Balance
Unity
Also, answer the following questions in your own words.
How do you add a layer mask to a particular layer?
What two colors are used to create the mask?
Describe the process of using a layer mask?
Friday, December 9, 2011
Review week 13
For each of the 8 principles of design, find an example that utilizes the principle within the design. You should have 8 DIFFERENT sample designs. For each, discuss how the particular principle is used.
Contrast 
Emphasis
Proportion/Scale
Repetition
Rhythm
Variety
Balance
Unity
Also, answer the following questions in your own words.
How do you add a layer mask to a particular layer?
What two colors are used to create the mask?
Describe the process of using a layer mask?
Balance
Unity
Also, answer the following questions in your own words.
How do you add a layer mask to a particular layer?
What two colors are used to create the mask?
Describe the process of using a layer mask?
Review week 14
Identify 5 colleges that offer graphic design (or related) majors. For each, list the school name, location, graphics majors that are offered, requirements for admission.
1). Devry
2). The Art Institute of Atlanta
3). ITT Technical Institute
4).
5).
Answer the following questions in your own words... What is a portfolio?A set of pieces of creative work collected by someone to display their skills, esp. to a potential employer.
What is the importance of a portfolio?
It allows potential employers and schools look at your work and gives them proof of your skills and abilities.
1). Devry
2). The Art Institute of Atlanta
3). ITT Technical Institute
4).
5).
Answer the following questions in your own words... What is a portfolio?A set of pieces of creative work collected by someone to display their skills, esp. to a potential employer.
What is the importance of a portfolio?
It allows potential employers and schools look at your work and gives them proof of your skills and abilities.
REview week 16
How many points are in a inch? How many points are in a pica?
There's 72 points in an inch & 12 points in a pica!
Out of the seven classifications the one that would be best for body type is....
Sans Serif, its simple and easy to read.
There's 72 points in an inch & 12 points in a pica!
Out of the seven classifications the one that would be best for body type is....
Sans Serif, its simple and easy to read.
Script
Modern
Old Style
Sans Serif
Decorative
Slab Serif
Dingbats
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Podcast #4 Typography
Define typography?
-the art of expressing ideas through the selection of appropriate typefaces
Where did the word "typography" originate from?
-originally from a greek word typo and graphy
What does typography involve?
-creating and modifying type. appropiate font and spacing between letters.
What is a typeface?
-distinctive deigns of visual symbols that are used to create a printed image
What is another term for typeface?
-fonts
What is a character?
-individual symbols that makes up a type face
What is type style?
-modifications in a typeface that create design variety while maintaining the visual style of a typeface
What does type style "create" within a design?
-it creates variety.
What is the waist line and what does it indicate?
-imaginary line drawn in the middle of the characters
What is a base line and what does it indicate?
-imaginary line drawn at the bottom of the characters
What is an ascender?
-the part of the character that extends above the waist line
What is a descender?
-part of the character that extends below the baseline
Describe a serif?
-smaller line used to finish ff a main stroke of a letter usually at the to[ and bottom of a character
How can the size of the typeface be identified?
-point size
What is a point?
-verticle measurement used to identify the size of a typeface.
How many points are in an inch?
-72
What is a pica and how many are in an inch?
It is a unit of measuring that is typical for measuring newspaper.
How many points are in a pica?
6 picas in a inch. there are 12 points in a pica.
What is body type and where can it be found?
-points from 4pt to 12pt and where there is a lot of text
What is the key to selecting appropriate typefaces to be used as body type?
-depends on how much is written
What is display type and how is it used?
above12 pt and to draw attention
What is reverse type and when would it be used?
-white type on a slid black background.
What is a typeface classification?
-basic system for classifying typfaces
When was Blackletter invented and how was it used?
-1400's used with invention of the printing press
Describer the characteristics of a Blackletter typeface?
-highly ornamental, elaborate thick to thin strokes
When was Old Style invneted and what was is based on?
-ancheint roman inscriptions
Describe the characteristics of an Old Style typeface?
-wedge shape
When were formal scripts developed?
