Tag: challenge
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Semester 2 Schedule 24/25
Schedule 24/25 Screenbased design 1/ UX Design Fundamentals CA 1 Hand out: Monday 13.05.24. Deadline: Friday 4 pm, 06.09.25. Photography CA 2 Hand out: Monday 09.09.24. Deadline: Friday 4 pm, 04.10.24. Screenbased design 2/ UI Design Fundamentals CA 2 Hand out: Monday 07.10.24 Deadline: Friday 4 pm, 10.01.25. Graphic Design CA 3 Hand out: Monday…
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I AM BACK!
2023 was a very special year for me, in both good and bad. I am going to be completely honest with you, it was though. 23 of march 2023 I was 25 weeks pregnant and working on my semester project everyday. I was really in a perfect creative mode and space! That day I went…
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Semester Project
I am currently working on my semester project, therefore I have been a bit quite on the blog front. So far I have delivered a product description about my client, logo design, which products I am going to design, justification and challenges with the design. I have also delivered a work schedule for my semester…
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CA – Graphic Design 2
These past weeks I have been learning about layout design, composition, guidlines, layout principles and so on. It has been some intensive weeks, with a lot of tasks, assignments and an exciting CA brief. I have already written a god deal about this CA’s brief – however, the brief stated that a recipe booklet should…
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MA01 part 4 – Thumbnail sketches of the layout
I have been sketching and trying to work out the layout for my booklet design. I had these things in mind while sketching: – CDH
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MA01 – Graphic Design 2
The brief The brief stated that a recipe booklet called «healthy food for growing kids» should be designed for parents and young children. The booklet will contain nutritious recipe that are easy enough for children to make with a bit of help and guidance from an adult. The booklet design should present the creative meals…
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1.1 part 2 InDesign Essential Training
I have been working on this massive and comprehensive course in LinkedIn about InDesign and finally I got my certificate. I have learned a lot during this week, and I can’t wait to use all the new knowledge I now have with InDesign. Especially when it comes to designing and writing the booklet. – CDH
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1.1 Layout and composition
It’s truly important to master the art of communicating ideas and messages in the best possible way as a graphic designer. To be able to grab the attention of people living in a world of visual stimuli. That’s where layout and composition plays a big part. Layout design is a fundamental part of visual communication.…
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CA – Strategic Design 1
I submitted my final design and report on thursday 1 of december, one day before the deadline. After intense work with the design for Fra Gård I just shut down a little while, so I didn’t post about it right away here on the blog. I could reveal right now that I have got the…
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MA02 part 2 – Moodboard
I’ve created a moodboard with my CA brief in mind. I am developing a logo design for Fra Gård and this moodboard represents my inspiration for that logo design. First of I have included two types of typography, Merriweather in a light weight and Beloved Sans in a Regular weight. Both of these typefaces are…
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MA01 – part 2 Strategic Design
Completed a Quiz about strategic design and got all of them correct ✔️ – CDH 🤓
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Strategic Design – Branding
The word «Brand» comes from the act of identifying livestock with a mark burnt onto the skin in the American Midwest. By branding their animals, farmers could easily see the animals who belong to them. In 1789, Andrew Pears «branded» his soap bars to make them stand out from other soaps from competitors. Then the…
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MA01 – Part 1 Strategic Design
As part of my strategic planning and research, I need to write things down and answere some questions about the CA brief. This will help me solve the «problem» / brief in a creative and strategic way. How do we start with the strategic design process? We start by understanding why we are creating what…
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CA1 – Book Cover Design
I have been working on this brief for several weeks, and used the two last weeks to finalize the book cover and my comprehensive report. The brief stated that a new book cover for «The Seven Dials Mystery» by Agatha Christie, should be made with a minimum number of colours, include the number 7 and…
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MA03 – Adjustments Moodboard
I have made a new moodboard for my MA03, thats also a part of my big project that i’m working on. I wasn’t happy with some of the images in my mood board and I asked for some guidance on forum. I got some feedback and worked with my moodboard with my feedback in mind,…
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3.4(1&2) Fruit Juice Photo Manipulation Effect
This week I have been using a lot of time reading and studying about images, types of imagery and how to choose the right image. I then followed a learning video created by Tutvid about how to manipulate fruit juice photos. To practise my image sourcing skills, I used different images than in the learning…
