Illustrator Proposal

1. Describe what kind of visual component you would like to create to accompany your essay

Since I choose to do my midterm project in Wikipedia I not only want to incorporate the terms I used but also the "making wikipedia better" concept. Wikipedia's logo is a basic grey color, with puzzle pieces. My goal is to give Wikipedia's logo a modern facelift. I want to give it some color and add in various images, specifically pertaining to the topics I personally edited.

2. What tools/techniques in Illustrator / Photoshop will you be using?

In Photoshop I will use tools like the feather tool to help combine various images so they fit together perfectly such as pictures which will fill in the puzzle pieces. I want to use Illustrator to add effects to the pictures and vectorize them before i place them into my new logo.

3. How to you envision your completed digital illustration?

I envision my completed digital illustration to be very colorful and vibrant because I want to present a huge contrast between the old, grey one to the new, modern, and eye catching logo. I want to find picture incorporates that modern day technology to upgrade the words that are presently in the puzzle pieces.

Making Wikipedia Better

The first article I found to be under developed was an article for the term Automated Measurement Lineups. There was a brief definition of the meaning of AML but there was no further information. I found it to be a fairly easy concept to grasp but I knew that it would be a lot easier to understand if there were more examples or even pictures so that people could have visuals of this concept. I currently have edited the article, providing more information and sources and I am just waiting to see if any part of the article I contributed to made it on.

I did the same with the following two terms:Average Hours- this was a term used to determine the "average hours" of television watched per household, per person, per week, per year. I found no articles on Wikipedia for this term so I created one and started the page by adding statistics and a brief definition. It has been left open for others to post information from what I originally started. Rate Card- This was the last term I researched. It has to do with the amount an advertiser pays for a commercial, basically a chart of how they will be charged. This was also not developed so I added some information into Wikipedia.

I saved the before articles and will keep checking Wikipedia to see if my contributions have been posted. I will keep my blog updated during the process with the results.

Midterm Project

This post never made it onto my blog for the due date because I hadn't realized that it never successfully posted. For my project I choose to do the Wikipedia project. I researched a bunch of media terms and found three that had not been developed as well as they could be.

Vector -> Bitmap

Before
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After
(bitmap)

Flip Illustrator