Author: KC

  • This is my design becoming real, slowly from mobile-first. That’s why everything is in a one-column layout. (More to add later.) Katsite Project 2 (Earlier Post Relating to This Project)

  • Book Making: PrintBookSignatures– Jill created this instructive guide to printing book signatures in InDesign (change printing range to the size of your signature, that way, when something goes wrong it’s not the whole book kind of wrong) I saw this record with embossed lettering and I thought they had used a photographic manipulation where you…

  • Class Examples and tutorials brought to my attention by Paul Nissen “Untitled” (He is an English Man) is by Christopher John Olsen After Effects Project: Pala Tute(by Gogol Bordello) on Vimeo by Sariah Swick Untitled on Vimeo–“Untitled” (He is an English Man) is by Christopher John Olsen. This one is actually hilarious… don’t be unimpressed by…

  • Assignment: “The type of site is a hybrid news/blog/magazine site, sometimes called a ‘Blogazine’. Each project needs to have a lot of news and content, as well as some form of advertising. Additional requirements:  Responsive Images, Responsive jQuery slideshow and/or Video, Embedded fonts from Fontsquirell.com, needs to be under 300k, needs to work on IE8, all modern browsers,…

  • I submitted this comp today for critique in Advertising Class. What is a comp? That was a question I was asking myself this week. It is something where you push it as far as you can go. It has to be proportional to your intended substrate (thing you are putting it on) and in this…

  • Advertising Analysis #4 Using Tom Lenon’s Advertising Concept Word List Summary: (medium, typeface, etc.) Describe the thing. Full page ad in the Stranger Alternative Weekly magazine, photographic approach, yeti holding beer bottle, slanted italic sanserif font cold palette color with a warm accent tertiary. visual method: colorful language Type Plus Image Space Scale Analysis: What…

  • Today’s quiz involved a Halloween Story. It reminds me of those days in Elementary School where when holidays came around suddenly the homework would take on those themes. Why couldn’t we have designed a Christmas card last year? Was it the lame-stream media’s influence on our liberal teachers? Chris handed out this really great workflow instruction sheet.…

  • As part of my special project for this quarter, I will be curating a multi-faceted course companion for After Effects. However, I have gotten a bit off track. I thought my best learning would be done while working on something of my own that I liked and wanted to work with, but I am realizing…