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2. I chose the Happy Meal as my design system. Each part of the happy meal can stand alone but each piece represents the greater mcdonalds corp.  I would argue that other products including their desserts, coffees, and other foods are also part of this system. 

3.The last image is a screenshot from the old schedule builder. A website itself is design, it has a layout and people navigate through it based on the design that was laid out. It has a place in the school scheduling system since it’s the main tool students used to schedule classes. 

2. The second design piece, the Minnesota Wild sports team logo is what I chose to represent a more postmodernist design. The logo is ambiguous, can be interpreted many different ways (is it a bear, or is it a landscape), placing more importance on the viewer’s interpretation. Also the logo is much more visually complex, compared to many other NHL logos that were likely created during the modernist era (Maple Leafs, Black Hawks, etc.). 

6. This bowl of Rice Crispies is clearly trying to reference 50′s art of the same characters that are still around today for the brand. The purpose behind referencing an old design like this is to passively demonstrate how old and established(and therefore great) this brand of cereal is for lasting the test of time. 

8. Screenshot of the chiller font. I think most fonts connote something, but the chiller font is especially trying to scare you! Fitting for the holiday! 

1. While not exactly design, when I think of poor hierarchy in text, I think of poorly organized code. Just lines and lines of text with hardly any spacing. Its hard to look at the page and see wheres the big breaks in code. 2. I chose a cover page of a text book to show how the organization reflects the importance of the "Fundamentals" header and then secondly the topic it covers. 3. Table of contents. Nothing flashy here, just trying to show the reader where everything is! 4. The Bigelow word art is organized somewhat chaotically and puts more emphasis on the illustration over the actual text itself. 5. Also on the tea box, we see 3 defined columns on the box to organize the text and the graphics.

In this Cooking Lite magazine, there are several examples of selective reading. There is clear hierarchy for quick information gathering that is tailored for skimming. The different sizes of text also stage the reader to pick and choose where to start reading. Visual attention can be drawn from the numbered sections, the illustration/pictures, or the writing.

1. The Apples to Apples game box uses heavy greens and its compliment: red! 2. This legend of zelda poster keeps most of its colors in the red, pink, purple, blue with Link's green tunic juxtaposing in front of it. 3. This LoZ poster has a lot of soft edges with the clouds. 4. Nothing with harder edges than 8bit pixel art! The edges are clearly seperated on a grid. 5. The coffee mug uses blues, aquas, and greens. 6. Settlers of Catan game box uses lots of reds and yellows. 7. The contrast in both texture and color from the background make the Mario figute and the title pop from the background. 8. This water bottle uses dotted lines to demonstrate the continuity gestalt principal. 9. The movement from the knife to the pumpkin causes an unstable focal point on the poster. 10. This LoZ poster is an anniversary poster that features many iterations of the character over the years.

1. This artwork has a lot of the dot elements included. While not exclusively dot artwork, it does make use of it heavily. 2. Line. This carpet is all lines, varying colors but all parallel. 3. Plane. This corner of the room has so many differences in plane direction. 4. Repetition. This pillow has a really cool repeated pattern on it! It has a nice rhythm. 5. Progression. These candles show progression of time. 6. Scale. These dots are all different sizes! Its a very interesting when regarding the negative space. Reminds me of agar.io 7. Symmetry. This picture has a lot of radial symmetry in the placement of the leaves. However, the leaves and center are a bit different... 8. Asymmetry. This piece has a lot of simple design aspects that contribute to its composition, but it avoids doing symmetrically. 9. Rhythm. I chose this piece because I find that the patterns have a lot of pace. The pic marks on the perimeter, and the checkered pattern in the middle. 10. Texture. This quilt has pleats that give it a bumpy texture.

The final image, is a digital collage on canvas. It’s mass produced, and deals a lot with branding. I heavily lean on this being graphic design. However, if this was the only copy and I made it myself out of paint, I would consider it as fine art. But since it is mass produced, and digital, and impersonal, I struggle to label it. The last piece challenges my definition of fine art/graphic design.

Before this week’s readings, I associated graphic design to logos and posters. Stuff like Joann’s Fudge’s logo and the pattern on my curtains are more what I’ve associated with graphic design in the past- more aesthetics vs. functions. However, after this weeks readings, I learned graphic design is more about communication more than anything. Stuff like the flyer in the mail can be graphic design- not just with the literal text, but also with the style in which it’s executed. Even web design has a lot of graphic design in its execution, trying to guide the user through the website.