Day 5
Today was our last day with Karen Moyer who was a great teacher. We covered our final exercises and discussed the benefits of different formats and some general rules on establishing page margins. The morning ended with a brief discussion on legibility, line length, kerning, and how leading affects legibility.
Some general notes
- Let the content drive the design and organization. Don’t attempt to apply meaning – let the content’s inherent information come through. Design to expose the greatest amount of information the easiest way.
- Always try to do more with less. The fewer moves you make, the more efficient and elegant the solution.
- Some things are logical, some things are visual. Good solutions find the middle ground of remaining logical and being visually interesting and elegant.
- Don’t always seek to only find the solution. Sometimes wrong moves are more valuable and inform your decisions more than right moves.
We also began descending into the depths of Photoshop today. We begin working with photography tomorrow (or at least learning about photography).
Some of us went to see Sicko tonight. Everyone should see this movie. If nothing else, it might change who you vote for in 2008. The United States must change how it handles healthcare and that change must come from the bottom up.