Design Débutant - April 2019

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Angelique Chuang fights with her dream and reality.

A Calgary visual artist – “What if I mix this with that?”

Students Editorial Design Projects Inspirational works showcase

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Chris Cran: At Play

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Editor’s Note

I love to see how designers are imaginative and innovative when creating something new. I believe one of the strengths of designers, especially young designers, is interpreting contemporary lifestyles through their projects. Therefore, if there’s a magazine contains every aspect of graphic design and delicately introduces details that art students should know, that’s advantageous for the design community.

I try to jump out of the framework of a traditional design magazine to bring more stories to evoke readers’ inspiration.

Probably there’s not that many people like to read long stories in a magazine nowadays. However, words are more powerful than any other thing.

For this very first issue, I spend much time and energy on gathering information and taking pictures in order to present useful and helpful content. I hope you enjoy this issue.

Sincerely,

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Editor in Chief Queena Lu

Contents

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Features 12

Timeless design for artists.

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Taiwanese designer settled in Calgary – why and what.

Discuss how to put old ideas into contemporary artistic project.

Explore what the city of Calgary has brought to this young designer.

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Strengthen your weaknesses – visualize your ideas with an iPad. Struggling with drawing on too many papers?

Now, an iPad can solve all your problems!

Technique 21

Magazine Design: Start to Finish

News 11

Creative careers in the design field

Inspiration 63

Students Works

Expo 10

Chris Cran – One New Work

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Graphic Designer

One of the most in-demand design professionals is a graphic designer. Graphic designers create pictures for brand identities, layout, product illustrations, and websites using computer software like the Adobe Creative Suite. They merge technical skill with artistic ability to visualize ideas that Graphic designers may communicates with its desired audience. work independently as freelancers or contractors, in an in-house setting for a company or in an agency setting.

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UX/UI Designer UX/UI designers make websites, mobile applications, softwares or video games easier to navigate and more presentational for users to interact with. They are committed to designing a more intuitive user interface, allowing complex software for the public, or to develop specific interfaces for specific users. Usefulness, value, credibility and accessibility are the important components they should consider. For example, a UX designer might work with a retailer to update their product webpages and remove issues like frustrating forms, hard-to-find buttons and visual clutter that can prevent users from making a purchase.

Other possibilities?

Detailed intro in next issue

Multimedia Designer / Film & video Editor

Multimedia designers create animations and special effects for movies, television, video games and other forms of media— both two-dimensional and threedimensional. They work with teams of animators and artists to bring ideas to life using computer software or by writing their own computer code.

Film and video editors use technical software to construct promotional or artistic productions from footage shot by camera operators. Editors work with directors and producers to determine which material is most captivating for their audience and piece together scenes.

The editing process involves trimming footage down into segments, marking frames for audio and organizing raw footage into a seamless and polished final product.

EXPO

By Queena Lu

The eighth exhibition in the One New Work series curated

by Nancy Tousley, Begins with Chris Cran exploring a selfimposed question like “What if I do this?” or “What if I mix this with that?” Cran lets one visual or technical idea lead to another, and another, until his curiosity is satisfied, and he moves on to the next. In these 24 new paintings on paper and eight ink drawings, he works in black and white with graphic images.

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Feb. 9 – May 26, 2019 Glenbow Museum 130 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 0P3 Glenbow.org

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Above: Chris Cran’s multiple layered projects

Features

A young Taiwanese woman designer’s Q&A Angelique Chuang perspective A

By Queena Lu

ccomplishing any one of goals in one’s life seems never an easy thing, especially for this young girl who pushed herself to jump out her comfort zone. Angelique Chuang, a graphic designer originally from Taipei Taiwan, is studying at SAIT Calgary, Alberta, Canada currently.

In winter 2017, Angelique had just landed up in southern Alberta. Choosing Calgary to be the first place to settle down and start her further education was a coincidence. This city was absolutely strange to her. With a graphic design background and some work experience, she has been never afraid of living alone and joining in this completely new place. Now, she is about to graduate from Graphic Communications and Print Technology program at SAIT. Being trained with even more professional design skill as well as more practical work understanding, Angelique is hoping to promote herself and starting the next phase of her career.

When did you start to document things by using camera? Why do you like this way?

I’d say when I was 17. That was the time I realized that I like the format of “recording” memories.

Photography is a feeling that we can store a moment almost permanently.

Do you believe that there’s a connection between photography and design?

