Tag: creativity
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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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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 part 3 – Moodboard
I have created a moodboard for this CA brief with Adobe InDesign. It’s energetic, happy and inspiring for my booklet work. I might adjust the moodboard during this process. This is it, hopefully this will help me with my inspiration and ideation during this creative work. – CHD
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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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1.1 part 3 – Film & Wet Plate Photographs
I love this photography with it’s simplicity, yet a lot of feelings. I really get the feeling of a darker time, passing over to autumn. By looking at this photograph I can smell the forest and the trees letting go of their leafs and I can feel the cosyness of a blanket and some candlelight…
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1.1 part 2 – Film Photography VS. Digital Photography
Before digital photography, we had different stages that lead to film photography. «KODAK MOMENTS» is something most of us has heard about. Which is moments caught on film. Film cameras need to be developed in a dark room or via a camera store that provides developments of your film. This process takes some time and…
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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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MA02 part 1 – Brand Identity
I’m still working on my CA and part of it is to research and find a brand identity for my «client» Fra Gård. Brand identity is a range of things related to the brand. Like logo, colours, typography, copywriting and visual elements that forms a personality for your brand. The brand communicates with the world…
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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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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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MA03 – Mood Board
As part of my process of creating a new book cover for «The Seven Dials Mystery» by Agatha Cristie, I needed to develop a mood board to help me. After learning about typography, colour theory and the use of images – I could apply my new knowledge to this project. I used a lot of…
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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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3.1 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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2.3 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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