this is my first idea, al the things in the cup of water are the chemicals they use in fracking. These chemicals are getting into drinking wells and polluting peoples drinking water. This idea was too one sided though.
this idea was the two sides, for fracking and not for fracking, and they both had one goal to keep the water clean and not pollute. This was too literal.
this is brings up the question of wheather we should or shouldn't frack, this is too general of an idea.
these were my ideas down on paper after i couldn't find common ground.
this is the final idea and my poster. This is going off the idea of the two sides but instead of clean water as a commonality i made it money. The frackers are getting paid and getting cheaper gases, as well as the non frackers, and the people that own the land being fracked on are getting royalty money. I made the person on the dollar bill a mix of the workers and the public who do not want the digging to happen. I chose to represent those people with a woman, and the construction hat is the worker. I put no face on the woman because i wanted it to show no identity because it doesn't just talk to one person or side. The jagged shapes in the background represent the shale itself and the shaking up of the issue of shale. This also plays off of the make or break statement at the bottom of the page. The shapes are sturdy, like shale, which makes it, and they are also jagged which could break, also like shale.
This is a good video that brings up the good and bad point about the marcellus shale fracking.
http://www.energyfromshale.org/
In my poster i would like to call attention to the point that widen's the view of one group to include the other. i would like to widen the view of the drilling companies. I know that they think this is a good thing to do, because it is. It is less pollutants in the air, will help us create new jobs, and it will make us less dependent on other countries for their natural gases and oil. This is only a helpful and good process as long as it is done correctly to not harm the environment and people in the area. There has been recent pollution of drinking wells from the chemicals they use to drill, chemicals such as methane. In the video i have above you can see the effects of the chemicals to the water, it is defiantly not something we want to be drinking. There are also complaints that the many trucks traveling back and forth carrying heavy equipment have been damaging the local roads.
Along with these obvious risks to the environment and our health, there are also risks of the drilling process itself. The process involves drilling horizontally into the shale rock about 7,000 ft underground, 9 empire state buildings. They send down machines that create cracks in the shale, they then send a high pressure of water with many chemicals and sand in it to create more cracks in the shale so the gas can escape from the shale. They then pull this water back out of the well and transfer it to a man made holding pond lined with cement. It has been said by the drilling companies that these wells have a life of about 100 years. So the question is when will these cement walls fail and our environment and drinking wells will be polluted with these harmful chemicals.
The other problem is they are promising money to the land owners but by the time the land owners see the money they most likely will be passed away. Home owners near the drill sites that have had leaks and previous problems with water pollution now have testers from the drilling site come in and test the air in their homes. They check for chemicals that could be hazardous or flammable. Many people in these drilling areas feel that their lives have been taken over and changes drastically from drilling and the circumstances it has put them in. It has turned quiet natural landscapes and back roads into a loud, highly populated and annoying working area. Many people are stuck in these areas because of money constraints and they are fearful of what can happen to their health and their homes and land.
So what are the positives to shale drilling? It has created many new jobs for people, and it has lowered peoples electric and gas bills because we are using natural and cheap gas. With the unemployment rate being so high new jobs is a big positive aspect of these drilling wells. Also land owners are getting royalty payments, which are 15 % of the profit made. Which is a lot, especially with the economy being in such bad conditions. So there are many pros and many cons to this issue, but the question is why can't the drilling companies change their ways in order to make the drilling safer to the locals and environment? I understand this is a new way of drilling but they should perfect their techniques or drill farther away from drinking wells and homes. If the drilling companies can open their eyes and see what it is like on the other side of the fence i think we could have a good thing going here in the US. We will not longer need to be so dependent on other countries and we can lower the prices of gas. This can help build our economy back up if done safely and correctly.
