Rachael's Creative Artistry World: 12/1/11

History on Electricity

My design teaches people that we have grown through time with the technology of Electricity. In my drawing I have shown where we started out with everyday mother nature-lightning and trees, and then went on to show the change in the electric poles from wood to metal (showing the change in technology of harnessing the electric from man). I also showed in my piece the time line showing who and when the inventions and discoveries were made, (I only touched on a few great inventors).

I have used the design principles of emphasis, alignment, flow, repetition, balance, and contrast by emphizing the most important part of the poster (the poles)by making them the darkest part. Then I went onto everything being aligned together and changing the opacity slightly (giving the depth of field) . I used flow in the text of the inventors, in the way I flowed them downwards towards the ground. I also used contrast with all the text. I used the gradient tool for the title, and I used the opacity meter, going from dark (at bottom-most recent), to very light(at top-oldest) for the inventors names and descriptions. I used balance in my placing of the objects and in my design of the poles.

I have designed my poster to the Rule of Thirds by making sure the world is lined up with the bottom of the pole, the text ends at the bottom of the second pole, the title of the poster is lined with the first and second pole, and I made the inventors and their dates flow down the right side of the poster to balance out the title.(my real final is landscape, not portrait-(up above).I had to copy and paste to get this a jpeg file for my blog, so there is no big space at the bottom below the inventors; it is flush and yes the real poster you can read what each inventor did).

When using colors in my poster to represent the change in our world history, it was very fun, interesting, and a little difficult. I had a lot of information, colors, and styles to go through. I chose to go different and use a little art nouveau and a little bauhaus art styles. I used bauhaus style in the metal poles and aligning the other poles with them, I used black for the metal poles, to show the newest first. I then went into using art nouveau style, by the shadows of the browns in the gradient tool of photo shop on the poles, (to show that machines built these poles for us, not our hands). I then used the royal blue and the middle to brighter green on the world, to show the time change from black and white(young and untechnology prone), to bright blue and green (smart and technology sauvy). With the globe itself, I wanted to show that electricity didn't just get invented in one time, place, or continent. Many different cultures invented their own methods from around the world and certain people later reinvented some of these inventions but with newer technology added. I used Impact font on my inventors and their descriptions, because I thought it went well with the style and time frame I was trying to show. I tried making the inventors pop. I want you to see the title first, then the first big power line, and then the inventors and their descriptions. I used a font called Rosewood on my title. I thought that this font showed electric very well. I like the in line design of the text to give it that lightning look inside the letter. I also used the gradient tool going from top(sky) to bottom(ground), with the bright color yellow (trying to portray the lightning hitting the earth way back when Franklin discovered lightning was a form of electric). I wanted to leave a little more than normal negative space this time in my piece for a symbol of the unknown. We have many new inventions that we have yet to create, and there are many inventions that we have done in this lifetime that I did not get the chance to show or credit. There are many neat and interesting inventions that have helped us explore and grow into the human beings that we are today. As of today, we have solar power panels that we can actually attach to our house roofs now, for our own savings on electric. We are building economy friendly houses and appliances for them. We are making cars that run just on one of the electric batteries (Just plug her in!). Robots are becoming more complex. Toys are becoming an unbelievably thing of the past. New toys have lights and tons of electric curcuits to make them move, talk, walk, dance, sleep, and god only knows what else! Amazing what we can do when we come together as a united nation and put our creative minds together.I hope in my lifetime that we can take and put differences aside and grow with the technology that we have learned and built in the past, and take it to a whole new level. Had an awesome time with this project!