Five Things I Learned
2. I learned about the importance of using a grid to help with layouts and keep a balance between the elements on my pages. And how sticking to a particular one or ones help to keep my book cohesive.
3. I learned about leading and kerning, and how the spacing between baselines and letters/words can help with readability or take away from it.
4. I learned about the layout process and order my project would best be represented in. I learned to push my process. I also learned that I tend to overthink and needed to walk away, because I would just push ideas and end up going backwards, this also caused me to trash my ideas out of frustration. Stepping away helped me come up with solutions, such as using transparent pages to help create a new dynamic to my project and interaction.
5. I learned about flow, and reviewing my book I would make sure that my lines or photos would help direct the reader to continue to the next pages.
Five Things I Should’ve Learned
1. I learned from my classmates that I can break the grid, but need to learn how and when to make it look good. -kyler
2. I learned the use of negative space, I tend to use a lot which isn’t bad but using up space can be good as well. -Brianne’s
3. I learned that sometimes flush right or centered can be used to convey the message, but not all the time. -MJ
4. I learned about the use of font sizes and more again about leading or spacing. I liked that in Alyssa’s she used paragraphs within the titles and it looked really nice because of the sizing and spacing. -Alyssa
5. I learned it’s okay to break a word up such as Sidney’s index word or typography, that I don’t need to keep it neat because of my overthinking. I can allow myself to push my designs. -Sidney
6. I like how a theme has the power to influence the overall design. Jordan’s use of Greek mythology and serif font really worked well. -Jordan
Things I Refused to Learn
6. I like how a theme has the power to influence the overall design. Jordan’s use of Greek mythology and serif font really worked well. -Jordan
Things I Refused to Learn
1. It's not that I refused to learn it's just that I had a hard time allowing myself to take a step back outside of my illustration nature. II know as time goes and as I start grasping concepts that I will be able to become a designer and not just an illustrator.
2. I refused at times to tell my brain to take a hike.
3. I refused, at times, to think of how a word could convey a meaning because I get caught up in actually drawing the meaning.
