Tag: student
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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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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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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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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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New Header
I tried to make a new header for my blog and reflective journal, with what I have learned so far! I hope to update it a long the way with new skills. I found it a bit hard to adjust the header in the wordpress menu – so i’ll have to work on that. However,…
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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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1.3(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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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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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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