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Elements of Graphic Design: The Line 2008-04-16 23:51:35 The line is the most basic unit of graphic design and it is undoubtedly something you already have great experience with, even if you happen to never have done anything artistic before. A line is a simple form that contains width and length but at the same time does not contain any depth and [...] Read more:Graphic
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Classical Graphic Design Theory: The Elements of Design 2008-04-16 07:44:57 Before you can go ahead and start working on all of the different pictures you undoubtedly have floating around in your mind, you need to understand the basics of graphic design. As was stated previously, it is important to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. A sound base of the principles of [...] Read more:Graphic
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A Memorable First Kiss 2008-04-10 14:27:09 Perhaps the best thing that we can all remember is the magical feeling of making that first kiss. Kids and teens are sure to be curious on what the first kiss would feel and no matter where you may be, the thing is experiencing it and trying to determine what the whole feeling is all [...] Read more:First
The Human Transformers from Pepsi 2008-04-08 14:17:34 So we are all hooked on to the Transformers
era thanks to the movie remake of the 1980’s cartoon series. We have seen a lot of companies use this concept as part of their advertising and promotions campaign and have so far been impressed.
If those commercials impressed you, wait until you see this Human [...] Read more:Pepsi
Avoid the Artist’s Block 2008-04-06 16:55:01 As far as outdoing ourselves in making great graphics for business or for personal sites, it all depends on two things:
Concept
Originality
These may seem to be easy picking for the average graphical designers or artists but sometimes, you cannot help but avoid artist’s block.
Artist
’s block is the same as writer’s block or blogger’s block. When [...] Read more:Avoid
Going Bananas in Offices 2008-04-05 15:11:49 Have you ever wondered why you never get anywhere in your career? Well for one thing, your immediate superiors are your first obstacle. What can you do if they are always going bananas and always want their way although their manner of reasoning is upside down?
Well this video illustrates them all. Read more:Going
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Elements of Graphic Design: The Line, Part II 2008-04-17 23:00:07 Lines are not just important in terms of suggestion, but quite often they can also be important in terms of what you want to convey within the meat of the drawing itself. For example, when you use lines to trace out some of the edges of a form without actually completing the form (as is [...]
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Elements of Graphic Design: The Shape 2008-04-19 04:14:47 Once you have an understand of exactly what lines are, how those lines work and the different things you can do with the different types of lines, in truth most of the work of learning about the second element of graphic design is already complete. However, at the same time there are some added concepts [...]
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Elements of Graphic Design: Positive and Negative Space 2008-04-19 21:58:07 Continuing with the theme of introducing the different elements of graphic design brings us to a particularly interesting aspect of shape elements within graphic design. This concept, known as positive and negative space, can actually be a central concept to your artistic design. There have been many artists (most notably MC Esher) that [...]
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Texture and Graphic Design 2008-04-23 07:47:00 Moving along the list of graphic design elements brings us to the idea of texture. Texture
is an element of graphic design that is a different beast from the line and a shape, although at the same time the different regions that are created within shapes often through the use of line techniques is [...]
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More Colour Terms 2008-04-26 08:16:11 One thing that is especially important to recognize about colours is the fact that there are many different qualities possessed by many different colours based on the interactions they carry out with our eyes. Colour
s like red, orange or yellow have an advancing quality to them whereas colours like blue have a receding quality and [...]
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Value, Colour and Graphic Design 2008-04-25 11:49:51 Value has already been discussed in a previous post, but just to refresh your memory it is a design term that refers to the level of darkness or lightness of an area within an image. Value is actually a relative term in its colloquial use, but when it is expanded to mean different parts [...]
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Elements of Graphic Design Theory: Space 2008-04-27 12:06:00 The last major element of graphic design theory to cover is the concept of space. Space
is important because every single drawing that you will ever create, by its very nature, is going to be imperfect. The graphic designer will often attempt to recreate a three dimensional world on a two dimensional surface and while [...]
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Space Continued 2008-04-29 00:44:57 There are two more important ways that a designer can use space to add the illusion of depth to a drawing: detail and lines.
Detail:Detail is also sometimes referred to as aerial perspective because of the fact that it is modelled after something one might see when taking a look at a landscape from the air. [...]
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Conveying Movement through Anticipation 2008-04-30 01:06:42 If you are going to be a competent graphic designer that produces good results time and time again, you need to learn different principles of graphic design. These principles go over a lot of the elements that we’ve been discussing up to this point and for that reason are a good place to go to [...]
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Conveying Movement through Illusion 2008-05-02 23:11:49 Okay, so the title is a bit of a misnomer since all of the movement that is conveyed through a picture is conveyed through illusion because of the nature of taking something that is three dimensional and trying to recast it into a two dimensional setting. But when I say illusion, this time what [...]
Conveying Movement through Outlines 2008-05-02 07:58:03 There are three distinct ways that you can use outlining techniques in order to create a sense of movement in the graphics that you create.
The first way is through the use of fuzzy outlines when you are creating the particular graphic design. When an object is moving extremely quickly, our eyes tend to look at [...]
Creating Movement through Rhythm 2008-05-06 23:47:34 Here is the last in my instalment of the creation of motion in pictures. Like any other work of art in drama or music, paintings and graphics have a rhythm to them. Whether a person that created it knows it or not is another question entirely, but in their theoretical forms these things [...] Read more:Creating
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Vector Images 2008-05-04 23:47:36 We’ve done such a great job giving ourselves a crash course in many of the elements of graphic design that are absolutely important to understand, so for a couple of posts let’s take a break and consider some of the image types that you will be working with in your graphic design career. One [...] Read more:Vector
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Raster Images 2008-05-10 15:35:45 While vector images are certainly important to every graphic designer, they do not represent the whole story. Vector images breakdown when you try to use them for things that are continuous and for that reason something else is needed. You need something that has an inherently continuous design and that something is a raster image.
Raster [...] Read more:Images
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