This saved my life when I realized I had made my poster a3 and had to copy paste it on a new a1 document. It thrw my layers into one layer and I struggled with getting them into their own layers , losing my prior neatly organized layers panel…
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FINAL POSTER PROCESS
Some things I changed on my poster was adding some dotted shapes for a bit of depth and fill, spacing out the top left corner so that it isn’t as cluttered and more elements in the corners. The rest of my sentence at the bottom of the page was arranged a bit awkwardly, so Werner …
Text tutorials
These are some tutorials I watched to help my design…
Bauhaus style drafts
Inspiration: Bauhaus
I found inspiration in the colourful Bauhaus designs and the clean, geometric shapes, lines and layers of Suprematism. I incorporated lined rectangles and coloured shapes into my poster.
Russian poster drafts
At first I really stuck to the white, red and black collar palette, but quickly tired of it. My first sentence: “Beware the allure of dishonest fortune endorsed by the black market” also sounded too doom and gloom for a motivational poster. I also got stuck around designing the word Beware, and needed a fresh …
MM2: EVENT 1 TYPOGRAPHIC POSTER
When I first started playing aroung with my chosen sentence, I ended up using a lot of black and red as the first word was “beware.”” Red is a warning color and it almost looked like a warning notice. I was inspired by the Russian constructivist style. After further exploration however, I ended up getting …
EVENT 4: CODING
To start learning coding, we used Dreamweaver and did an exercise on Codecademy. We learned how to do headers, titles, divide the text, make paragraphs, insert images or videos and make body text. We also learned how to make text bold or italic. Intro to html exercise Final Result HTML TAGS EXERCISE I finished the …
E03: USER INTERFACE
RESEARCH Terms: “UI, or User Interface, refers to the methods (keyboard control, mouse control) and interfaces (inventory screen, map screen) through which a user interacts with your game. UX, or User Experience, refers to how intuitive and enjoyable those interactions are.” I looked at some examples of UIs.. My Concept Idea When I heard the character had …
E02: LOGO REVEALS
BRIEFING Our new brief is to make 3 different animations on Photoshop, Animate. The 3 logos are Adidas, Spotify and Adult Swimwear. TO understand animation better, we learned the 12 principles of animation: 12 PRINCIPLES OF ANIMATION Squash & Stretch Staging Anticipation Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose Follow through and Overlapping Slow in and …
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