For this week's assignment, we had to find a website, use that website's content, and redesign it with three different looks.
Design for screen: Design different looks
Providing your own hosting service
This post will be short, because there really isn't that much to write about this. This mandatory learning activity is important for future web design projects, so we needed a host.
Creating a Wireframe
Before I could start to lay out the website design, I had to ask a few questions to the client (me). For a couple of years I have been using a modified WordPress theme for my portfolio, but now that I'm studying graphic design I can see that it's lacking.
Getting the basics right
Let's explain a few things first The internet The internet is a gigantic global network of millions and billions of computers and other devices that connect to the internet. Your computer connects to an ISP (internet service provider), then the ISP may connect to a larger network. A “backbone” is connecting many networks in a... Continue Reading →
Print preparation
For this semester's final Learning Activity we learned about printing and all the things we had to consider before sending our work to the press. We also delved deep into the process of making a magazine layout, and preparing it for print.
Mandatory Assignment 03 – Layout
The final Mandatory Assignment for the first semester was Layout. We were handed a text and a few images, and asked to make a cook book(let) for Opplysningskontoret for Egg og Kjøtt (Matprat). This is my final product:
Layout II – Travel Brochure
For the final Learning Activity of this double week, we were going to use all we had learned to make a travel brochure.
Layout I – Composition
This reflective journal entry will put four learning activities together, because they are all about composition. I will use what I've learned in these activities to make a brochure, which you can read about in Layout II.
Exposure Basics II – Practical Assignment
For the final part of this assignment I was asked to take 5 pictures for 5 days, for a total of 25 pictures (somehow I ended up with 488). Then I had to choose 6 of these, which was an impossible task!
Exposure Basics I – Observation and Analysis
During this Graphic Design course there will be a lot of photography assignments, so to begin it all I will show the button layout of my Nikon D3200 camera, and how to set the ISO, aperture and shutter speed.
My Reflective Journal 