News report about the marcellus shale coming into west virginia- http://www.dailymail.com/Business/201111240048
But the boom has been accompanied by claims of drinking water contamination and other environmental concerns. The Marcellus shale spans 95,000 square miles from Tennessee to New York and underlies all of Garrett County and part of Allegany County at depths of up to 7,000 feet. Residents of Western Maryland, where permits for Marcellus shale drilling have not been approved or denied by the state, can see fracking by looking across the border into Pennsylvania or West Virginia. Shimrock, who is the library director at Garrett College, said a Pennsylvania friend’s water well overflowed with sludge when fracking took place nearby. Another friend told her that his family had been promised 30 years’ worth of gas royalties, but after three years the royalties have decreased drastically. “Unfortunately, I haven’t seen a lot of positive — and much negative — in the way of the impact that this has had on communities and on individuals who have agreed to this kind of procedure on their properties,” said Shimrock, who now regrets leasing gas rights to her 50-acre farm in 2006.----http://times-news.com/local/x646421470/Md-weighs-pros-and-cons-of-fracking
this is also a very good site to find complaints and real peoples thoughts on the shale drilling- http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Shale-Drill-Opponents-Environment-Trumps-Fast-Cash/6v3g2rbNFEWN9ZodMyvrJQ.cspx
These are the sketches i did for my tiger. The first ones had too much detail so i drew a few extra ones on the back of the paper. Those are better, less detail, but they still need some more work.
Make Your Mark tattoo was developed in 2001 by Scott Reeber and his wife Tatiana Reeber. They both were very much into tattoo's and piercings coming out of high school. Tatiana went to college for nursing, and Scott went for graphic design. Together with their combined knowledge of health safety and the arts, and their love of tattoos, they decided to open a tattoo parlor. The name of their tattoo parlor came from their idea of creating original and personal tattoos on people, like a birthmark the customer could create themselves. They wanted to emphasize the fact that people could create their own design for their tattoo, or their own personal 'mark'. They decided to use a tiger as their logo, because tigers have very unique beautiful markings on their bodies, this is something they wanted their tattoos to be affiliated with.
They opened their tattoo parlor in West Reading, PA 10 years ago in November. Their business was slow at first but once they got some advertisements out business picked up. They soon were able to afford to hire other workers to help with the work load they were bringing in. They soon became one of the best tattoo parlors in the county. As a celebration of their 10 year success they are having a party with food and lowered prices on tattoos and piercings. The celebration is going to be held on November 19th, starting at noon. We hope you can come and celebrate with Scott and Tatiana and their co-workers.
1. tips for effective logo design
This article tells you that a logo is not just a picture, it is what identifies a business. It should be memorable, recognizable and trustworthy. What it looks like is less important than what it signifies. A good logo should look good at any size and in color or black and white. It is not easy to make a logo, something so little and simple, it takes designers a lot of research and sketches to get the right thing to express the message the company wants. There are 5 key principles of logo design; simple, memorable, timeless, versatile, appropriate. How much a logo will cost depends on how much work the designer is required to do.
2. 10 common mistakes in logo design
In this article there are a list of 10 common mistakes of logo design. The first mistake is who you chose to do your logo. You want to make sure you pick someone qualified, if you get an amateur to do it your logo will look amateur, or unprofessional. The 2nd mistake is to ignore cliche logo designs, create something new and timeless. You also must make sure that you create your logo in a vector program, so that when you want to make the logo bigger it doesn't get pixelated. The next thing you want to remember is not to grab an graphics from graphic sites such as Vectorstock.com because most likely that image is being used somewhere else, and your logo is not unique then. You also want to make sure that you do not put your own logo or personality into a business's logo, its for the business not yourself. Also remember to keep things simple, too complex of a design may not come out clearly when blown up or scaled down. Do not rely completely on color, a logo should look good with no color. Remember the typeface you chose could make or break your logo, you must find a font that does not compete with the logo. And make sure your don't use to many different fonts in your design. The most important thing to remember is do not copy from other logos.
3. can you spot the hidden images in these famous logos
These logos are all really clever. My favorite is the tostitos one, and i couldn't believe that a lot of people didn't see that, that is the first thing i notice when i look at the tostitos logo. The toblerone bear is awesome, you can see it but its not obvious. The hershey kisses logo was really hard to find the hidden picture, but when i found it i was amazed. I wonder if the designer decides to put a hidden picture into the logo before they create it or it just happens and they go with it? This is probably a really hard thing to come up with, but when it works, it is awesome.
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