What did you learn? For this project, I learned how use Photoshop and Figma in order to design a drink label and create an event display. What was easy? The easy part of the project was using Photoshop to create the event display. What was challenging? The most challenging part of the project was coming …
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Project 2: Merch
What did you learn? For this project, I learned how to design and print stickers and a poster in Figma. What was easy? The easy part of the project was using Figma to create the designs. What was challenging? The most challenging part of the project was printing and cutting out the stickers. How could …
Project 1: Menu and Table Tent
What did you learn? In this project I learned how to create die strikes and image bleeds in order to optimize projects for print. What was easy? The easy part of this project was organizing the type for the menu and table tent in Adobe InDesign. What was challenging? The challenging aspect of this project …
Project 4: Book Theme
What did you learn? For this project, I learned how to create paragraphs styles and use them to format large amounts of text in Adobe InDesign. What was easy? The easiest part of this project was moving the text and images into InDesign. What was challenging? One of the most challenging parts of this project …
Project 3: Type History Poster
What did you learn?For this project, I learned how to use InDesign to format text. What was easy?The easiest part of this assignment was researching the history of Garamond typefaces What was challenging?The most difficult part of this assignment was figuring out how to format the information on the page. How could your submission be …
Project 2: Expressive Words
What did you learn?In this project, I learned how to use kerning and transformations in order to reinforce the meaning of the words. What was easy?The easiest part of this assignment was coming up with the concept that I wanted to convey. I knew that I wanted to get across the ideas of “restoration” and …
Project 1
What did you learn? I learned how to create a useable font with Fontstruct. What was easy? Fontstruct itself was very intuitive and easy to use. What was challenging? It was challenging to create letters that had diagonal sections such as “N” and “K”. How could your submission be improved? My submission could be improved …
Lab 3: Forest Lawn
Serif: This font is serif because of the thin feet on the bottom of the letters. Sans-serif: This font is sans-serif because it lacks the feet on the letters. One thing that stood out to me about this particular font was how the bottom of the “W” was rounded. Blackletter: This font is blackletter because …
Lab 2 – Type Classification and Identification
Typehunting Assignment: One instance of typography that caught my attention was this Goldfish packaging. The use of script lettering gives this package a fun and playful design. This is important because Goldfish are primarily marketed towards young children.
Lab 1 – Typography Basics
What did you learn? – I learned how to download fonts, create glyphs, and manipulate text in Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, and Figma. What was easy? – Downloading the fonts What was challenging? – Manipulating the anchor points on the text was especially difficult when there were many points next to each other. How could the …