Weekly Summary #6

Weekly Summary #6

by @ldeitrick

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October 6, 2017

Read/Watch and Reflect Design can be used to tell stories a variety of ways. This week in ‘Fast Forward or Rewind,’ I explored Hassna Otsmane-Elhaou’s analyses of design elements used in comics to illustrate inner thoughts, change the mood, convey action, and even create time alteration. Creative anomalies in their usual structure provided the audience …
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Strike a Pose.

by @ldeitrick

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October 6, 2017

Ok- I cheated a little on this one. I wasn’t able to get enough photos throughout the week, so I dug into my photo archives. I LOVE the cover of this book. At first glance, it looks bold and minimalist, but there is a little more to unpack. This book is about racial inequality in …
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Made of Words.

by @ldeitrick

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October 6, 2017

What makes a person who they are? What shapes you? These were the questions I asked myself when creating a word cloud based on Khatykra. I used WordArt to create the image, and I am very pleased with the results.
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Write It.

by @ldeitrick

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October 6, 2017

I’m a fan of minimalism. But I’m also known to occasionally have way too much stuff. What causes this divergence from ideal to reality? The same problem I face when designing something minimalist. I’m enchanted by the concept of clean lines and abstract visuals, but is it too little? Do I use more than 2 …
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You Could Cut It Will A Knife……..

by @ldeitrick

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October 4, 2017

The Women comic strip I was a layout editor in high school, so I was excited for the challenge of creating a comic strip from a movie scene. I mean, that’s basically what yearbook editing is, presenting a year’s worth of high school action into a single book of head shots. I chose to work …
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Coming Soon

by @ldeitrick

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October 3, 2017

Creating a movie poster based on Khatyrka, I immediately had the idea to show a woman’s shoulder with a tattoo of a quasi-crystal. The first mission was to find a quasi-crystal image I though would work. While googling for images, I came across some hard mental octagonal die, and thought about changing the concept …
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Fast Forward or Rewind?

by @ldeitrick

| #designweek, #ds4life, design, designthoughts, ds106, Syndicated
October 3, 2017

Design can be used to tell stories a variety of ways, including illustrating inner thoughts, change in mood, action, and even time alteration. In Strip Panel Naked: Negative Space in ‘Jessica Jones’ and Strip Panel Naked: ‘Unstoppable Wasp’ And Dealing With Complicated Layouts , Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou explores the use of design elements to signify the characters …
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