Hot Sauce Label Design

Hot sauce label design is a design style onto itself. These labels have come from simple, food label design such as Tabasco and Franks Red Hot to a whole variety of collectible designs. Many of the hot sauces are just a version of Louisiana Hot sauce - which you can get for about a dollar. The label makes it desirable and even collectible and raises the price to 5 dollars or more. There are a lot of great label designs and it must be fun to come up with a design for this. Just going to the home page of hotsauceworld.com you can see that these sauces are not cheap. Yes you are paying for the sauce but no one would pay that much unless the label had a cool design. Many people do not even ever open the bottles so the design is most important.

Word Clouds

The first time I saw a word cloud, I thought it was really cool. At first I thought they were great and i have used them. After this class I am thinking more about my designs and have decided these are no longer for me. Unfortunately, I think that word clouds are starting to become over used because it is so easy to do that anyone can easily create one. A problem that I see with them is that they really don't mean anything. Why not create a useful graphic for the project or find a nice photo? They are so easy to create that people who are not designers create them and ask for them. If you really need a word cloud why not make it yourself so that you can create some meaning in it?

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I just fond this great blog/website

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This will make card shopping a lot easier!

Halloween Design

Halloween design is a lot of fun. Using only a few colors - orange, black, green and purple and a few subjects like - pumpkin, moon, cat, witch - a designer can create a  wide variety of feelings. It is simple and fantastic at the same time.

Designers have been using these colors and subjects for years and are still creating new and interesting designs.

Sidewalk Chalk art

On July 30th, the Syracuse NewTimes is hosting a street painting festival. Anyone can enter and I think that I might give it a try. I have not drawn on the sidewalk with chalk since I was a little kid. I think this is a bit of a challenge even for a painter - to try a new medium in front of a crowd. I don't think my landlord would like it if I practiced in our driveway so I'll be starting fresh at the event.

This got me thinking about the professional chalk artists who make the giant forced perspective images. I can't imagine someone spending so much time to create something that might not last as long as it took to create. I know that mine will not come close to theirs but it will be fun anyway.

Here are a few that I like. Beyond creating a beautifuul design these piecces are site specific and really fit into their surroundings.