-17th-18th century
When were casual scripts developed?
-20th century
Describe the characteristics of a Script typeface?
-Resembles handwriting.
When was Modern typefaces developed and why?
-late 18th century as a break from traditional typography
Describe the characteristics of a Modern typeface?
-sharp contrast between thick and this strokes
How early can Sans Serif typefaces be found? What happened?
-5th century. they became obsolete
When did they become popular?
-1920's
What does "sans serif" mean?
-without serifs
Describe the characteristics of a Sans Serif typeface?
-decorative purposes
When was Slab Serif developed and why?
-19th century decorative purposes
Describe the characteristics of a Slab Serif typeface?
uniform line weight and thicker square serifs
Describe Decorative typefaces?
- have a theme in mind
Why were they developed?
-to incorporate pictures
What are they best used for?
-larger points
-the art of expressing ideas through the selection of appropriate typefaces
Where did the word "typography" originate from?
-originally from a greek word typo and graphy
What does typography involve?
-creating and modifying type. appropiate font and spacing between letters.
What is a typeface?
-distinctive deigns of visual symbols that are used to create a printed image
What is another term for typeface?
-fonts
What is a character?
-individual symbols that makes up a type face
What is type style?
-modifications in a typeface that create design variety while maintaining the visual style of a typeface
What does type style "create" within a design?
-it creates variety.
What is the waist line and what does it indicate?
-imaginary line drawn in the middle of the characters
What is a base line and what does it indicate?
-imaginary line drawn at the bottom of the characters
What is an ascender?
-the part of the character that extends above the waist line
What is a descender?
-part of the character that extends below the baseline
Describe a serif?
-smaller line used to finish ff a main stroke of a letter usually at the to[ and bottom of a character
How can the size of the typeface be identified?
-point size
What is a point?
-verticle measurement used to identify the size of a typeface.
How many points are in an inch?
-72
What is a pica and how many are in an inch?
It is a unit of measuring that is typical for measuring newspaper.
How many points are in a pica?
6 picas in a inch. there are 12 points in a pica.
What is body type and where can it be found?
-points from 4pt to 12pt and where there is a lot of text
What is the key to selecting appropriate typefaces to be used as body type?
-depends on how much is written
What is display type and how is it used?
above12 pt and to draw attention
What is reverse type and when would it be used?
-white type on a slid black background.
What is a typeface classification?
-basic system for classifying typfaces
When was Blackletter invented and how was it used?
-1400's used with invention of the printing press
Describer the characteristics of a Blackletter typeface?
-highly ornamental, elaborate thick to thin strokes
When was Old Style invneted and what was is based on?
-ancheint roman inscriptions
Describe the characteristics of an Old Style typeface?
-wedge shape
When were formal scripts developed?
-17th-18th century
When were casual scripts developed?
-20th century
Describe the characteristics of a Script typeface?
-Resembles handwriting.
When was Modern typefaces developed and why?
-late 18th century as a break from traditional typography
Describe the characteristics of a Modern typeface?
-sharp contrast between thick and this strokes
How early can Sans Serif typefaces be found? What happened?
-5th century. they became obsolete
When did they become popular?
-1920's
What does "sans serif" mean?
-without serifs
Describe the characteristics of a Sans Serif typeface?
-decorative purposes
When was Slab Serif developed and why?
-19th century decorative purposes
Describe the characteristics of a Slab Serif typeface?
uniform line weight and thicker square serifs
Describe Decorative typefaces?
- have a theme in mind
Why were they developed?
-to incorporate pictures
What are they best used for?
-larger points
Friday, November 11, 2011
Review week 12
The way in which the principle of design is applied affects the expressive content or the message of a work. You can use one or more of these principles to compose a page. Using "repetition" helps the composition of a oage by acting as a visual key that ties your piece together. You can also manipulate the natural proportions of a piece. Many artist use strange proportions to acheive their expressive goals. Using balance in your piece appeals to the audience's eye and helps them to feel a sense of completion or safeness if symmetrical balance is used. If asymmetrical balance is used to give the audience a greater sense of tension. Emphasis is used to make certain elements in a design stand out. Lastly, using unity in a design gives it a wholeness and completion of a composition. Those are just some of the ways that you can use the principles of design!
