Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Poster according to Alignment

I have just moved the logo to the bottom right corner of the page. I took the titles and the text to the top left corner. And by doing these I have an invisible line right in the middle of the text, which is what alignment is all about. Having an invisible line that connects all the visual objects.

Chapter 3

Alignment
  • Everything on the page should have a connection.
  • The objects should have a visual connection.
  • Organize your page.
  • Invisible line that connects everything.
  • If you put one text in the left side you better put all the text in the left side.
  • You can put one part of the text in the right and the other on the left, because their will be an invisible line in the middle.
  • You can sometimes break Alignment but you have to do it consciously.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Poster according to proximity

I made my poster look like this because the old design filled most of the space but than on this one; I took the Wikipedia logo down to the Wikipedia title. I made the wiki chip title smaller and putted it under the Wikipedia title and that gave me more space. Which is what proximity is all about.

Chapter 2

Proximity
  • Don't use all the space. Empty space is not bad.
  • When things are related, they should be physically close to each other on your paper.
  • When things are not related they need to be away from each other.
  • Put things in order.
  • The basic purpose of proximity is to organize.

Chapter 1

Chapter one tells us about the four basic design principles-
  • Contrast- the idea is not to put objects that are similar
  • Repetition- repeat some shapes or colors it will catch people's eyes
  • Alignment- connection between the objects on the page
  • Proximity- Items that are related should be close to each other

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Graphic Design

1. How would you define graphic design or Design? When did it start?
  • Graphic design is when you design logo or something else that will be understandable by must people. For example the train sign, everyone understand what the train sign means. Graphic design can be used for brands, Trademarks etc. The graphic design have started in the 15th century in Italy.
2. How would you define Technology?
  • Technology is a branch that deals with our daily problems and trying to find solutions that will make our life easier. The technology always needs fit the function.
3. What would you say is the relationship between Design and Technology? How have they evolved together over time? Are they one and the same?
  • Design and Technology are pretty much related to each other because you always need to design the technology so it will fit its function and you can always use technology to design your new tech. After people have designed the computer they had started to do graphic design on the computer which I think was much faster and easier. So technology and design are connected to each other because you need design for technology and you need technology for design.
4. How has your perception of design changed after reading those articles?
  • Kind of, I started to understand that technology is an important of the design. And the design is an important part of the technology.


Research methodDesign process
Preparation for researchLiterature reviewStudy historic and contemporary examples, media
Information gathering. Goal: to limit variables and identify problemCollection of preliminary field dataExperimentation with materials and visual ideas
Identification of problem and hypothesisInformation correlated; problem defined; educated guesses made; hypotheses stated; research design preparedDesign problem identified through visual analysis and recognition
Exposition of facts and interpretation Research plan is carried out; results are analyzed, plan is modified as necessary based on results; experiments are replicatedWork is created in a series, with each work suggesting problems to explore in subsequent work
Presentation of results and findings Publication of findingsExhibition of work or production of design