Mood Board

What logo are you going to design? Elite Dance Team What questions do you have for the club/activity? Why won't you change our name to Elite Dance Team?!?! Summary: The Dance Team does all types of dances, from ballet, to jazz, to hip-hop--just about anything. We meet every Friday afterschool, with Ms. Finkelstein in charge. Although we do accept male dancers, this year we are a small group of females and we are from all different backgrounds. Our focus is to practice our performances for every Showcase. What are some adjectives that describe the club? diverse, fly, on-point, creative, modern, dedicated What are the qualities/characteristics of the club that you can represent through symbols? Through typeface? I can represent the dance team's association with music with music notes, stereos, and so on. I can also represent the aforementioned adjectives with a bold, slab serif typeface or script typeface.

Fonts Around the City

This is Sans Serif. I found this sign at the Uppper East Side Manhattan Shake Shack. This font seems appropriate, given it gets the point across--although maybe they could have been a little more festive and use a Decorative font.

This is Slab Serif Bold. I found this one at Times Square, advertising a sneaker brand, I believe. The font is very appropriate for the product, especially with the help of the lights which drew my attention.

This one is Sans Serif also. It's pretty self-explanatory where this was taken. The font decision is also appropriate given it's just a street sign. The architect must have been real creative, though. >_>

I am leaning towards a Slab Serif Bold, although the 'E' makes me consider this sign could be Oldstyle also. This was at Times Square to advertise some type of product, although I'm not sure what. It isn't very effective, given there is a letter missing.

Definitely Sans Serif Bold. This was also taken at the Upper East Side Manhattan. I would have chosen a different font for Starbucks, under the Decorative typeface simply to attract more customers. Although Starbucks probably wouldn't need it.

This is a Decorative font, which seems perfectly appropriate for advertising Chipotle.

Letter to Symbol GIF Reflection

The most frustrating aspect of Gimp: I found it almost virtually impossible to make my GIF come off as realistic (rather than like a cartoon). I had a specific idea in mind but I ended up making a lot of sacrifices because of the limitations to the program. This was especially due to the difficult task of transferring my sketches into Gimp form. The pencil/paintbrushes have a limit to how small they can get and it was difficult to draw without the lines coming off as wobbly. Gimp tools I feel most confident using now: After the project, I now feel most confident using the paths tool given I had to use it the most. I also find it to be the most helpful tool in the entire Gimp program for this particular project because it allowed me to draw as many curves as I needed in a clean fashion. Gimp Tool I wish I was better at using: The Gimp tool I wish I was better at using is the Ellipse Select tool. Although I was able to successfully use it to my advantage for my design, I feel like I could have taken even better advantage of it. It is one of the few tools on Gimp that can create rounded edges, so mastering that tool would drastically help me in creating my designs. If we ever do future projects using Gimp, hopefully I'll gain a better understanding of its functions. Types of projects Gimp would be most helpful for: The best function for Gimp, I've found, is photo editing. At one point I uploaded a picture of my sketch to go over it and it was so much easier to work with. The only reason why I did not follow through with that method was because the image was way too large. The project guidelines was to keep the image too 400x400, but the image was way above that. However, if I had my way, I would edit an already existing image rather than create it with Gimp. My design would have come out much more realistic given most of Gimp's tools cater to editing images.