Nik's work

Questions: Switzerland Latin for Switzerland 1957 Modernism Post-Modern, Grunge, Modernism “There is visual disease everywhere, it’s a graphic designer’s job to cure it.” Think Deeper: After watching the documentary Helvetica:The Movie, I’ve been noticing graphic design in a whole new way. Though my eyes are young, I can’t offer much critique to a lot of signs. But, my eyes are still instantly drawn to signs. It’s very similar to skateboarding, after learning about grinding down a handrail you’ll never look at one the same way again. Even if I can’t physically grind down the rail,  I’m imagining it. It is the same with Graphic Design. Activities: Wim Crouel http://www.iconofgraphics.com/wim-crouwel/ Massimo Vignelli http://designobserver.com/?entry=2647 Mathew Carter http://www.fontbureau.com/people/MatthewCarter/ Rick Poyner http://www.economist.com/bl...

Typography D o ’s strive for clarity and legibility stick with time tested fonts serif is used for smaller text sans serif is used for bigger consider eye movement across the plain Start left to right balance font weights Properly Space letters(Kerning) Global letter spaces(Tracking) Use columns to make pretty D o n t ’s Too many fonts spoil the design Don’t use too similar fonts Don’t use capital letters, no large bodies of text with capital letters Distort fonts past clarity The Mac is not a typewriter ! E m p h a s i s ! 1.Italics 2.Bold 3.Size 4.Color 5.Typeface/type style change

           The three primary colors in my photo are Black, Blue and Green. A secondary color in the photo is green. Some tertiary colors created were dark blues and light greens. Additive means you start with black and end with white. Subtractive means you start with white and end with black. Color can affect our perception by influencing different emotions with different colors. A colors brightness and shade is heavily dependent on it's surrounding colors.            Here is an example of greyscale and how it shows a flashback. This is a monochromatic photo This Pokemon has Complimentary colors