In the summer of 1973, a group of teenagers decided to take a road trip around as many of the 50 states as possible within their 2 month vacation. Unfortunately, these teens would soon become some of the many victims that would fall at the hands of a homicidal Tennessee family. These teens were not invited for dinner, they are the dinner.

This is the movie poster from one of my favorite movies, the original Evil Dead (1981). The reason why I love this poster is because, like some of the most famous movie posters,  it is an actual illustration, rather than digitally edited. What I miss about old movies posters like this one is that they are something that you would hang on your wall, like a painting. It draws your attention when you walk by it. The detail of the painting is beautiful. Then there is the font, an original, never before seen font. Finally, there is the background. The simple, dark blue draws your attention to the woman and hand, making it pop more.  

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The article "To The Point" is an interview with Dave Perillo, a pop culture artist who's work resembles 1950's ad 60's advertisements. The interviewer got to ask Perillo questions about how he got into illustrating, what his inspirations are for his artwork, how he learned to illustrate so well, how he starts a project, the programs he uses, how long he has been an illustrator, when his artwork first got noticed, etc. Looking at his artwork, I am already a fan of his work. I love the vintage art designs, as well as all the pop culture pieces he does. This is exactly what I want to do as a career, except not only make pop culture pieces like Perillo, but also learn how to print them as posters and t shirts.

The video "Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down" shows a speech given by Niels Diffrient. In this speech, he starts of with telling us what his interests were as a child, which was airplanes. He then goes on to talk about how he wanted to get into a career with airplanes, but over time he switched his interests and career goals dramatically. He then goes on to say that he designed a chair. At first when he said this, I was confused at first. I thought "how did he go from wanting to work with airplanes to designing a chair? That is a weird jump". He then sits in the chair he designed and tells us how it balances your weight so you can properly recline without making any adjustments. Something that I have never seen before was the adjustable arms of the chair. Another interesting thing is was the chairs head rest. As you recline, the chairs head rest moves forward and stays upright to put less pressure on your neck. This chair would definitely help people who's jobs require them to sit for numerous hours.

The article "How to Ruin a Great Design" by Alice Rawsthorn is about the good and bad designs of street signs in London. It first starts talking about how a poorly designed sign can not only be distracting, but dangerous as well, while also being a sign of laziness. There is a picture of a sign that reads "Diverted cyclists". The letter "D" is in a larger font than the rest of the letters. This distracts people from the meaning of the sign and focuses their attention on the letter "D". The article then goes on to give an example of a well designed yet simple sign. The sign is for London's congestion charge sign is a red circle with a white"C" inside of it.

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1.) I work with a pc at home, so I'm not very good with mac computers
2.) I have experience with both Photoshop and illustrator, but mostly photoshop. I took photoshop classes at an art school a few years ago and I took computer graphics my senior year of high school
3.) I have a pc at home that has both Photoshop and Illustrator.
4.) My major is undeclared
5.) I hope to learn a few new thing in photoshop and relearning how to use adobe illustrator
6.) Dali
7.) A short list of some of my favorite musicians/bands- David Bowie, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones, Metallica, Lamb of God, Tool, Queen, Johnny Cash and Crosby Stills and Nash.
8.) I was on tv twice. Once on the History Channel and the other on Nickelodeon.
9.) Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the star ship, Enterprise. There is a 5th dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is an area which we call "The Star Trek Zone".