Logos for Lesson 12

The Marc Jacobs logo is an excellent example of a text only logo.  It is very plain and simple, but don’t let that fool you. It is actually a great logo. Whenever people see this logo they instantly know it’s for the world famous designer Marc Jacobs, and that they are about to buy great quality clothing. Because it is so simple makes it even more interesting and more sophisticated.

Downloading Free Fonts.

Downloading Free Fonts is easy peasy. You can go to google.com and type in "Free Fonts" and tons of websites with free fonts will pop up. These sites have categories that you can pick from and view all kinds of different fonts. Once you have found one that you like you click on it and can view what every letter/number will look like.

For example, I clicked on the groovy category and found Billo font. Then I clicked on Billo font and it showed me this:

If I like the font I can then select to download it onto my computer.

-When the download box pops up you should select "open" and then allow the program to make changes to your computer.

- a window appears select "extract all files"

-go to start and control panels, and click on appearance and personalization.

-click on fonts. A fonts page will appear, and you should drag your new font over to the page.

-and you should have a new free font!!

On campus you cannot download fonts, but on my home computer I was able to download multiple fonts and they would be in my font tool bar when I opened Word or another program. Downloading Free Fonts is really cool and easy to use, and I suggest everyone take advantage of them!

Some sites that are great for downloading free fonts are:

http://www.dafont.com/

http://www.1001freefonts.com/

http://www.urbanfonts.com/

Also, if you still don't get it here's a youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjD7kBshX7M&feature=related

Adobe Illustrator

This is a magazine ad I made for a Wildlife Charity Event. I made it through Adobe Illustrator by using the paint brush to make the hearts and adding the animal print pattern to them. I also created a gradient for the background with the nature color swatches. So far I am enjoying Illustrator more than Photoshop.

Adobe Illustrator.

We have began to use Adobe Illustrator this week. So far I love it! We brought in different shapes and filled them in with all different colors. Then I brought in these twitter birds and placed them with the shapes to make a cute layout. I then grouped them all together so they will move as a group!

I think I'm going to have a lot of fun using Adobe Iluustrator, and I can't wait to learn more!