These are the children of the primary colors red, blue, and yellow. You get these three colors from mixing any two of the primary colors.
You get purple from mixing Red and blue together. Purple is loving , mysterious, and seductive.
You get green from mixing yellow and blue together. Green is filled with energy and represents nature.
Last but not least you get orange by mixing red and yellow together. Boy , orange is an energy powerhouse that screams for your attention. No I'm not talking about the fruit .
Video:
Get Jamaican man with this silly song about secondary colors
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Balance helps a design to look stable and in place
#2-Proximity:
This helps to create a relationship between two or more objects in a design.Proximity also helps to determine the distance between objects.
#3-alignment:
Designers use alignment in order to make the text and pictures look nice, neat, and all lined up
#4-Repetition:
Sometimes designers use repetition with text, images , or graphics to help tie the design together or they just want to repeat something over and over for the fun of it.
#5-Contrast:
When you put a dark color next to a light color your creating contrast. When you put big bulky font next to a slimmer text your creating contrast.
#6-Space:
Using space is wonderful in graphic design , why? because it helps the viewer to take in the message without getting overwhelmed. In graphic design the golden rule of "Less is more" holds true!
Video of the week:
Hw: Find one example of each principle in a magazine ad or on a product in a store. Take a picture of that example and E-mail the images to SabrinaSummers2000@Gmail.com. Your images must be E-mailed by June,13th,2014. Credits:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aflvaOH40-Y
Images: all from google
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Lines can go in any direction , horizontal, vertical , diagonal , or curved, and they are the building blocks used in order to create shapes.
#2-Shape:
Shapes are created with a series of lines connecting with one another. However other shapes , like the circle and oval, can be created from one never ending line.
#3-Direction:
Depending on the direction the line is going might represent a certain mood. For example vertical lines can represent balance. Horizontal lines could represent stability and diagonal lines could mean a rise/fall of something.
#4-Size:
This helps determine how big or small an object is or should be.
#5-Texture:
The look and feel of an object
#6-Color:
The number of ways our eyes can see a spectrum of light
#7-Value:
How light or dark an image or object is
Hey check out this cool lil video to the see the elements of design used in the real world!
Design Elements-By Mixmismo
Tip: The elements of graphic design deal with the physical form or foundation of your design.
Hw: Give me one example of each element of design. You may take photos yourself, find images on google, or draw examples yourself. E-mail your photos/images to SabrinaSummers2000@Gmail.com by 6/6/14
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Credits: All images found on google.
Youtube video by Mixmismo
Yep that's right graphic design all started with the caveman. Sure it might sound weird but think about it for a sec. Back in ancient times caveman didn't know how to talk so how did they communicate? Simple, the only way they knew how by using pictures and symbols to get their message across. Fast forward to Egyptian times. They knew how to talk by now yet they were still using symbols to communicate..why? Well humans are visual creatures and also love to express themselves what better way to do that by using images. Now join me as I take you on a journey to discover the history of graphic design!
Lets start in 1436 where we meet a man named Johannes Gutenber , a German metal worker, who is the creator of the printing press, soon called Gutenber's press. After Gutenber printed out his first bible. Gutenber's press shot up to fame and soon printing presses were being setup all across Europe.
Then in the first 2 decades of the 19th century typography started to take off. One of the most important men in typography history was an american typeface designer named Morris Fuller Benton. He created 221 typefaces like hobo, Broadway, and bank Gothic just to name a few.
Another big player in the 19th century was a British publisher named William Morris. He helped to catapult graphic design by commercializing it and also publishing books with stylized illustrations and printings.
In 1950, after WW2, western countries had a renewed hunger for buying new products from companies. This in turn put logos and branding in high demand. Now we head to the late 1980s when computers became main stream. These machines made a graphic designer's job much more easier than before. Typography fonts were already pre-installed and now designs could become digital! Shortly after, mass media started to spread across the globe connecting foreign countries together like never before. Graphic designers became high demand in print , advertising, and packaging fields. People from entertainment, print shops, and corporations rushed to hire graphic designers to create movie posters, magazines, books, Ads, and more for their companies.
Technology and mass media keeps evolving at alarming rates with the creation of smartphones, tablets, laptops ect and the world of graphic design will be right by its side helping businesses to brand and advertise their products in society for many more century's to come! Well i hope you enjoyed that quick journey back in time learning all about the history of graphic design. Here's a fun short video with a lil bit more info about the history of graphic design:
Timeline - History of graphic design - ANM 102 - by Rob Salazar
Fun Fact: The term "Graphic design" wasn't coined until the beginning of the 20th century where mediums like photography , printing, typing, and video-graphing started to take off. It was a man named William Addison who was the first person to coin the term "Graphic design". He used the term as a way to describe people who worked in print or book design.
Hw: Tell me 5 facts you learned about graphic design history. E-mail your answers to SabrinaSummers2000@Gmail.com and put the subject line as "5 history facts, Your name" The Hw is due next Friday May 30th. For people who hand in Hw assignments gets to a chance to get any graphic design work featured on this blog. I will even give you feedback on your work if you want me too.
That's it for this week's lesson comment below telling me what you look forward to doing in the graphic design field. Remember to always leave questions , if you have any, and share this post with friends or other newbie graphic designers. Don't forget to subscribe by E-mail or follow this blog so you wont miss a single lesson! If you want to follow me outside of this blog then please add me on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and/or Tumblr.
Well what do you think they do , sit around a computer screen all day? Oh...wait ...they do lol. But trust me it's more fun then you think and holds greater important in the world than any other type of "designer" out there. At least that's what I think anyway.
So what does a graphic designer do :
Graphic designers first and foremost are visual communicators. They take their clients problems and turn them into visual designs that helps to send a message to the client's target audience.(Def from: www.BLS.com)
Here's a fun little video I found explaining a little bit more on the topic. Enjoy!
Check back to lesson 1 to see some of the things graphic designers create.
Tip: Graphic designers create visual messages to help clients reach a target audience.
Hw: None this week, lucky!
That's it for this week's lesson comment below telling me what you look forward to doing in the graphic design field. Remember to always leave questions , if you have any, and share this post with friends or other newbie graphic designers. Don't forget to subscribe by E-mail or follow this blog so you wont miss a single lesson! If you want to follow me outside of this blog then please add me on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and/or Tumblr.
