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ARTS 246 Blog 4

Reading:

The reading gave a lot of insight on the history of tools designers use to align and layout their stuff, and how to you them. Something that was really could to learn is that these "layout men" who basically draw layouts for a printed piece is what founded the modern practice of graphic design. I really love the diagrams the textbook has on the Gestalt principles, having the figural meaning and an typographical example. The diagrams really helps to understand the purpose of each principle very well, and what not to do. Learning not to have muddled groups and making sure that different elements doesn't conflict with each other would be a good thing to learn when making the layout for our poster.

Progress:

This week we were suppose to finalize our logotype and moving towards the poster project. I was asked to re-trace my logotype in a vector brush since I literally image traced my tracing paper sketch and called it a day. I used the 10pt oval vector brush on Illustrator to the trace my logotype again. Retracing the logotype made it really polished and cleaned up the wonkyness of the logotype before. Some stuff that is off right now that I see is that the arms of the K is wobbly for the new one and not smooth enough. I probably will use the Smooth pen tool to fix that. With all that my logotype will be perfect. We now have to work on making a grid and collecting photos which I both did. Also I have to do sketches of the layout of the poster, which I haven't done.

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ARTS 246 Blog 3

Videos:

The Draplin videos were very good and informative. I seen the LinkedIn one when Nate Puza showed it in my ARTS 102 class. It is crazy how simple it is to jot down your ideas and sketches on paper, Draplin does it effortlessly. I sometimes get kind of scared that I won't get a good idea, but I guess doodling until something just click is very sick during the design process. Draplin testing different adjustments to his logo is just kind of the sketching process as well, just keep on refining and refining. The custom type sketching of Draplin is crazy as well. He made such a good custom type in just 20 minutes, I am amazed. It really does show the power of using tracing paper and trace your type again and again, then also adjusting your letterforms look very fun.

Reading:

I feel this edition of Thinking with Type gone over more stuff than the last edition, and I learned new things. Kerning is actually helpful to make your typography look professional and not awkward, so I love that. Read that tracking lowercase letters is bad, and I do see that it looks awkward. I never really used negative tracking, since I don't want my letters to be closed together, but it got a place in headlines. I really love the new stuff they added with tracking reversed text, tracking justified type, and issues of auto spacing. Understanding how to make your type legible and readable is important. Putting in clarity and using active verbs in this edition is good to show that clarity is important so that the readers are engaged. The hierarchy section is really good with using an ice sundae as an example to show how to make an interesting hierarchy for your spreads. This week's reading was very helpful in discussing new stuff of typography that I never knew or never paid attention too, very good.

Progress.

At first, I wanted "Columbia" to be the shaped of a tent, but discussing with Marius made me see that was not a good decision. The "Soda City" letterform is bubbly, which does match the rigidness of the font of "Columbia". Marius said I could make the letters of "Soda City" fit into a box or have it on one line. Unfortunately "Soda City" would be smaller and while "Columbia" would be the focus of the whole logotype if "Soda City" was on one line. Marius said I could just make "Soda City" in the tent instead, which works well as "Soda City" and "Columbia" has 8 characters. When digitalizing my logotype, I mainly used grids to plan out the spacing of my letters and also helped to draw the letters with the Pen tool. I ended having to kern my letters and adjust letterforms somewhat. "Soda City" being tent-shaped, with "Market" in a rigid boxed letter form below the tent, and "Columbia, SC" being in a similar font like the other two. I extended the right stem of the M and the stem of the T to indicate the poles of the tent. With critique of Wednesday, everyone liked my idea, but the rigidness of letterforms throws the whole logotype kind of off, they suggest maybe redraw the logotype so it is more rounded and less rigid. Marius agreed with that as I could trace the letterforms with tracing paper and going quick on the tracing to make something that is less rigid. Near the end of class, Marius had everyone to redraw their logotype with tracing paper, I traced my logotype fast and also rounded the letters more. When I was finished I had a logotype that looks better than my previous one. Tracing paper is really like magic.

