AAD529 Week 15 Kirsty Cooper by kaki As I reflect on this online course, my primary thought is what an enormous scope of design thinking we have covered over the past 15 weeks – from the elements … AAD529 Graphic Design | Friday 12th November 2021
AAD529 Week 14 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Preparing files for printing Having a check list to follow when preparing a file to print is really useful:I checked the bleed setting (as I am using colour to the … AAD529 Graphic Design | Monday 8th November 2021
AAD529 Week 13 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Copywriting and Tone of Voice My non-profit poster is connected to the “Love Food Hate Waste” initiative that is turn connected to Kai Rescue run out of the Nelson Environment … AAD529 Graphic Design | Sunday 31st October 2021
AAD529 Week 12 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Sustainability in Design – hype or hope? It is hard to accept that anything other than moving as quickly as possible towards a sustainable way of working and living is … AAD529 Graphic Design | Thursday 21st October 2021
AAD529 Week 11 Kirsty Cooper by kaki We looked a poster design – particularly thinking about the non-profit sector in advance of our final project. AAD529 Graphic Design | Wednesday 6th October 2021
AAD529 Week 10 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Rhetorics This week we took a look at the number of ways of expressing ideas visually. Follow this link to my Pinterest Board that looks at examples of visceral, behavioural, … AAD529 Graphic Design | Saturday 25th September 2021
AAD529 Week 9 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Semiotics – the use of icon, index and symbol or signifier (word or image) and signified (the meaning) and their relationship to the referant (sign/object) AAD529 Graphic Design | Thursday 23rd September 2021
AAD529 Week 8 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Creating Concepts We took a look at the different ways to develop ideas and approaches to creating concepts. We did a random pairing exercise with two lists of nouns that … AAD529 Graphic Design | Thursday 9th September 2021
AAD529 Week 7 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Photoshop explorations this week. Resizing and looking at image manipulation using ‘adjustments’. Below are my ‘before’ and ‘after’ images of the glasshouse at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre. It’s … AAD529 Graphic Design | Wednesday 1st September 2021
AAD529 Week 6 Kirsty Cooper Travel Poster Research by kaki Photolithograph for TWA airline by David Klein, 1956. Strongest visual elements are the buildings, traffic and the lights and advertising illuminated billboards of Times Square, cleverly implied through through bright, … AAD529 Graphic Design | Thursday 26th August 2021
AAD529 Week 5 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Explorations with colour this week. We learned about the Adobe Color CC website and built some colour swatches using the different relationships between hue, value and saturation on the colour … AAD529 Graphic Design | Friday 20th August 2021
AAD529 Week 4 Kirsty Cooper by kaki This week we took a closer look at typography, gathered a few examples of typographic terms and applications for our future reference and put them on a Pinterest board. AAD529 Graphic Design | Monday 9th August 2021
AAD529 Week 3 Kirsty Cooper by kaki This week we’ve been looking at the principles of composition and layout. Here is a link to my Pinterest board with examples: With that in mind, we have been taking … AAD529 Graphic Design | Monday 2nd August 2021
AAD529 Week 2 Kirsty Cooper by kaki Revisited the Elements and Principles of Design this week and built a summary of both of these for my future reference using Adobe InDesign. AAD529 Graphic Design | Saturday 31st July 2021
AAD529 Week 1 Kirsty Cooper by kaki I have begun sketching out some ideas for my alternative movie poster . I am considering some iconic New Zealand films: The Whale Rider, Goodbye Pork Pie & Hunt for … AAD529 Graphic Design | Wednesday 28th July 2021
