As of the Thursday class, this was the progress I had made on my design prior to the first class critique.

This week, I continued work on my Assignment 5: Editorial Design. On Tuesday, I received feedback from my peers and professor Ansari on my page layouts and some initial designs that I had created in Illustrator. I received the following comments on my design: Change color of Headline text to…

This past week, I developed my initial sketches and designs for Assignment 5: Editorial Design. I began by changing my essay choice from my last blog post. I chose to instead focus on Tony Fry’s “Televisual Designing: Defuturing and Sustainment. …

This week we workshopped Typesetting and also began Assignment 5: Editorial Design. After the typesetting workshop, I had a better idea of how alignment and point size affect a design and figured out what combinations create the best sense of harmony. …

This week we had our final critique of Assignment 4 and submitted the final version of the assignment. During class, we first received sticky note critique from peers. I received the following positive feedback: Letters connecting smoothly and rounding out the edges works well Orange gradient across posters works well …

This past week, my Assignment 4 posters have evolved a lot! I started with the Tuesday class, getting a desk critique on my first iteration of my “body language design”. …

This week, I received critique on my initial sketches for Assignment 4, improved them in a sketch redesign, and began translating these designs into illustrator. To inform my continued work on the posters, I looked at the Swiss poster collection and was most drawn to “Bye Bye Leslie, Bye Bye…

On Thursday October 14th, we had a critique of Assignment 3: Typographic Hierarchy. I learned a lot from this critique, especially about unique ways to be creative with the layout but still follow the constraints of the assignment. For Task 7, the critique of how my use of “Bold Condensed”…

This past week, after submitting the final version of my Assignment 2: Logo Design, I worked on Assignment 3: Typographic Hierarchy. Honestly, for my current job as a Resident Assistant at NYU, I’ve had to make a lot of event posters so this assignment was very applicable to my situation. …