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ARTS 246 Blog 2

Reading:

This week's reading gives a refresher on what I learned in Typographic Design I, but also new things too. Understanding the printing system, and also understanding what a copy, proofs, and proofreaders are very good things to know for me. I knew in letterpress printing that there is thin strips called "leading" that would give gaps between letters and words, but I never knew about furniture that makes up the margins of the page. While author created a text, only the readers decide the meaning of the text is unique statement to be said in the book and it pretty true. I feel I understand alignment of type better in this edition of "Thinking with Type" than the 2nd edition version. The line length section is super helpful for since I have created my layout for my design portfolio, and understanding what is the recommend amount of characters in a line is good. How to mark a paragraph with signifiers and breaking off paragraphs is also helpful for my portfolio. Very helpful stuff in this week's reading.

Progress:

I felt good about my sketches, thought doing the logotype with the vendor tent would be smart and unique. But Valdes didn't really like it, and that kind of shame, he suggested me if the type would made a tent. I made the text "Columbia" to a tent, and I think it is pretty good, I like the one that is boxed yellow. For the font of "Soda City", a bold letterform would work well with the tent-shaped "Columbia". For "Market", I would like to do a different font from "Soda City" to create contrast between them, maybe the same type style as "Columbia", or something is semi-bold. I create my moodboard late since I did not know we had to create moodboards. I want create something that show the chill and fun vibe at Soda City Market. My moodboard is more artsy and somewhat loose. I will try to refine my logotype this weekend.

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ARTS 246 Blog 1

Reading:

I never heard of REM (root em) as a font term so that is new and using percentage values for scaling type is also new. Monospace font is a new term for me, it is very interesting that typographers engineered a typeface with all the characters occupying the same width between each other. Uniwidth is another new term with the width of the characters staying the same in different weights is insane. New classifications of type like Humanists Sans, Grotesque Sans, Geometric Sans, and Scripts built more upon the complexity of typefaces, it is very cool. I never heard of superfamilies that has both serif and sans-serif styles, I never thought they could co-exist or be similar and be family with each other. Variable fonts is also insane, you can transition weights seamlessly?

Jessica Hische Excerpt:

Understanding that the logo is literally is the face of company because that's what make it recognizable and delivers the first impression to people. Setting your ego aside to make a logotype that is able communicate simply, long-lasting, and well designed for your client. Logotypes needs to be simple and there is a lack of freedom that comes with it in order for the logo to be on any kind of medium, that is interesting to me. Hische discussing her own process of logotype with her client is helpful to organize what you need and able organize your thoughts in order. Also her advice of how we can redesign logotypes on our own like rebranding a small business logo or remaking your past logotypes will help to improve and test yourself.

Progress:

I did my process of my new logotype for Columbia's Soda City Market. At first I doodled "Soda City Market" with different weights and forms to get all my ideas out there. I really like the bold lowercase "soda city" on the first picture as it seems something professional with the calm but bolded lowercase letters, upper case letters are loud, so this something different from the rest of ideas I have. I want to make "market" font be different from "soda city", maybe like the uppercase "market" on the bottom of the first picture would work well. Then I look at pictures of Soda City Market, and the first thing I noticed was the rows of vendor tents in all of the pictures. I thought it is very iconic to add along with the type as we are not allow to have soda caps or cans, since it would be cliche and obvious idea. I doodled some ideas with the vendor tent with the type. I noticed adding a "table" along with tent will make it easily recognizable that it is a vendor tent, and the word "Market" can be inside the table. I also thought about adding the two triangles near the peak of tent to indicate a crown since Soda City Market won freetimes Best of Columbia from 2020-2024, and also the fact a crown is shown along with the award. I will attend the Soda City Market on Saturday since I never been there, to get more ideas and the vibes there.

