Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Category: graphic design
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I finished my last final yesterday. Later that evening, I was showing a friend a slideshow of one of my painting series when I decided I wanted to have a slide show for all my work I’ve done so far in graphic design. I wanted to make something simple, summarizing my time and easy to…
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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…
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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…
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Atk presentation alexs.tedg.katc View more presentations from basementcat Today my team presented this campaign we’ve been working on for the past month. We got good feedback saying that the idea is good and the interaction between our buttons and tee shirt is cute. It was exhausting trying to match the styles across mediums. In the…
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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…
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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…
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(Left: Before Critique, Right: After Critique) Tom said I had too many approaches going on here. And furthermore, my brand is called “Yossarian’s”—a very complicated name and even more unreadable when done in a thick font and treated as if there was a shadow coming up from down and under (note the dark lettering on…
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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…