Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 28, 2010
Typography literally means making impressions with writing. Long before the web became popular the methods of creating typography was usually via the printing press or handwritten text. Typography has been an important part of design and communication. In the ’90s, a brief trend saw many web site designers set the text of their web sites [...]
Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 27, 2010
Positive and negative space refers to the juxtaposition of figure and ground in a composition. The objects in the environment represent the positive space, and the environment itself is the negative space. The rule of three is a compositional tool that makes use of the notion that the most interesting compositions are those in which [...]
Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 25, 2010
This site shows you how to make fun, eye-catching text using Adobe Illustrator. It explores ways that you can manipulate text by combing color and effects. This can help you in the future when designing any type of graphic used for a website or just for fun. http://www.layersmagazine.com/create-fun-eye-catching-text-with-adobe-illustrator.html This tutorial shows you cool logo effects [...]
Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 22, 2010
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that works to increase the amount of creativity available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. Creative Commons provides everyone from individual creators to major companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to pre-clear usage rights to creative work they own the copyright to. [...]
Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 19, 2010
The Bauhaus school started in 1919 and it ended in 1933 during the start of the Nazi regime. Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar, Germany by Walter Gropius. He was an architect. This helped influence the course offered and the philosophy of the school. The manifesto for Bauhaus was “The final goal of all artistic activity is architecture.” which was created by Gropius. The [...]
Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 13, 2010
Adobe Bridge will help me keep my files organized well. After watching the video and reading the articles assigned I learned a lot about how it works. Being able to create different rankings, labels and collections will come in very handy when looking for certain items. While I think this will keep me organized, I [...]
Posted by: jennatrudeau on: January 12, 2010
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