Thursday, October 14, 2010

Starbucks logo
1) Starbucks first began in 1971
2) The world famous logo represents the environment with which the company was established in the lakes area of Seattle, Washington.





MTV Logo Design

1) Launched on August 1, 1981, MTV is an American cable television network established by Warner AmEx and based in New York City.
2) MTV broadcasts a variety of youth culture, pop culture and reality tv shows aimed at young adults and adolescents.



Google Logo

1) Launched on August 1, 1981, MTV is an American cable television network established by Warner AmEx and based in New York City.
2) MTV broadcasts a variety of youth culture, pop culture and reality tv shows aimed at young adults and adolescents.



Adidas Logo Design & Identity
1) Adidas was founded by Adolf (Adi) Dassler, who started producing shoes in the 1920s with the help of his brother Rudolf Dassler
2) For years the only symbol associated with Adidas was the trefoil (flower) logo design.


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

photo blog

What does the photo “say to you?”
What appeals to you about how this photographer approaches his subject matter (that which he/she takes pictures of).
what the phot says to me is that to buy the bag or the clothe she has on.what this phptographer approaches is that he takes pictures of idoms and makes someone use stuff so that the stores that sells them makes people wan to buy them for a gift.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Webpicks

Due date: Friday, October 8, 2009, 3:30 PM
Go back to a Communication Arts Webpicks that interests you to make a blog post about. Be sure to click on the provided link to see the whole website and not just the description on commarts.com.
Include in the report:1. Name of the article

Voltage Advertising & Design

2. Main points about the article

To make people buy food
3. What did you find most interesting about the article?

It uses a burger and colorful color to attract the people

4. What did you find that you can use for a future project? (i.e., Photoshop technique, Flash animation technique, pleasing design interface inspirational images, etc.)

you could create nice images with Photoshop to make a good animation

5. Please include the URL to the specific article in your report, as well as the URL that the article is about (one is from the blog writer, the other about the site)

http://www.commarts.com/web-sites/voltage-advertising.html

Comparing Best Buy & Apple

Due date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 3:30 PM
Best Buy and Apple are two stores that sell electronics, but each has their own approach to presenting their products. Respond to the two prompts below, save them in you’re My Documents/Writing Assignments folder and then make a new blog entry for today, by copying and pasting it into your blog, with the Title ”Comparing Best Buy & Apple”:
1.   First, write a few sentences about what makes Best Buy different from The Apple Store (the physical stores), particularly about how they are arranged and what the process of buying a product looks like.
The difference between best buy and an apple store is that best buy sells more things then an apple store. And best buy sells more electronic stuff and also vides and other things however and apple store sells iPods TVs and computers. And sometimes you can find more specials is best buy then in an apple store.
2.   Then go to both bestbuy.com and apple.com and write at least 5 differences that you see in the way that the online stores are organized and designed.
1)      In best buy, the prices are a little cheaper
2)      In an apple store they help you out more
3)      The website has more stuff shown in apple store
4)      The website from best buy has less things
5)      Apple store is more colorful then best buy

Thursday, October 7, 2010

web pretest

Alejandra Vazquez
SCT- WING –Digital Art and Mixed Media
Assignment: Web Design open- Internet Pre- Test
1.       What does HTML stand for?
Hyper Text Markup Language
2.       What does CSS stand for?
Counter-Strike: Source
3.       What is a blog and what is the word blog short for?
A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order.  The word blog, short for weblog.
4.       List three Websites that will host a blog for free?
Blogger, Xanga, Live Journal
5.       What does HTTP stand for?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
6.       What does WYSIWYG stand for and what does it mean?
WYSIWYG stands for what you see is what you get.
7.       What does URL stand for?
Unformed resource locator
8.       When (roughly) did the internet start?
1960’s
9.       What are three of the most-visited websites on the internet?
Googel.com, yahoo.com,

10.    Download a picture of Bill Gates getting pied in the face and drop it into the word document?