Looking at Vignelli’s book and modern design software it is very clear that many concepts have transitioned well into the age of digital design, especially visual concepts such as contrast and proportion. Vignelli hit many nails on the head and talked about many of the concepts and methods that are used today even though he […]

Who knew design played such an important roll on how the reader/listener/watcher felt in a certain moment? What I learned was that the use of negative space in a comic book creates a feeling of emptiness just like it does in movies.  It is impressive how they can translate that into singular pictures in a …

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For this activity I chose to read The Vignelli Canon  and reflect on it.  I began reading the book and one of the first things he wrote in his introduction caught my eye “It is not the formula that prevents good design from happening but lack of knowledge of the complexity of the Design profession.” (Vegnelli […]

I had read the Strip Panel Naked reading a few weeks ago because I am in the Design group. It was really interesting to me because I never realized the importance of designing comics. The placement of the comic images and text really are what make the comic, the comic. If comics are not put together in the right way, the story may not be taken the same way. I never realized this because I have never really read a...

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I looked at some of  Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou’s videos to get my bearings in terms of design. There’s a lot of overlap with design and visual storytelling, as I realized while going through the assignment bank, and I wanted to figure out the distinction. His video “Controlling Movement” looked at (obviously) movement. The concept of movement in …

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