I really enjoyed making some analog work. I think that a lot of times I allow too much of my process to happen on the computer. My best work always comes out of the two working in tandem. I liked learning about the different ways to manipulate and incorporate text. Often times I rely on an image for visual interest instead of typography. In fact, most of the time I don't consider it. It’s kind of a no-brainer, but it’s really important to see every element as an equally important piece of the design. Everything, even lines of text should be carefully considered and arranged. I also like the idea of really looking at characters as shapes. They can sometimes communicate more by being hard to read. I think of the David Carson quote "Don't mistake legibility for communication."
Today was a great exercise. I was surprised at how much I didn't like my collages, but it stretched all the right creative muscles.
The workshop with Rebecca Tegtmeyer was great! It was good to get a reminder of the basics and how to form them together to create something outside of clean cut design. And of course as an art student I loved moving from behind the computer to create mockups of the relationships that we learned about. It will help me go about creating my poster for the lecture series in a less haphazard way, as far as technique. I believe it will be easier to form a methodology for creating new imagery each step of the way. This workshop expanded my understanding of different ways to create space and depth on a 2-D surface; I imagine it’ll prompt for more interesting posters from all of us in the class.
Usually when I create I still try to make something that at the sum of its parts is recognizable. This workshop helped me see through that a bit more; I see that there’s more experimentation I can do with type and slicing up images more and leaving them more abstract. Her explanation of the 4 critical relationships and examples were simple and straight to the point. They will prove to be very useful in the future. I am definitely considering buying Type, Image, Message by Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell.
The analog portion was eye opening for me. When I'm working on a computer, my first thought isn't "Lets cut this type in half and use it that way," but as Rebecca said, it was a very a low risk environment. I wasn't really worried about failing or succeeding, just exploring possibilities. As the class went on, I let go of more of the "rules" I had in my head.
I also like that the relationships were categorized, subcategorized, and defined. When there are a few parameters (such as fusion) and a few definitions with buzz words that are easy to wrap your mind around (perspective, woven, motion), it is easier for me to focus and explore the options within the parameters.
The idea of just categorizing the posters the way that we did was incredibly helpful to me. I definitely need some help with identifying them which hopefully I will learn with time and reading the book. I feel like often times when I look at these incredible posters all I can recognize is that I either like them or don't like them. I can never fully comprehend the processes, actions, or thoughts that go into making super complex work like we were shown in class. Having a way to make things more tangible was greatly appreciated. When we were applying our skills in analogue I was surprised by how cautious and safe everyone's work was. It's interesting to see how hard it is to jump that barrier and surrender to chaos.
The skills that I can see myself utilizing immediately involve using typography in a manner different than separation. Many if not all of my designs have the disconnect from the artwork or photography and the typography, it's a refreshing change to have a new way to work with.
I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed getting to design with my hands. I have projects that I get use more of a hands on approach, but they typically are not as graphic design related as much as they are either fine arts or technical.
Although I enjoyed the analog approach since it's a change of pace, I also learned to appreciate the ease of use of Illustrator as a design tool at times it was frustrating using tiny little pieces of paper as well as tape and rubber cement and the whole mess of it all.
I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop Tuesday with Rebecca Tegtmeyer. I learned a lot by going through this exercise. When I decided to go into visual design I thought my only means of working and brainstorming would be digitally as my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired. The analog method of cutting, pasting, and collaging showed me a valid method I could use in the future. I didn't have time to worry about things not being exact or perfect which I typically do. When I do this it potentially wastes a lot of time on an idea that doesn't work the way I was imagining. By working in this analog method, it allowed me and even forced me to try things I might not have on the computer because it would have been too time consuming to try and make it perfect instead of being able to just map it out and experiment this way. I learned by putting time limits on this exercise it forced me not to over-think, something I'm notorious for, and just go with my gut. Every decision and action wasn't perfect, but some good ideas and outcomes came out of it and the missteps were what could be fixed and fleshed out digitally. I will definitely utilize this to brainstorm when I am struggling to come up with a design or get out of my comfort zone. I also learned new terminology and different ways to generate each type of layout and design. The action words were also great jumping off points to create from. I was honestly surprised by the whole process. It allowed me to get out of my head and just experiment in a low risk environment. I tried things I probably never would have digitally which will help me not to be a creature of habit relying on what's natural and comfortable. Thanks for taking the time to come and do this workshop for us!
The constraints of the exercise were very challenging. I really appreciated the language used to categorize the different relationships between text and imagery. While I struggle to look beyond the obvious at times, being forced to use what was at hand was good. My process is usually significantly different (and slower), so I appreciated being forced to stretch outside of my comfort zone. I feel like it will be very helpful as we continue with this new project.
