Category: graphic design

  • Today was the last scheduled gathering of my class of first-years. There was some celebratory crepes involved and a lot of brochures for an Italian bicycle tour. That’s just how we party. It was the final for both the InDesign class and the macro-typography class which focused on using grid structures to create layouts.  It was…

  • I lost the original file for this somewhere in my computers. Probably because I haven’t invested in a home for all of my things, I always assume that if my home computer doesn’t have something, my school computer does and that’s not always the case. But, it is a good exercise to redo projects because…

  • Today we had another critique for the labels. I’m farther away from success than I thought. I am too much of a romantic to promote motor oil. This was one of the few products where Tom said that it was silly to put a little heart-warming bio on the back. He said that products like…

  • Kat.countiss skins2 View more PowerPoint from basementcat (Above: Presentation of screens. Flip through to see the task flow.) Post Critique: The theme I could extract from today’s critique was “hierarchy.” Despite my best efforts, it isn’t enough to show people where to click by color alone. All the buttons on this home page are the…

  • Jason had us design three versions of this gum pad. Each student had to come up with our own headline, but photography, copy and logo provided. First, we thumb nailed many formal versions and many chaotic versions. And then executing the best of both worlds into to respective designs, take the parts that work from…