Reverse Engineering : Mechanical Product- Visual Analysis

Scissors.

Top: Front:

Side:

Visual Analysis:

-The scissors have two blades that are attached to two pieces of plastic at the end, where you put your fingers to hold them. They are smooth in texture, yet sharp. The blades are long and fit together perfectly for nice pieces of cut paper.

Functional Analysis:

-They are useful for people of all ages, excluding infants and small children because they can be dangerous depending on how they are used, although the purpose of them is to cut things like paper.

Sketch:

Graphic Design: What's Going on in This Add?

From The 2007 Green Book
- This is the "ultimate touch-free urinal," created to save water, sewer and maintenance costs. It was designed to provide cleaner restrooms and avoid odor.
-Christina and I noticed that the advirtisement did a great job of showing that the project is better for the environment. It targets all society members and the message is short and to the point. Also, the pictures stand out enough without hindering the overall completeness of the add.

1. Trends are whatever it is that is becomming popular--anything that spreads around, attracting people. It's important to identify them because it's the main way to target certain audiences. It won't sell if it isn't interesting.

2. People always want what is convenient and what is easy to use. They want change all the time with any main objects that they use. It's only natural to want to advance.

3. A potential audience is identified by age, gender, race, anything that distinguishes a certain group of people.

4. You have to know what attracts an audience before creating something. What will scream that it is needed? That's what you have to consider. You just have to make people feel like what they have isn't enough and make them think that they really need what you want to sell. That's why it's important to have a tartget. Find out what they want or need and create something embodying it.

Opt In: Adds

-The cost/benefit decision on hosting adds is to gain money, having commercial companies pay for space on a site. This can potentially repel some viewers of the site.

-The goal of my blog is to show what I know. Hosting adds would not support that goal because I have no intention to make money; I take an interest in engineering because I enjoy it, not because I want to make a profit. Adds would detract from my blog because it would make it look more like a corporate idea than an interesting one about facts.

-A person makes money off of adds on blogs by hosting them. When people click on them, they get more views and that causes commercial companies to pay. I guess the conditions that would support monetizing my blog would be trying to advertise something having to do with engineering and certain ideas I might, in a rare circumstance, come up with.

Visual Design

1) The 6 Visual Design Elements we discussed in class are line, color, form/shape, space, texture, and value.

2) The 5 Visual Design Principles we discussed in class are balance, rhythm, emphasis, proportion/scale, and unity.

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First, the buddha made of scissors is pleasing to the eye because of its shape. It is made of scissors, hence its rough texture.
Second, the raisin among grapes shows use of color, balance, value, texture, shape, and emphasis to represent a cute little old guy.
The egg has value, color, smooth texture, and shape to create an image.
The coke lamp has value, color, texture, symmetry, rhythm, and proportion, so it looks super cool.
A basket ball needs to be round to be of use so its shape is of importance. It has value, rough texture, and even color; everybody likes basket ball :0)

Content is King

I really enjoy playing the piano; it's probably my favorite thing to do any day. I also like painting and cooking.

No person, that i know of, included in the above fields use blogging to promote their brand.

It's really hard for me to sit and write about what I do, but I think I could blog about cooking. It isn't something I do all the time with a huge passion but when I do, I love it and I could post recipes because I like going through any that I can find.