graphic desig: whats going on in this design?

I was absent this day so i had no partner.

This is a picture of an article from a magazine called wired.
The article is advertising bluetooth heads.
1. Message content: This message is very helpful in choosing which headset you would like because it gives pros and cons and describes the headsets very well.
2. Size and Shape: The add covers one side of the page and is normal size. This makes the add fairly easy to follow.
3. Readability: Because the text is black and the backcolor is a yellowish brown it is very easy to read.
4. Needs the Audience: This add makes sure that if people want to buy the headset because it is good qaulity or it is very stylish it will keep the audience attracted and wanting to look into the product some more.
5:  Use of Proven Design Elemnts and Principles:
Design principles- proportion and scale: The add makes sure that both text and image get a fair share of the page. Also it puts the image as the first thing you see so it is sure to catch your eye and attract you first.
Design Elements- Color: Its color goes along well with the image and text and it does not give you a headache to look at it.

Conclusion:

1. Trends are what groups of people are wearing or doing. Graphic designers can use trends to choose what they should put on a product or add so the public sees that it matches thier trend and they will be drawn to it.

2. Human nature plays a role on how a product is marketed because people will look for things that intrest them and match thier trend because of human nature.

3. A potential audience is detirmined by making sure who the people you will try to market your product to are into what you are marketing and want to use it.

4.You must discover the kind of things your audience likes and is interested in. And also you must find out what their favorite things about those products are so that can give you an idea about creating your product. 

opt in post: 1

I think facebook is helpingwith the protest in Egypt because people can use it to invite large groups of people to a rally or other event. Also it can be used to send mass messages to people instead of havint to make a phone call to each person they wanted to invite. It also may work against them because if they make a post the police forces may see it and stop the rallys before they ever even happen. Just like evrey other form of protest it has pro's and con's.

visual design: elements and principles

The visual design elemnts are:
1. line
2. color
3. space
4. texture
5. form
6. shape

The visual design principles are:
1. balance
2.rythm
3. emphesis
4. proportion and scale
5. unity

content is king

1. My favorite hobby is playing music. 
2. Many diffrent bands use blogs to advertise thier music and merchendise. my favorit band that uses blogging is Blink-182.
3. I think i could see myself blogging in the future about what kind of music my band plays, how shows were, where upcoming shows are, how to get tickets, and about our merchendise.

survival at sea game

This activity was to number on a list of materials that you might find if you were on a ship and it had just sank from least to greatest importance.  although our group did not have much knowlege on the subject we managed to come pretty close to the official rankings by the coast gaurd.  Our biggest downfall was that we thought a star map and a regular map would be the two most important objects. After reading the coast gaurds report we found out that they were actually the least important because you need a lot more materials to actually use it.  The rum which we thought was the least important actually turned out to be very high up on the list also.  Other than those materials we were only off by one or two.  our group worked fairly well together but we did argue about a few things.  I think that official oppinion is better than experimantal because they had much more time to test what the objects could be used for than we did. 

tennis ball team building game

The challenge of this team buildding exersise was to have each member of the team exchange the tennis ball without dropping it and see which team could do it the fastest.  Our team decided to make a slide with our hands and drop the ball down it so each member would exchange the ball without having to make a time wasting effort. Our plan worked so well we won the game. I do not think i would want to change our plan at all.

engeneering design project 2.4.1-design project

My partner for this project was Erik. We chose from the list of problems to desighn four types of candy and a candy dispencer.  We decided to do this problem because it seemed like the funnest one to do.  First we defined the problem which was to make a candy dispencer that would dispence four kind of candy easily.  Then we had to breainstorm desighns for candy and the dispencer it would come out of. The fourth step was making sure we had the right mesurements and sizes of candy for the problem we were facing.  Lastly we talked about if what we made was the ideal candy and dispencer and made sure no changes could be made. We only made one design so there was no need for a decision matrix. Since we made the inventor design on hiscomputer i could not upload o screenshot of out designs. We did not make a marketing brochure.