Using about 500 words of Lorum Ipsum (or other dummy text) you are going to design three different pages: • An interview with a TV actor in a listings magazine entitled: Will Sheila tell the naked truth? To be honest, I don’t like how do the articles in listing magazines look like. In general it’s
To warm up, I’ve chosen this poster, where four fonts are used. Working with this poster, I didn’t search for new fonts, and just used what I already have. After preveous tasks my collection of fonts grown really big, and sometimes I didn’t even know what I
So, to begin with this task, I chose a font manager. Started with this article: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/10-free-apps-for-managi.. But the level of freeware doensn’t impress: there’s no automatic serif / san-serif detection in this apps. I continued to search and I was highly impressed by the typeDNA software description. http://www.typedna.com/ Also, students can try it for a 6
That is it. The first comes on mind – letters with snow caps. There are lots of fonts like that, but I din’t like any. Thats why I didn’t use them and tryed to find something
I’ve decided to work on this task, but realised that i don’t have any vellum at the moment. But hey, I have some baking paper, it should be fine for this purpouse. It’s a bit slippy, but it’s no difference in general. Had to iron it though, it would be impossibe to work otherwise.
“For this exercise you are going to make a montage or collage with a political message…” It was really hard to choose a topic. At first I wanted to illustrate the quotation about children’s meaning of existence in different countries from the Aldous Huxley’s book “Island”: For example, what are boys and girls for in
I’m madly in love with the book by Umberto Eco with Eugenio Carmi’s illustrations. It really inspires me how accurately and humorously artist conveyed the meaning of the text.
“Create a series of 10 abstract designs in which you balance blocks of subordinate, dominant and accent colours. These designs are going to be used as covers for guidebooks to the following cities: Madrid, Malmo, Managua, Manchester, Manhattan, Marrakesh, Marseilles, Melbourne, Montreal, Mumbai.” Madrid Madrid is the capital and the largest city of
“Try and find different combinations of two colours to illustrate the offered adjectives” That’s very curious task. Some of the colour combinations were easy, while I had to spend a lot of time for others. Anyway, colour associations are very personal thing. I don’t think that there may be at least two different people who would do
“Using only an image of a light bulb, the word “light bulb” and a block of colour of your choice create different designs that explore visual dynamics.”