This week, we were asked to familiarize ourselves with InDesign and Photoshop and gain a basic grasp of some of the more heavily used functions on these programs. While I’d worked with both programs in high school, the functions I performed were all very similar and repetitive. In other words, I wasn’t really used to […]
Computers are amazing. Computers are also overwhelming and manipulating things on computers can be very difficult. This week, we dove in to InDesign and Photoshop. We were asked to more or less recreate a template by “setting the type” for the spread. I think the thing that surprised me most about this assignment was how […]
My first attempt at InDesign wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
My first attempt at InDesign wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
After learning what typography is and finding out how critical it is in this week’s lesson, I was then encouraged to play three games relating to typography. The first game I played was Shoot the Serif. I started out at the junior level since I did not know what to expect for this game. I’ve […]
Throughout our most recent unit in Public Relations Publications, I have learned about several design concepts so far. I come into contact with some of the concepts every day, without even realizing that they are in fact design concepts. Out of the 10 design concepts we learned about this week, I chose five that I […]
Throughout our most recent unit in Public Relations Publications, I have learned about several design concepts so far. I come into contact with some of the concepts every day, without even realizing that they are in fact design concepts. Out of the 10 design concepts we learned about this week, I chose five that I […]
Our second assignment over the week was to play online typography games, which helped train my brain to internalize different fonts in a creative way. The first game I played was “type connection”, which meant I would choose a font and find it’s love interest after choosing what type of personality it had. For example, the above […]
TYPOGRAPHY Typography is the arrangement of type. Typography is an artistic component of design that arranges type into a visually pleasing and legible layout. This is a sign near the football stadium and the clear, bold type draws fans’s attention to it. COLOR This particular logo is bombarded with different aesthetically pleasing colors. […]
