Monday, February 27, 2012

Questionnaire

1) What is your business?
We help individuals and/or families plan their next vacation.

2) Describe your business in one sentence
We are a social media site that allow people to post about their experiences in various locations as well as search others posts and pictures to find their own next destination.

3) Who is your target audience?
Families, teenagers, individuals who love to travel, individuals who have been to many different places and individuals that can navigate social media websites.

4) Who are your competitors?
Notable social media websites: twitter, facebook, and notable travel websites: expedia, travelocity, priceline.

5) What makes them better/worse than your product/service?
All of these websites are well navigated and have made names for themselves. However, my website combines the idea of each to separate the mystery that can come with planning a vacation on travel websites due to countries making their area look safer etc. and hotel companies putting up fraudulent pictures to attract tourists.

6) How do you want your image to be seen in two years?
We want this company to be seen as a website that is truly accurate and helpful in guiding our subscribers to a vacation fit for them. We want it to match Twitter and Facebook's notoriety so that there is enough posts on the website about almost any place on the planet!

7) If your company was an animal, what animal would it be and why?
This company would be a bat- bats are smooth, fast animals and we want this company to be easy and fast to navigate. Bats are also known for eating pests and bugs and therefor humans aren't bothered; this relates to our social media traveling website because people will post their own experiences to help weed out the false statements made by companies just looking for money.

8) If your company/brand was a person, who would it be and why?
It would be Bill Gates. Not only was he commonly known as one of the smartest people in the world, he was extremely tech-savvy and traveled the world in his business ventures.

9) If your company/brand was an object, what would it be?
      It would be a palm tree because it is incorporated in my logo and it's the epitome of "relaxation" and that is what vacations are all about.

10) If your customer was a cartoon character, who would it be?
It would be Jimmy Neutron because he is incredibly smart and knows how to navigate computers like no other. This website would eventually tell you anything you need to know about destinations around the world, with the help of subscribers that would need to be able to make their way around the internet.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Project 3: Lyrical Collage

This is a collage for the song California by the band Phantom Planet. For this assignment, I used 5 separate images: two clips of clouds, a background sunset picture, the car and passengers, and lastly, I added the California license plate. I liked the idea of "driving in the sun" by having a car full of adventurous teens looking as though they were on top of clouds about to reach the sun. I added the license plate later because I still wanted to incorporate California into it, somehow, since that is the name of the song and mainly the most important part. My images were hassle-free but I did have to tint the clouds to get the right shade of blue because of how dull they were to start. I really like how this came out and the contrasting color scheme that was created.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Project 2: Vector Illustrations

Original Photograph
 
Vector Illustration

I thought this project was really enjoyable, and I knew it was all about choosing the right photograph. To complete this illustration I used 23 layers because there were so many little pieces that I didn't want to accidentally move. Once the shark was finally done, I found doing the water to be an easier process. The bubbles, however, took a while to figure out but I liked using the pencil tool better than the pen tool and then I added different opacity throughout. After I added a gradient to the water I had to essentially redo the bubbles because the surface of the water needed to be light yet that meant the bubbles wouldn't be visible. Overall I think with projects like this you can constantly find things to work on so being a perfectionist already made this project never ending!