December 2011
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November 2011
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Letterpress, Meet Photoshop
To conclude my Letterpress project, I decided to make changes to my prints digitally as I was unhappy with how some of them turned out. The selection prints that I made changes to were my ‘Letterpress Est. 1440’ prints; after they were printed I was immediately unhappy with how they were unaligned. I was trying to show how bespoke Letterpress Printing could be, and although I thought that this...
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“Dont force type to be beautiful, sometimes to look good it just needs to be left...”
– Sally Hope, Visual Communication Crit
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“If you find out how to do something on the 100th attempt, you haven’t made...”
– Richard Hurst, Visual Communication Crit
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InDesign Tutorial: Paragraph and Character Styles
Section Markers, Master Pages and Ligatures.
Working on the InDesign documents that we had previously produced, in this tutorial we were taking the basic layout principles to a much more advanced level – as well as altering paragraph and character styles. Firstly, we were shown how to add page numbers and chapter headings to pages; this could all be found under Type>Insert Special...
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InDesign Tutorial: Basic Layout Principles
Textboxes, Slugs and Margins.
I’ve never used InDesign before, so the prospect of this tutorial with Neil was an exciting one; like all introductions, our introduction to InDesign was a run through of the basic tools and uses of the programme – starting with how to tackle the New Document window.
Most of the information on the New Document window is self explanatory, for example, altering the...
October 2011
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Illustrator Tutorial: Letterform
The Blend Tool, Type Tool and the Scissors.
The session started off with a brief recap on the Pen tool, followed by an introduction into the Blend Tool and the settings within; we were asked to blend two shapes, play around with the different blending options, and alter the paths that connected the two shapes. Above, is my final outcome of blending a hexagon with a rectangle - creating this...
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Illustrator Tutorial: Colour Wheel
The Pen Tool, the Colour Mixer and the Pathfinder.
After the hour or so that we spent getting to grips with Adobe Illustrator (i.e. playing around with the concepts of drawing shapes, combining shapes, altering colours and altering paths), we were given an exercise in which we were asked to produce a colour wheel using the ready-made Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. This...
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