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ARTS 245 Final Course Response

It has been an overall a good semester taking this class. The first month was rough because of the 9 square project, which I had to put all my time and detail into it. In that project, I learned the art of the x-acto blade, understanding the negative and positive space of a subject, and how precise design could be. Professor Nace knows what she doing, she has gone through worse stuff than the 9 square project, but she is trying to nourish us future designers and teach us the skills that makes us ready for the design world. It is surreal how much I learn from this class like kerning type, learning more about grids, getting more comfortable with Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, and making a brand. I wish I could spend more time with some of my projects, but I learn stuff in this class like how to use some Illustrator tools that will help me to speed up my design process in future. I deeply appreciate this class and Professor Nace for helping me grow as a designer and giving me new skills.

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ARTS 245 Blog 9 (R+D & Moodboard)

I am redesigning the logo of the Dallas Wings from the WNBA. Some critiques of mine on the logo is that the lime green on the blue feels unpleasing, the text of the "Wings" is covering the neck of the Pegasus, making the winged horse to have a floating head in space, and I am not a fan of the frontal view of the horse, personally it looks unserious. I choose the Dallas Wings because initially I planned to scrap the whole logo including the pegasus, so I don't get bias when I am redesigning the logo. But during researching the inspiration of the Pegasus from Dallas Wings, it is based on Dallas' Flying Red Horse. It is neon red Pegasus sign on one of the earliest skyscrapers in the city, it is extremely beloved and served as a guardian for the city of Dallas. So I planned on keeping the Pegasus motif since its important to the Dallas image. New names I came up for the Dallas Wings are Dallas Queens, Dallas Treads, and Dallas Ventures. These names are based on the strength and freedom that want to convey in their logos, supporting women and girls in their community foundation, and their home and away jerseys name (home: Heroine, away: Explorer). For the mood board I had pictures many ideas of Pegasus, imagery that convey freedom, image of lightning (the Dallas Wings mascot is called Lightning), type that is strong or free flowing, and colors that give a sense of freedom and strength.

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ARTS 245 Blog 8

Reading:

This week reading was great in understanding the revisions and editing that goes on during the final parts of design, mainly text errors. It is good to know if you should use a hyphen, en-dash, or em-dash based on textual context, and also not using prime/hatch marks as quotation marks, too. There is a section of how to insert certain dashes, punctation, and marks by using keystrokes, which is super helpful if I ever need them. I also like the pages of design advices with the red text and descriptions that will help the current or future designers that read this book, it is also a good way to end the book, too. The glossary of editing and proofreading marks is helpful in the future when we are working with an editor or proofreader. This reading relates to this week as we are revising our booklet of our two new letters for two fonts.

Progress:

I finished my booklet last week and send a request to print it at the Design Print Lab on Monday. I got an e-mail saying my spreads of the PDF I send was not 11x17 in., which I found out I work with pages that are 11x17 in., and not pages that are 8.5x11 as the spread would be 11x17. So it sucks that happened, but I managed to fixed it during the night before it would be printed the next day. I sized down all my spreads down with the height fitting the actual 11x17 spread, I extend colored background and fix textual issues. On the critique day, I needed to fix some of positioning on some of my elements and dealing with the rags of one of my textbox. I really like my booklet as it has strong colors, well-presented information, and good identifiers like the different tint for the different letterforms that made up both new letters. This project has been fun to layout my vision and experiments with different ideas.

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ARTS 245 Blog 7

Reading:

There are infinite ways to demonstrate hierarchy in text with the number of symbols, indent, line breaks, and changes of fonts or point size, it is very unique in each work. But having too much hierarchy cues will ruin your work as it will be messy and less elegant. I had used multiple emphasis on text before like underlined, bold, and italic, in the past, I thought it was unique but it look very loud looking back after this reading. The reading also got me thinking about how to show a document digitally for a vast audience, like the visually impaired, people who have old devices, or people from different cultures. It is important that your text is legible and easily understood by your audience. This would be important for our next project of working in InDesign and the layout of our spreads. So it will be a challenge to demonstrate hierarchy correctly in the spreads, like how big a text box should be and where would it be placed?

