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@martin
i need to get gud at design fuck
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Sol Su 🌞
@sirsu.eth
To get good you need three things: - learn the fundamentals [composition, balance, unity, white space, contrast, etc] - practice, practice, and practice [create studies around typography and images practicing various forms of the fundamentals] - study from life, visit museums [design is everywhere, seek the fundamentals in everything]
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@martin
how did you learn the fundamentals? i think i'm struggling to learn in a real way, i see random things here and there but no clear "curriculum"
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Sol Su 🌞
@sirsu.eth
I will give you a book list that I used and I’ll give you some exercises I did Book 1/ Universal Principles of Design https://arc345ergofactors.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/william-lidwell-kritina-holden-jill-butler-universal-principles-of-design-rockport-publishers-2003.pdf Exercise 1/ Composition Create a viewfinder out of a piece of paper. Cut out squares and rectangles of various aspect ratios. Go outside and “frame” what you see within the viewfinder. Sketch what you framed. Observe how your eye moves across those thumbnails. Take a pen or colored pencil and draw the line your eyes take in each composition. Note what you observe. Are you moving in an N, Z, Y, etc. Are you eyes getting tired or cross? Good composition brings ease to your eyes and allows them to take in the full picture upon viewing. (I realize this may take a while lmfao so i will add more occasionally)
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@sirsu.eth
Book 2 / Vignelli Canon https://www.rit.edu/vignellicenter/sites/rit.edu.vignellicenter/files/documents/The%20Vignelli%20Canon.pdf Exercise 2 / Grids and Alignments Grab some paper. Use a ruler and make several types of grids. Get some magazines and cut out images and text, letters and such until you have a variety of objects in various sizes. Arrange them in these grids while telling a story, selling a product, etc. The goal here is to see if you can capture someone’s attention leveraging what you learned from the composition exercise and building on that with “content”.
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