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Color
Color is one of my favorite parts of design. I moonlight as a painter (it’s one of my favorite hobbies), and I love experimenting with color. Color also alway drawn me to art, graphics, and publications. The book I’m currently reading is a great example of color. It boasts an electric read which draws the readers eye and the splash of yellow carries the eye to focus on Mario Goetze. With the black typeface, the colors play on the colors of Germany’s flag. Typography Minimalism & Use of Space Proportion Unity All in all, I have realized I enjoy colorful, clean designs. Not sure if I’ll ever again be able to look at the cover of a book without thinking about these different aspects of design . |
After playing some typography games, (Shoot the Serif, Type War and Kern Type) I realized I have some brushing up to do on my typography skills. I always thought I was vert detail oriented and could spot the differences between fonts easily, but this proved me wrong. Well for the most part anyway. In Shoot… Continue reading Am I really that dumb?
I had a bit too much fun with this activity; I mean it’s not everyday you get to play games as an assignment! My favorite game on this list was the Type Connection game. I enjoyed matching the fonts as if I was a real matchmaker! I also learned a lot about planning from that …
Who am I:
I am a creative and organized junior at the University of Oklahoma pursuing a degree in Public Relations. I was born and raised in Oklahoma City. I attended Casady High School.
What I believe:
I believe in being true to one’s self and putting your all into a project, whether that project is for work, school, or personal.
What I do:
I currently work as an Intern at VisitNorman. I’m responsible for updating the website and app with restaurants, shops, things to do and events. I also post to the VisitNorman social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
What guides and motivates me:
I like being creative. I like making people happy. Combining these two makes me happy. Weather that’s using my skills to throw my friend a birthday party, or promoting a business through VisitNorman.
Where design fits in my life:
I love pin-back buttons and have recently started designing and selling them to friends and sorority sisters. Many of my sorority sisters were interested in game day buttons. I decided to go out on a limb and purchase a button maker. I’ve really enjoyed designing buttons for all occasions. I’ve also designed senior salutes for high school yearbooks, snapchat filters, and more. Design is also important in my work life, whether that’s creating Instagram posts or updating the VisitNorman app.
Correction:
Every new semester, I have the pleasure of correcting my teachers. When taking roll, they call out ‘Margaret.’ While my birth certificate reads ‘Margaret Kendall Bleakley,’ I have only ever gone by Kendall, my middle name. Margaret is a family name. My mother is Margaret Amanda and my grandmother is Mary Margaret, neither went by Margaret.
Home:
I was born and raised in Oklahoma City. I attended Casady high school before attending the University of Oklahoma. I’m currently a junior public relations major.
Jazzed and Motivated:
I love creating new things and making people happy. As an intern at VisitNorman, I like helping local businesses through social media.
Writing:
I’ve never done a lot of writing outside of school. Though I’m about to be posting blogs for two separate classes and a blog for VisitNorman. I suspect I will soon have a forced love of writing by the end of the semester.
All of these ads and stories were found in a political magazine called MAD. The first is called “Imagine” and depicts Donald Trump with a type of poem about what his “ideal world” may look like, according to a third party. I thought that the illustration and use of color was great because it captured …
These typography games were very fun and informational. I especially liked the “Shoot the Serif,” game because it tested your speed in identifying serif or sans serif fonts. Not to mention it reminded me of the song “I shot the Sheriff” by Eric Clapton. But that’s beside the point. These games are just quick and … Continue reading “Typography”
I chose to play three typography games to practice my font-choosing skillz. 1) Type War: I think I literally always choose in between five fonts for all of my assignments. When I find one that I like, I usually stick with it. Type War makes you pick the right one out of two, sometimes very similar fonts. […]
I began playing Shoot the Serif which I was pretty good at, if i do say so myself. Luckily my grandpa – a professor at the University of Tulsa – explained to me a few years ago what a serif font was. I asked him to look over a presentation I made for a high school class, and he explained to me he didn’t like my powerpoint because i used a serif font. He went on to explain the difference between a serif font and a non-serif font to me. Armed with that knowledge, I was able to accurately eliminate all the serif fonts in this game.
Next I tried Type Connection and I’ll be honest, I think I really missed the purpose of this particular game. I was playing matchmaker and paired up Univers with Maple – a perfect match in my humble opinion – but the game eagerly told me how wrong I was. I decided that I didn’t agree with their logic so I moved on to the next game.
I moved on to Type War (because I couldn’t get Poster Letters to launch). I was really struggling at the beginning. I don’t think I got one answer correct, so I went back and read the explanation of the game on canvas and saw the hint to pull up Word. With Word by my side I fared much better.
As much as I enjoy playing around with fonts, I think I’ll stick to non-typography based games when I’m looking for entertainment. I will say, however, that it was great practice in seeing the subtleties between various fonts.
For this blog post, we played several different typography games.My personal favorite was Shoot the Serif where we were challenged to choose serif fonts out of a sea of non-serif fonts. I thought this was a fun game because it challenged you to quickly choose and was upbeat. Next, I played Type War where we …
