Program Design

Computer programing does have a design aspect to it. The first and most important aspect about program design is, of course, functionality. It must function properly, but after that how you put it together is entirely up to you. First you separate parts of the program. For instance I wrote a music player program with a group for a class and we separated the library stuff, ie. song information and data, the control aspects, ie playing the song, skipping to the next song etc., and finally the view, what the operator actually sees, I did this part. As you can see there is also a lot of designing that just goes into where to put buttons, pictures and read outs.

Graphics

I looked up graphic design and found a bunch of pictures. This one caught my eye. This looks like it could be used to sell a service. It looks like your on the only path in all of this darkness and it starts right in front of you.

Visual metaphors

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I also like this visual metaphor. It's the same old business man chained to his desk bit but this time he is chained to his cell phone. At least you can leave the desk at work. The business man is giving us a look of, please help me.

SpecOps Poster

Look at this Army special forces poster. You can tell that it is a recent poster, a couple of years any way. X-games, X-treme sports, and now X-treme soldiering. This add is going for the adrenaline junky. Looking at a lot of recruitment adds you usually have a man in uniform and some tough saying, like the few the strong, etc. or, in the older posters a good looking woman telling you to be a man and join. Now, look at this poster. There is million things going on here. You have diving rigs, which by the way, Army SF really doesn't do, sky diving, they're in a hummer in Baghdad, they're on horse back in Afghanastan, they're doing cold weather ops, and jumping out of helicoptors. Who wouldn't want to sign up. Also, look at the backgrouns of the poster. It's like an explosion just went off. There's fire and billowing smoke, man my hearts pumping already.

Google typeface

I chose the every popular Google logo to analyze. This is the original logo. The first thing I noticed is the exclamation point. I don't thing the logo still has one. I think that it was put on the original logo for familiarity. YAHOO!. The next thing I noticed was primary colors, to me that says, this search engine is easy to use. Now, if you look a little closer at the colors there is almost a pattern, but the green l is thrown in there. Almost saying we don't follow the rules, we're different. The text is also cartoon like, which just says fun!

Milton Glaser's phylosophy

Milton Glaser believes that the life of a designer is somewhere between an artist a business man. Practitioners of art create commonalities. He believes that as a graphic designer you have a responsibility to the consumers because you have access to their minds. You have the ability to transfer ideas to people. You want to have some relationship to your city, your country, and to the world.