The Plausible Impossible

In animation, we watched a video by Disney about the Plausible Impossible. The Plausible Impossible is an animation technique that because of certain context, impossible things seem plausible. These are five plausible impossibles I found throughout the video.

     The video I chose to feature for this post was a short that Disney made about Donald Duck when his cousin comes to visit his house. In this scene, Donald's cousin, Gus, knocks on the door to his home and the ring vibrates Donald's head like a gong. Normally, this would be impossible, but with the sound affects, this seems possible, as sometimes sounds do produce enough waves to vibrate.

In this scene, Gus drinks all of the soup in the bowl shown above within a few seconds. We know this is impossible because no one can eat anything that fast, especially since he was eating it with a spoon. However, since the spoon was moving extremely fast, this action seems possible.

In this scene, Gus decides to make a sandwich with all of the bread and ham. However, he makes the sandwich shown above by shuffling the bread and ham together like cards. That would be impossible in real life because both ingredients are too floppy to do so. But in this scenario it is possible because the sound effects and the way the bread and ham move make it seem like its able to be shuffled like cards.

In this scene, Gus is knitting spaghetti into a sock with needles before slurping it up by the string. This would be impossible since spaghetti is slippery and in no way would stick together like that. Since he does it so quickly and the way he crochets it together like you would with tread, it seems completely possible. 

In this last scene, Donald gets his head stuck in the mailbox after running into it. This would be impossible because no one can fit their head through a mailbox and be okay. But because of squash and stretch like principles, it is possible. And he was going at a high enough velocity to fit and remain unharmed.

Marks/Symbols Blog

Summary

Marks include symbols in them. They are both types of logos just one can be a part of another. Marks can include lettering and symbols. Symbols however, only include pictures. Both types of logos can be trademarked and sold for copyrighted use. Things such as the handicapped symbol, to the Nike can be classified as marks. 

Symbols vs. Logos

Logos represent a brand, and symbols are usually a small picture that represents something else. While symbols can be used as logos, it's not very effective since they're so simple and common. To have a good logo, people need to see it and know exactly what your company is and with some symbols, that's not possible. When symbols are used to make a good logo, it's called a mark. Marks usually have text as well that's easily readable and can fit well to represent a company if used right.

Key Facts

Symbols take a lot of time and thought into them to make them good enough to be a mark or logo. The simplicity can be a good thing, or a bad thing. Lines and/or arrows should always move up to make a positive impact on the audience. Symbols should not be boxed in but should be transparent so it appeals more to the eye.

Conclusion

My favorite thing I learned about marks and symbols is that they can all be related to each other. In conclusion, the way graphic design can all connect together is interesting and makes graphic designing easier to learn about. 

Typography Study 2017

For this Graphic Design project I chose four quotes that represented me. Two of them are serious and the other two are fun ones I did because I feel like they represent my personality.

 I chose this quote because the person who said it means a lot to me and it has a bit of deeper meaning. This quote felt fancy to me so I felt the need to give it a fancy look. Also to put diversity into my project I would need to put cursive in one of the art boards and this quote is the best one.

 This quote stood out to me because it's something I've always told myself since I was a kid and it was thought to me from a young age by many good influences in my life. I wanted to make this quote like a book cover of a modern day novel because I think this type of quote is geared more towards the younger generations like my age group.

I chose this quote because I represents me. It's an odd quote and I'm an odd person so it works. I made it black over the white with  a text the font because it looks like headline and if it was supposed to be taken seriously, it would have a serious message.

I like this quote because I feel it works well with this project but I also love the person who said it. I chose the design for it because I wanted to switch it up from the normal centered text but also make it nice and have suitable graphics. 

These are my quotes I did in color based on four color schemes required. Each of them are labelled with their correct schemes. I mainly put my color schemes in a lighter, more pastel color so that they look better with the contrasting colors. I really liked ho my color schemes turned out and I think they are the best out of my entire project.