Repetition: When you repeat a part of the desgin throughout the entire piece.
Proportions: The size and scale of the different parts of a design compared to eachother.
Balance: The distribution of light and heavy elements in a desgin.
Emphasis: Focusing on a certain part of a design.
Unity: The "wholeness" of the composition.
Figure/Ground: The difference between the positive and negative space in a design.
Rythm: Organized movement in space and time.
Contrast: Occurs when two related elements are different.
Repetition: When you repeat a part of the desgin throughout the entire piece.
Proportions: The size and scale of the different parts of a design compared to eachother.
Balance: The distribution of light and heavy elements in a desgin.
Emphasis: Focusing on a certain part of a design.
Unity: The "wholeness" of the composition.
Figure/Ground: The difference between the positive and negative space in a design.
Rythm: Organized movement in space and time.
Contrast: Occurs when two related elements are different.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Review Week 9
Compare and contrast vector graphics and pixel images.
What resolution is necessary to print raster images?The precise resolution of a raster graphic necessary for high-quality results depends on the viewing distance
What resolution is necessary to display raster images on the internet?
A 72 dpi resolution is necessary to display raster images on the internet.
What resolution is necessary to print raster images?The precise resolution of a raster graphic necessary for high-quality results depends on the viewing distance
What resolution is necessary to display raster images on the internet?
A 72 dpi resolution is necessary to display raster images on the internet.
Andy Warhol
Within what art genre did Warhol work?
Pop Art
Pop Art
Define the genre?
Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media.
Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media.
During what years was he alive?
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)
Post 2 samples of his art. Answer the following questions for each piece.
Title of the piece?
"Micheal Jackson", "Muhammad Ali"
Describe the color that he utilizes. Does he use any particular color scheme?
He uses Complimentary colors in both pictures.
What do you notice about the artwork itself?
The colors go hand and hand and it brings out the beauty and people in the pictures.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Steve Jobs
Who is Steve Jobs?
CEO and creator of apple.
CEO and creator of apple.
What company was he CEO for many years?
Apple
Apple
What did he do for the computer industry?
Thanks to the Apple, people's image of computers changed from being a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary people.
Thanks to the Apple, people's image of computers changed from being a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary people.
How did this man impact the graphic design industry?
Steve Jobs software design for the Macintosh introduced the windows interface and the mouse which set a new standard for graphical interface applications and interface interaction.
Steve Jobs software design for the Macintosh introduced the windows interface and the mouse which set a new standard for graphical interface applications and interface interaction.
Review week 8
Why must designers pay close attention to how color is utilized within a composition? when using color ,volor can can have differnt meaning and a different feel
Why is the color wheel an important tool for graphic designers?
It helps us be aware of what color theme we are using
It helps us be aware of what color theme we are using
Find an example of neutral colors utilized within a design (hint: google poster design). Near the sample, discuss why you feel the designer included neutral colors within the composition
Briefly describe how we "see" the color of an object?Our eyes and brain work together to interpret the different wavelengths of light as different colors
Friday, September 30, 2011
Review week 7 (Podcast 2)
The right use of color can do what?
maximize productivity, minimize visual fatigue, and relax the whole body/
maximize productivity, minimize visual fatigue, and relax the whole body/
Within the electromagnetic spectrum, which waves allow us to see color?
Visible light.
Visible light.
Describe white light?
EQUAL PARTS OF ALL COLOR IN VISIBLE SPECTRUM.
EQUAL PARTS OF ALL COLOR IN VISIBLE SPECTRUM.
How do we see color if objects "have no color of their own"?
OBJECTS APPEAR TO BE COLOR WHEN THEY ABSORB or reflect colors in the visible spectrum. reflected color is the color we see.
OBJECTS APPEAR TO BE COLOR WHEN THEY ABSORB or reflect colors in the visible spectrum. reflected color is the color we see.
