Following up last week’s post, for the second magazine layout, my idea was to be a bit more fanciful and colorful. Some time ago, I downloaded a bunch of great posters from NASA/JPL that were beautifully designed travel posters for celestial bodies in our solar system. From a design standpoint they are great, from an … More GRA-340 Magazine Layouts Part 2
This week, we were tasked with creating magazine layouts. On the surface, this seems rather innocuous. But the devil is always in the details. The specifics were to create two layouts of the same article for the same target audience, and work to pair fonts together. I chose one of the pre-selected options, read it … More GRA-340 Magazine Layouts Part 1
This week, we were asked to create an homage to our font choice for our final project. I can confidently say I’ve never created an homage to a font, and found this to be a new and unique challenge. This is one of my favorite aspects of returning to school, discovering new ways to look … More GRA-340 Homage to a Font
Oddly enough, as I move through the adventure that is typography, I have discovered that while typography is a key visual element and heavily influences design, not every adventure is ripe for sharing. I suppose by merely posting this I am sharing typography, but that’s not quite the focus I’m trying to accomplish. However, this … More GRA-340 Image Manipulation
