THANK GOODNESS for the Wonder Wall’s warning about starting this course with mediocre design skills. To say the least I felt like a novice and far far outside of my comfort zone. Though I have the most basic experience with Adobe Suite, really just a couple of quick video tutorials from Illustrator from the summer, … Continue reading Reflection →
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Typography
Typography is defined by a quick Google search as “the style and appearance of printed matter.” To the everyday untrained eye, typography can seem like a minute detail left to the attention of the higher ups in the typographic world. Before completing this assignment, I knew only the simplest things about typography: script vs. block, … Continue reading Typography →
Reflecting On My First Steps In (In)Design
In my first week in PR Publications I learned the basics in typography, composition and format of different types of creative publications. The typography games I played helped me gain a much better overview of how many fonts are out there and how they go together when I want to combine a couple of them. We […]
Extra Extra Read All About It: Newspaper Markup.
The newspaper I chose to markup is the USA Today. Hopefully I found all of the moving parts to the newspaper!
Reflecting on My First Few Weeks
This week has been a doozy. I don’t even know where to start. We were asked to watch hours of videos on working with Photoshop and InDesign. Thank goodness I was able to multitask by riding a stationary bike while watching and completing activities that went with them. I honestly have no idea how else I [Continue]
A Blitz of Design
I found this assignment very fun and interactive. The five different elements/principles of design that I chose are… Balance: This refers to the state of equilibrium in a photo, picture, advertisement, piece of art, etc. There are three main types of balance in design, which are symmetrical, asymmetrical and radial. The idea of balance that … Continue reading A Blitz of Design
1.3 Reflection: Excited & Eager
In this Unit, I was asked to learn the basics of design elements. Using design elements, I completed three assignments utilizing … More
Struggling, but I am good
Not going to lie I have had a lot of adjusting to this course, but I am doing my best and learning more than I thought and it’s only the second week! This week we were asked to watch a couple videos about design elements and some other information for the course and then were … Continue reading Struggling, but I am good
Reflection Post for Unit 1.3
In unit 1.3 we were asked to review how to use Photoshop and InDesign. We were also asked to complete a newspaper markup and a typesetting assignment on InDesign. I responded well to what we were asked to do, because it is interesting learning new things. I reacted positively to what we did, because the … Continue reading “Reflection Post for Unit 1.3”
Design Blitz
Both of these ads utilize good color to grab your attention. The Geico ad uses its typical blue color and the gecko, so that you know exactly what you’re looking at, before reading. Same goes for the Little Caesars ad with the orange hues and the caesar character. Both of these also feature elements of … Continue reading “Design Blitz”
