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  • Advice about Typography

      Me: I asked the teachers what to do about my type problem. N: Sure. Do you think it is taste or technical? Me: That’s a fine question. I think it’s the attention to detail. I’m terrible at font combinations. Is that both? N: So don’t combine them. Might be both, but I think you…

  • Poster for Tomorrow

      I wanted to create a haunted image relating  . I made the bed in illustrator and drew the alligators with pen and ink and then assembled it all in Photoshop. (Earlier Post Relating to This Project)

  • Window Display for the MAC: Photoshop Comp

    The assignment: Window Display for the Mitchell Activity Center (the MAC) Mac presentation1 from Katarina Countiss » Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center » The Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center (MAC) provides an environment that offers diverse activities to the campus and the general community to promote healthy lifestyles, wellness and recreational programs. Team: Michael and…

  • Window Display for the MAC: Initial Sketches

    The assignment: Window Display for the Mitchell Activity Center (the MAC) » Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center » The Charles H. Mitchell Activity Center (MAC) provides an environment that offers diverse activities to the campus and the general community to promote healthy lifestyles, wellness and recreational programs. Team: Michael and I Due in 3 weeks…

  • What is a Good Poster?

    Friday, we brought in samples of posters. All kinds. A typographic poster, an event poster, a poster which educates/informs, a silk screened poster, a show poster, a interactive poster, a letterpressed poster, I brought one of each as did every other classmate and we looked at them in their respective groups. The posters seemed to…

  • Wayfinding Exercise #1: Seattle Central Audit

    Today in groups of two or three, students from the Environmental Graphic Design class scoured Seattle Central Community College and took notes on how easy (ridiculous) it was to find random classrooms. My team (Joyce and I) were assigned to find “SAM 404, NP 304 and BE 4105” from the North Back entrance (entrance most…

  • Class Ad Trio

    The lastest assignment in Advertising: make a trio of posters for classes (my choice). So, I’ve chosen Philosophy  Psychology and Political Science 101. The lastest assignment in Advertising: make a trio of posters for classes (my choice). So, I’ve chosen Philosophy,  Psychology, and Political Science 101. Here are my thumbnails and the comps. I took the photographs myself.…

  • Brainstorming for Class Advertisement

    The lastest assignment in Advertising: make a trio of posters for classes (my choice). So, I’ve chosen Philosophy  Psychology and Political Science 101. Some have recommended that I choose a suite like 101, 102, 103 of the same subject, but I really enjoy drawing parallells between disparate things. Here’s my brainstorm and thumbnail phase. I think…