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3.3 (1) Colour Theory
In addition to learning a lot about typography the last two weeks, I have also learned a lot about colour theory. As a Graphic designer it’s really important to know about colour theory – which is a theoretical understanding of colour. I have learned a lot about how to make colour combinations by using colour…
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3.2 Typography 2
The last week I used a lot of time learning about typography, and how to manipulate text in Illustrator. The lecture videos looked easy and simple to follow, but I got a really hard time with the 3D effect lecture. I used two days to just figure it out, and that’s kind of embarrasing. However,…
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3.1 Typography 1
One of the most important tools a graphic designer should master – is typography! As a designer we need to be able to use typography in a creative and custom way – know how to make adjustments so we enhance the readability, and make the reader intrigued. As a graphic designer you can also specialise…
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MA02 – Using Ideation Techniques And Sketching
For this assignment I ended up with using two different ideation techniques, «Morphological analysis» and «Consequences». I need to come up with ideas for my course assignment, where I am creating a new book cover for «The Seven Dials Mystery» by Agatha Christie. As you can see in my morphological analysis I chose to work…
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Activity – Ideation Practise
As just practise, I did a activity where you first draw scribbled shapes, random ones. Shapes that doesn’t make any sense. Then I tried to draw something familiar or some kind of drawing out of the random shapes. I then wanted to fill out everything so i added three more random shapes to work with:…
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2.4 (2) Celtic Cross
To learn more about shape builder tool and pathfinder tool I watched a lecture video and learned about the difference. Shape builder tool is the most effective tool in most cases, but pathfinder tool has it’s strengts in some areas where the shape builder tool is weaker. For this assignment I made a Celtic cross…
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2.4 (1) Sketching In Graphic Design
I just learned a LOT about ideation techniques and how to generate ideas in quantity and quality – sketching is a huge part of that and it is a key skill for all graphic designers. Sketching is an essential part of developing ideas before making them digital. Our brain works different when we are sketching.…
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2.3 Idea Generation
This week I learned a lot about idea generation and different ideation techniques. Some of the ideation techniques I learned about: All of these methods are a big help in the process of designing. The first steps before making anything is always research and analysis, part of that is also the time you use to…
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2.2 (1 & 2) Basic Shapes
It’s useful to understand how to create different shapes in Adobe Illustrator as a graphic designer, since they are the building blocks in all design. I first learned how to make different shapes from just a square, with direct selection tool and curve settings. I found it easy and fun to manipulate, creating various shapes…
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1.4(2) Animal Human Portrait
For this project I followed a tutorial on how to make an animal human portrait in Photoshop. I didn’t want to use the same pictures and textures as the man in the video, so I found something different. I might have given my self an extra challenge when I chose this fluffy dog: And this…
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1.4 Gestalt Principles
Gestalt is a psychology term founded on works by Max Werheimer, Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka in the 1920’s. Gestalt is a german word and means «form» interpreted as «configuration», a unified whole. «According to gestalt psychology, the whole is different from the sum of it’s parts» The hypothesis is that people tend to organize…
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1.3(2) Engraved Texture
This is another Photoshop project I have been working on. For this composite I needed to first create a new texture from scratch. Started out with only 10 pixels width and 10 pixels height (8 bit) in greyscale and white background. Then, to create this I made one half of the white background black, and…
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1.2.(2) Neon Light Effect
For this project I worked in Photoshop, using a black and white picture of a mighty lion. Aventually creating a neon light effect and smoke around the lion. I startet out with this picture: In the beginning I started with making the black background bigger. In order to have more workspace for the shape, neon…
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«Confusing forest of information»
After having coloring problems and working through my issues I finally delivered my assignment before deadline. I’m kind of happy about the result, even though it’s not perfect. The illustration has it’s flaws, but this is my first delivery assignment and I think I learned a lot during the process, which is the whole point.…
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