Saturday 17 November 2012

OUGD404: Design Principles

For this session, we were identifying the characteristics of what we consider to be good Graphic Design. We were asked to provide 6 images for the session, two which were type only, two which were image only and two which were type and image. One of the two images would be good, and the other would be bad. 


 Order Descending, Type and Image (Good, Bad), Type (Good, bad), Image (Good, Bad)

We were asked come come up with words which described the image, these were collectively written down on the white board, at the front of the class, as good and bad characteristics of images. Such words like Random, Colourful, Harmonised, Clean, Clear, Cluttered, as seen below.


From the above, I have learnt a broader vocabulary of which I can use to describe and analysis images in much further detail.

Were were then asked to swap choose two of the images which we considered to be really good and really bad out of the images we originally chose. (I selected the first and fourth image above). 

We then swapped tables, and were given the images of someone else in the group to describe and write about, deciding which were good or bad, and why, demonstrating the new Graphic-critical-vocabulary.

The person who's work I analysed, Sarah Butler, and I paired up, and we were asked to write ten rules, which all Graphic Design must follow, in our opinions. 


Following this, separately we were asked to write three rules, on post-it notes, and then add them to the white board.


The three, below, in green are my post-it notes, which I added to the board.



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