PR PUBS: Design Blitz Color, Symbols, use of space: The first piece I chose was a brochure that I received from Walt Disney World. Being a big Disney fan I was excited to be able to use this example. This is a picture of the cover of the brochure. This speaks to several of the … Continue reading “PR PUBS: Design Blitz”
Hello Lovely Viewers! Like many people, I never would have guessed there were games such as font games. However, the internet has almost everything these days from instructional videos on rocket science to typography games. For Pubs, my fellow classmates and I were required to play at least three Typography games. This is to hone our skillZ by … Continue reading Typography Games? →
There are several design concepts; Color, typography, metaphors, minimalism, form, balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance and unity. These concepts, is applied correctly can be applied to create pieces that have a big and memorable impact. The use of metaphors or symbols is a great way to reach a viewer on a deeper level. If the viewer is … Continue reading Concepts of Design
For Lesson 1.3 Bootcamp, I learned typesetting on InDesign. Professor Crooms’ video over the different elements of newspapers and newsletters for InDesign was super beneficial. I love watching these videos because I am way more of a visual learner, so they are very helpful. The basic design elements of a newspaper or newsletter include: masthead, … Continue reading “Newspaper Markup”
Yes, most of these photos are of myself. This was more of a convenience factor, I promise I am not this self-obsessed. A couple of friends and I recently had a “photo shoot” for our LinkedIn accounts and professional portfolios. When I was looking at the photos I realized they exemplified some of the design concepts … Continue reading Design Blitz
Here is the picture of the newspaper that I marked up to find all of the necessary elements! I used the OU Daily as my newspaper… After going through the OU Daily I discovered that there are actually interesting and relevant stories for OU students in this paper so I am going to try to … Continue reading “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!”
As a newbie online designer some of these game were actually challenging for me. It is easy to learn facts about design elements but actually having to sit down and decipher the differences between fonts was more difficult than I anticipated. Also who know they have front games for people to play. 1.Shoot the Serif Okay … [Read more…]
I was hooked on these typography games! Unfortunately I was on a time crunch so once I started playing Type war I could not stop. I played Type connection, Type war, and Post letters. These games were interesting and fun because I have never thought about remember different types of font but I will definitely … Continue reading Typography
For the “Design Blitz” Lesson 1.2, we covered the basic design principles of PR publications. Learning about different design elements was interesting because I never noticed why our everyday items look the way they do. The first thing I usually notice while looking at something is it if it pleasing to the eye before functionality. … Continue reading Design Blitz
