This is another class that doesn’t have anything fabulous going on. We’re learning how to draw letterforms from scratch and what the ideal letter spacing is, as well as getting some typesetting lessons (leading, kearning, ligatures, punctuation spacing, word spacing, etc). It’s interesting getting the basics, but I don’t have…
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I’m in school again – this time at Arizona State University in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. The program at UWA was for Marketing with a side of Graphic Design and it just wasn’t for me, so I switched schools (after several obstacles and a lot of soul searching) and entered into a path that would earn me a Graphic Design degree… something I’ve wanted for, oh, 30 years now lol.
You’ll find different things under the ASU Fun menu as the years progress 🙂
Fall 2023
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GRA 220: Design Drawing I
There’s really nothing too terribly interesting going on with this class. We’re learning how to sharpen pencils, draw straight lines, measure with our pencils, and draw planes. Here’s where we are at right now. Maybe I’ll have something more interesting to update with when the class is done? 😉
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GRA 122: Principles of Graphic Design II
An introduction to fundamental principles of letterform design. This class focuses on design, spacing, and construction of letterforms. It was pretty fun once I understood the spacing 🙂
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GRA 121: Principles of Graphic Design 1
The Irradiation Illusion Introduces first year graphic design students to fundamental principles of graphic design in preparation for further study. Students will explore and hopefully discover largely unknown phenomena in the interaction of form including two and three dimensions. Line Interaction Color Interaction Three-Dimensional Interaction Miniature Model Making Prototyping Final…
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GRA 112: Graphic Design History II
This is a continuation of our timetrack project in GRA 111. For each chapter in our textbook, we have to pick 3 types of images that were innovative to graphic design and put them together on a ‘time track’ along with a couple of historical facts per chapter. Alphabet Soup…
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GRA 111: Graphic Design History 1
Time Track For each chapter in our textbook, we have to pick 3 types of images that were innovative to graphic design and put them together on a ‘time track’ along with a couple of historical facts per chapter.
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GRA 101: Designing Life
A required course for all design students… Syllabus Description: This course explores how students can create a life of meaning and purpose in the field of Design. This course aims to provide students with foundational skills of self-knowledge and self-management. Topics covered will help them to develop strategies to successfully…