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Nov 19, 2020

51261 Project 5: Digital Magazine Feature

For this final project, we are asked to employ all the design principles discussed thus far in a digital magazine layout — where composition, typographic hierarchy, document hierarchy, visual-verbal interaction, expression, color and system come together. Using text and photos or illustrations as primary content, we created three spreads of…

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05261 Project 5: Digital Magazine Feature

Oct 22, 2020

51261 Project 4: Poster Series

Introduction In this project, we designed a poster series for an event that we choose. We are allowed to use more visual elements such as colors, illustrations and more choices of typographies. …

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Sep 24, 2020

51261 Project 3: Type & Hierarchy

Introduction Project three is about designing a type specimen poster using variables such as gestalt, scale, rhythm, line spacing, indentation, color, tone, value, texture, and position. Before getting started with the poster design, we started off with a couple of typography exercises. Getting Started Sept. 24, 2020 Exercise 1 We are asked to…

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Sep 8, 2020

51261 Project 2: Form and Composition

Introduction The theme for project 2 is Form and Composition. In this project, I explored how I can use forms (black squares) to convey meanings by using the gestalt principles that we learned in class. …

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Sep 3, 2020

51261 Project 1 : Identifying Design

About Yuran Ding Hi! I’m Yuran Ding, a junior at CMU majoring in cognitive science, human-computer interaction and minoring in design. When taking cognitive science and human-computer interaction courses, I find design to be very closely related to them. Want to add on to my interdisciplinary skillset. …

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