After months of diverse and exciting projects, it was time to take on a culmination of all our past work. P4 was a way for us to practice visualizing data of our choosing while incorporating all of our learnings from P1-P3. What was neat about this project was that we…

P3 Reflections It was a really rewarding process to be able to revisit our work from P1 and take it so much further. Our group had a blast taking the countless ideas we had generated weeks ago and refining them, and overall, I thought this design process was really immersive and engaging…

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This was it. The final project of a semester full of learning, development, and exploration. Throughout P1-P4, I had gotten to experience all sorts of new design. From posters, to book covers, to graphics, each project had been a stepping stone leading up to the final project. And in many…

When I originally started researching the minor in Design at CMU, I was nervous. I was fascinated by design, and I desperately wanted to start learning its fundamentals. But I was not a designer by trade — I was an artist, and I felt far more comfortable with a pencil…

Themes: Rags to Riches, Discovered treasure (can the love interest be considered “treasure?”) Color Scheme: purple, blue, yellow, brown Book #1: Aladdin Front: Aladdin, by Ron Clements and Jon Musker Spine: Aladdin — (lamp icon) — Ron Clements and Jon Musker Back: Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams and…

For me, Project 3 was a completely different experience than Project 2. Project 2 involved a significant amount of initial idea brainstorming, and then latching on to a few ideas that worked. But the main theme for Project 3 was the presence of endless iterations. While I did also have…

Typeface: Avenir Research: Avenir was designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988. It is an example of a sans serif font. In the 1920s, certain sans serif fonts began using circles as a geometric foundation. Avenir was based off this idea, but it was intended to be a more “organic” and…

Exercise 1: Typeface Tracing Exercise 2: Typographic Voice Word 1: Relaxation Favorite typeface: Kefa When it came to depicting a word like “relaxation,” I wanted to pick a typeface that really emphasized smoothness and comfort. …