Monday, January 28, 2013

ART 327 Mon Feb 13, 2012 57

ART 327 Mon Feb 13, 2012 57
how to learn graphic design
Image by Parker Knight
We watch what Harrell Fletcher and a boy in France did together over three years periods over summers. Harrell said he doesn't speak French. Oh how more joyful the experience could have been if both learned some English and French together to communicate.



Lesson One of marketing...
how to learn graphic design
Image by andyi
...Is to never ask a question -- even a rhetorical one -- unless you're absolutely certain what the answer will be in the audience's mind.

Personally, Learning Annex failed the question when they laid out this ad. This looks like the sort of tearsheet that a savvy freelance graphic designer keeps in their portfolio as a wordless response, for when a potential client says that honestly, they don't need to hire a designer because they have this guy in Marketing who knows all about Word and that stuff.



First Multiplanetary Corporation
how to learn graphic design
Image by Edith OSB
The second project for my Computer Graphic Design class required that we combine 3 or 4 images, at least one of which had to be our own. I was in a strange mood that day, and decided ... well, to let my imagination go where it will.

Someone asked me to post a "what I did" version, so here it is. Four photos were used (Mars panorama, Mars Rover, Earth from space, and the McD's on Central Entrance in Duluth, MN). It's still not perfect, but - WOW - you would not believe how much I learned in doing it!

No comments:

Post a Comment