DMA 363A – my DMA blog ../../../../hazeletg Just another DMA Sites site Thu, 12 May 2022 16:51:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 Project 3: Event Display and Drink Label ../../../2022/05/12/project-3-event-display-and-drink-label/ Thu, 12 May 2022 16:51:11 +0000 https://comdma.com/hazeletg/?p=259 Continue reading "Project 3: Event Display and Drink Label"

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  • What did you learn?

For this project, I learned how use Photoshop and Figma in order to design a drink label and create an event display.

  • What was easy?

The easy part of the project was using Photoshop to create the event display.

  • What was challenging?

The most challenging part of the project was coming up with the drink brand and package design.

  • How could your submission be improved?

I think my submission could be improved if the logo and nutrition facts were larger on the label.

  • How can the professor improve the assignment in the future?

I think the project works well as it is.

  • How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments?

This project has taught me to use Photoshop’s transform tool to warp an image to fit with the perspective. This will be helpful for future projects that require me to put logos into a 3d space.

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  • What did you learn?

For this project, I learned how to design and print stickers and a poster in Figma.

  • What was easy?

The easy part of the project was using Figma to create the designs.

  • What was challenging?

The most challenging part of the project was printing and cutting out the stickers.

  • How could your submission be improved?

I think my submission could be improved if I incorporated typography into the poster and stickers.

  • How can the professor improve the assignment in the future?

I think the project works well as it is.

  • How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments?

This project has taught me a lot about using the pen tool in Figma. This knowledge will be useful for any vector based designs I do in the future.

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Project 1: Menu and Table Tent ../../../2022/02/24/project-1-menu-and-table-tent/ ../../../2022/02/24/project-1-menu-and-table-tent/#respond Thu, 24 Feb 2022 20:00:27 +0000 https://comdma.com/hazeletg/?p=191 Continue reading "Project 1: Menu and Table Tent"

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  • What did you learn?

In this project I learned how to create die strikes and image bleeds in order to optimize projects for print.

  • What was easy?

The easy part of this project was organizing the type for the menu and table tent in Adobe InDesign.

  • What was challenging?

The challenging aspect of this project was understanding how the digital design would translate when printed.

  • How could your submission be improved?

My submission could have been improved if there was less empty space on the inner right side of the menu. I also feel that some of the images could have been larger.

  • How can the professor improve the assignment in the future?

I think the assignment could be improved by making the table tent and menu two separate assignments.

  • How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments?

By doing this assignment, I have learned a lot about creating designs for the purpose of print. This knowledge will definitely be helpful for when I have to create future projects for print.

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