Type Selection

Every typeface has a distinct personality and the ability to convey different feelings and moods, some more than that. The first and foremost step in selecting a typeface is knowing your goals and the requirements of the project. To focus your design goals and subsequently the most appropriate typefaces to use, start by identifying the age, attention span, and demographics of the audience.
Typefaces have personalities. If their personality do not match the essence of the business or message or text, a conflict can be created which can be distracting. As with selecting any visual theme, typeface choice should be consistent with the content, tone and characteristics of the audience. We can also go with a neutral type of font, that doesn’t have much personality at all.

Researches have shown that non-designers are also aware of the personality of a typefaces even when they do not consciously think about it. 

Type anatomy

TYPE ANATOMY

A typeface consists of many different characters, and each of them have a name to it. Knowing the terminology of type helps to communicate about typefaces clearly and is required for better understanding of the typefaces and it's characters. 

Logo - types

There are different ways in which a logo is made. Following are the ways in which a logo is represented:
1. A business name
2. Pictures of business name
3. First letter of name
4. Story of business
5. Abstract/urelated

Examples can be seen as follows :

Based on business name "I Desinz"

Picture of business - "Apple"

First letter of Business "McDonald's"

Story of business "Pixar"

Unrelated/abstract - "Adidas"

color mixing...

Example of color mixing in real world!!!

Look at the colors being created on the wall due to mixing of red , yellow and green light!!!

Thanksgiving typography

Few typographic design for thanksgiving...

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Charles and Ray Eames

American designers Charles and Ray Eames made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture, as well as graphic design, fine art, and even film. They are a great team that focused their passion, curiosity, and boundless enthusiasm to create a unique look of design in furniture.

The Eames aimed to use new materials in order to make everyday objects high quality that were both functional and could be mass produced within a reasonable budget.

The Earmes's believed that they could create functional art that had expression and design which any and everyone could enjoy. 

For more information : http://eamesoffice.com/

Sister Corita Kent

Sister Corita Kent claimed that she was simply a printmaker.

Sister Corita Kent is famous Internationally due to her spiritual art and her commitment to social justice. Her designs speaks her expression towards society and government. She freely expressed all the things not by speech but by designs. She also ran and Art department at Heart College until 1968 and afterwards shifted to Boston, Back Bay.

She loved the idea that she could make original artwork for those who couldn't afford expense art. Everyday people could purchase them and enjoy them - the goal being to "give people a lift...more fun out of life." She created all kinds of prints - serigraphs, cards, posters, murals, billboards. Selling them at churches, galleries, corporations and more. This way her work was available to many people.

For her all the designs the freely used color and shapes speaks the voice of freedom. She used exuberant splashes of color to make her work introspective. In the 1960s her work incorporated more abstract colors, text, and shapes. Her work evolved to using words as imagery. This use of words as imagery become popular in Corita's work because of her interest in the urban environment of the '60s and its use of signage.

Filigree

Filigree is the delicate process of jewelry making with tine beads and strings of metal, generally gold and silver. They are soldered together or to the surface of an object of the same metal and arranged in artistic motifs.

Its origins are in Asian and European countries. 

The art may be said to consist in curling, twisting and plaiting fine pliable threads of metal, and uniting them at their points of contact with each other, and with the ground. 

Filigree jewelry design, and its twisting and soldering techniques, have an application in other metal-work such as wrought iron hanging wall brackets and silertoned doors.

Filigree is an art which is very famous in India. It is one of the most widely used form of jewelry making in India. Especially for wedding jewelry it is very widely used.

Apart from jewelry, it is also used for making decorative and ornamented boxes used for gifting purpose.

Layers in Graphic Design

Here are some examples of use of layering in Graphic Design.

Physical layering

In this blog post we will have a look at examples in which layering is used in physical objects to achieve the desired results...

wall paper installation

wall paper installation

customized pixel poster

book cover

Layers in nature

Layers are the overlapping of elements in any composition.
It can be either making sense or just for fun.

We can see layers in nature , in graphic design and many other parts of life.

In this post lets have a look at the examples of layers in nature.

KforKakes....

Another webpage which i love the most if KforKakes.....a facebook page.
It has numerous design of cakes and it seems to be more than delicious. You just can't wait to have a bite of those cakes.
Cakes are something which is so hard to resist. Here is a look at some of the cakes from KforKakes.

Tinkerbell cake

Oh Boy!! Love Cars!!

Poker cake

Happy Halloween

For more please visit : http://kforkakes.com
                                   http://www.facebook.com/pages/KforKakescom/239695479448059

Scale

Scale is a relative term.
In a composition scale plays an important role in creating depth. The size change among the objects give a feeling of movement in the composition.

One of the basic things in which we use scale largely is the Models we generally make for our school projects!!

Examples of scale in terms of  Photo manipulation