Showing posts with label Graphic Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graphic Design. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 December 2014

Final Project (Pop Up Book)

This is the print out of my background

Cut at the middle to make it pop

And this is the result!

Saturday, 6 December 2014

Mock-Up For Final

This is my mock-up for final assignment Graphic Design. Making Pop-Up book. Title for my book is "Snail Tail!". My book in small size (A6 size). Here is my progress...

Research

Example of my pop-up book. (First trial)

Sketches

Illustrate in AI



Friday, 14 November 2014

Hands-On Exercise : Elements Of Design


TEXT : A printed or written word that can be read.

ILLUSTRATION : A picture or something that illustrate. It is used to explain or decorate a text.

TEXTURE: The visual and especially tactile quality of a surface.

COLOUR : Specific hues and has 3 properties (Chroma, Intensity, Value).

SHAPE : 2-Dimensional line with no form or thickness : Flat.

LINE : A mark used to define a shape.


Sunday, 9 November 2014

History of Typography


Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language most appealing to learning and recognition. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefacespoint sizeline length, line-spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space within letters pairs (kerning).

Typography is performed by typesetterscompositors, typographers, graphic designersart directorsmanga artistscomic book artistsgraffiti artistsclerical workers, and everyone else who arranges type for a product. Digitization opened up typography to new generations of visual designers and lay users, and David Jury, Head of Graphic Design at Colchester Institute in England, states that "typography is now something everybody does."



History of Graphic Design



15,000-10,000 BC : The first known visual communication, with pictographs and symbols is the Lascaux caves in Southern France.


3600 BC : The Blau Monument, the oldest artifact known to combine words and pictures.


105 AD : Chinese government official Ts'ai Lun or Cai Lun credited with inventing paper.


1045 AD : Pi Sheng invents movable type, allowing for characters to be individually placed for printing.

1276 : Printing arrives in Europe with a paper mill in Fabriano, Italy.


1450 : Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenburg credited with perfecting the system for printing type in books.


1460 : Albrecht Pfister the first to add illustrations to a printed book.


1470 : Nicolas Jenson, considered one of history's greatest typeface designers, sets new standard for Roman type.


1530 : Claude Garamond opens first type foundry, developing and selling fonts to printers.


1722 : First Caslon Old Style font developed.


1760 : Industrial Revolution begins, setting the stage for advances in graphic design production.

1796 : Author Aloys Senefelder develops lithography.


1800 : Lord Stanhope invents first printing press made of all cast-iron parts, requiring 1/10 the manual labor and doubling the possible paper size.


1816 : First San-Serif font makes a subtle entrance as one line of a book.

1860 : Arts and Crafts Movement - John Ruskin, William Morris, Gustav Stickley.

1861 : William Morris, who became a highly influential figure in design history, sets up art-decorating firm.

1880 : Development of halftone screen allows for first photo printed with a full range of tones.

1890 : Art Nouveau movement begins and changes design, making its way into all types of commercial design and utilizing all types of arts.


1901 : Frank Lloyd Wright - 'the Art and Craft of the Machine'; basic principles of modern industrial design; future designers create prototypes for machine production.

1910 : AEG (German general Electri). This is the beginning of  'corporate image'.

1916 : Dada Movement. George Grosz, Hannah Hoch, Kurt Schwitters, Marx, Ernts, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Breton, Hans Arp.


1917 : The Art movement called De Stijl, Dutch for 'The Style' was on the rise.


1919 : The Bauhaus, a German school, is founded, eventually providing the framework formodern design.

1919 : Constructivism movement originated in Russia, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Taltin, Naum Gabo.


1932 : Stanley Morison oversees design of Times New Roman font, commissioned by the Times of London.

1947 : Swiss design: Armin Hofmann, Emil Ruder.

1950 : The New York School: Paul Rand, Alexey Brodovich, Henry Wolf, Herb Lubalin, George Lois.


1956 : Paul Rand designs IBM logo using City Medium typeface.



1957 : Max Miedinger designs Neue Haas Grotesk font, later renamed Helvetica.

1960 : Pop Art; Pentagram Design: Colin Forbes, Theo Crosby; Scandinavian Designer: Alvar Aalto.


1961 : Italian Designer: Ettore Sottsass, Memphis group Movement.

1968 : Post-Modernism: Wolfgang Weigart, Steff Geissbuhler, Odermatt & Tissi.

1969: Douglas Engelbart develops first computer mouse, setting the stage for the future tool of graphic design.


1970 : Corporate graphics: Olivetti, CBS, CIBA, Chase, Mobil.

1979 : New Wave: April Greiman, Kenneth Hiebert, Paula Scher.

1984 : Apple releases first Macintosh computer, featuring bitmap graphics.


1985 : Aldus, formed by Paul Brainerd, develops PageMaker software. Brainerd coins the phrase Desktop Publishing.


1990 : Photoshop version one is released.

 


1990 : Physicist Tim Berners-Lee develops the world wide web, along with HTML and the concept of website addresses.




What is Graphic Design?


Graphic design is the methodology of visual communication, and problem-solving through the use of type, space and image.

Common uses of graphic design include identity (logos and branding), publications (magazines, newspapers and books), print advertisements, posters, billboards, website graphics and elements, signs and product packaging.


Logois a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition.

Book Designis the art of incorporating the content, styleformatdesign, and sequence of the various components of a book into a coherent whole.

Websitealso written as web siteor simply site, is a set of related web pages typically served from a single web domain.

Icon / Symbol - a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process.

Brochures is a flyerpamphlet or leaflet that is used to pass information about something. Brochures are advertising pieces mainly used to introduce a company or organization and inform about products target audience

Product Packagingthe process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. 







Greeting Cards is an illustrated, folded card featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment. They are also sent to convey thanks or express other feeling.





Poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface.Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements.




Advertisementis a form of marketing communication used to encourage, persuade, or manipulate an audience to take or continue to take some action.
Billboardis a large outdoor advertising structure, typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Present large advertisements to passing pedestrians and drivers.