GD 101

Mollie Ennis | Intended Graphic Design Major | Maine College of Art

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Hello! Saw your blog in the MECA tag just thought I say that I like your work so far. It's a good start and I look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future.

Wow, thank you so much!!

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FINAL: RHYTHM POSTER

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ART SCHOOL ALPHABET

Moleskine Still Frame Selects

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This is, perhaps, one of the most successful examples from our word interpretation project that came out of our class.

To reiterate, this is not my work, it is a classmate's.

From what I have experienced of the atmosphere at art school though, it is just as important to understand other people's work as it is to understand your own. After all, this is why we are drowning ourselves in debt to be here, isn't it?

It is true that someone could search the internet for an Introduction to Graphic Design syllabus and read the required texts and research the topics so that they might understand, in theory, what graphic design really is. But in doing so there is a divide between the knowledge they obtain and the knowledge an art student will develop. Within this divide exists the work from peers that is hung beside your own and all idiosyncrasies of your professors that make you remember your feedback and the feedback given to your peers.

In short, I am not upset in the slightest that my project was less successful than Joel's. I am thrilled that he was able to come up with this because now I have learned from what he has created.

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Final selections for our Six Word Memoir project

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Final selections for Word Interpretation project

We were given ten words: Disruption, Elimination, Compression, Transition, Contraction, Addition, Subtraction, Repetition, Migration, and Expansion

[which were to be kept in futura bold within a 5x5 template]

We were asked to alter the word to represent the meaning they embody.

Somewhat like an exercise in visual onomatopoeia.

For our crit we were asked to hang our two favorites. 

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SOURCE

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Final selections for Monogram project

We were asked to establish a dynamic figure/ground relationship by stacking two letters in inDesign. We were allowed to use one black letter (hypothetically "the ground"), and one white letter ("the figure"), from any typeface in Font Book.

First and foremost we were asked to create an engaging composition. The challenge, though, was to find what our professor called a "natural fit" between two letters. She stressed that it was important to look at a composition and quickly be able to identify each letter as itself.

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Final Edits for our Monogram Project

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First Trials for our Monogram Project

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Font Samples for our monogram project

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Sign Painters, Official Trailer

This the official trailer for SIGN PAINTERS a documentary by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon. For information regarding official news please visit signpaintermovie.com

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ARTIST SERIES: Stefan Sagmeister 08

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Chair Booklet

Page 1: A chair

Pages 2-3: A room one might find the above chair in

Pages 4-5: Something one might do in the above room

Pages 6-7: Six things inspired by or related to the above pastime

Pages 8-9: A selection from one of the above activities, alongside an object with which it "visually rhymes"

Pages 10-11: A location in which the above visual rhyme might be found

Pages 12-13: An image that corresponds through a single abstract sentiment to the location above

Pages 14-15: Four images that are emblematic of the abstract sentiment from above

Page 16: "Tidy" | the abstract sentiment that has tied the pages together

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Project Projects: Collective Individuality

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word | word project

This assignment asked for us to choose a word and express it through two distinctly different fonts. During our critique we discussed, in depth, the characteristics that differentiated one font from another.