Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Week 2- Abstract

For the first assignment, I just went and made a bunch of different designs in photoshop. This included strips down the side as well as little paint blotches here and there throughout. Then I decided to draw lines all across the page so I would fill up the entire white space.

The techniques that were demonstrated in class were to use different colors, paint brush sizes and different layers in photoshop. With using this technique it helped us make something out of nothing because each screen that we filled up was completely blank and white at the beginning of each new layer. This was a really cool technique to use because it helped to design something instead of sitting there and drawing something else up yourself. It just ended up looking like something and that is how "Spaghetti" came to be.

I came up with the name "Spaghetti" as my title because of the yellowish lines that are in the front of this piece. This design looks like spaghetti with those yellow stringy lines and that is why I had to title it that. This basicall was something that was not supposed to be anything and turned out to look like something. 




"Spaghetti"









Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Week 1- Introduction of myself

My name is Greg Pilafas and I transferred here to Saint Xavier from Moraine Valley Community College. I went to Moraine Valley for three years after I went to high school out at Lockport Township High School.

I am a junior here at SXU and I am a mass communications major. I am the senior sports editor for The Xavierite here on campus and I also work for WXAV which is the college radio station. I do a sports talk show with a few other guys on Sunday nights between 6 and 9 p.m. I also broadcast the men's basketball games here for WXAV whenever they play. Writing has always been a big passion for me and I am super glad that I can continue to write in the newspaper and see my name in print each week.

This visual communications class will help me work better at the paper so I can make different designs involving photoshop to make The Xavierite look even better than it is.