3 Blog Titles I like...

1. I have always been an admirer of GOOGLE for their creative advertising. Although this example is a fairly conservative one for Google's ongoing exploration of fonts and color, the modern serifs of this font has stood the test of time and is very fitting to what google is all about: "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible." The variation of colors suggest the variety and vastness of information and the modern and tidy serifs are interesting to look at as well as appear trustworthy. I found this blog by searching google for "google and blog."

2. The Cameron Moll blog was found on Flickr and is an example of a more fanciful font that is integrated into a design that appears to be growing right out of the blog title. This is an independently owned graphic design business and so the look and feel of every detail on this site is of particular importance.

3. The pop-culture entertainment news blog, "Vulture" was found on the technorati.com site recommended on the fonts assignment instructions. The looming reflection or shadow affect of the word Vulture is perfect for the blogs purpose to devour bits and pieces of entertainment news and display it for the world. The reflection of the letters lead the eye to the subtitle or the blog, which is "Devouring Culture." This site is clean, yet creatively dense at the same time.

Blog Title Font

The font I chose for my blog title is called "Green Piloww" from www.1001fonts.com. I downloaded several fonts and tried them out in Fireworks. This font only allows lower case letters. I experimented with a variety of filters such as blending, embossing, etc. The best of the experiments were: adding a green drop shadow, which  made it look like some green juice or watercolor paint was spilled over the letters and applying an "inner shadow" which increased the thickness and saturation of the inner lines, creating a dramatic affect. Ultimately, I chose to keep it simple and just change the color and saturation levels.

Logo Design - GIF

I created a logo for "The Raw Suitcase" in Illustrator (last year) and saved as a GIF file, because it has large areas of solid color and very little color.

Floating Suitcases

I decided to save "Floating Suitcases" as a JPG image to keep the variation of colors and to make a smaller file size than saving it as a PNG. I experimented with creating a shadow and rotating the image.

3 Photos

This is a GIF photo of the "map of the internet." I thought it was beautiful and wanted to post it to inspire me to keep learning about computers and technology.

Here is a JPG photo of Michelangelo's "Forbidden Fruit."

The the other forbidden fruit:  chocolate! Here is a PNG photo of the real cacao fruit.

Minty Lemonade Slush

This is a photo of a drink I took last summer. It is optimized as a JPG and not cropped at all. I added a shadow and border in fireworks.

Wheatgrass Suitcase - shadow

This is another suitcase filled with wheatgrass (photoshop). I cropped it slightly for better framing and then added a shadow. There is a strange white section that I wasn't able to get rid of on the bottom right that seems to be part of the original file. No matter what I did, I could not make it go away. I chose JPG - higher quality as the optimization for this photo as it was already a small file size to begin. Both GIF and PNG were larger file sizes.