Blog for Designing Web Graphics Class
One of my favorite activities in this module was creating this retro background with fonts and cool background effects. I learned how to change the looks of the fonts and how to use the mesh tool to create cool backgrounds. I have always wanted to learn more about the Illustrator tools and how to make [...]
The color wheel is a visual representation of the colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship. The Primary colors red, blue and yellow form a triangle with the secondary colors between each of them, as well as the tertiary colors, a mixture of primary and secondary colors. The complimentary colors of the color wheel are [...]
I used the Colourlovers site and created a cool new palette that I was able to save and open in Illustrator to use for projects. It was neat how you could design and choose colors. I even created a color that had not been used before. I go to name the color on the site. [...]
My fingers are itching to design and to create, my hands ache from trying to hold them back, but I must, for there are blogs to be written.
It’s a new decade, and a new world of web typography is on the horizon. Remote server access and font embedding will dramatically expand the web-safe library of fonts. Fonts.com anticipates a golden age of consistency and creativity on the web. Their site offers more than 150,000 different fonts to download. http://www.fonts.com The fonts presented [...]
Illustrator Tutorials: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Illustrator/ not only provides tutorials for anything from punk kids to logos to jazzing up your fonts, it provides tutorials for almost every other Adobe software as well. You can view these tutorials and learn and you can upload your own tutorials to help others learn from your experience as well. More Illustrator [...]
The Rule of Three is the rule of composition of objects based on a triangular figure, and uses the notion that the most interesting compositions are those in which the primary element is off center. Basically, take any frame of reference and divide it into thirds placing the elements of the composition on the lines [...]
The Gestalt Principle is a very helpful one to remember. It has to do with the relationship of subjects in a composition. Some subjects are related by size some by color, some not at all. Some of the principles include proximity, uniform connectedness, continuation, similarity, contrast, and organization. The following quote is from an article [...]
The principles of design are the guiding truths of any graphic design. They are as relevant to web design as any other design. Most design principles that apply to graphic design in print also apply to web design. For example, you need symmetry (balance), rhythm, proportion, dominance and unity in your design. You must make [...]
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February 9, 2010
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