Archived threads in /gd/ - Graphic Design - 119. page

>>280924
>inconsistent margins
>ugly typeface
>slanted font
>graphics straight out of your ass
2/10, hire a designer
Also, are you seriously going to teach people how to throw shurikens?

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>>280935

Little known fact, Shuriken 手裏剣 literally mean hidden hand blade. They were not designed to be thrown, rather to be used as a small concealed knife.

They can be thrown of course, and I do teach people how to, though I focus on hand to hand applications.

Thanks for your critique, about the graphics - which did you have particular issue with?

OP, you (or someone impersonating you, or is it the other way around...) posted this a few months ago. what took so long to finish this poster (if you don't mind the personal question, that is)?

the photographs are smashed together! why?

i wouldn't put pics of the building itself, just focus on the interior. the middle pic stands out, but the contrast with the lights really burns my eyes. any chance you can retake the pics of the interior? different angles? possibly the weapons at your disposal (i want to see the weapons...)?

print ad or web ad? where is this info supposed to picked up at? offices? schools? etc.

btw, that 3rd line of text at the top cuts strangely short on alignment (it's not aligned). there are a ton of centered things on the page, and then there's "that." no need to align on a flyer with the simplistic nature of the rest of it. also, why select bold + italics?

i think this is enough crit from me. i didn't cover everything, but those visual itches really need to be scratched!

>>280861
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TXgCzxEnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrT6v5sOwJg

>>280861
Looks clean, uncluttered, it's hip (right now), easy to animate in after effects and turn into a .gif and you can produce great amounts of it in very little time and zero effort, which is what most big companies want nowadays.

It will fade away as any other trend soon enough, have patience.

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found this pic on the web.

it's hip, it's the way i talk, and the way people think.

(yes, everything is so simplistic it's mind-numbing. yes, retarded "designers," retarded public, retarded clients who still follow old, basic retarded trends.

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>>280806
Alright, so what you want to do is threshold, colorize, invert, then colorize again. That should get you this effect. I'm using GIMP, but anything it can do, Photoshop can do better (supposedly).

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>>280808
If you invert it again and adjust brightness and contrast to your desired amount, you get this effect.

>>280809
>>280808
What this nigge said sounds about right, then you could add a little noise and desaturate a bit (vice versa maybe?) to get the papery look.

>>280797
It would work better as an abstract artist's logo. If it's music booking, then where are all the music design memes? Treble clefs, violins, etc

>>280797
i think some general rules in logos are don't mix the text with the actual logo, start the design with only black and white and don't use gradients (unless you have experience with them). also did you made the type from scratch? maybe it could look good if it was more like those hand-made elaborate calligraphy logos but still needs a lot of work.

Lower the opacity of all those shapes, it's distracting and makes it hard to read the letters at a glance.

Also fix your kerning, specifically between the VR and LIO

>>280675

My intuos 3 works wonders but I've always dreamed of having one where I can actually see what it's being drawn beneath the pen. That 13hd looks lovely.

>are there any good alternatives to Wacom
Not that I know of. Think Wacom is pretty much universaly accepted as the best. I once owed a Genius and it was shit. Had my intuos3 for about 5 years and never gave me a headache.

Been using the cheapest intuos (CTL480) for over a year now. And I am slowly looking into an upgrade. Either go with a wacom panel, or look into getting something like Surface Book or Vaio Canvas Z. Though the latter is not easily found here in EU. Drawing / sketching is what I do almost daily, and it is not fun working on this small tablet.

Anyone has got any suggestions?

I have a 13hd, it's pretty damn nice. I don't use it enough, but I'm getting back into illustrating a bit more recently.

>>280609
No-one has ever asked for my degree. That being said, if your young, take the opportunity while you can.

Dont worry about the content of the course. Get a digital tutors account and just do tutorials every fucking day. Become a master of the software. Become friends with all the tutors. Give everything 110%.

That's what I did. I got a job straight from uni and 1 year later I went back and got my assistant from the same course.

Dats my 2 cents

>>280610
>No-one has ever asked for my degree
Seconding this, portfolio and experience is all employers care about.

If you would actually enjoy finishing your studies and can afford to do so then id say go for it, just for fun, but the actual piece of paper you get at the end is not useful.

you are only a good designer if you can forge the content of proof of education on a piece of paper printed out on the stock that includes your name and your major on it.

i did that and got away with it.

who the hell even contacts universities for grad verification anymore? doesn't fuckin' matter in the long run. show good work and get experience.

college education is bullshit busywork that keeps kids safe from the real world. employers looking to hire designers are not going to ask for your GPA for this very reason.

good hunting.

Its pretty cool for the first try! You need to try to get some more shapes contrast and get all the details to the minimum

>>280528
not bad at all for a beginner, there's definitely room for improvement, but you're on the right path

You've got a good eye for color. Areas to improve: Typography, form, and shading, in that order. "Flat" is a style, and you'll get better faster if you practice foundational techniques before experimenting with style.

>>280328
Why don't you just outline the entire thing with the pen tool?

>>280360
this. In GIMP you can create a path with splines and such, and then create a selection from that path. Do something like that, invert the selection, and press delete.

In the Appearance panel (under Window>Appearance) you should be able to be able to change the opacity of both the path and the fill of the object.

>>280327
The designer for this is a fucking mad man.

>>280211
Yes I can op...

Yes. I. Can.

>>280218
dope, let me see what you can come up with, it should be gaming inspired, but anything will do bro, thanks

>>280220
Money first though.

7 is the best because of the subtractive space and its not cluttered

>>279729
The rest are shit though

yes 7 is the best, it's clean

>>279712
It's cool and you can get pretty creative with how to produce it.

My question is, has anything worthwhile been made using these methods? I've seen music videos made from circuit bended video mixers but that's about it.

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>>279712
have to admit a mild addiction to exploring creating glitchart. Have seen a lot of interesting stuff on Instagram. What programs or apps are you using OP? Generate....Glitche....Glitchwizard?

Filter > Sketch > Halftone

>>280026
Half toning the image created a similar effect, but the dots are randomly colored and aren't in an organized pattern.

I need one filter that I can apply to images, rectangles, and other shapes in a solid color with an organized polka dot shape like the pic in the OP.

Why not make a pattern yourself and fill the shapes with it?

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It's called subpixel rendering.
It's a bitch to do in Photoshop, but unless my memory fails me, there's a Photoshop action for that. It will break editability though.

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>>279225
You can get a similar effect with Illustrator
Set your text, Put on Pixel Preview, and mess with the Character palette (Show Options > Antialiasing Method)
Rendering it out with Save For Web should get you something similar. I might fiddle with some gradient maps in Ps to tint in the colours

>>279227
Can anyone explain to me why this is done? A lot of browsers seem to do it too.