Our world is growing in the field of digital arts and advertising because nowadays visual information is more preferable than other forms of information. People don’t have time to read long paragraphs and articles instead of it they will prefer to have a visual interpretation of that information.
One of the most used software is adobe photoshop in the visual field. Its used by many designers and photographers for the creation of their gems. For some, it’s an easy software and for some its bit typical to understand. It’s a very versatile and potent software. The new version of photoshop is tremendous. It’s really a change if we see the previous version of Photoshop, adobe cc is a major upgrade. It’s having many new features and quite an easy interface.
Photoshop is an editing software also used for creating manipulation. Photoshop had set the benchmark for other editing software. I personally use photoshop and some of the features, I like are masking, blending modes, gradience tool, clone stamp tool and much more. I don’t use photoshop at a pro level, just a beginner but it’s quite nice to me till yet. It’s really helpful in making visual stuff. One in designing, photography, and visual arts field should know how to use photoshop. I think it’s useful or mandatory for them in present time.
Tag: Design
Strategy with Gaming (week 1)
Life these days need more activeness. One should have a sound mind and sound body for an easy-going day. Having a lubricated mind and body is a step closer to a successful and happy life.
Planning is also a ladder to the desired destination because without planning and strategy a task is far challenging to accomplish. For a smooth success, one should have a decent strategy to accompany. Healthy body and planning will make your life happier than ever.
One of the things which teach us strategy and build up our body and mind is games. Games is a more fun way to learn strategy and be healthy. One should at least play a game on regular basis. This will let body and mind exercise regularly. We played a game “no thanks” which is an indoor game. Here is the link, if you want to know more about the game https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12942/no-thanks
This game taught us some amazing strategical skills that how to manipulate others to make a wrong move, risking the move in the game can lead to victory, how to plan the moves for better result and much more.
The game also improves bonds between the teammates and even between opponent player because it’s a game not necessary to hold it up too seriously. A strategy is also a major factor to make your design successful because if u have a definite path or strategy for the accomplishment of your design it will be faster and more efficient. Your work will also be on time which is loved by a client so much.
Sci-fi (week 1)
Nowadays sci-fi is a trend, everyone like to watch sci-fi movie whether it’s a kid or a gentleman. Sci-fi is something related to science mixed up with imagination.
Sci-fi movies are an innovation for today’s technology and imagination. Sci-fi movies are beyond the reality. It’s a mixture of engineer’s technology and designer’s thinking. They both blend their hard work to make a masterpiece that makes us feel that this could be true. It’s just a beautiful visual reality that mesmerizes us but it requires lots of labor. Many setups are required to build a scene. From digital characters to realistic setups all are the major components of a sci-fi movie. It’s surprisingly interesting to watch behind the scenes of a movie or the making of a sci-fi movie. How many efforts are required to make a scene realistic, so that the audience can digest whats happening. The team spends weeks to make a clip of a few seconds.
The story plays a vital role to make a movie successful. It should be real enough to make sense to the audience. People should appreciate the concept of the movie, it’ polt, and it’s climax. A sci-fi movie should have its heroic essence in it because that makes it different from other genres. Movie or comic make them believe that there are aliens and humans can fight with them with some supernatural powers, this is the strength of the movie or comic to manipulate a person.
Integrative Studio (week 1)
What I understood by far is it’s about how critically u can think.
We have plenty of feelings related to a moment, thing, or a person. Some of them are good and some of them are not so good. So are we capable of expressing them? Can we find an appropriate expression for a situation? Can we tell the exact emotion that we sense? It’s difficult to convey the emotions u sense or u sensed. And when we have to communicate it through design it’s a lot more complicated. Colour is a prime factor to express the emotions. Without colours, it’s a bit playful. A set of lines can express a emotion. A meaning of dots can change relative to their density but the most interesting part is to see how it alters. The weight of line can also make a drastic change to its meaning. Sometimes a pattern can have a deep sense secreted in it. Sometimes a smudged line can also make a difference to your expression. As our task was to derive some emotions from multiple situations and express them through lines and dots. Firstly, it was troublesome to find proper emotions and then it was difficult to display them through lines and dots. The situations were as follows:-
1) state of mind in the morning
2) your happy place
3) image of ISDI
4) view from my window
5) highlights of the journey to school on that day
6) hometown
I brought up with many solutions to it but it took lots of time for it. This exercise indeed opened up our mind and some of the possible outcomes I came out with, are mention below:-
Integrative Seminar (week 1)
According to me, it’s about how to present yourself and how different people have a different perspective over the same thing.
Design typically based on a process, thinking, ideas, observation, and inspiration. Firstly, a designer should have quality observational skills. He should explore each and every aspect of his environment. From there he can be inspired by anything. Inspiration attributes to a design. Every designer or artist gets inspiration from something before making their masterpieces. After getting inspired by something, he starts thinking over it and builds up many ideations on it. Then after exploring many of his ideations, he comes to a final idea which he further processes and makes an impressive design.
In our world, we have many different designs for a single element because every person has a different perspective to see. Some of them feel positive about a design, while others don’t appreciate it. So different people lead to different conclusions. None of them are wrong, they are just different in taste. So this leads to a new demand for them who didn’t like the last one. This evolves a design, and we get an improved version of the same article.So this is how we get plenty of designs as different persons have different mindsets to a single screen.
Exhibiting a design also plays a crucial role in working life. If you made a masterpiece and you can’t sell it, it’s of no use. A designer works to solve a problem. If it can’t serve to the purpose it’s trash.
Space and Materiality ( week 1)
Space and materiality are something looks simple to us, but its way beyond to it. Space to me is something that we can use for the implementation of our project. It can be the artboard of illustrator for a graphic designer or a room for an interior designer, so different people have different space to work with and materiality is all about how we use a material to its optimum to fill up our purpose.
We often scribble our ideas on the back of our notebook, so that’s the space for us. So precisely a designer can work with any of it, starting of scribbling in your notebook to decorating the interior of a ship and lot more.Don’t want to be specific it could be anything from a point of view of a designer. So a designer should know how to deal with space and present his design in the given space. Different designer deal with different space, for a jewelry designer he have to put it around a finger with aesthetics in it and an automobile designer have to manage a space for making a private jet or something relatable to that size. So both have different size of space and both have to deal with it and they should know how to use it at its best.
While designing something, material selection is important because many things do matter when it’s about a design like space, weather conditions, aesthetics, texture, availability, value, environment and much more. So material selection should be smart enough to hold up the design so that it doesn’t come up as a disaster. A designer will not design a dress of wool for a place near the equator or automobile designer can’t design a plastic body car to run on the road, they both will end up as a horrible failure. And we also can’t use a silver wiring in our home, although silver is a better conductor of electricity than copper and aluminum wires, it’s neither financially correct nor technically sounds right. Different artists use different types of paper or canvas to enhance their artwork and it really helps them. And different artists have specialization in different medium.
The condition of material also depends because different forms can have different impact on the design and have different use. A material can be used in different forms at different places. Like copper can be used as a wire also and it also used for making utensils. So we have plenty of things to think about while choosing a material for a design. So to make your design successful, we have to choose the material wisely and smartly.
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