Follow your dreams...

Took this picture of a bored Monkey at the Zoo of Copenhagen

Hello people of the internet,

Two days ago, i stopped studying graphic design. Now you may think why i did that, when

i could get a big career out of this.

Well, there are a lot of factors why one quit school. You don't just out of the blue think 'Oh hey

i should quit school!'. There are tons of reasons, and i spent a very long time thinking about the 

consequences. 

So lets got the biggest reason why i didn't stay. My passion for graphic design got lost, from all of the

theory lessons and the time in school. Before i began studying graphic design, i had a lot of expectations

for what the teachers would be teaching us, and what we would be doing at the school. Because from

what i read online, i thought graphic design school would be like a kind of art school. Where the

would be no to very little text and tons of art lessons. But i don't even remember one lesson where we

they thought us purely ART. We were thought where to click, when we needed the different tools, what

printers to print on, and to search on Google if we needed help.

I am not blaming the teacher for my decision for quitting school, but i can't say they weren't part of it.

But i have never really liked the idea of going to school. Ever since i was a little child all i wanted to do

is to make art and help animals. I didn't want to sit on my bum all day, reading and writing. I wanted to

be active. I would always dream of a school where the students could learn what they wanted to learn,

and for the teachers to only guide us. I now know there are such schools, they are called unschooling.

One example of and unschoolong school is called Sudbury Valley school, where all the kids may do whatever they may want. You could even just come to school and sleep all day. The kids at the school

become extremely talented when they get older since, they could do their passions. And there are NO

bullies at the school, since everyone excepts everyone. And there is no stress for finishing the homework,

because there is NO homework!

Read about the brilliant school here: http://www.sudburyvalley.org/ 

I have never really understood the purpose of education, especially if you don't like studying. Because

if you don't like it, you won't learn it, or you will forget about it in a few years. So why don't focus

on the things you love to do. And too many people go to collage just because they have to, then when they are done they won't end up getting the job they studied for..Or they'll get depressed because they wasted all those years doing somethings they didn't love.

We are all very different, and i think we should all accept that. When i used to think about people who

didn't have an education i would think, either they are poor or just rebellious. But now i now, that

they may want other things in life. Maybe they wanted to become a rockstar or a photographer, without

having people teaching them how to do it. 

If anyone ever tells you that if you don't go to collage you'll end up stupid and homeless, tell them about

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. They are both collage dropouts, but they still became successful.

Anyways, i just wanted to say goodbye for now, maybe i'll come back in the future.

But i will work on fulfilling my dreams to help the animals in this world and make art.

Thanks for reading.

And follow your dreams!

I will leave you all with this quote....

Got the image from: http://pinterest.com/pin/563018673151110/

Hope you all follow your dreams, no matter what other people say.
Good luck.
//Maria

Label design: Tea, Pizza, and Ketchup!

Tea packaging design made in Illustrator (Flat version)

Hello people of the internet!

Except from being busy with my new little bunny, i have also been really busy with a school
project.

Our new project is all about packaging designs. We were given a company to base our designs on.
The designs have to be for organic products that they sell. I choose tea, pizza and ketchup.
Since i already knew the company before we even started this project, i didn't really have to
research a lot.

I began by sketching all the ideas i had. And choose to start with the tea design. The tea packaging,
i choose is a little bit different. It is a triangle shape, instead of a rectangle box. I just
think different packaging is going to sell more, because it's unique.
But i must admit., it took really long for me to finish the tea packaging design. I'm just not
that used to making designs for a triangle box.haha
But i made it, after 3 days of work.

Pizza packaging design made in Illustrator

Now i have started on my Pizza design. The three packaging have to look like they are all from the same
brand, so i had to copy some of the design from the tea. Which i did by adding the dotted background, and using the same fonts. I wanted the box to show the actual pizza, but also that some of the parts are in
cartoon.

Our due date is on Thursday. And i have to finish my pizza and ketchup in 1 day (On wednesday)...
Ohh...Ohh.. Hope i will make it!

"Night is for dreaming, Day is for achieving"

//Maria

projects, projects, projects

Clock project

Hello people of the internet!

School has been pretty hectic, and it's probably because of the non stop projects that we make, and
because we have started searching for internships ( which will start January 2014 ). 

Since i last wrote we have been through about two mini projects, and just a few days ago we started
on a big project that will last until the last day before summer vacation.

One of those two projects were, the "Clock design" project for Tiger ( look above for the clock
i designed). We only had a few days to finish the clock, but i did enjoy this little project, especially
since we weren't going to get any grades on our designs.
I decided to make a positive Smileys theme clock. I wanted to make a design that would make people
smile and be happy, and not stress about how little time there is left of the day to finish work, but to enjoy
life and be happy. 

wine label

Another one of our mini projects were wine label designing. I have to admit, i was super

nervous about this project, since i don't drink wine, and i know nothing about it. But i tried to

focus on what i knew about wine, and i guess it turned out fine. 

I wanted it to look like the glass in the middle had wine in it, by making a wavy line above it

using grape wines, and by adding grapes in the middle.

The swirls are supposed to represent the wine pouring into a glass. But i got a few people from my class saying that i should of reduced the doodles. They are probably right, since 

labels should be simple and easy to read. I just have a tendency of trying to

put as many details as i possibly can, even though it might not look so good.

