This assignment was a great introduction into the Adobe Illustrator program for me. Right away, I felt pretty comfortable with the format and layout of the application, as it was rather similar in appearence to photoshop. While I tried various gradients to fill in the parts of the elephant, I felt that they looked kind of strange so i decided to stick with solid colors. With that being said, I still was able to master "color editing" as well as "live paint" in order to correctly fill in the elephant and use a variety of colors that went well together. My inspiration for the colors I ended up using direclty stemmed from Easter baskets and bright spring-like colors.

The process of creating this logo initailly started with me and my suitmate talking about creating a clothing company. We were going through name ideas and decided on "Tikibay", as we wanted to create surf and beachwear. I started off with creating some sketches and about half of these ended up on the sheet of paper that I brought to class as sketches for my logo designs. We had a couple favorites right of the bat. They were the wave the surfboard, and the eye. I knew right away that I would use the "eye" sketch as my logo for this class once I recieved praise from both my classmates and professor. Everyone really liked the idea of the wave within the pupil of the eye, so I decided to really make that a point of emphasis within my logo. I felt that the fact I was creating a logo of an eye for my visual design class just made too much sense. For the color palette, I went with bright, viberant and tropical colors that really pop and stand out when paired with the bold black lines that the logo is strutcured with.

Around this time last year, I had a project in my Religion class about "social awareness". The objective of this project was to find something going on in the world that the public should know about. After researching a number of different topics, I found something that really piqued my interest. I found an article about a small island in the Pacific that was in danger of soon going underwater. I decided to look more into Tuvalu, and eventually ended up using it as my topic for my presentation. The rising sea-levels cause of climate change and how it was affecting the residents is something that really stuck with me, so when I was tasked with creating an infographic for this class, there was no doubt in my mind what I was going to do it on.

For the data on my infographic, I scouted out a number of various reliable sources such as The Smithsonian Magazine and The Borgen Project. I also used various news websites and articles from CNN and NBC, which provided several bits oif information regarding the geography of the island. When it comes to my design principles, I wanted the graphics to really pop and stand out. I started off with a black layer as a base, and then put a wave layer right above it. I then increased the transparency of the waves in order for the background to appear darker. This allows the white, bright yellow, light blue and reds to really pop and get the viewers attention. For typeface, I decided to use BEBAS, as I thought it looked very professional and modern. The spaced out, bold and whte letters that read "TUVALU" really do a good job with getting the audiences' attention, and "THE SINKING ISLAND" right beneath the header accomplishes the same effect.