Marina's Design Blog

--------------------------------------> When I'm creating something, I don't usually think or plan ahead too much. For this project, I went through a lot of rethinking, and I was trying things out in Photoshop, until eventually it clicked in my mind, and I had a solid foundation for what I was doing. The tutorial I used and the fractal idea was just a loose outline for what actually happened. I'm happy with the final outcome, and I think if I tried again and did something similar the things I learned from this project would help me. I think getting comfortable in Photoshop again took away a bunch of time from it, and with more time I could probably get something more refined. I've learned and gotten better at a lot of things while going through this project. I've learned the usefulness of keyboard shortcuts (even if I already knew how to use them) and a lot about changing the properties of an object, and I've gotten more confident that I'...

I picked my random system poster as  the best poster design I had done. It is also coincidentally the first poster I made, with a few adjustments. With the quote I chose, I honestly just wanted it to be ironic, and the opposite of an inspirational quote. I wanted it to contrast against a dramatic background, in all of it's blunt glory. (This is suuuuuper late but I realized I hadn't published it, so I did.)

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January 18th -More adjustments -More pink, all turquoise gone January 17th -Changed green colour -Added more colour and touched up swirls January 16th/17th -Added more swirls and colours, adjusted sizes January 11th/12th/15th -Added more swirl shapes using ctrl-shift-t -Started adding colours (image-adjustments-hue and saturation) January 10th -Copied shape 3 times, put a shape in each corner (flipped using edit-transform-flip vertically/horizontally) -Started brainstorming what pattern to do January 9th -Copied merged 4 circle shape once (ctrl-shift-t) -Resized copy slightly smaller and on more of a angle (tilt more for closed swirl, less for open swirl) -Used ctrl-shift-alt-t shortcut multiple (40 or more) times to create a swirl January 8th -Added 3 slightly smaller circles tilted on an angle to original circle (used "ctrl shift t" keyboard shortcut, resized circles and placed...

10 things: -Rather than changing reality, you can change people's perception in order to solve problems. -The placebo effect happens when you believe something, such as medicine, is helping you, when it really isn't. Because you're deceived into thinking it works, it has the same/similar effect as actually receiving the thing that is meant to help you. -The train problem: saving money and making the experience on the train ride better, rather than spending more money and getting a completely new track system to make the journey faster. -Relative prices (Orange juice scam, more expensive price written in English, cheaper in Spanish, for the same item). -"...All value is subjective... persuasion is often better than compulsion." -"In Italy, penalty points (for speeding) go backwards. You start with 12 and they take them away. Because they found that loss aversion is a more powerful influence on people's behavior." -Symbolic v...