimented before. I think it is really exciting write and read other lectures. I think this is one of the best classes that I have because I feel free to write what in my mind is.

I think this way of writing involved so much technology and also creativity. It gives you the opportunity to write freely and go on... In my personal it is a good way of expresing my self freely without any pressure on my shoulder on what I should be doing. I believe many of people who have been using blogs and other types of free posting. They probably would be agree with me that it is really fantastic and unique way of expressing your feelings in whatever your mind might think.

I been reading part of some of the blogs and I think everyone feels more free to write in what they wanted to write. (wait a minute) but without forgetting about the assignment that we suppose to do in order to get a credit.

I have to confessed that this is my first time of having a blog. I am starting to think that it is pretty cool. Thanks to Becky for this fabulous idea. I have read some of the Becky stories and part of her life. It helps to know more about her. It is really interesting what she have to say and she expect from our new government that pretty soon would get in charge. It is unique how she express nicely about her partner and her lovely son. I can see that this is one of the biggest things in her life. Thanks Becky I hope you the best for your family.

Big thing come in little packages...

this is one of my favorites quotes " big things come in little packages. It could be that it doesn't mean anything to other people, but to my self is a tool of inspiration. i always see people around that are taller than me. this is huge problem that i have because it makes me feel shorter that i am not growing so far. You might think that this is a stupid. People doesn't need to be huge and tall in order to have a enourmes personality. Like I said before that how make me feel. Two years ago I was taking english classes in a church. This kind of church were they help people whom the english is not the fist language, well this is my case, i went to this church for some short time. this is where i heard this quote that was stucking in my head until now. i give me so much entusiastic. this man who told the quote it seems to be a wise person. a person who knew what he was talking about. until this time this quote still in my head and everytime someone says something related to my high, in certain way it remove my heart inside. but then i tell this quote and everything come real and normal. "Big things come in little packages"

my profile

Hello everyone, I like to start by introducing my self. My name is Mr. Brown. My favorite movies are step up 2, holes and the day after tomorrow. Basically i like action movies, intense but I also like drama movies. I really don't have a favorite book because i really don't read books frequently. if I do it it probably would be about designs, photos, and things that interested to me . i like the tv show called the biggest reveal or something similar, but it is about how the magician make that tricks that you believe that could be real. i also like cartoons. one of my favorites is the simpson and arthur, it could be a tv show for kids but i love it because it is funny and fun to me. i always say that everyone has a kid inside of you. i love t0 go to parks and just walk around and simply just take a sit somewhere and just take a sit and admire the beauty of the nature which is very interesting when you think about how this things were created and why. i love to hear music, specially when i born. it helps me to relax and think about the things that i wanna do for my future. it is one the best things i like to do. it makes me happy because i imagine my self how would be my life when i grow up. it is really fun to me. specially when i have dreams about my future. it is like it gives me energy to keep going and do something more... show the world that mr.brown is here and i am ready to be part of it. one of my goals in my life is to have a bachelor in graphic design. i also love photography because i think this is part of pieces of the life. my quote favorite big things come in little packages.