The Process of Thumbnailing

This activity focuses on the importance of thumbnailing as a technique for testing design ideas on a smaller and quicker scale.For this exercise we were asked to draw a banana in 49 thumbnails and choose what we considered to be the most effective solution.

After drawing all my thumbnails, even though pacman was my favourite. I found this image jumped out at me the most and included a larger amount of elements and principles of design which I like.

Grids, Layouts and Flow

This activity is an introduction to the invisible grids used within designs to allow objects to have some association with each other.

Part A - Find two examples of layouts, one that doesn't appear to follow a grid and another that does. Explain why you think they have/have not used a grid.

I believe a grid has been used for this layout due to the clearly visible columns. you can especially see it on the bottom left corner where the picture has been cropped on the side to fit the grid.

After playing with a ruler on this page, the only evidence I found of a grid was down the right hand side; however that did not repeat throughout the rest of the page. This brings me to the conclusion that this layout does not contain a grid.



Part B - Find two magazine layouts that appear to contain grids and indicate where you think the grids are.

Elements Of Design

This activity was all about the elements and principles of design and how to use them effectively to help communicate ideas within your design.

Sketch some still life objects using a frame to crop the scene and focus the mind on the shapes inside the frame.

 

Find an example from a magazine that incorporates design elements and principles. Use a pen to show what they are.

Using Indesign, create a mini booklet comprising of  the elements and principles of design.

Use Photoshop to create a texture using the gradient tool and a filter. I chose the texterizer filter for this exercise.