Part A: What is Graphic Design

a) What is the purpose of Graphic Design? 

to communicate a message via images and type. 

b) What 5 steps should you consider when beginning a design project?

Steps in the Graphic Design Process:

• Analyze the audience.
• Determine the purpose of your message.
• Decide where and how your message will appear (whether it will be a printed publication, presentation, or web site).
• Establish goals.
• Organize text and graphics.
• Choose an appropriate format and layout.
• Select appropriate typefaces, type sizes, type styles, and spacing.
• Add and manipulate graphics.
• Organize text and graphics.
• Proofread
• Refine and fine-tune.

c) What is the a layout? What purpose does a good layout serve? 

A layout is the arrangement of graphics in the said work. 

d) List 5 guidelines for a good layout.

General Guidelines for Layouts:

• Determine the purpose of your publication, presentation, or web site before you begin your layout.
• Establish the primary message you want to present and plan your layout around it.
• Choose an appropriate type of media (web page, presentation, printed book, newsletter, or brochure, etc.) and a size.
• Identify the target audience, then write and design the publication, presentation, or web site keeping this audience in mind.
• Consider their interests, reading levels, background, etc.

e) How should layouts be organized? 

Layouts should be made appealing to the eye of its viewer allowing easier interpretation. 

f) What should a designer do when capturing their reader’s attention? 

Designers must consider how reader’s will read the information they have provided.

Typography Assignment

Taken into a different direction; rather than working with a famous Canadian, I requested to have the assignment produced in relation to ArtsFest 2011: Write On.

Life Skills Co-Op Student Logo

Life Skills Co-Op Student T-Shirt Design.

I figured that since they help around the school and sell Starbucks coffee, I can use the "older" Starbucks Logo as a theme and a a but of Mcluhan into it.

Truth be told, I have no idea what is going on behind this logo, it just cam to me. 



 Original

Vintage 

 Original

 Vintage 

Retro Grunge 

Photoshop Vintage Effect

 Original 

Vintage 

Calendar and Agenda.

Calender Cover

Agenda Cover

Personally, I would like to say that the agenda cover did not reach my ideals due to time restraints.

Current WIP [to be completed]

Agenda Cover

Being greatly influenced by comics, I intend the to have characters from a cliched highschool clique featured on the agenda cover and back, reflecting school life.

Calendar Cover (?)

My intent here was simply to Daze and confuse the viewer using repetitive patterns. You can say it reflects the outlook of ones busy future. This Idea is meerly an idea. I will probably use a similar idea using the school logo.



T-Shirt/Button Designs

Either design can be resized to fit either requirements of the assignment. I feel as if they are better off suited uncut and for the t-shirt, in my opinion. 

Returns to the notion of orchastrating one's future.

Just a cartoon teen, with a semi-unsure expression, surrounded by a few of the possibilities she can pursue in the future.

Brochure Design. Simple and Clean? I say "yes."

Skills Canada Poster

Typography

Slick Business Card Design

Personalized business card

Copy of "Slick Business Card"

Jack and Jill Problem

Using pictures to tell a story.