Not done logo

So the wine label design, was a little introduction to the BIG project, which we started on
yesterday and have about 8 school days to finish. This project is called the "Organic label design project". We are going to make 3-6 label designs for the company Biogan ( which the teachers changed to Funky Organic ), and a logo. The moment we got this project,
i  got an idea right away. I have already made all of my sketches of what i want to be making. I will be making Ketchup, tea and pizza  labels. All of them are going to be in very
different kinds of packaging. The pizza packaging is going to be a big triangle, the pizza is going to be in a octagon shape and the ketchup label is going to be in a mango and tomato shape.
This way ( if our products were in the real world) they would get noticed by costumers,
very quickly, since they are in strange shapes.
I am also going to make them all in very bright and colorful colors.

I have already started making my logo in illustrator ( as you can see above ), but i'm not sure what colors i want it to be in yet...

So we are going to be pretty busy these last 2 weeks, but after that, it's summer vacation!!!

Thanks for reading.

"Night is for dreaming, Day is for achieving"

//Maria

Pop art Project!

Made in Illustrator, by me

Hello people of the internet!

So since i last posted, we have started on a new project, which we almost have completed. 

The project is about the different kinds of art, like pop art, avant garde, and modernism. 

Our task is to make a poster for the design museum in Copenhagen. Which has to be inspired by a subject that could be in the museum. 

I choose to make my poster inspired by POP ART! And my subject is the Kodak camera from

the 60's. And since the actual camera isn't pop art, my teacher thought that i should make a poster

about the process from the camera to pop art. 

Because it's the outcome from the camera that one can make into pop art, just the the Marylin  Monroe 

painting. 

We had to write an 8 pages long report about our subject as well, which i had a really hard time doing.

I actually just sent my report to my teacher a few hours ago. I felt like it was super hard to write about 

pop art and it's history. Because i don't really like writing that much.

I know, strange right? Since i have 2 blogs and all. I think it's because i only like to write if i get to decide when i'm doing it, how i'm doing it and for how long i'm doing it. Basically i don't really like being forced into doing things i don't like. haha... But that doesn't really work in the real world, so i had to suck it up

and just write those pages. 

Anyways, at least i finished in time...

"Night is for dreaming, day is for achieving" 

//Maria

Potato stamping!!

Hello people of the internet!

So for the last 2 days we have been potato stamping! Which was really fun, and
i'm definitely trying it again...
We started by making the whole alphabet which you can see in the picture on the left.
Then we had to think of a quote to stamp on our posters. I chose the quote "Night is for dreaming, day is for achieving", which i made myself. I even carved a moon, a star and small stars for my poster (picture in the middle).
I made a ombre effect on the background to represent the day and night.
To my surprise making potato stamps is actually hard, since you have to make sure everything you carve is reversed!
But it was super fun! And it was nice to get away from the computer.

We have a 5 day break today - wednesday next week. YAY!

"Night is for dreaming, day is for achieving"
Go and make your dreams come true!!

//Aria

Back to school!

Made by ME in Illustrator

Hello people of the internet!

So we all went back to school today, after a much needed spring break. I think

we all got pretty exhausted  after our magazine project. Speaking about our

magazine project, we are all still anxiously waiting for our grade... Hope we get

our grades soon... 

Today was a pretty chill day, we did some theory about colors, specifically contrasts.

And we also got some seat works about the different types of contrasts ( Contrast of saturation, light and dark, proportion, complements, hue, warm and cool, and simultaneous contrast ). Which was very interesting, to my surprise. I mean, i have always loved 

colors, but never have i ever thought of them in the ways i did today.

Above, you can see a seat work i did today, about the contrasts. 

We also got some pretty cool news. We are all invited to come to the DR1 studios next 

Monday! I don't know that much about it, since i don't watch that much danish tv, but i 

know they are a TV channel and that a lot of people know about them. I am mostly 

excited to see the big cameras. We were told that we are going to see them film

for 1 hour. Which i feel is like a mini dream come true. I have never been in a real filming

studio. I am so excited, I don't think i will be able to take photos there, but i will try and then

post them here.

"The night is for dreaming, and the day is for achieving"

// Maria

Done with interactive magazine!

Made this on quebles.com

Hello people of the internet!

So last week our class just finished making our interactive magazine! It

was so exciting to see the finished product. 

We made our interactive magazine in InDesign, which didn't use to be

a program i liked. But after this project i have grown to like it, a lot!

We added some Easter details to our magazine, which was fun. But i had

to remove one of my favorite designs, the jumping bunny... I added

a bunny who was jumping non stop on the Index page, but it wasn't

serious enough for our fashionable magazine. 

I have learned a lot about the "killing my darlings" method on this project.

Meaning i have had to remove some designs that i loved, but didn't fit

in with our magazine. 

Next week we are focusing on finishing our printed version of our magazine, which

is almost done. We just need to make some more commercials and print it out!

Even though i think our group did an amazing job on our magazine, i'm still nervous

on what grade we will get. I hope we get a 12 (equivalent to an A+), but who

knows...

I researched a lot on interactive magazines before starting on our project since

i didn't know much about them.

If you are making an project like ours or want to check out some awesome

interactive magazines, take a look at this website!

http://www.ceros.com/examples 

Until next time... DREAM BIG!

// Maria

p.s. Happy early Easter!