What is a glass prism?
A transparent trianglar object that breaks white light into all the colors of the visible light spectrum
A transparent trianglar object that breaks white light into all the colors of the visible light spectrum
What seven colors result when white light is refracted through a prism?
Red, Orange, Green, yello Blue, Indigo, and violent.
Describe hue?
Red, Orange, Green, yello Blue, Indigo, and violent.
Describe hue?
The color itself
When does white light occur?
When all wavelentghs are reflected back to your eye.
When all wavelentghs are reflected back to your eye.
When does black light occur?
when no light is reflected to your eye.
when no light is reflected to your eye.
How color is perceived depends on what?
The type of light it is seen with.
The type of light it is seen with.
What is a color wheel? A visual tool that shows the reltionship of colors.
What are primary colors? Name them?
Red, Yellow, and blue
Red, Yellow, and blue
What are secondary colors? Name them?
Orange, Green, and volent.
Orange, Green, and volent.
What are tertiary colors? Name them?
Red- orange, yellor-orange,yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violent, and red-violent.
Red- orange, yellor-orange,yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violent, and red-violent.
What are neutral colors? How can they be created?
colors of low saturation. by mixing complementary colors.
colors of low saturation. by mixing complementary colors.
How can a neutral color help a design?
help put focus on others colors. or serve to tone down overpowering vcolors.
help put focus on others colors. or serve to tone down overpowering vcolors.
What are complementary colors? Name them?
COlors opposite of each other on the color wheel. red and green, orange and blue, yellow and violent.
COlors opposite of each other on the color wheel. red and green, orange and blue, yellow and violent.
What is color value?
The lightness or darkness of a hue
The lightness or darkness of a hue
What is a shade?
A low value color.
A low value color.
What is a tint?
a High value color
a High value color
What is saturation/intensity?
Brightness of a color.
Brightness of a color.
What happens when you mix complementary colors together?
it produces a dull tone.
it produces a dull tone.
Describe color harmony?
a pleasing arrangements of arts. pleasing to the eye. it engages the viewer
a pleasing arrangements of arts. pleasing to the eye. it engages the viewer
What is a color scheme? A harmonious color combination
Describe a monochromatic color scheme?
Uses tints and hades of one color. it is clean and elegant.
Uses tints and hades of one color. it is clean and elegant.
Describe an analogous color scheme?
Uses 3 colors hat are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. oftne found in nature. can accomadate changing moods.
Uses 3 colors hat are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. oftne found in nature. can accomadate changing moods.
Describe a complementary color scheme?
uses two colors that are opposite on the color wheel. wil draw lots of attention
uses two colors that are opposite on the color wheel. wil draw lots of attention
Describe a split-complementary color scheme?
1 color + 2 adjacent to its complements
1 color + 2 adjacent to its complements
Describe a triadic color scheme?
uses 3 colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
uses 3 colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
What colors are considered to be warm colors?
yellow, oranges,and red.
yellow, oranges,and red.
Describe a warm color scheme?
Strong and welcoming, its bold and energetic.
Strong and welcoming, its bold and energetic.
What colors are considered to be cool colors?
Greens, blues, and violent
Greens, blues, and violent
Describe a cool color scheme? Gives an impression of calm, em to appear father away. gives the illusion of depth.
Why is important to consider which colors are being used within a design?
the right color choice can convey the right message and envoke the desired response.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Review week 6
What is the pen tool used for? the pin tool is used for precise drawings and also i can be used to make vector images. The pin tool is used when u want to make a design perfectly or it helps u to be more exact when you are doing a design.
How can you manipulate a path/line in Illustrator? Discuss the use of the white arrow tool, pen+, pen-, and convert too.
How can you utilize the layers palette in Illustrator?
u can have one layer with a picture than with the other layer u can trace over that picture o r deign to incorperate your own design.
How do you create a clipping mask in Adobe Illustrator? by making a clear square over the space u want to use. than u select all the objects in the square and than go to objects and click make make.
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