Making an animation showcasing the typeface VAG Rounded I got started by jotting down a few characteristics of the typeface I wanted to encapsulate. VAG Rounded is both a professional and a friendly typeface, but I wanted to give some thought as to how it might move. …

Characteristics, Personality, Rhythm, and Flow For September 23, 2021 The font that’s lucky enough to have been chosen by me is VAG rounded! I started out by jotting down some adjectives. The, I got into some research for my short essay. It has a really interesting history, actually! All of…

Exploring visual hierarchy in text For September 9, 2021 (Experiments 1–6) For our next project, we’ll be examining visual hierarchy in text, starting out with some experiments of basic hierarchy using text that we will later be using to make a poster. I picked something from the “music” stack, which…

Overview of The Atlantic in print and online Chelsea, Jessica and I will be analyzing The Atlantic magazine. Since I ended up being the “print and web” person, we decided I could tackle the more macro view of the whole publication (ie the lines between print and online), while Chelsea…

Making Seashell and Mouse forms for Design Lab For April 22, 2021 I started out by doing some sketches of my chosen seashell to try to get an idea of the form and its details. Unlike many of the other shells it seems other people are using, mine is more…

Studies of typography for Collaborative Visualizing For March 31, 2021 I finally figured out a grid system for the K that I think works. I tried gridding it out over a square divided into quarters and into thirds, but the proportional grid that I made by fitting the K in…

Creating an After Effects animation of the Barton Springs Salamander For March 30, 2021 I started out the whole animation process by cracking into some After Effects tutorials on LinkedIn, since I am, on the whole, completely unfamiliar with this software and have used it for nothing before. I have…

Creating a poster in Illustrator for the Barton Springs Salamander For March 16, 2021 We’re onto the next segment of our project, which is making a poster in Illustrator! Our first task was to thumbnail as many iterations as we could, so I got to work with a ballpoint pen. …

Creating a project based on the Barton Creek Salamander For February 25, 2021 After a decision-making process that took entirely longer than it should have, I’ve settled on the Barton Springs Salamander, a species of salamander that’s endemic to only the Barton Springs pool area in Austin (my hometown). I’ve…