What is graphic design

What is Graphic Design

Graphic design is giving somebody something to remember. Making somebody want to buy a book to put it face out on their shelf because it made them feel something. Graphic designers really need to understand what goes on in people brains. What makes us bye, choose, and anything in-between. A job of a design is to catch someones eye, intrigue them. Make logos, labels, packaging, appealing so that way our whole world isn't boring.

I as a graphic designer student am so interested on how they create book covers, boxes, and logos. Even buildings and statues. The amount of thinking that goes behind these designs without recognition just blows my mind. Before Ecomm I would have never been able to tell you that color theory was such a large part of designs and that designers had to think so hard about what would grab the consumers attention. Now that I am aware of all the thought processes that goes behind the designs I am even more involve with the idea of designs.
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Senior Project Final

I have finally finished my magazine. 1 front cover, 3 articles, 3 visuals, and 1 back cover. I did it. I am super proud of myself for all that I accomplished. I finally made something that represents not only my creativity, but also what I believe in. This project has also given me the confidence to know that I can start something from the sketches all the way to the final file, and have every single word and design come from me. I am so thankful that I trusted my gut and chose this as my final project. But most of all, I am glad that I learned that it is okay to use your experiences to influence your creative work.

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In illustrator we made orthogonal cubes. We watched a tutorial on Lynda.com to figure out how to make all of the sides equal. We had to copy and paste the three main lines and copied them several times to finish off the cube. Then we added color to the cube to give it depth/perception. The darker colors make it look farther behind and the lighter shades make it come forward. Then i rounded the edges of the cube so that way it did not have weird tails that lost the flow of the eye making it look 3D. This was a challenge for me because there was so many steps to do to make it look accurate. However the end result was with it, because it looked really awesome and it's cool to say that I made this from scratch.

Photoshop Mask Video

In web we decided to explore the animation side of photoshop as an end of year experiment. The project was to use two photos, one that shows through the first when a mask layer is applied. Using the timeline feature you can create a timed sequence with type and a "peep hole" aspect with the mask. what pictures we used was up to us. I decided to do a picture of myself and the picture that would show through is a bunch of smaller pictures of things that are important to me.

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