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Quiz 1 Flashcards

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What is Graphic Design?

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Visual Communication through the use of text, images and symbols

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The 3 skill areas in graphic design

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  • Visual arts: Illustrations, paintings and photography
  • Typography: art/process of setting, arranging and design type
  • Page Layout: visual arrangement of elements on a printed page
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What’s the History of Design?

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Cave Paintings (15000 BC- 10000-BC): First use of visual communication to convey ideas

Ts’ai Lun (105 AD): Credited with the invention of paper (artwork, writing)

Johannesburg Gutenberg (Mid 1400’s): credited with inventing the movable type press

William Addison Dwiggins (Early 1920’s): term “graphic designer” coined

Douglas Engelbart (1969): invents the mouse

Apple Macintosh (1984): ushered modern computer-based graphic design

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What must a designer do through the years?

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They must evolve

Design tools are involving faster than ever. Stay atop trends and learn new technologies. Adapt as your clients need you to

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Different types of tools for graphic design

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Illustrator- .ai (create artwork and scale infinity)

Photoshop- .psd (manipulation of image)

InDesign- .indd (page layout application)

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Vector vs. Raster

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Vector: all math- can go infinitely close- (.ai .pdf)

Raster: pictures- go close and see pixels- (.jpg .gif .png)

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What Makes a Design Great?

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Form: be visually appealing (nice colour palette and typography)

Feeling: Design stay of message, consistency in mood, Mood evoke proper emotion

Function: Serve the intended purpose, easy to read and understand, form work with the medium

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What are the two building blocks used to create art

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Elements- Things that make up design (line, shape, colour, texture, space)

Principles- What we do with the elements of design (Balance, contrast, movement, pattern)

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What the most basic element of deign. Explain.

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The LINE

The DIRECTION, WEIGHT and CHARACTER of lines convey many different states and emotions

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What are the 3 different lines of direction?

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Vertical- Suggests strength or power. Lines going upward visually pull your eyes up. Creates perspective, suggests height or Distance

Horizontal- suggests tranquillity and rest. Reflects objects parallel to earth at rest in relation to gravity

Diagonal- convey action or direction

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What do the different weights of lines convey?

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Thinner- weakness

Thicker- power

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Explain the 3 different types of balances?

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Symmetrical (formal balance): Visual weight of elements evenly divided- easy to create, difficult to get emotion- evokes feeling of formality

Asymmetrical (informal balance): Creates illusion of equality- relies on scale- attracts attention- colour and contrast to achieve irregular balance- evokes feeling of MODERNISM

Radial Balance: arranged around the center point or outward of that point

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Explain the element of SHAPE

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Can stand out with the area next to or around it- VALUE, COLOUR or TEXTURE

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What are the two general categories of a shape? Explain.

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Geometric: can be described using mathematical terms- very regular and precise (square, circle, triangle)

Organic: difficult to describe with definitions- irregular/ uneven- commonly found in NATURE (clouds, puddles, trees)

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What are Positive and Negative shapes?

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Positive: the subject matter within the work of art

Negative shape: background around the positive shape (negative space)- can be as and DISTINCT as positive shapes

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How can we use shapes in design?

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ORGANIZE- separate and join information on a page

GUIDE- guide viewers through the layout

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Explain the principle EMPHASIS.

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An area that attracts attention in a composition

Can create this contest rat through colours, placement, relative, visual weight
IDENTICAL ITEMS CAN’T DOMINATE EACH OTHER

Ideally you want a single DOMINANT ELEMENT- should attract the eye first, don’t make it too dominant

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Explain the Focal Points in Emphasis. What are the 3 levels of Emphasis?

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-Draw attention to the most important info

  1. Dominant Element
  2. Focal Points
  3. Other Content (Majority)
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Explain the important parts of a design brief.

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Desired Results of design— Not aesthetics

Commonly used in consulting, when a freelance designer or agency executes a design on behalf of a client

What do they want? Is it a redesign or a completely new design?

Solid idea or are their ideas more vague

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Explain about the Budget and Schedule.

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Stress to clients that by knowing ahead of time what kind of budget they have to work with, services can be TAILORED to give the most benefit for your money

Be REALISTIC with clients regarding budget and schedule. If you know you can’t do something tell them upfront

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Explain Target Audience.

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Who is your client trying to reach

Client unsure? Ask about their ideal customer

Ask to describe them, even if there is more than one

It’s your job to create something that appeals to more than one DEMOGRAPHIC

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Explain Project Scope.

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Not every project is as in-depth as every other. Some want a CUSTOM SOLUTION and others want to adapt an existing template or other design

Some are obvious but if not ask, if customers want to integrate AUGMENTED REALITY is that part of your scope?