Progress:

This week we were assigned to make mood board for a classmate of ours, Fernando, from the intake form we filled out and the questions he answered on Tuesday. Most of the images of my mood board I filled out is street art/graffiti since in the intake form, Fernando references street art as one of his design and logo ideas he liked, and also the fact he is skates. I also incorporated the color red that he liked for most of the images too. For the illustrations I picked at the bottom, I wanted things that relates to Fernando and his answers. The first one is a hand drawn creature with three heads, which Fernando is interested in creature design, games that has creatures with intricate features and anatomy, and he really like hand drawn art. Second illustration is a painting of street artists, which I picked it because it relates to street art and I liked the colors and the rough painting that used here. The two other illustration are simple street art to have that simple feel that Fernando like in the LEGO logo and the graffiti is also red which I could use for my color palette. Two of my texture images have this gothic bloody texture that relates to the gothic style that Fernando is into, which I could use as texture in the logo. I chose the red pencil scribble circle image because another connection to hand drawn art and the symbol of the circle that I believe that represent life, sun, and unity which Fernando sees the color red as blood which he thinks of life and the lifeforce of himself. The red wave texture is connection to Fernando's love for the ocean and places like Puerto Rico and Hawaii. I had a graffiti typography that is simple that connects to the simplicity of the LEGO logo and the idea of street art. The Burger King sign reminds me a lot of the playfulness and simplicity of the LEGO when I first saw it during the process the of mood board. Last typography is a creepy and inky font that connects to the creepy creatures that Fernando is interested in. For my color palette I choose a red and yellow from the the Burger King sign, the orange is from me finding an orange with the color guide from the yellow. The dark brown and the cream color too is from the color guide, they are my dark and light color.

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ARTS 245 Blog 6

Reading:

This week's reading is a good refresher on the anatomy of type as in the kerning assignment, I did not place the baseline directly underneath the bottom of the letters so the baseline is overlapped or far away from the type, I forgot to account with the baseline. It is cool to note that one point of type is 1/72 of an inch, so a 72pt type would be an inch when printed out. Even after the introduction of desktop computers, making a complete typeface is a tough task, because of all of the different set of letters in a type family like italics, compressed, and small caps. This give me an even deeper respect for people that makes typefaces. Logotype is somewhat similar to the Remaking Language assignment that we are doing this week, manipulating existing or custom letters and type abstractly that connects to produce something that is visually appealing. The reading is a good overview on the anatomy of type, the classifications, and the families of type.

Progress:

For this week's assignment, we are making a 27th letter for two fonts from parts of existing letters of each font. I chose Baskerville Old Face for my serif font, and Franklin Gothic Demi for my sans serif font. My process for my sketches is using a random number generator from 1-26 to get three different letters and brainstorming in my head of how to combine the letters together. I first did the 8 sketches of Baskerville as there are curves and serif, which I try to precise when tracing the letters with the help of my ruler for straight lines and the handle of my scissors for the curves. The unfortunately thing that I didn't keep in mind when sketching the Baskerville is to make the new letter within the type size of a M, in which only two of the sketches I work with. I kept the size issue in mind in sketching with Franklin Gothic Demi and most of the sketches I could work with and finalize them. I picked the sketch with (Z, J, U) for my Baskerville and (H, R, C) for my Franklin Gothic Demi. On Illustrator, I decided to trace my individual letterforms with the Pen tool as it is easier to manipulate the letters in my opinion than using the actual letters. I found tracing Baskerville easier than Franklin Gothic Demi, because Franklin Gothic Demi has symmetry and right angles like for the H and R, which is less forgiving than the curves of Baskerville. From the critiques, my Baskerville letter looks good, but for my Franklin Gothic Demi, Professor Nace said that stem of the H to curve bowl of the R is awkward. In letters of the alphabet, there isn't abrupt curve from a right angle, Prof. Nace said to round top of H's stem to connect with the roundness of the R, and also smoothen the straight crossbar of the H that is connecting to the the curve of the C.

