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The design firm Dowling Duncan is proposing to redesign the dollar bills in a contemporary way, this is through the use of bright colours and the use of iconic symbols which are common icons of the American history.

 This is the redesigned 50 dollar note, and the design represents the 50 states of America.

 sourced from: http://joshspear.com/item/redesigning-money/

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 The one dollar bill is the 'Obama' bill. Obama being the 'modern' icon for America, and also the first black president of America. The one is also representative of Obama being in the number one position for leadership in America. The background colour is blue and is reflective of his nature, being a somewhat peaceful leader, whose interests are in the people, rather than the power. The bill has also been made in a portrait, this is a contemporary spin on the traditional landscape layout.
 Photo sourced from: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662135/could-a-dollar-bill-featuring-obama-repair-the-uss-image-abroad

Board Short yardage

For this unit, we used illustator to design a boardshort yardage. We then used three different colour schemes to create three different yardages.

Footprint cafe/Bundanon

As part of this course we participated in a design camp at bundanon, part of Arthur Boyds properties on the south coast of NSW

We were asked to design a cafe model, which was both aesthetically and functionally fitting to the suroundings. It had to reflect the environment and be environmental. These models where then placed into a bigger model of the grounds of Bundanon, this was to get a feel for the cafe and see how it would fit in with the surrounding space and how it would interact with the environment.

The materials we used to create our footprint cafe, was foam core, we used a range of cardboard's, balsa wood, paint and felt.

My model interacted with the environment, through the design of the cafe. The feel of the cafe being open, spacious and relaxed like that of the country. My model was created to suite all seasons, the open roof allowing sunlight coming through all year round. Majority of the seating is outside would not work well in bad weather;like rain, hail.

Our Graphic Design class was set a task which involved each of us to create a personal blog banner, reflective of ourselves as individuals. We where asked to follow the following guidelines, produce a style representing yourself, needed your name and needed to be lediable. This course took about 4-6 weeks to complete, from the inspiration and drawing stages, to the editing of colour, from, placement etc. This was all done on photoshop.

The construction of my blog consisted of the following stages or elements. I drew all aspects of my design first, scanning in everything, which from here i was able to specifically choose the only drawn aspects i wanted, this was possible by using the print screen tool(shift, apple, 4). This then enabled me to rearange all the images to the desired places. Turning layer upon layer on or of whilst editing, enabled each image to be individually edited, so that each image would stage out. The bluely tones of the images, link each image to the next. The main tools i used included the paint bucket tool, as well as changing the colour balance to create the desired effect. I also used the text tool, which i then was able to rotate each letter to create the appearance of a wave.

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