Tag: insight
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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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MA02 – Layout and composition
During this GRA2 process I have completed three different LinkedIn learning courses. The first one I published here on the blog a few weeks ago, and these two are the last ones that I completed. I learned a lot of these courses and are happy that I now have these certificates in my resumé! –…
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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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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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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 (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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2.1(1) The History Of Modern Graphic Design
For this project I’m choosing a design that caught my eye as a book cover, which is influenced by one of the Graphic Design eras: Before I tell you more about the design and designer that I chose to write about. I want to write down some information about each era and some of the…
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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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1.2 The User Is Central
In the module I’m working on I learn a lot about empathy and how important it is to put the user/consumers first when working with a brief. Everything around us is design, and it impacts us in different ways. Like our favourite coffee cup or the social media we are scrolling through. To be a…
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1.1 Simple Composite In Photoshop
For this period I’m working on my Graphic design software skills. The main Graphic design softwares are: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. For this task I used Photoshop, and multiple images and blended them together. I have no experience with Photoshop so this took me a while to figure out. After sitting with one project for…
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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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Work schedule
To get organized I made a complete work schedule for the first and second semester. I felt this helped a lot, because it’s overwhelming with all the information at the beginning. For this post I also made a quick digital comic of me when I first opened the time schedule and managed to open the…
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