Logo, Business Card, Berkeley Times

 

How do the principles of design effect your design products?

 

 

The principle of design really effect my design product. First of all, it looks much better when you follow the principle of design. For example, alignment is the most important part of the design. When I aligned things(text and image), it makes my work looks professional because everything is in the right position. Repetition is also another really important one. Using the same font and color throughout the project will make it easy for the reader and it maintain the tone for your project. Proximity is the third one, without proximity, the images and texts will not be organized and the reader doesn’t know where to read first. Contrast is the fourth one. For my 1st Berkeley Times page, I tried to balance the color between the title and the background image. For the 2nd Berkeley Times page, I used the black and white color because black is heavy but the white is light. Therefore, it balanced. In conclusion, principle of design improved my work and it bring me as a designer to the next level.

 

 

Define the 4+1+1 Principles of design: (Crap’n-b)

 

• Contrast- is the color you used in your design to grab your reader’s attention. This color will applied in your fonts, tone, size, which makes the reader’s eyes to flow naturally.

 

• Repetition- is when you repeat your style, included color palette, font style or font size. This is because professional wants to repeat their style to make it looks professional.

 

• Alignment- is really important for your design. Without alignment, your work will look really messy and the reader won’t look at your work. Things are also arranged and organized in the right place, which make the reader to have visual connect.

 

• Proximity- is when you group things together, for example, I put all the images on the right side and put all the texts on the left side. This will also make the reader know where to read first.

 

• Negative/White Space- is ridiculously important for your design. Negative space make your work to look more clean and has more space, which makes your work to looks good because things aren’t pushed close together. You can see that a professional magazine has a lot of negative space for a reason.

 

• Balance- is also another important for your design. Balancing your work will definitely improve the quality of your work because it has an equal on the left, right, top, and bottom. So if you cut your work into  four congruent pieces, you will see that all should have equal weight. When the reader read your work, the reader will feel easy to read.

 

• How can you use what you have learned this semester in the real world?

 

 

I can really used what I have learned this semester in the real word because I can make business card for my dad to promote his products and so people will find it interesting, if the design are good. I can also make logo for other people, like my mom or dad. Berkeley times is also important because in the future, I can make any magazine I want.

 

 

• How did you develop or grow as a student through the semester? (How have your designs gotten better, problem solving skills, independent learning, what are you better at, have yours skills using the programs gotten better)

 

 

I think I improve a lot this semester, and I have never used Adobe product before. At first, I really get stressed because I didn’t know how to use Illustrator. However, I tried hard and watch a lot of tutorial to improve my skills. My design also got better because I tried to follow the principle of design as much as  possible. Solving problem is another one that I improved. Since I gained more experiences, I know what went wrong with the programme and I could fix it easily.

 

• As you look at the work you have completed throughout this semester (Logo, Business Card and Berkeley Times Layouts), what have been your strengths (what are you good at)?

 

 

I think my strength are on making making many drafts and choose the best one and tried to watch tutorials and apply it to my work.

 

• As you look at the work you have completed throughout this semester, what do you think you could improve on (what was challenging or difficult for you)?

 

 

What challenging for me is to make my work looks perfect, for example the image isn’t zoomed enough and that makes the reader to focus on other things instead of the show.