Land Heritage

design from logodesignlove.com

Above is a very clever design that is a logo for Land Heritage, which is not really around anymore. A farmer had founded the company who had realized there was a surprising disconnect among people between land and food production. 
My interest was taken by this design because it is very minimalist and very clever how the form of the heart is repeated, decreasing in size each time; finally forming the head of a grain plant. Even though the grain head is curved like it is blowing in the wind, the design remains very symmetrically balanced. 
The only down fall of this logo is that is doesn't directly tie into the message the owner of Land Heritage wants people to recognize, it still gives you a sense that food is tied in with the life of humans. The logo does catch interest though, and it could make people curious to know what it stands for if it was still used today. 

Cravings

Print magazine- The Innovation Issue

The design above is part of a website that was designed for findyourcravings.com which focuses on "food, wine, travel, and lifestyle." I really liked this design because of the way if all lines up in the center and also remains very clean/minimalist. The decorative type looks like it was hand-wrote, which hand-written types are my favorite so I really how it was used in this design. Immediately, the word choice of "cravings" draws me in to want to find out more. I can definitely find myself checking out the website sometime here soon.

Balance

Print magazine- The Innovation Issue

The design I have chose for this weeks blog is an Illustration featured in Print magazine that  was originally from To the End of June in The New York Times Sunday book review about foster care. The balance of this symmetrical illustration really grabbed my attention because it almost completely matches each side. If you were to bend this in half vertically, it would almost completely match up. I find this very ironic in a way because the illustration is very balanced yet the topic is was designed for doesn't have much balance in my opinion. When I think of a foster child, I image them not having a very balanced life because they are sometimes moved around a lot to different homes. 

Stocksy

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Print Magazine- The Innovation Issue

Above is an advertisement I found in Print of course, for a stock image site. I really liked the ad because of the photography and the way they used their type in the word mark. The photography is playful in a way because of the content of the photo, but I also like that there isn't too much going on in the photo. The photo is pretty symmetrically balanced, bringing your eyes straight to the word mark. I really like the playful type of the word mark, its gives a care-free feeling with the extended "swoosh" in the T, K and Y. Although everything is not perfectly symmetrical in the way things are lined up, it imperfectly appears that way.

Deconstructivism

This design was a Regional Winner of New York for Print mag in 2016 for Atlantic Theater Company. I really liked this design because it looks similar to designs in the Deconstructivism period. The way the rectangular shapes piece together the blue almost silhouetted bird is a characteristic of the deconstructivist style. The rectangles also create emphasis by the position in the design, which creates direction in the design. Although it isn't my favorite color palette, the orange and blue are bright enough to grab one's attention.

Boneshaker

The design I choose for my blog is a great design from Print mag of course. I really liked this wine bottle design because it has a very unique sugar skull with great decorative detail. This design remains really simple and clean, but yet it has so much detail.
When I see wine bottles in the store, they seem rather plain and some look like they were meant to be from later days. This design steps out of the "normal" wine bottle design in a great way.