Fundamentals of Design Emily Gomez

    For the six column layout on a two page spread, it wasn’t a hard project to do since I knew how   to add a place holder text on the page. What was a bit difficult on what I didn't understand was  how to use a master page to delete the first page, but that was easily done as I was taught how  to. After that my peers helped me on figuring out how to make the image surround the text  which was a bit complicated to do until I started to do it a few more times. I decided to do it with  lilies because it is my favorite flower. I learned how to attach an image and how to text wrap it to  make the text go around the image to make it look more clean and neat. There were some gaps  in the text that I had to remove because it looked unclean. I was worried it would delete the  space I have made around the flowers but now it looks somewhat okay. In conclusion, this  assignment was not an easy assignment, but also not a hard one since I under...

For the assignment Gridded Concert Poster Sketches, I broke the grid using some elements on the  background along from the main artist. I added the title of the album along with the dates and prices of the  concert as I put it neatly as possible on the grid. I did this because it helps emphasize the design and make it  catch attention to  the person's eye. I tried to make everything not stay perfectly in line because I didn’t want it  to look boring and plain since I wanted to add some creativity to it. Breaking the grid makes it feel more active and creative so it can add some movement and energy instead of making it look so stiff. I tried to add some  movement to the background or at least add some color when I’m going to make the final design. Putting the artist first and in the middle creates a strong point to the poster for the people to know its importance along  with the person's album title. I broke the grid in order for it to look unique and...

  For the assignment of hierarchy on grid it wasn’t that much of a difficult task, but the only challenge of knowing what designs to put was hard since my creativity was slowly draining as I didn’t know what else to do for the other three designs. The first ones were pretty easy to do since I knew how I wanted my design to look. I used some of the principles to help me with the assignment. The first one shows that at the top was the placeholder text and it slowly turns into fewer words as it turns a bit pointier in the corner. For the second design, I decided to make the assigned wording go all over the place and give some proximity to the placeholder text. For the third one, I put the placeholder text to go around the assigned wording so it could give closure and separate itself from the others. For the fourth one, I wanted to make the letter X in the middle to give a figure-ground, but in the center it looked like a square so I added the left over two assigned words and switched...