I chuckled when I noticed the kids book listed on this week’s
weekly assignment post. That’s a wonderful book and I think it’s a great book
for kids to have because it makes them aware of all the design aspects in the
things around them. There are fliers, posters, billboards, …
One of the big things that stuck out to me after reading the article interviewing designed Chip Kidd was when he said “Whether you realize it or not, most of the decisions you make, every day, are by design” and “Everything that is not made by nature is designed by …
“It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed-that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed,” This quote to start out the article really open my mind to the fact that yes, everything we look at was once designed. The apple logo, a bumper sticker, …
Immediately the Brain Pickings article got me thinking about how everything around me is specifically created. Even if we may not think about it all the time, there is always a reasoning behind the design of a building, a toy, a product, etc. I think about a good coffee mug, …
so the general vibe that i got from the readings and articles & my minor rabbit-holing is that less tends to be more, and that good designs tends to be somewhat timeless. And I understand this and the appeals of this, especially for brands trying to build brand recognition, but …
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While reading “A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd,” I enjoyed learning about how colors are made. Cool colors are bade of blues, greens, grays, and purples. These colors show a sense of the chiller side of the world. Warm colors …
I am very excited for this week. I think I want to be a web designer/graphic designer so this is gonna be a very fun week for me. In some of my other classes I am learning how to more in-depth how to use photoshop and other photo-editing programs so …
These two articles were very different from each other, but they were both insightful in their own ways.
The first article gets really detailed about all of the different aspects that go into design. I can make sense of a lot of them, but I feel like it’s overwhelming. Do …
Today I read Massimo Vignelli’s The Vignelli Canon and a Brain Pickings article about Chip Kidd and his book on design for children to gain a better understanding of what makes an excellent design. Honestly speaking, there were many things I never considered. In all the times that I have …
The readings this week were very insightful. They made you think a lot about the theory to design and the basic principles. Most people know what is visually appealing in graphic design, but there is so much more to it than colors and shapes. The first section of Vignelli’s book …
I had a lot of fun with the design blitz assignment this week! It gave me a chance to look at different things out in the real world (vs the online world) and to consider what makes a good or bad design. Initially I wanted to try to find all …
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The Vignelli Canon by Massimo Vignelli as well as, the Brain Pickings article by Chip Kidd were both very eye-opening reads about design, and how design isn’t just one simple concept. It’s so much more! Design has so many more layers, and topics all intertwined through it!
I cannot …
Out of everything we have read for this class, I have enjoyed A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design the most. I found it the most well written, the easiest to understand, and the most intriguing.
Within the first few sentences, my mind was forced to think about things I didn’t …
This week I read the Vignelli Connection and A Kids Guide to Graphic Design.
Th Vignelli Connection mentioned syntactic consistency, clarity, and the importance of design elements to help aid the audience in understanding a piece. Design is meant to aid and to enhance the thought of something but …
I decided for this post to focus on what I learned from “The Vignelli Cannon”, as that’s the article I learned the most from. Semantics was firstly very interesting to read about. Implementing semantics into your design elements helps more clearly form your ideas, you know what you want to …
Design is everywhere around you in your day to day life. You may not realize it because everything becomes routine to you. For instance, the clothes that you wear, your kitchen appliances, your furniture, and anything else you see or use was designed a particular way. People who design these …
Here is my reflection on “A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design” by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd.
After having read this article, all I can say is wow – design is so immensely diverse, creative, and expressive.
It really rang true to me to hear that EVERYTHING IS DESIGNED. Think about …
This is my first time deeply thinking about graphic design. For instance, it never occurred to me that every single manmade thing or building is designed in some way. It made my whole world feel a little bigger. As I sit in this coffee shop writing this post, I’m looking …
Vignelli: I like how Vignelli acknowledges that each person has their own sense of style, but that there are rules that have to be followed within your own sense of style. I thought the point of semantics was one of the most important points. You have to know what you’re …
? Yeah, you don’t know my mind
You don’t know my kind
Dark ambiguities are part of my design
Tell the world that I’m falling from the sky
Dark ambiguities are part of my design ?
Red Hot Melody Peppers
It’s Design Week Ds106! I can’t help but feel like …
I have learned so much through these articles, more than I originally thought I was going to I usually hate reading articles, but I actually thoroughly enjoyed reading the ones I read this week. I learned things and fell down a rabbit role in Brain Picking‘s article specifically, just …
After reading The Vignelli Cannon by Massimo Vignelli, I learned that design is like communicating. The viewer’s understanding of the meaning or end goal of the design is of most importance because if the audience does not understand the design, then all else fails and nothing else matters. Therefore, design …
Massimo Vignelli was an Italian designer who designed from furniture to package designs to graphic designs. Within his booklet called, The Vignelli Canon, he first wrote about his perspective on design. On page 14, “We design things which we think are semantically correct and syntactically consistent but if, at …
My reflection on the readings for design.…
The Vignelli Canon By: Massimo Vignelli:
Below are some quotes I enjoyed while reading this text.
“Creativity needs the support of knowledge to be able to perform at its best”
“It is up to the brain to use the proper formula to achieve the desired result”
“It is my hope …
In this book he talks about the important aspects of design and what makes them stand out. He mentioned semantics first which is meaning of what we …
I had never studied design before this week. I thought it wasn’t something that related to my degree or my education, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. However, I learned from the brainpickings article “A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design by Iconic Designer Chip Kidd” that “Whether you …
So I had the pleasure of reading a short booklet by Massimo Vignelli called The Vignelli Canon. The booklet took us through a couple of different types of visual components when dealing with artistic values like the type. There was a section that talked about the paper, the size of …
Design is known as an arrangement of lines, shapes, objects, colors, etc., a form of drawing or pattern that forms a function. Design is seen and made constantly throughout our daily lives and like Kidd said in his A Kid’s Guide to Graphic Design,
“Whether you realize it or …
The reading by Maria Popova and Massimo Vignelli were really insightful and helpful in thinking critically about design.
The most impactful part of the article by Maria Popova that I wanted to re-share was:
Graphic design needs your willing mental participation, even if it’s subconscious. Graphic design is message-sending into …