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ARTS 265 Blog 5

Reading:

This week's reading is pretty informative and useful for our next project and the one we finished. It give some tips on kerning, which I did read the kerning section of this week's reading before doing the kerning project. It makes me look about for the letters (W, Y, V, T, L) when kerning. Tracking section was good, teaching me that you should not negative track to save space, it would make the words hard to read when close together. Leading was also important, that more the leading improves readability and make each lines independent from each other. I didn't know that there are names for different types of alignment, so getting to know how they work and how to use them correctly is good to learn. I used vertical lowercase stack type in my first project in my ARTS 102 class, I ended committed a type crime that I didn't know, but I do see uppercase letters are more stable in stacked in lowercase and also the fact that stacked letters should be rarely used. I learned what letters to look out for kerning, how to use tracking, using tracking effectively, making use of alignments, and the use of stacked type.

Progress:

This week's project is an experience for me to learn how type function. I didn't do the assignment during the weekend since I was busy to do it. I finished the CHARLIE kerning on Monday, but the kerning is slightly off on some parts of it. For the gobstopper kerning, I did most of it Monday and finished it up in class on Tuesday, but I do think I got the kerning right for that. I finished the VIOLET kerning and little on the blueberry pie kerning after Tuesday class. Wednesday, I finished everything else all the kerning and did the inking on the first three types until midnight. I woke up early on Thursday to finished the inking on the rest of the types before class, I manage to finish it right before going to class. In class, I defined the stress line on each type and turn all my tracing paper. Types that I felt I didn't kern right was the CHARLIE and the blueberry pie one, as I made some simple mistakes when doing them. The most difficult part of the assignment is the curves as it feel not so simple to correctly trace them even if you have a curved object. This assignment give me a respect for typographers that do type on hand, because you have to be delicate and precise.

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ARTS 245 Blog 4 (9/27)

Reading:

I was not really into this week's reading, I just didn't find it interesting or useful right now or to the new project that we were given. It felt just like an overview of text, how text changes throughout the years, and what designers do with text. How some books defined the purpose of typography is interesting, is it to enhance readability or help readers to avoid reading? The picture that shows a monk climbing up a page from a 13th century book to replace an incorrect line of text with a correct one in the bottom is creative and funny way to correct sentences back then, in my opinion. I also did not know how important spaces are, if spaces was not introduce during Ancient Greece, today sentences would be incoherent. There nothing else in the reading that I found interesting, there was something about text is better at describing a concept than an image, because text can be translated and be understood, which an image can't be translated universally.

Progress:

The progress for this week is that I finished the gray reading project, it was kind of fun to do. Last weekend, I drew thumbnails and brainstorm in my sketchbook of some grids that I would do for this project. I made sure that I could easily measure and cut my type, so I made all my dimensions in whole inch or half of an inch, and have even gutters so I am not dealing with fractions of an inch. I only printed out my cuts of magazines and newspaper on Monday, so I spend the evening of Monday of cutting my printed paper and doing my first two squares and gluing it on the white cardstock. I did my column grid and my experimental grid on Monday since there will be less piece to deal with and gluing down. Problems I have is that one of the margins of the column grid is not 0.5 inch I think and the diagonal gutter was not straight in the experiment grid as I mismeasured the pieces for it. Tuesday, I glued down my two white cardstock to the black Crescent cardstock, and then cut them. Unfortunately the black Crescent cardstock was hard to cut as the paper was layer thick, also with the fact that x-acto blade was dull. So after I struggled to cut the first square, I changed out my dull blade with another one, but it still was pretty difficult to cut the second one. Wednesday, I did my modular grid, and I think its perfect as all of the dimension are correct. I glue downed the grid onto the black Crescent paper and struggled to cut it again. I did gain some cut from pressing down on the back end of blade, that I didn't think would be sharp, to cut down the Crescent paper. I feel very good about my modular grid, and feel okay about my experimental and column grid.

