So I got distracted while looking for inspiration for our poster project. But I found a few things that might help along the way. Don't mind if I do!
i just really liked this :)
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Journal 7: A Typographic Eye
A cold and dreary stroll early on a Sunday morning.
don't forget the .5
getting smart with the alphabet
ACME!!! its my job
weavers window display
its backwards from the outside
White Chocolate's teeny logo
no caption necessary
masonic temple
arabic at Aladin Cafe
can you call this graffiti?
garden of love
mmmmmmm... a satisfying destination after the long walk
-credit: Ben Pirotte... a dear friend. Thank you for letting me use your amazing camera and photo taking skills!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Conversations on Design
The Heart: Deborah Adler
The Pieta by Michelangelo is her inspiration because it involves the viewer in a common sense of sorrow. Emotion affects design.
I need to really use aspects of design to evoke emotion. That I have the ability and resources to do that is inspiring to me!
And as for a persons aesthetic, i feel that she was harsh on a designers sense of self. We do not always need to be designing for an audience and that is where she went wrong. Maybe in the professional world, we need to "have a love affair with our audience". But as for me, right now, I am learning design as a way of communicating a specific message. Not to hope that my audience FEELS a certain way when looking at my work.
Get In Touch: Michael Lebowitz
Combining human intellect with technology to come up with the most effective and natural way of organizing the vast and rapid amounts of information that we encounter daily.
He uses ipad as an example and how his 3 year old son can already navigate its seemingly complex system of touch, when compared to a mouse and keyboard.
this is the first time that I have come across a designer/artist who praises the ipad or any extremely powerful form of technology that decreases human interaction on a physical level. Even I normally frown on things that require less tangible forms of communication, but Michael takes an interesting view on the way technology should be natural.
Do More with Less: Emily Pilloton
The product is less important than the way it came about. Instruction and process are parts of design that are important to education and eventually design AS education.
I appreciate the way she describes design as a process to the system of education. the idea that students need to be creative and even selective along the way means more than just doing for a letter grade. I have found that as an issue in my upbringing... I was always worried about learning it to look good on paper, rather than gaining knowledge that would stick, something to be passionate about. That is where my previous education was lacking.
Tabula Rasa: Jake McCabe
Blank slate as an opportunity and as an object is his inspiration. It is a luxury. He thinks, as a designer right now, we need to think about things that no one has asked us to think about yet.
In terms of sustainability, we should come up with solutions and problems that havent been evolved yet. I feel like this comes from the idea that, since we have been "eco-friendly" for so long now and nothing is making a dent on our "footprint" that we need to THINK more effectively. Come up with our own ideas and ways of creating/designing truly unique ways of problem solving.
The Pieta by Michelangelo is her inspiration because it involves the viewer in a common sense of sorrow. Emotion affects design.
I need to really use aspects of design to evoke emotion. That I have the ability and resources to do that is inspiring to me!
And as for a persons aesthetic, i feel that she was harsh on a designers sense of self. We do not always need to be designing for an audience and that is where she went wrong. Maybe in the professional world, we need to "have a love affair with our audience". But as for me, right now, I am learning design as a way of communicating a specific message. Not to hope that my audience FEELS a certain way when looking at my work.
Get In Touch: Michael Lebowitz
Combining human intellect with technology to come up with the most effective and natural way of organizing the vast and rapid amounts of information that we encounter daily.
He uses ipad as an example and how his 3 year old son can already navigate its seemingly complex system of touch, when compared to a mouse and keyboard.
this is the first time that I have come across a designer/artist who praises the ipad or any extremely powerful form of technology that decreases human interaction on a physical level. Even I normally frown on things that require less tangible forms of communication, but Michael takes an interesting view on the way technology should be natural.
Do More with Less: Emily Pilloton
The product is less important than the way it came about. Instruction and process are parts of design that are important to education and eventually design AS education.
I appreciate the way she describes design as a process to the system of education. the idea that students need to be creative and even selective along the way means more than just doing for a letter grade. I have found that as an issue in my upbringing... I was always worried about learning it to look good on paper, rather than gaining knowledge that would stick, something to be passionate about. That is where my previous education was lacking.
Tabula Rasa: Jake McCabe
Blank slate as an opportunity and as an object is his inspiration. It is a luxury. He thinks, as a designer right now, we need to think about things that no one has asked us to think about yet.
In terms of sustainability, we should come up with solutions and problems that havent been evolved yet. I feel like this comes from the idea that, since we have been "eco-friendly" for so long now and nothing is making a dent on our "footprint" that we need to THINK more effectively. Come up with our own ideas and ways of creating/designing truly unique ways of problem solving.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Common Type Knowledge
What are the advantages of a multiple column grid? Gives room for experimentation, sturcture
_ How many characters is optimal for a line length? words per line? (ringherst reading) a character is the letter, space or punctuation. 40-50 is optimal...
_ Why is the baseline grid used in design? helps the skeleton of the body text structured...
_ What is a typographic river? gaps formed when justifying body text that you do not want... "you want a grey page" fix through hyphenating
_ From the readings what does clothesline or flow line mean? horizontal line to carry the eye... defined where text will hang
_ How can you incorporate white space into your designs? connecting text and text with title, white space on outside, ragged/justified text, adjusting column length and/or type size and typeface
_ What is type color/texture mean? change the weight, size, leading, tracking, column width to see different colors of grey
_ What is x-height, how does it effect type color? tall x-height will seem fuller/darker
_ In justification or H&J terms what do the numbers: minimum, optimum, maximum mean?
_ What are some ways to indicate a new paragraph. Are there any rules? new article, or subhead the first paragraph is not indented, never use default intend.. it should be equal or little more than leading, no intend if using space to denote a new paragraph
_ What are some things to look out for when hyphenating text? no two letters left behind, words that are shorter than for letters, no proper nouns. call outs should not leave lonely words (the should always be on same line in a callout), no more than three hyphens in a row
_ What is a ligature? connecting serif letters to create easy flow from usually difficult combinations, fi and et
_ What does CMYK and RGB mean? cmyk is print (additive) rgb is screen (subractive) most internet is rgb
_ What does hanging punctuation mean? having quotes jutting out to denote call outs
_ What is the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe? footmark is straight " true apostrophe will have tiny angle and a serif (even with sans serif fonts)
_ What is the difference between an inch mark and a quote mark (smart quote)?
_ What is a hyphen, en dash and em dashes, what are the differences and when are they used. hyphen is shortest one, en dash (option shift) used between dates and breaks of train of though, space on either side, em dash is long, no space for break and denoting name
Jonathan Harris: Cold + Bold
Let's get personal here. If any of you are thinking about reliant we are on the digital world in our choice of careers, you should watch this. Seriously!
I am sort of a pessimist when it comes to hoping for a long life full of social interaction, love, family health and all that jazz. Mostly because I understand and am totally willing to spend the rest of my life focused on a computer screen. But hearing Jonathan's story really made a memorable mark on this theory.
I am not involved in the intense amount of coding that he was so my case is a little better. But i still enjoyed hearing that others are worried about and have the same problems coping with the rest of the world, the non-designers. This speech by no means made me hopeful for a normal sense of social well-being, instead he made me realize something very important...
When I get to those frequent points of frustration with my work (whether it is the work itself or the lack of human interaction due to my design) to step back and watch. think, really think about who is around me, what they are doing, why they are there, why I am there.
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