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What is Overall Style.

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Ask clients for EXAMPLES of what designs they like and don’t like (example clean or dirty)

24
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Explain Copyright. When should your client own your copyright?

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The exclusive right to control reproduction and commercial exploitation of your creative work
Person who create the work is the “AUTHOR”

Your client would want to own the copyright meaning you no longer have control how often or in what manner the work is used, this is not always NECESSARY or APPROPRIATE

If you want to keep creating similar works then you should insure to get the rights

For some type of work the client has to own the entire copyright (corporate IDENTITY PACKAGES, logos, websites) but should get the rights to display and reproduce the work in your print/online portfolios

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What happens with Work made for hire? Freelance?

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When a full time employee your employer is considered the author and automatic copyright owner of any work you create within the scope of employment

Freelance it can be the same thing but only if the contract says so if not you maintain the rights to your work

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Difference between Inspiration and Infringement.

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Inspiration:
-have sources of inspiration been transformed so that the new design can be conspired original rather than derived

Infringement:
Someone takes a substantive part of your design authority; especially the part that gives it originality (look and feel)

27
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What is Creative Commons?

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A form of copyright where content creators who want to share their work may do so

Usually on the condition that their work is properly attributed

Six different types of licences

28
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What’s the 3 different types on colour identification?

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HUE: another word for colour. Main attribute that distinguishes it from other colours

SATURATION: (chroma) the intensity or purity of a hue
100% saturation= means no addition to grey= very vivid

BRIGHTNESS: The relative degree of black and white mixed with a given hue. Adding white makes colour lighter and adding black makes it darker

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What are the two colour systems?

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Additive Colours (RGB)

  • red, green and blue
  • When added together produce WHITE
  • used in DIGITAL

Subtractive Colours (CMYK)

  • Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black (key)
  • when added together produces BLACK
  • used in printing processes
30
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What’s a Colour Gamut?

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The range of colours devices (printers, camera, monitors) can reproduce varies so a colour gamut is used to make these differences clear and shows what colour devices have in common.

(Look at picture)

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What are Pantone/Spot Colours?

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Colours that’s matched for web and print to insure uniform appearance. Common in BRAND colours to help ensure brand consistency

Specially-mixed ink; not made of CMYK and uses it’s own printing unit

Using Pantone Matching System (PMS)

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What are the three colour wheel theories?

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Primary colours

  • Red, yellow, and blue
  • cannot be derived from the mixture of any other colours on the palette

Secondary Colours

  • Orange, green and violet
  • Made by mixing two PRIMARY colours
  • the hues are midway between the two primary colours used to mix them

Tertiary Colours
-When you mix a primary colour and its nearest SECONDARY colour on the basic colour wheel , you create new six mixtures called tertiary colours
Red + Orange= red-orange
Red+Violet= Red-Violet

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What are the 4 different types of Colour Harmonies?

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Complementary- OPPOSITE of each other (vibrant look, tricky in large doses, does not work well with TEXT)

Analogous- NEXT of each other (match well to create serene and comfortable designs- often found in nature and are harmonious and pleasing to the eye-one to dominate, a second to support and third to accent)

Triad- EVENLY SPACED AROUND THE WHEEL (quite vibrant even if you use pale or unsaturated hues)

Split-Complementary- VARIATION to COMPLEMENTARY COLOUR SCHEME. In addition to base colour. Use two colours adjacent to the complement (same strong visual contrast as complementary but less jarring)

34
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What percentage of people have colour blindness?

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8% men and 1% woman have some form of colour impairment

Most common is red-green dichromatism

35
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How much percent of people base their initial judgement on colour? What does it mean?

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60-90

It’s an important business decision as it relates to consumers

36
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What does red mean?

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Physical

Grabs our attention

Stimulating, lively and very friendly

Also as demandin and aggressive

COMMUNICATES STRENGTH, CONFIDENCE AND POWER AND A HIGHLY VISABLE

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WHAT DOES BLUE MEAN?

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INTELLECTUAL

Most versatile colour

Trustworthiness, security, and stability

Dark and navy blue as serious and professional

38
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What does Yellow mean?

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EMOTIONAL

Attracts attention

Visually disturbing or hard to see

39
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What is Green?

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BALANCE

Natural, healthy, sustainable, environmentally friendly, organic

40
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What does violet mean?

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SPIRITUAL

Royalty, majesty, honour, spiritual

Darker symbolizes luxury

Lighter are feminine or childish

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What does Orange mean?

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Physical or emotional

Fun colour

But too much suggests lack of intellectual values

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