-| Week No. 8 |-

-| Critique |-

Oh design, how I love thee. This week has great for my redesigns. I really like what I turned out for the group. I think I got some positive feedback, although I still am kind of confused as to what really is going to happen next.

The logos were actually a fun assignment. I think that working mostly with text might have been the boring way to go, although I like a lot of the things I came up with. Text is so literal, but then is that such a bad thing? I love abstract things, but in this case, I think my art heds work for the most parts. The talk about the black and gold colors was interesting, since all my logos had black and gold. I had no problem using these colors. It’s a logo for a branch of the University of Missouri. It makes sense to me. I actually like those colors, too, and when they’re paired they look so sharp.

-| React |-

All of the logos (160 total?) were really great to look at. We all had such different ideas of what these things might look like. I especially liked what I saw in Melissa’s logos (with the cursor, eye and signal). Very creative! Each week, we just get to see each other reinforced in our own designs.

I would have like to have gone to see the publishing class react to our final versions of our prototypes. I think I like John’s idea of presenting all the designs to the Meredith eds but I’m not sure that the eds would understand what was happening. If we had a separate meeting for only the designers I think that would be fine (that was my first impression of what would happen, but I’m not sure if that has changed. . .).

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