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For this last project, I decided to chose the word “happiness” for our emotion video, and one of the things that makes me the happiest is when I am traveling the world. However, as I grow older and learn to appreciate Buffalo’s beauty and everything it has to offer, I find myself really happy that…

Reflection: 1. What did you learn? I learned how to use two new softwares, Maya and Unreal. Although I only learned the very basics, I learned how to make 3D objects on Maya and how to design a game board on Unreal. 2. What was easy? Honestly this wasnt the easiest project I have taken…

Reflection: 1. What did you learn? In this project I learned what it is like to design a website, or at least a template of a website and I also learned how to make my own logo. I have had previous experience with Figma so I was familiar with it, but it was neat to…

Valentine’s Day Card Reflection: 1. What did you learn? – In project 1, I learned some of the basics of using Adobe Photoshop. Previous to this class, I have had absolutely no experience in photoshop and found it pretty intimidating because of how complex it is. During this lab, I was able to learn how…

For this project, I chose to make stamps based off of Hawaii, specifically Oahu. The four cultural aspects that I focused on were beaches (Waikiki Beach), sights (Hanauma Bay), sports (surfing), and animals (sea turtles-“Honu”). The reason I chose to do Hawaii is because I went in April and absolutely fell in love with it…

“Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” Reflection 1. What did you learn? From project 4, I learned how to edit and use different fonts on Figma and make it look visually appealing. Also, even though I have seen this concept of design before, I have never had to make it myself so it was neat coming up with these…

For Project 3, I created a visual metaphor for the common saying “Time Flies”. Immediately I thought about a bunch of butterflies in the sky with clock faces to represent this metaphor. For my pattern, I added icons of an hourglass, alarm clock, airplane, and a butterfly to represent my metaphor, and I added it…

Reflection: 1: What did you learn? In this project I learned the importance of the color schemes when designing something and knowing how to make it look appealing. I also learned how to do a lot more things in Figma like making your own shapes with the pen and pencil tool or the different types…

Frame 1-Twinkle Twinkle Little Star : The Gestalt Principles that I used are proximity and similarity. The smaller star at the top of the frame is distanced from the 6 bigger stars at the bottom, making it a focal point because it stands out compared to the similarity of the 6 bigger stars lined up…

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