Again.. this is not real. It’s just another assignment that focuses on the process of logo making.
Designed in 1977 by Milton Glaser for the New York State Department of Commerce. It came about in a moment of inspiration during a taxi ride through his beloved city!
Join the competition and have your artwork displayed on London’s Apostrophe Cafe ..
Click below to find out more..
EXPLORE the five senses and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity throught this amazing video from BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. The process of this visual typographic feast is super organic and analog!
more about “Tasty Typography“, posted with vodpod
Its all about projects! Including one-on-one interviews with the designers, how the ideas came about and the process done until the design got finalised.
The magazine is full of inspiration, ideas, resources and excellent tips.
If you want to browse through some of the worst logos.. Click on the picture below !
Designers Network- Saudi’s First Design Magazine…
Published October 13, 2009 Pages worth Touching Leave a CommentWith up to seven issues out in the market .. Here are the links to their website, facebook group and flickr page…
This is not a real user guide, its just another assignment.
Sponsored by Kuwait’s patriotic photographers, I put together this collage of photos to show different aspects of Kuwait as part of an assignment to create a user guide cover.
The main point of this is to work on photoshops different filters and put pictures together to simply practice photoshop !
All the smaller pictures in the circles were created using two filters with different opacity to give the desired effect..
A combination of Mozart and Kuwait !
A recent assignment I designed for my Design and Composition Class.. It requires that we design a poster of the Mostly Mozart Festival visiting our town..
I do get confused when i’m infront of that rack full of design books !
Here is a list of musts I picked up from Computer Arts Magazine.. I linked the pictures of the books to sites that provide more insight.. Read on and see what you like !
I’m sure many of you have seen this blending option on Adobe’s programs like photoshop or illustrator.
Here is something I put together as I was taking one of my InDesign classes at sessions.edu. Reed more to see what each blending Mode does to the picture.
A new series is showing up? .. no not really !
This is one of my earliest photoshop assignments.. Students were asked to make a poster for a make-believe movie or series.. And this is what I came up with …
Okay here’s another assignment, I had to pick a font and only two letters, and present them in a way that describes the font… now that is NOT what is shown here.. the other part of the assignment was to pick parts of the illustration in a way that doesn’t show what the letters are.. Here are three parts of it.. Can you tell what the letters are?
Computer Arts Magazine…
Published August 17, 2009 Pages worth Touching 2 CommentsTags: Inspirational Touches
This has been one of my favortie magazines for a while now ! The day I get it is always a happy day..
The slogan Computer Arts carries is Inspiration, Technique and Great Design. In this magazine, interviews, showcases and behind the scene stories are covered from many parts of the world. Also, every month a design studio is covered in terms of its environment, acheivement and its people and their roles.
Not only does this magazine gives you insight on what is going on in the graphic world, but it also provides inspirational tutorial guides and techniques to many of the graphic design softwares.
I find it fun to flip through.. several times…
The Color Theory on a Travel Poster..
Published August 10, 2009 My Assignments Leave a CommentTags: Color Theory, touched by sarah
Here’s another assignment from my sessions.edu online program’s Color Theory class..
The assignment here was to create a travel poster of my choice, and considering readability and contrast in regards to using type. The exception here is to not use any color photography.
An essential recommendation from the instructor, and this could be useful to anyone working on a poster, is to start of with using two to four colors and then filling in the rest with different values of each color and/or different intensities.
Here I chose Egypty’s Sharm El Sheikh; I wanted to project the exciting adventures of the sea and sea activities that is one of the things Sharm is very well known for.
My doodles in Composition..
Published August 5, 2009 My Assignments , My Everyday Touches 1 CommentTags: doodles, touched by sarah
This is an assignment I recently worked on in my Design and Composition class.
The point is to approach the same object- which is my character here- using space, size and different positioning to change how the object is perceived.
The first image from the left is the character in open negative space, the second is zoomed in to a closed space and the third is where the negative space (the background) is divided by the ground and the rain drops.
Logos fascinated by birds…
Published August 2, 2009 Inspirational Touches , Logos Leave a CommentTags: Inspirational Touches, Logos
A collection of logos that are fascinated by birds from all over the web !
ilsul6ana..
Published July 30, 2009 My Graphics for People Leave a CommentTags: Logos, touched by sarah
My latest work is this header for ilsul6ana’s new blog 
Sarah Al Jasmi’s Package..
Published July 8, 2009 My Graphics for People 1 CommentTags: Logos, touched by sarah
Here’s a design package I worked on for a friend of mine. A fashion designer that knew exactly what she was looking for. Black and white colors of laced flowers and her name…
Bembo’s Zoo
Published July 3, 2009 Inspirational Touches , Typography Touches Leave a CommentTags: Inspirational Touches, Typography Touches
This is an assignment that focuses on how color and light work together.
I was asked to choose two pictures; one of a painting and the other of an object from real life, and its best if both show a strong value contrast and strong color relations.
My choices:
- A Painting of Audrey Hepburn
- A porcelain object; a handpainted butterfly
Process: (the same process was done for both)
- I placed a suitable color for the background
- The first part of the assignment was to trace all the areas of light (lighter colors where the light hit)
- Followed by tracing all the areas of dark (the darkest colors)
- And then moving on to tracing the middle value colors
Slowly the original picture will appear in abstract shapes of colors! This exercise also shows which colors pop out and which colors fall in the background.. also known as the push and pull effect ..
This blog started when I was assigned to create a logo for myself. It took a lot of brainstorming and thought. Basically, graphic design is all about colors and typography; and here is where i tried to combine a variety in both. As for the name, the graphics will be Touched by me whether assigned from proffesionals, requested from customers, or flipped through in books and magazines.
And that is why I thought of sharing everything Touched here !
