Christian Balkin

What did you learn? This project got me thinking a lot about the history of type design. I learned a lot about futura and fonts in general. After a lot of online research I started to better understand the design format that fits a certain font, and it’s always representative of the era it comes…

What did you learn? This was my first time designing a book document. One of the first things I noticed was how important placement and symmetry are. All of the titles and paragraphs had to be put just right on the page or the alignment was off. I also realized how important it is to…

What did you learn? I really enjoyed this project and was pretty satisfied with my finished images. I decided to make posters for the movies “Blade Runner” and “The Shining”. This was the first time I designed something where the letters/words were taking the center stage of the image. When working with text I’m surprised…

What did you learn? Throughout the process I started to understand how much goes into pulling off a successful font. Looking at examples online I tried to figure out how to create a look/theme that matched between all of my letters. I had to rethink everything a couple of times. I would find that my…

This Grave has been labeled using a Decorative Typeface. I really like the letter design with this font. While some of the letters are separated it maintains a clean sharp look. This stone is a great example of a Sans Serif font. It has a very clean look and allows the name to be the…

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I am already realizing that there is a lot more that goes into typography than would appear on first glance. It takes into account the thickness of characters, spacing between them, roughness or smoothness, and much more. I realized while messing around in Illustrator that there are tools which allow a creator to make font…

1. What did you learn?– This project employed many separate techniques. I used the pen tool to create many of the roads and different areas. I discovered some new uses that come along with the text tool in illustrator. 2. What was easy?– I enjoyed creating the roads. Throughout the year I have become a…

1. What did you learn?– This lab had us create a banner for a map in illustrator, implementing the text tool. 2. What was easy?– I thought the overall set up of the banner was easy. Using the shape tool and duplicates it took a clean form quickly. 3. What was challenging?– For this I…

1. What did you learn?– This lab employed the paint bucket tool to fill in spaces of an artboard with color. I had never used it like this before. 2. What was easy?– I created a lot of lines using the pencil tool. Just doing random strokes on the page generated some interesting patterns. 3.…