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L8: Imaging and Design for Social Impact Flashcards

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It is a process in which we use typography, images, colors, icons, and other illustration to communicate visually.

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Graphic Design

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The term was first coined in 1992 as he
called himself a “graphic designer”.

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William Addison Dwiggins

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When was “graphic designer” first used?

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1992

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What are the basic elements of graphic design?

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Line, shape, form, and texture

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A kind of shape which connects two or more points. It is considered as one of the essential elements of graphic design.

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Line

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Lines can be:

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Thick, thin, curved, or jagged

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It is a two-dimensional external boundary of an object.

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Shape

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Any object outline that height and width can be considered as a:

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Shape

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2 major categories of shapes in design:

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Geometric shapes and Freeform shapes

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A three-dimensional shape.

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Form

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What attributes create a form?

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Shadows, perspective, depth, and texture (sometimes)

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It refers to the physical quality of the surface of an object in an artwork or design.

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Texture

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It also refers to how an object looks or feels.

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Texture

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Texture can be

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3D (real texture) or 2D (visual texture)

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It is the creation of visual equilibrium by relating elements such as line, shape, color, space, or form in terms of their visual weight

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Visual Balance

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The two kinds of visual balance are:

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Symmetrical Balance and Asymmetrical Balance

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It is when both two sides of a piece are equal, each half is identical or visually similar to the other half

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Symmetrical Balance

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Both sides of your composition do not contain the same elements but contain almost the same visual weight.

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Asymmetrical Balance

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It is simply what people think about you, your company, your product, or your service

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Branding

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It is the visual representation of a brand. It can be in the form of image, choice of color, typography, and many more.

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Identity or visual identity

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These are the building blocks of design.

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Layout and composition

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These focus on the arrangement of
your objects or elements in your design.

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Layout and composition

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Give the 5 basic principles of layout and composition:

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Proximity, white space, alignment, contrast, and repetition

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It is the process of placing related elements together. Elements that are not related to that group should be separated to show that these elements are not related to that group.

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Proximity

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It is not literally the white spaces that you found on the design but rather the negative space between lines, paragraphs, and elements on the
design.

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White Space

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Large spaces between contents and elements.

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Macro White Space

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Mini spaces between paragraphs, lines, menu items, or other elements in a design composition.

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Micro White Space

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It helps designers to organize different elements in their composition. Effective use of this gives your composition a definitive structure and a creative balance

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Alignment

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Alignment may be:

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Left, centered, right, or justified

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It means one element is opposite to the other element. This applies to colors, typeface, and size of elements.

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Contrast

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It helps you to catch the viewer’s eye, create a direction, or giving emphasis to something

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Contrast

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It means to use the same typefaces, color palettes, or other elements to achieve consistency in your composition.

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Repetition

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This creates unity in your composition or makes your projects connected to each other.

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Repetition

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It is the art of arranging texts that makes it readable and appealing to the viewer.

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Typography

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Typography involves:

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font style, typeface, and text structure

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It refers to the variation of weights of a typeface

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Font

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It refers to the text style

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typeface

38
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It also refers to the format or storage mechanism of a text like .otf and .ttf.

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Font

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These are very essential to your compositions.

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Colors

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Refers to pure, vibrant colors

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Hue

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Refers to the intensity of the color. It ranges from black and white (or grayscale) to vibrant color.

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Saturation

42
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Refers to the lightness or darkness of a color.

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Value

43
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A circular diagram of colors is called:

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Color wheel

44
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What are the 7 color schemes?

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  1. Monochromatic color schemes,
  2. Achromatic color schemes
  3. Analogous color schemes
  4. Complementary color schemes
  5. Split-complementary color schemes
  6. Triadic color schemes
  7. Tetradic color schemes
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This color scheme only focuses on one color, and often using variations by incorporating saturations or values.

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Monochromatic color scheme

46
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This color scheme only revolves on using desaturated colors like black, gray, and white.

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Achromatic color scheme

47
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It selects a group of three
colors that are adjacent to the
color wheel.

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Analogous color scheme

48
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These colors are directly opposite
to each other in the color wheel. Usually,
a combination of primary and secondary colors.

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Complementary Color Scheme

49
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It uses the colors on both sides of the opposite
color.

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Split-complementary color scheme

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This color scheme uses colors that form an equilateral triangle. It may be a combination of primary, secondary, or tertiary colors.

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Triadic Color Scheme

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This color scheme uses two pairs of
complementary colors.

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Tetradic Color Scheme

52
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Another term for Tetradic Color Scheme.

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Double complementary

53
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This includes photographs, graphics, and other illustrations.

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Image

54
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Having these in your composition makes it
appealing to the eyes of your viewer.

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Images

55
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There are different file types of images, and they are grouped into two categories:

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Vector and Raster

56
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A type of image that does not lose its quality when zoomed in. Your image will not be pixelated when enlarged

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Vector

57
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These images become pixelated when
enlarged

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Raster

58
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Vector Image File Extensions:

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Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) and Adobe Illustrator Document (AI)

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They’re made up of lines and curves rather than pixels making them ideal for logos, illustrations and other types of graphics that need to be resized without losing quality,

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Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)

60
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The most preferable and commonly used image file type by designers. Good in creating vector image.

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Adobe Illustrator Document (AI)

61
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Different raster image file extensions:

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  1. Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG or JPEG)
  2. Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
  3. Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
62
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This file type is the most commonly used image file type. These images are known for their “lossy” compression. Meaning, the image quality decreases when being enlarged

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Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG or JPEG)

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This file type is known for having a transparent background.

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Portable Network Graphics (PNG)

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This file type is known in its animated form.

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Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

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