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ARTS245 Blog 3 (9/20)

Reading:

The reading was informative about topic of golden ratio, column grids, and modular grids. I learn about golden ratio, which I did not before, but it did connect with the project that we did last week. I believe that golden ratio is important in order to create a structure that could work for anything but websites. The visual examples for single column grids make me understand that even margins for a grid is not visually appealing, while a margin with vary sizes make a page unique and visually appealing. I also never knew you can do asymmetric page spread, which look really appealing in the example. Multi-column grids allow text and illustration in a spread while, single column grids only allow text is neat to know. Modular grids help to arrange text and illustration in multiple ways as seen in the grid exercise for modular grids. Grids create different possibilities of arrangement of page spreads, from simple to complex, it is important to have a tool that help you organize and structure your design.

Progress:

The progress from last week was I finished my nine square project and turned it in on Thursday (9/12). I glued all my squares onto the large black paper all in one night, it did take a long time for me glue it all down and make the margins and gaps between the squares are correct too. This project was very time consuming, from cutting the paper to 4 by 4 inch, carving out cardstock and gluing down the cardstock. I hate how it took a long time but I am impress with myself to able cut out even the cardstock and overall I thought I did pretty well. I got my grade for the 9 square project this Tuesday (9/17) and I got B, and I am fine with that to be honest, it was good, but not perfect. The issues for the project was my texture paper cut was not straight, I repeated colors for my center row, and the only square from my center row that was identical to my b/w ink square was my texture paper. For the repeated color, it was my fault for getting cardstock of five colors instead of six. I thought I can get away with using white cardstock for my high contrast because I wanted to use the Marvel colors for it (red and white), then using white computer paper for my texture paper, but both was the same color and it is my fault. For the high contrast and low contrast paper not being identical is because that I used the darker color for the light part of Christ Pratt and the lighter color for the darker part of Chris Pratt, its a huge error on my part. This project teach me to be more prepare and have a good plan for my projects.

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ARTS 245 Blog 2 (9/6)

Reading:

The reading was decent, I learned about the history and development of grids in this reading. When I entered the design program, I knew nothing about grids, is only when the final project for ARTS 102 that I first experience grids. I used the grids that was offered in the template, so I never played around with grids or how to use them. This reading helped me learn more about grids and how grids is a core part of how certain designs work. I was surprised how long it took for people to move away from the small, close-knit, and hard to read text in print until the 19th century, where people just started experimenting. Being simple and organized is an aesthetic as seem in The New Typography diagram, having text wrap around an image is a bit distracting and unpleasing to the eye than a spread with text and images that are orderly. It is funny that designers turned the HTML table as a typographic grid, when it was intended for charts and data. There a section on golden ratio, I get the gist of it when I did not before reading this second, it is a spiral of squares that can go on infinitely and the squares leaves no gaps because of their perfect ratio.

Progress:

The overall progress since last blog is that I cut up my second and third square and also made the three squares on the second row. The first of new three squares was the high-contrast, with red and white cardstock for Chris Pratt involvement in the Marvel Movies. For the low-contrast it was an orange cardstock and a darker orange paper, as Chris Pratt will be the voice of Garfield in the new Garfield movie. The dark orange paper was flimsy and easy to rip so it was the bottom layer for the square, I had to make sure that paper was straight on all sides with no rips. The third and final square is computer paper on a cardboard, because I thought Chris Pratt was Jim in the British version of The Office. Chris Pratt was in a TV Show called "Parks and Recreation", but the producer of the show, Michael Schur, was producer for the early seasons of The Office, that why I was mistaken, but the texture square is still connected in some way. The Xerox experimentation, I crumbled up one of papers of Chris Pratt as I didn't how to manipulate the image on the university student printers and also I still thought Chris Pratt was in the British version of The Office. Conceptual interpretation square is a mixtape belonging to Chris Pratt's character in Marvel, Peter Quill, the mixtape is known for Peter Quill, as the mixtape was made by Peter's mom to share her favorite songs for her son. I just need to work on the 8th square of the project, cut 7th and the 9th, and glue everything done and I am finished with this project.