I’m comfortable taking elements of my work from the digital to analog worlds and back but gained some new language and categories with which to understand the relationship between my type and other elements of my design. I was surprised by how difficult it was for me to think about my type when it was printed on bits of transparency.
I found the workshop on Monday to be very successful and a lot of help. It was really helpful seeing every little element of type being of such importance because it’s not always the little things that are acknowledged but they play a very important roll in the over all design. I learned how to visually see type as image through four interaction techniques: Separation, Inversion, Fusion, and Fragmentation. Being able to use these techniques to create posters was very helpful. I also really enjoyed the hands on crafting experience. It was nice to get off the computers for a change. I was able to create ways that words and pictures step out of the compositional boundaries that often distance them in conventional page layout.
It was very fascinating workshop in my opinion. I enjoyed doing analog work and not doing everything on the computer. It is easier to come up with ideas and try them out by that method. Learning how to incorporate text with images was an eyeopening experience to me. I never really thought about that too much before. This workshop shows how much images and text can complement and enhance each other in producing a message for the viewer. The fragmentation relationship was the most interesting one for me. I will definitely try to incorporate the four relationships we learned about into future projects I do. I may even go back and redo some earlier projects I have done in other classes.
I appreciated the classification of type-to-image relationships—having names and qualities to associate with those names them allows me to see the relationships themselves more clearly. Even if they the relationships may not fit snugly into one category or the other, just having words to describe the relationships makes it easier to analyze them—it’s so difficult to talk about concepts you don’t have the words to describe! Knowing these terms and having visuals for what they describe gives me something concrete to consider as I continue working on the poster. The workshop was also a lot of fun! I never make analog sketches unless I’m prompted to, which is awful, because I love doing it. The results one gets from this kind of creative process always seem so much more physical, and it’s given me ideas for how to work on future projects. It was both a nice release, not too much pressure on the finished project, and a challenge to create something that fit the guidelines and the time limit.
I enjoyed the workshop on Monday with Rebecca Tegtmeyer. I enjoyed being away from the computer and designing with my hands. Exploring possibilities and not worrying about if it was successful or not was very helpful. I learned that if I’m struggling on the computer on coming up with a design using the analog method is helpful. Also learning how to incorporate the text with the images was a good experience as well as learning new terminology. The workshop was a success and I was surprised of how much I liked my collages.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed making some analog work. I think that a lot of times I allow too much of my process to happen on the computer. My best work always comes out of the two working in tandem.
I liked learning about the different ways to manipulate and incorporate text. Often times I rely on an image for visual interest instead of typography. In fact, most of the time I don't consider it. It’s kind of a no-brainer, but it’s really important to see every element as an equally important piece of the design. Everything, even lines of text should be carefully considered and arranged.
I also like the idea of really looking at characters as shapes. They can sometimes communicate more by being hard to read. I think of the David Carson quote "Don't mistake legibility for communication."
Today was a great exercise. I was surprised at how much I didn't like my collages, but it stretched all the right creative muscles.
The workshop with Rebecca Tegtmeyer was great! It was good to get a reminder of the basics and how to form them together to create something outside of clean cut design. And of course as an art student I loved moving from behind the computer to create mockups of the relationships that we learned about.
ReplyDeleteIt will help me go about creating my poster for the lecture series in a less haphazard way, as far as technique. I believe it will be easier to form a methodology for creating new imagery each step of the way. This workshop expanded my understanding of different ways to create space and depth on a 2-D surface; I imagine it’ll prompt for more interesting posters from all of us in the class.
Usually when I create I still try to make something that at the sum of its parts is recognizable. This workshop helped me see through that a bit more; I see that there’s more experimentation I can do with type and slicing up images more and leaving them more abstract.
Her explanation of the 4 critical relationships and examples were simple and straight to the point. They will prove to be very useful in the future. I am definitely considering buying Type, Image, Message by Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell.
The analog portion was eye opening for me. When I'm working on a computer, my first thought isn't "Lets cut this type in half and use it that way," but as Rebecca said, it was a very a low risk environment. I wasn't really worried about failing or succeeding, just exploring possibilities. As the class went on, I let go of more of the "rules" I had in my head.
ReplyDeleteI also like that the relationships were categorized, subcategorized, and defined. When there are a few parameters (such as fusion) and a few definitions with buzz words that are easy to wrap your mind around (perspective, woven, motion), it is easier for me to focus and explore the options within the parameters.
The idea of just categorizing the posters the way that we did was incredibly helpful to me. I definitely need some help with identifying them which hopefully I will learn with time and reading the book. I feel like often times when I look at these incredible posters all I can recognize is that I either like them or don't like them. I can never fully comprehend the processes, actions, or thoughts that go into making super complex work like we were shown in class. Having a way to make things more tangible was greatly appreciated.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were applying our skills in analogue I was surprised by how cautious and safe everyone's work was. It's interesting to see how hard it is to jump that barrier and surrender to chaos.
