Blog Entry #6: Working With Videos and Moving Images

Mini Art School #4

Moving Media Tutorial
Below is a video tutorial that I created using Windows Movie Maker of how to crochet a scalloped edging.

Blog Entry #5: Working With Digital Images

Mini Art School #3

Conveyance Exercise
Conveyance is "the delivery of meaning or mood from the observed to the observer" (Krause, 283).  I decided to explore typographic conveyance, which is a manner of creating type-based images that reflect the meaning of the word that they are portraying.  

I experimented using Pixlr Editor to create a series of text-based images based on the following six words: Education, Elementary, Learn, Grow, Love, and Teach.  In each image, I included different visuals that I identify with the word to incorporate those into the graphic.

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After:
Audio Description of why I chose to incorporate images of an apple and pencils into this graphic. 

Blog Entry #4: Effective Graphic Design and Layout

Mini Art School #2

Updating Graphic Organizers
I was inspired to revisit some graphic organizers I had previously created to reevaluate my design and layout after reading White Space Is Not Your Enemy.  It is always a good idea to reevaluate past creations to improve upon them for the future.

Blog Entry #3: Rules of Design

Mini Art School #1

The piece of multimedia that I have chosen to critique is BuzzFeed's homepage.  I selected BuzzFeed because I enjoy reading BuzzFeed articles but usually link to them from another source and do not typically search from the homepage.  

BuzzFeed Homepage