Above and facing: Angelique Chuang, a second-year student of Graphic Communications and Print Technology program, cutting her small poster in Senator Burns Building at SAIT on December 17, 2018. She tends to get into a printing shop as she graduates from here. Facing and below: Her magazine and newspaper project: The weal. (Photo by Queena Lu)

How long have you been in design field? Did you always want to be a designer?

Since I was 15 years old, and I’m 23 now. So, it’s been around 8 years. I’d say I’m in this field it’s because of my mom mostly. She’s a fine artist and graphic designer.

Importantly, I was in her child arts courses.

Was there a designer who inspired you in any ways in the past?

Not really. Because I usually not only focus on one specific designer’s project or work, that’s a bit boring.

What are the types of graphic design are you involved with?

Including editorial design, typography, page layout design, packaging design and web design.

Packaging design is the most interesting type of these for me.

“I believe the more you see, the more you learn. I usually try to find as many inspirations as I can.”

It always catches my attention because of its complex structure.

I enjoy dealing with different layers and put them together.

Definitely. To me, these two skills always complement each other. One of the essential elements to design is the Z pattern, which is also seen in photographic skills. Sometimes I found interesting colour patterns or shapes on the street, which often ended up inspirations for my design.

How do you combine your photography experience into your design work?

I believe the more you see, the more you learn. I won’t say that I have much experience in both fields, so I usually try to find as many inspirations as I can. For example, on the streets and websites. I think the most helpful thing that I noticed in photography to my design work is the colour that I captured in my photos. It is always interesting to use the colour set in the photos, and often turns out great for related design products.

Where do you get your ideas for designing?

I mostly search any potential ideas on line. It’s much easier and convenient nowadays. Also, magazines and design books are the stuff I usually go with.

Above: Angelique’s new personal logo came out in 2019.

Techniques

There are vary ways of designing magazine. (Photo by Queena Lu)

START FROM SCRATCH

Magazine Layout Design

By Queena Lu

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agazine layout designing can be tricky. From collecting all the necessary information to a completing the layout, it’s a lot of work. At the same time, the whole process can be even complex when you’re not sure how to start it. Here are some tips to get going.

Templates would be designer’s best friend at the start point.

If you’re new to magazine design, templates will allow you go straight into customizing and managing all the content rather than struggling with some details such as margin of pages or page numbers.

“When the first time I think about editorial designing, I tried to find as many templates as I could.” Austin Smith said, he is a full-time web developer as well as doing design freelancing. “Also, look for some real magazines to get inspired.”

On the other hand, you can create your own templates. In InDesign, you can make a series of facing pages for the inside of the magazine, and also the cover.

Spend time on considering a overall style After gathering all material you needed, it’s time to think about giving the whole magazine a consistent style. It doesn’t mean every story or article inside the magazine should be same, but the main elements should have a similar design. For instance, each spread should have the same pattern somewhere in it. This brings a feeling of consistency to the readers. At the same time, you are reinforcing the identity of your own magazine.

Place all components for an article on the page and think about how to manage them Afterwards, it’s time to place articles and images for each page. Unlike the traditional newspaper layout, magazine tends to have more creative layouts and distinct typography. Therefore, you can add several grids on each page and get a visual guide clue how these materials can be sited.

“Usually, I put all content I have in InDesign,” a SAIT student of Graphic Communications and Print Technology program, Angelique Chuang said. “If I do that, it will be easier and clear to imagine a whole picture of this specific page.”

“After that, I’ll pick fonts and try to think what’s the most important part that I want people to see.” Angelique added.

Cover? How does it matters?

Cover design is essential to catch the readers’ eye. The cover could highly influence that potential readers to buy your magazine or not. Colour, contrast, typography and images are common components you can play around with.

There’s no correct answer say what kind of designing is the best, as long as it fits to the main theme of this magazine. Don’t be afraid of it! Let’s get started on your first magazine design!

Inspirations

Project Showcase Content page

Index page

Content page, biography

Content page

Mental Health Matters Designer:

Angelique Chuang / SAIT Polytechnic

Project introduction:

Mental health is as important as physical health.

Sometimes, just by talking to people about mental health cannot only lighten someone’s day but keep them stay in this world. Often we can feel overwhelmed and alone, thinking no one can relate to what we are going through and no one can understand what we are thinking. However, we found that when you talk to someone you trust about your mental health, you would be surprised how many people go or went through what has been setting you back.

This is a collection of mental health awareness projects.

Design campaigns, projects and arts about mental health awareness are put together in this magazine.

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