I found this voting guide for college students. I could see it being something that is possibly folded and handed out based on the layout of it. I like the flow of information from resources to giving a brief description of what the propositions are. I could see this being useful to look at while … Continue reading voting guide.

It's everywhere, we see it during elections, with anything political in the news, in advertisements on web, the promotion of candidates and organizations. It's big, bold, and sans serif display typeface is usually what gets picked when designing around Political typography. The wording tends to follow and image or a symbol that many are familiar … Continue reading political typography.

Book cover design is important for many reasons, from attracting the reader in to pick up the book to helping convey the look and feel of the story content of the book. When we walk into bookstores, we are only looking at book covers. We rely on the cover itself to give us the feeling … Continue reading book cover design

        This is an exhibition catalog, that contains photos and information of an exhibit that was once available to view. In this exhibition catalog, The Photographer and the American Landscape, it is a single page layout with the photo and a caption. The only time it changes the layout is when you … Continue reading exhibition catalog analysis.

One place to easily pick up grid systems is in Book design. Like anything, there are guidelines and rules to follow just like when you design for logo, packaging, mobile, or web. It still holds the potential to have fun with it. We look at layouts every day, everywhere. You may never notice it but … Continue reading book design.

Layout. There is most likely a grid system used behind every good design we see in the world. Grids are measured in picas, 6 picas is 1 inch, this refers to the spacing between objects or text on a page. A spread is two pages side by side. Setting up grids is an important first … Continue reading layout.

I recently learned how to make gifs out of anything on photoshop. I mean you can easily pick up your phone and make one using camera effects while taking a picture. But I wanted to send something I handmade like a card instantly to someone, so I made it a gif and sent it to … Continue reading gifs.

      Someone once told me when I’m stuck in my design thinking to just keep designing. I didn’t understand at first how I could simply keep designing when I felt like I just had no ideas left in me. But that wasn’t what it was about. It was about learning how to stay … Continue reading get inspired.

Type, it surrounds us just as much as color. It is how we communicate. Type is it's own language. It goes all the way back to the caveman era. Are you a san serif, serif, slab serif, or script style person? What is your eye drawn more to. In digital settings our eyes prefer to … Continue reading typography.

Color has its own psychologist. Maybe you have heard about color psychology before. I find it so fun when I figure out what people's favorite colors are because it adds this hidden layer of a way I get to know someone just by understanding this topic. So there is color interaction and color psychology. You … Continue reading psychology of color.