Paris vs New York - Vahram Muratyan

I was struggling to come up with something to blog about, so I had a quick scroll through my twitter favourites and came across a tweet I 'favourited' from @designtaxi showing a really great animation by Tony Miotto showing the many differences between the city of lights and the big apple. Check it out here

Of course this video is based on the book and blog by graphic designer Vahram Muratyan. Muratyan blogged about his travels to New York, which you can see at http://parisvsnyc.blogspot.co.uk/. His comparisons are shown in very striking graphic illustrations, which have a very simple, clean and minimalistic look to them. The colours used are bright and definitely eye catching, I absolutely love the style of the illustrations as a whole. The actual comparsions are very witty and fun, covering a wide range of topics which represent each city. A few of my favourites are...

Probably the most iconic female fictional characters to represent the two cities. I love how Muratyan has picked out arguably the most distinguishable features of the two characters, the hair and focused that as the main element of these illustrations.

Both airports are of course named after Charles de Gaulle and John F Kennedy, I absolutely love the cleverness of these, using the exhaust gas as a way to illustrate their profiles.

Finally! These iconic buildings of both cities also have become memorable due to fictional characters; Quasimodo ringing the bells in Notre-Dame and King Kong scaling the Empire State building. I love how the two illustrations have been composed in the same sort of way, with each having been aligned more to the left.

For more comparisons check out Muratyan's website http://www.vahrammuratyan.com/

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Digital Skills Acquisition Brief

The brief for this project is all about how 'People Buy People'. We therefore have to think of ourselves as products in order to find a way to really sell our skills and personally to potential future employers. We have to 'deconstruct' ourselves and establish ourselves as a brand which makes us stand out.

I think this brief sounds quite difficult as I think it's really hard to evaluate yourself and show it off, so I think this will be a quite challenging project.

STRENGTHS: I am gaining a bit more experience and confidence on Adobe programmes which will hopefully be beneficial during this project.

WEAKNESSES: Find it really hard to self evaluate which could prove difficult when trying to establish self as a brand! 

OPPORTUNITIES: A good self branding piece of work, and my digital skills will hopefully improve!

THREATS: Time, also free trial has ran out at home for Adobe software so I will have to somehow get another or really manage my time well so that I can complete it in class.


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