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ARTS 245 Blog 1 (8/30)

Reading:

It was very interesting to read about the development of lettering and typography throughout the years, from the creation of the printing press in Europe to modern times. I also liked the examples of different typefaces throughout the chapters to physically see the similarities and differences between each typeface and the history of typefaces in general.

The section on the creation of italics was interesting too, as I didn't know the origins of italics to be a casual cursive writing system and is cheaper to produced, but it does make sense. Creation of the grid-based typography is from trying to linking letters to the anatomy of man, which I think is funny as the two ideas is vastly different.

I also like the "revolution" and change of ideas on typography throughout the years, like Baskerville abandoning mechanical typography and towards manual typography, or avant-garde typographers fleshing out and pushing typography to its limits. This have been an interesting read in understanding the development of type and lettering.

Progress:

I printed out a picture of Chris Pratt, did the line drawing and negative drawing of him last weekend, and it was pretty fun to do. I choose Christ Pratt as the person I am doing for this project because the picture I am using is so funny to me as he is glistening in the photo with light in his eyes and it is also the same picture that was used when it was announced that Chris Pratt would be Mario in the Mario Movie.

The things that sucked this week is that the picture I printed out of Chris Pratt was not 4x4 in., it was like 3.8x3.8 in. It probably because I used a Word Document to print out four 4x4 in. images of Chris Pratt, and I added some spacing between the pictures so the pictures aren't so close together. My guess is that Word shrink down the images when printing because the images probably didn't fit on the page because of all the spacing between each images, even though digitally there was two 4x4 images on each page.

I found that out the problem when cutting one of the pictures I had, so I printed out another one that was 4.19x4.19, because I thought the images would shrink again, but it actually came out 4.19x4.19, which I could just cut off the excess part of the images (as I cut myself when I finished with it). I redid my negative drawing with the new dimension and combined aspects like the eye, eyebrow and nose together so that I am not working with too much small parts when cutting up cardstock. I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do this week.

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Final Course Reflection

This class has been amazing, I glad to have Nate as a professor, he is talented and his works inspires me. It was good to work on projects and see others' works. I am grateful to learn about Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. I learned how to package my files, layout, grids, pen tool, typography, using thumbnails and many more stuff, that prepare me becoming a graphic designer. I really enjoy this class and looking forward to the future.

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For the reading, Chapter 16-18 talks about starting a web brand and having to layout the necessary information, using UX Design to give consumers a good browsing and viewing experience, and using computer science to incorporate algorithms and code for the web brand. Chapter 19 talks about picking through art schools and colleges, what to do when picking colleges, what you need to expect, and terms you need to know in order to achieve into the design industry. The last chapter of this book resonates with me, because almost three months ago, I wasn't really sure if I should pursue graphic design, but my time in ARTS 102 made me feel confident that this is what I want to do. Also Chapter 16-17 relates to the final project we are doing, we need a layout process for our texts and images, have to know our audience, give them something that is easy to look at but not too bland. For the project, I currently just laying out and organizing my text boxes and images, some of the spreads seems somewhat off, wonder if when I incorporate some visual elements it would be fixed.

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For Project 5, I chose different types of chairs. I layout them in quadrants because I figure that laying it out side by side, the images had to be scaled down more it supposed to and wanted to bring attention the images. I chose different material and aspects of chairs with the basic wooden chair, the plastic Monobloc chair, the office chair that has wheels, and the SpongeBob custom arm chair to spice up the selection. For the syntax, I analyzed each chair from bottom to up so it would be organized.

Chapter 15 talks about the evolving technology, how mostly everything is digital now, because its more accessible. Chanaud states that 50% of people accessing the Internet are on mobile, which the rise of technology paves way new products and digital breakthrough for designers and the masses. Designers have to develop magazines and websites that fit on phones, tablets, laptops, and PCs. App designers creates applications that benefit society like John Kilpatrick's Cabin. There is game design to create games that used for entertainment like "Smack That Gugl" and "DrumTrackHD". New innovations are happening because of the evolution of technology and it is interesting to look forward how far it might go.