This blog serves as a reflective journal on my graphic design studies and is for educational purposes only. Follow me if you'd like to see what I learn and how I'm progressing over the 2 years I'll be studying graphic design.
Hi, I'm Heidi. I'm 25 years of age and am currently living in Kongsberg, Norway. I read a lot. I mean, not A LOT a lot, but more than the average person I'd say. More often than not, my mind is somewhere very far away, most likely in an entirely different world, preferably a magical... Continue Reading →
W31 - LT - Introduction to Post Production - Workflow and Backup Draw a diagram of your preferred workflow and explain why you take certain stepsCreate a checklist for your workflowTake a screenshot of your folder structureExplain why creating backups are so important Checklist Make sure memory card and camera battery are readySet up camera... Continue Reading →
W30 - LT - Introduction to Fashion Photography - Question 1 In your own words, describe the procedure of planning a fashion shoot. You don’t need to go into too much detail, a short outline will do.What are the stylist’s duties?List your duties as photographer What equipment would you take along on the Alice in Wonderland shoot... Continue Reading →
W27 - LT - After Effects Principles - Creating an Animation in After Effects Work through my sunrise example step-by-step. Upload your version of this project to your WordPress blog. Please note, you will make a better impression if you make this animation your own. Don’t be scared to take things a little further and... Continue Reading →
Week 26 – Motion Design – LT – Animation Principles Create a character. This character can be a letter, a person, an animal or any type of illustration, use your imagination. This character will play the main role in your animation. Take this character and draw it in five different exaggerated poses. In each of... Continue Reading →
Week 25 – Motion Design – LT – Visualise Your Ideas I would like you to create a mood board and storyboard using a word and its meaning as the concept. For example, you could use the word “prop”. You could then use the “r” to prop up the “p” that keeps falling over. That’s... Continue Reading →
Week 24 – Motion Design – LT – Playing with Ideas If the idea is at the heart of everything, then I would like you to think of a movie that you love. Then look at its current title sequence and come up with a new one. Sketch up the rough idea in the form... Continue Reading →
Week 21 – Layout Design – LT – Q1 Have a look at all the tasks and lessons you have done over the last few weeks. Your task now is to make a cover (a front page) for your very own magazine. Go through the Graphic Design history timeline and choose a style and designer... Continue Reading →
Week 20 – Layout: Typography – LT – Q1+2 Define the term “typography” in your own wordsWrite a few sentences explaining what typography is not What is "typography"? Very simply put, typography is the style and appearance of printed matter.Typography is the art of arranging the letters/text in ways that make the copy legible, clear and... Continue Reading →
Week 19 – Sketching Techniques – LT – Tasks 3-5 Use your graphite, eraser, eraser putty and blending stub to sketch spheres using the following techniques: hatching and cross hatching, blending, rendering, squiggly lines and cross contour lines Watch the prescribed Adobe Illustrator video on LinkedIn and complete the exercise files Find a poem that... Continue Reading →
Week 19 – Sketching Techniques – LT – Printmaking terms Define, in your own words, the printmaking termsFind examples on the Internet to represent each of those terms WOOD ENGRAVING Wood engraving is a printmaking method where the artist engraves a reverse design/image on a smooth surface of a block of endgrain wood, then rolls... Continue Reading →
Heidi's Design Journey 