The skills that I can see myself utilizing immediately involve using typography in a manner different than separation. Many if not all of my designs have the disconnect from the artwork or photography and the typography, it's a refreshing change to have a new way to work with.
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised at how much I enjoyed getting to design with my hands. I have projects that I get use more of a hands on approach, but they typically are not as graphic design related as much as they are either fine arts or technical.
Although I enjoyed the analog approach since it's a change of pace, I also learned to appreciate the ease of use of Illustrator as a design tool at times it was frustrating using tiny little pieces of paper as well as tape and rubber cement and the whole mess of it all.
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed the workshop Tuesday with Rebecca Tegtmeyer. I learned a lot by going through this exercise. When I decided to go into visual design I thought my only means of working and brainstorming would be digitally as my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired. The analog method of cutting, pasting, and collaging showed me a valid method I could use in the future. I didn't have time to worry about things not being exact or perfect which I typically do. When I do this it potentially wastes a lot of time on an idea that doesn't work the way I was imagining. By working in this analog method, it allowed me and even forced me to try things I might not have on the computer because it would have been too time consuming to try and make it perfect instead of being able to just map it out and experiment this way. I learned by putting time limits on this exercise it forced me not to over-think, something I'm notorious for, and just go with my gut. Every decision and action wasn't perfect, but some good ideas and outcomes came out of it and the missteps were what could be fixed and fleshed out digitally. I will definitely utilize this to brainstorm when I am struggling to come up with a design or get out of my comfort zone. I also learned new terminology and different ways to generate each type of layout and design. The action words were also great jumping off points to create from. I was honestly surprised by the whole process. It allowed me to get out of my head and just experiment in a low risk environment. I tried things I probably never would have digitally which will help me not to be a creature of habit relying on what's natural and comfortable. Thanks for taking the time to come and do this workshop for us!
ReplyDeleteThe constraints of the exercise were very challenging. I really appreciated the language used to categorize the different relationships between text and imagery. While I struggle to look beyond the obvious at times, being forced to use what was at hand was good. My process is usually significantly different (and slower), so I appreciated being forced to stretch outside of my comfort zone. I feel like it will be very helpful as we continue with this new project.
ReplyDeleteI’m comfortable taking elements of my work from the digital to analog worlds and back but gained some new language and categories with which to understand the relationship between my type and other elements of my design. I was surprised by how difficult it was for me to think about my type when it was printed on bits of transparency.
I found the workshop on Monday to be very successful and a lot of help. It was really helpful seeing every little element of type being of such importance because it’s not always the little things that are acknowledged but they play a very important roll in the over all design. I learned how to visually see type as image through four interaction techniques: Separation, Inversion, Fusion, and Fragmentation. Being able to use these techniques to create posters was very helpful. I also really enjoyed the hands on crafting experience. It was nice to get off the computers for a change. I was able to create ways that words and pictures step out of the compositional boundaries that often distance them in conventional page layout.
ReplyDeleteIt was very fascinating workshop in my opinion. I enjoyed doing analog work and not doing everything on the computer. It is easier to come up with ideas and try them out by that method.
ReplyDeleteLearning how to incorporate text with images was an eyeopening experience to me. I never really thought about that too much before. This workshop shows how much images and text can complement and enhance each other in producing a message for the viewer. The fragmentation relationship was the most interesting one for me. I will definitely try to incorporate the four relationships we learned about into future projects I do. I may even go back and redo some earlier projects I have done in other classes.
I appreciated the classification of type-to-image relationships—having names and qualities to associate with those names them allows me to see the relationships themselves more clearly. Even if they the relationships may not fit snugly into one category or the other, just having words to describe the relationships makes it easier to analyze them—it’s so difficult to talk about concepts you don’t have the words to describe! Knowing these terms and having visuals for what they describe gives me something concrete to consider as I continue working on the poster. The workshop was also a lot of fun! I never make analog sketches unless I’m prompted to, which is awful, because I love doing it. The results one gets from this kind of creative process always seem so much more physical, and it’s given me ideas for how to work on future projects. It was both a nice release, not too much pressure on the finished project, and a challenge to create something that fit the guidelines and the time limit.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the workshop on Monday with Rebecca Tegtmeyer. I enjoyed being away from the computer and designing with my hands. Exploring possibilities and not worrying about if it was successful or not was very helpful. I learned that if I’m struggling on the computer on coming up with a design using the analog method is helpful. Also learning how to incorporate the text with the images was a good experience as well as learning new terminology. The workshop was a success and I was surprised of how much I liked my collages.
ReplyDeleteMarisol Cortes