http://www.people.ku.edu/~mcollins/quimbys/splashpage.html

Before class on Thursday, I had never heard of graphicexchange.com, I am still trying to become familiar with a lot of different websites. But, after looking around the site for awhile, I was able to find tons of exciting and inspiring designs, posted and added by various designers. It is a great website because it is always changing and evolving, and they have a great section on identity systems. With the identity systems, they are not only showing the results, but also the process which is very important to design, especially identity design. I think I could look around this website for days, but then I wouldn't get any of my own work done.

The first couple weeks of classes were pretty rough, I didn't realize how quickly you can get out of the habit of design. After spending an entire summer making care packages, I was not prepared to jump into our first Graphics project so quickly. Over the summer I did take a Digital Photography class which ended up being more of a Photoshop class, so I did do one small design project through that class, but other than that, nothing. I really had to force myself to just sit down and look through magazines and websites just to get some inspiration, and I feel like now after a couple weeks of a struggling I can just begin to focus and work hard, creating some exciting results.

Here is a fun link that my Dad, who loves to spend hours on the internet sent to me. Although it is dealing more with environmental graphic design and advertising, it gave me some inspiration for logo and identity design.



http://www.buzzfeed.com/markwmann/creativity-as-advertisement-e5y