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doug goodwin

doug goodwin has written 9 posts for cw_emerson

ex_7: icon, image, symbol

c.s. peirce (1839-1914) came up with a useful system for categorizing imagery and its relationship to the subject. it has many other parts, but the part I have found most useful is th eicon, image, and symbol. the icon refers to the resemblance of the image to its subject, its resemblance or likeness. the index […]

ex_8: do your colors

johannes itten (1888-1933) taught at the weimar republic’s bauhaus school from 1919-1933. while there he devised a system of color and wrote several lucid and well-illustrated books about color theory. the books present many ideas about color harmonies which are still useful today.
itten believed in a kind of absolute color harmony, but his students strongly […]

final: spec commercial for a skateboard company

My project is a spec commercial for a skateboard company. I am using the Panasonic Hi Def camera to shoot a skater doing a trick in front of a green screen. This will allow me to take the skater out of this world and fill in any background i like using Apple Motion. […]

final: make a personal design stylebook

final: create a font

For my finalproject I have chosen to try something very ambitious and create a font. Before actually sitting down to design the typeface, I plan on researching typography much more. I have a limited knowledge of the subject and want to use this project to learn more about typography. By searching online […]

final: CD booklet

Based on my previous project, I am going to work on my friend’s CD album artwork. I expect I’ll make whole CD artworks design, which could be 8 pages booklet, CD label, front inlay, back inlay and obi-strips. the obi-strips is very common in Japan CD industry. Obi is just a paper cover on the […]

final: portfolio website

My finalproject is going to be a portfolio website. I have never been allowed to make a personal site for any other classes and I would like to have all my work in a collective space. Over the years I have collected doodles, oil painting, and photographs. And in the more recent years have shot […]

final: ad for lowcard magazine

For my final project I’m going to design six ad’s for a campaign in LOWCARD Magazine (skateboarding). The challenge is to take a relatively not so gnarly company (one that is generally known for artist series decks, and good skate karma) and market it to the gnarly ramp-skating crowd. The magazines demographic as […]

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