by Jamin | Aug 24, 2006 | Design
As an interaction design student, I have four courses that I was automatically signed up for, all of which are required. One of the courses, Design Computing, is primarily as Flash course. As I have designed and developed with Flash for many years, I got this course...
by Jamin | Jul 21, 2006 | Design
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...
by Jamin | Jul 20, 2006 | Design
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...
by Jamin | Jul 18, 2006 | Design
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,...
by Jamin | Jul 17, 2006 | Design
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...