Creating Dynamic Sitemap Page Symbols with Illustrator
The process of creating a good user experience is to begin with planning out a solid information architecture. The purpose for creating this architecture is to provide organization of a site and navigational flow. To create such order, a sitemap is required and...
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Typography: Week 2 – Helvetica Movie Quiz
After seeing the documentary Helvetica in class, answer the following questions by typing your answers in the InDesign document provided: Download InDesign Template
Read MoreAdobe Digital Publishing Suite: Student Projects GD0912
HYPE – Brandon Titaro: Digital Publishing Suite In this course, students learned how to use the Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite to create, and optimize publications for various tablet devices. This year, more emphasis was made on User Interface development and animations using HTML5 &...
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Digital Publishing Suite: Adding Folio Properties
To allow your reader to preview the cover of your digital magazine issue and issue title, you should always remember to add publication names and cover photos to your folio before publishing. Without them, your reader will see a blank thumbnail with no publication titles within your...
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Creating A Vector Hair Brush in Illustrator
Many of my students, past and present, have asked me how to go about recreating a vector hair brush in Illustrator for their face drawing portraits. So, I decided to put together this quick guide that goes through the steps of creating a custom art brush...
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GDPW0912: Composite One – 3 AD Campaigns
After the completion of the first five weeks of the Graphic Design for Print & Web program, my students were asked to develop the first of their three major composite projects of the year. The first one being an advertising campaign that includes developing...
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GDPW0912: Illustrator Vector Portraits
As an introductory project to Adobe Illustrator, students were asked to render a representational vector portrait/avatar of their own faces and add an accompanied colour harmony rule to express their personality or expression in the photo. To do this, students were restricted to...
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GDPW0912: Typography Poster Art Projects
This year, my Graphic Design for Print & Web students created a general publicity poster for one of three available events that were taking place in the GTA this year. They were to be posted outdoors, in shop windows, construction hoardings, etc. – wherever...
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