Website Design

Here is a website design I made using Word for Angel Wing Cupcakes.
This is the homepage

This is the gallery page

And this is the contact page

My Logo

This is my logo I made for Angel Wing Cupcakes, a (fake) specialty bakery for cupcakes.

Logo Analysis

This is the logo for Tostitos tortilla chips. It has lots of orange, yellow, and black with that one little touch of red. They didn't just pick these colours for nothing either! They serve a purpose. Black is often associated with tradition or being classic. Orange is a symbol of affordability, fun, and celebration. Yellow symbolizes cheerfulness and amusement. Red is a visual cue for excitement, love and food. Basically this logo is saying that Tostitos chips are the fun tortilla chip. They're perfect for parties and other fun occasions. But you can also trust Tostitos because they are classic. The logo shows us that this chip will turn any event into a fun and exciting time. Also between the second and third 't' you can see two people enjoying a tortilla chip.

This is the Hershey's Kisses logo. As you can see it is mostly brown with some silver and white.  Brown invokes thoughts of nature, simplicity and richness. It is a very warm and romantic colour. Often it is associated with chocolate, which is exactly the product being sold. Silver/white is a symbol of purity, refinement, and innocence. What this logo tells us is that Hershey's Kisses are rich, romantic chocolates that are great for kids and refined adults alike.  Also there is a Hershey Kiss between the 'k' and the 'i'.

FB Banner

This is my FB banner.

My Meme

Meme Review

This meme is relevant to my life completely. This happens in school when taking a test and it’s one of the most irritating things in the world. There’s this one multiple choice where every single answer is right, but apparently there’s one that’s the right-est.  I have been the victim of this kind of ridiculousness. I can’t remember what class but I do remember that I picked the “wrong” right answer. It was correct, just not correct enough. I don’t see why teachers feel the need to do this or if they even see how silly it is. All the answers are correct but in your mind there’s only one truly correct one? Does this make sense at all? I hope teachers find this meme (and all the other teacher memes) and realise what they’re doing so as to better themselves. Learning isn’t just for the students.

This is another one I love and relate to. When I’m in school it’s absolutely vital to remember the date because if not death. Death is what will happen. If you have that one teacher to whom the date is god and you don’t put the date on the top of your work or tests, well friend I pity you. The date is also important for remembering when things are due. You’ve just got to remember that on Wednesday the fourth and you’re golden. It’s also good for the countdown to the weekend. But during the summer there aren’t many responsibilities. Nothing is going to be due, nobody’s going to give you flack because you didn’t put the date on your work (even if there wasn’t a space for it) and the weekend countdown is void because every day is like a Saturday. If I need to know the date during the summer I need to ask my mom or consult a calendar. After I find out the date I will forget it within ten minutes. It’s kind of awesome that there’s this one time of year where everything is so calm that the date doesn’t matter. It’s almost Zen like. I hope adults specifically find this meme so they know not to ask students what the date is during summer because I guarantee they won’t know. Also I want students to find this meme and know that they aren’t alone. We all experience this.

Movie Poster Project

This is a poster for The Lion King that I made in my media arts class.

Reflection for Photo Restoration Project

The photograph I used in my photo restoration project is very old and needed a lot of help. It’s a picture of my grandfather when he was in residential school back in 1919. That’s 94 years ago! My grandfather is in the bottom row, fourth from right with the black tie. This photo is important to me for two reasons. 

I never knew my grandfather from my father’s side since he died long before I was born. I don’t really know much about him. I know that he was a good man and made excellent French fries and hamburgers. I figured since I never knew him I ought to at least restore a photograph of him, arguably one of the earliest ever taken of him.

The kids in this photo are all young native children. They were taken away from their families and put in the residential schools, where they suffered greatly at the hands of priests and nuns.  Many of them were severely abused, physically and sexually. I don’t know if my grandfather was one of these many children or if he was lucky. I do know that residential schools were made to assimilate us, the native people. We were considered lesser beings (still are sometimes) and they tried to take away our culture, traditions, language and basically anything that made us who we were.  

The government still doesn’t care about what happened and it isn’t taught in schools despite being a part of Canadian and Quebec history. They’re just hoping that eventually we’ll all just forget about it or disappear. I wanted to show that I know what happened and I will not forget nor will I disappear. None of us will.

Restoring this photo was a challenge certainly. It had this one big scratch that ran across practically the whole picture! There was also that large rip on the upper left hand side and apparently somebody thought it a good idea to punch star shaped holes in places. One boy’s face was so badly damaged that I had to remove him completely. Another boy had a scratch running along his jacket, which wouldn’t have been that bad if his jacket hadn’t been checker board print. I had to zoom in really close, match the colours, and fix it just so. Getting the lines to match up was difficult. The rest was easier. The scratch was just a matter of matching colours and painting. The big rip was fixed using a Band-Aid tool in Photoshop. The star hole in the brick wall had to be fixed using the same method as the checker-board print jacket, zooming in and colouring to match the pattern. The chimney with the white out was also fixed using the bandaid and blurring tool in Photoshop.

Considering I started this project knowing literally nothing about photo editing/restoring or even how to use my editing software I think I did a pretty good job. I had to figure out how to do everything on my own since I don’t have the actual (expensive) Photoshop and the teacher was not familiar with my software that I downloading free online. It was a “learn as I go” type of relationship between my software and I, but now that I know how to use it this photo restoring thing could become a new hobby for me.

Photo Restoration Project

Before

After