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Graphic Design
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Posters for Buckminster Fuller Counterpoint Photography Book Semiology Series
Typography
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Initial Letter New York Times newspaper Personal Typelogo MoMA PSI poster Photography Magazine
Visual Literacy Square, Circle and Triangle Snowflake Road Sign
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Five minutes is a 30 degree angle.
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Buckminster As Poster Set
Design two posters that one follows Buckminster Fuller's conceptual approach, and the other is the opposite. The first poster is about the idea of efficiencient structure, and the second is about messy up.
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Assignment One: Poster Design
Assignment One: Poster about Buckminster
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Vinyl Jacket
Design for Stop Making Sense, from the band Talking Heads I broke the words and scattered them on four seperate papers. Because papers are overlapped, the words don't make sense.
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Assignment two: Vinyl Design
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Each layers can be taken out. Single page still has no meaning.
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Counterpoint Find design through Photography
Walk around the New York city, taking pictures of some interesting patterns and types. Use these photos to make a book.
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Through the viewfinder of camera, I get a new perspective of the patterns in the city.
Semiology Posters
Based on the Elements of Semiology, identify a single idea and design b&w relevant posters about this concept. Every entity is an abstract element unless someone give a meaning to it.
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Lines and shapes are two of the basic abstract elements that compose signs in life.
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Assignment Three: Semiology Posters
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Fear is nothing but an abstract illusion. The shadow shows how do people amplify fear, making it a tangible entity.
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Semiology Book
Create a book based on posters. Seeking for meaning is a process of exploring. It's about seeing through abstract things and identify an inner quality.
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Semiology Branding
Design a series of branding ideas based on semiology. My logo is for a candy company. The idea is about happiness and playfulness. So I keep the variety of colors and shapes.
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Shapes and colors are abstract elements. Together they have great possibility of expressions.
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The flexibility of the position of the dots inspired me a new way to design a clock face.
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Assignment Four: Semiology- Branding
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Five minutes is 300 times ticking of a clock.
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Use initial letter to communicate
Use the initial letter to describe your personality and traits. My intial letter is H. I tried to see every special chatacters of each form of H, h, h and H. The half-cut H represents that I am an open-minded person.
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1. I like hot food. 2. I'm organized. 3. I like watching TV.
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Newspaper Design
Redesign a specific section of New York Times in an unconventional way. What I tried to set up was an opportunity to let the word "FOOD" relate to the stories in some creative way.
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The orange block was set to balance the page and build up visual connections.
instructor: Nic Taylor
Assignment One: Newspaper Design
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Personal Logotype
Explore your own logotype. What makes you special? What's your identity? X is a pretty unusual letter, also my identity as a twin is special. I am 5 minutes older than my sister, but this fact makes me become who I am- a reliable, responsible and caring person.
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Identical twins are born from one split egg. This sense of "incompleteness from completeness" became the main idea of my typelogo.
Assignment Three: Personal Typelogo
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Printed on half-transparent material, the black and white business cards complete each other when they're overlapped.
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MoMA PSI Music Poster
Communicating the intangible aspects of mucis, design a poster ammouncing Lykke Li's performance at MoMa PS1. The sound and the attitude of the music must be considered. Lykke Li has a great sense of kinetic and power in her music.
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Photography Magazine
Use typographic grid to design a photography magazine which called Parallax. Use the narrative that you develop to lead the experience. My theme of the magazine is "journey of an impulse". It's the journey that an idea takes as it is translated from subject, through the lens and to the viewer to perceive it.
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I set up my grid so that images and text never overlap vertically, and it's always moving forward.
Two more cover designs for Summer and Fall versions.
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Five minutes is a destiny that says I'm a bigger sister.
Square, Circle and Triangle
Create eighteen designs that associated to the squres, circles and triangles,while maintain the interity of the given mark.
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Assignment two: Snowflakes with Type
Five minutes is a 30 degree angle.
Road Sign
In the yellow areas indicated below, graphically depict the intent of each road sign.
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Assignment Three: Road Sign
Five minutes is insignificant, but it makes me a caring twin sister. So I decide to make this little story a book. Thanks !
Instructors: Richard Wilde Nicolaus Taylor Peter Alhberg