Tag: design fundamentals
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Playing it Safe
While I was quite happy with my poster yesterday, today is just seemed okay. I had a suspicion that it was too safe. It worked well, but I felt like I didn’t really push myself. Type Poster Stacie essentially confirmed my suspicion when I asked her. She also commented that I seem fairly familiar with…
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Type Poster Complete
It’s amazing how each week we go from nothing to a full-blown production. On Monday it seems implausible that we will actually accomplish the task given to us. This week I went from arranging magazine cutouts on an 8×11 piece of paper, to arranging an 11-page document on a 30×72 poster. Last week I could…
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Struggling to be a Designer
I had a talk with Stacie today about how I believe my experience is keeping me from taking risks. I have realized over the past few weeks that even when I do take a chance, I often do not submit that for critique. And I find that troubling, since school is exactly the place to…
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Grid Systems Project
Our project for the week is to use supplied text in the context of a large poster (30″x72″), a book, or a website. Because I have lots of web experience, I was not allowed to choose the website, so I chose the poster. The supplied text is about 10 pages, so putting all that content…
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Communication Design Fundamentals
This week of my design fundamentals course at CMU Stacie Rohrbach is introducing us to communication design. Stacie gave us an overview of grids, fonts, and legibility versus readability. A point I found interesting was that for three of the four types of grids (manuscript, column, and modular), Stacie said you can set up the…