Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Author: KC
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Erik Fadiman pointed out where all of the students at Seattle Central Community College have accounts for websites. I thought this was weird for all of us to be guaranteed this small 20MB plot of land, but here I am. <– Check it as it blossoms into a “finished web page working on three different…
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(Above: a screen shot of my new and already gone primitive website. Kat says: I have a secret website under this one. does anyone care? Our teacher talked about how each website has html that no one sees that describes the page to blind people. He asked why do we care about blind people? It’s…
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This square was an exploration of the stock patterns Photoshop has. This one is the ripply one, rippled again using an artistic filter, then setting that layer on Screen at 72%. Without that layer, it doesn’t look like a fun tacky shirt pattern. See box detail for something so crisp and under-designed. —>
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This square was made using photoshop gradients from different angles. The gradient used a darkish saturated color with a fade to black. Then the layers were set on Exclusion. I think many people ignore these layer modes. I think they’re great. By coincidence– I just checked– there are thirteen layers in this file. I know,…
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I am continuing my search for fonts that inspire me. Sometimes their names have a lot to do with why I pick them. Who was Jenkins? “Jenkins” feels a certain way to me. It conjures up the South, dill pickles and the title of mister, for some reason. Mr. Jenkins. He sits on the front…
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I had my first morning meeting today. It was about the law firm stationery suite I’ve been working on. We are going to continue to have to versions, but one versions has three subversions because my supervisor wants to see an envelope with the address on the flap and an envelope with a flood of…
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Today’s Font Exploration is Washout. I have two versions here because I’m trying to get into a habit of naming my files funny and slightly lengthy titles to give more flavor to the posts. When I titled the upper one, I felt what I wrote would be better as the copy itself. I think this…
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Yesterday, I received a logo design assignment for an architect/builder duo. The challenge is to make their names seem like to separate names instead of one guy named Bruce Wever. I sketched out my logos and he seemed really pleased. As an echo from Jill, Jason and Tom, Terry (my boss) said that designers directly…
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