“Greer TaiTai(太太)”
My working and parenting lives collide with each other and sometimes sparkle.
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When inspirations come to a busy life, they remind me to slow down and enjoy the process.
Graphic Design - Composing a Complex Narrative
Composing a simple book by assembling the images and spreads I have collected from previous practices and made into one place. Setting up an eight page book consisting of 8 spreads (3 double page spreads plus a front and back cover) takes me some time to figure out indeed.
My strategy is putting similar techniques together, such as sketched banana and calligraphy outlined dog. Bold color contrast from Legos and blocks is on the covers to draw audience attention. Lastly, binding this pages is really something new and interesting to me. I purchased the bookbinding kit to “sew” the pages together. Even though the pages are digital prints, I still get the feeling of “flipping” book pages.
Graphic Design - Typographic Poster
Typographic poster isn’t easy for all these tiny letters and the principles of typesetting to be dealt with. I’m thinking a robot may describe characters of “Franklin Gothic” for it’s heavy weight, condensed proportions, and minimal contrast between strokes.
Graphic Design - The Pretty Banans (Poster)
My first graphic design poster - The pretty bananas (Inside & Out) by assembling previous four weeks of practice and assignments in a new combination.
Graphic Design - Contrasts
Contrast combination of doubles and triples of below arrangement just by simple shapes:
scale
weight
direction
space
form
texture
Graphic Design - Complimentary & Contrast
It’s like an experiment playing with sorts of graphic forms. I’m making graphic design by building blocks to best learn graphic design.
Graphic Design - The Character of Characters
The character of characters - Typeset the name of an object (e.g. "apple", "shoe", or "glasses" etc.) in a typeface that relates to (or represents) each of the adjectives (e.g. “plump”, “old”, “vintage” etc).
The top strokes looks like the stems where you grab the bananas and there are a bunch of them. Just an objective text name in different forms creates imagination and possibilities!?
Graphic Design - Monogram & Business Card
Create a design of interlocking typographic forms by using different typefaces, and look at the range of shapes that occur within the same letters.
This is a fun practice and I realized how much fun just texts can produce. Designing business card by inserting the art of name initials (monograms) is definitely eye catching.
Graphic Design - Connotative Image Making
And then some optional challenges - three connotative image makings which tell stories.
Graphic Design - Denotative Image Making
My first Graphic Design assignment is Done! My ten denotative image makings of different techniques. Finally I decided to take the advantage of limited offer $199/yr signing up Google’s Couresera and enrolled my first designer course in a hope to prepare myself for my next dream career.