Tag: illustration
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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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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 – 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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2.2 (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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2.1 (2) Dotted Spiral Vortex
To develop skills in Adobe Illustrator I started out with a turtorial on how to create a dotted spiral vortex. There weren’t too many steps and I found it easy as I understand how to «connect the dots» in what I am doing. With this one I realised at the end that I should have…
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MA01 – Visual Interpretation
For this project my brief was to create a visual interpretation of the number 7 using Gestalt principles. The creations are made by hand, with paper, pencil, scissors and markers. I also used the nature as a background. I have shared the work on forum and asked for feedback from teachers and other students. I…
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1.3(1) Fundamentals Of Graphic Design
The main elements of art and design is line, shape, form, texture, balance and the rule of thirds. These elements are important to learn and master as a Graphic Designer. I made abstract depictions of the following terms: By only using elements of line, shape, form, texture and balance. It’s a rough sketching, only pencil…
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Interpretation Moodle platform
The project I’m working on now are really interesting and I found out that using the time to think and make a mind map helps a lot in the early stages of the process. I went outside with my son and he was swimming in the nearby lake, while I was working with just a…
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