Archived threads in /gd/ - Graphic Design - 186. page

>>258667
Go back to school OP; your being dumb.

>>258695

Pretty hard when you're broke. Whatever

That stuff is only going to help you learn how to use stuff to make stuff. Graphic design principles and a lot of other stuff is completely agnostic of the software.

I've learned some graphic design from talking with designer friends, asking them about how things are put together and whatnot. Some more from design blogs and websites. But if you're going to be serious about this, please save up some money for some proper education.

>>258652
You could just remove the meme shadows

Voxels still has a minor shadow, Rifon has a somewhat muted colour pallette

>9gag

What do you mean you are trying to come up with ideas? Ideas of what? Product concepts? Things that go in your portfolio? You need to be more specific.

>>258644
You should take a look at Andrew kims portfolio. Concept designs seem to get you exposure quickly. Just redesign objects that we use day to day in a clever way. Take a look at behance.net for ideas.

>>258501
-Revolver Ocelot
Revolver Ocelot

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Just quick badly shopped silly shit.

>>258418
No. Use photoshop

>>258418
I use Gimp for quickly slapping things together and Photoshop for professional work. I honestly prefer the interface of Gimp in most ways but PS is the more powerful and standards-compliant tool. Torrent it though, fuck adobe.

>>258417
Oh- you must be lost.
>>>/g/ is thataway.

>>258421
You must be new here. Or, if not, you must be playing along.

>>258425
>I'm back /g/ AMA.

In OPs indulgent assumption that we know who the fuck he is, he miss identifies the fucking board that he's on, dipshit.

I thought it'd be clever to act like a decent human being, and hint that his attitude that we'd bother asking him anything was not going to be taken seriously because he couldn't be bothered to double check that he labeled the board properly.

>>257960
s h i f t

Kerning on shift need work. Lose the stroke. Bring the margins in a bit it looks way too narrow, having the bottom margin narrower than the top makes it appear unbalanced, so does all the type crammed into the bottom.
The image isn't the most interesting thing for a cover page but a suggestion would be to try placing some of the type in that big black space you have in the middle that should be where you readers eyes should be drawn to. At the moment there's really no focal point which is kinda important if this were to be on a shelf next to other magazines.
I'm not sure what the point of that blue graphic is either. If you can't justify it ditch it. Hope that helps.

Who is your audience? The cover is meaningless because you target no audience.

When I started studying graphic design, I was shown a YouTube video on him lamenting the overly mechanical nature of a lot of modern designers...which I kind of agree with.

Not that I'm personally into his particular design style, but he's good at what he does, and I respect the dude's work.

Dat cobra dogs story

I like him, I like his book collection even more
>Give me that fucking Neubau Welt book
I enjoy his personality and his work ethic, his work itself is pretty good but I'm not really into branding.

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>>257538

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>>257538

>>257381
being creative
making ordinary things beautiful
helping clients be successful with my designs
getting paid

Having near complete control of what the normie at large buys.

It's not like I'd have a lucrative career with sculpture anyway.

Organization. I love aligning things and organizing them into a meaningful and aesthetically pleasing piece. I am also a fan of minimal yet impactful art.

>>257379
Looks like the font on my letterman jacket. Try something along those lines.

>>258604
Follow-up: I looked it up, Letterman seems to have serifs while Collegiate commonly does not. Good luck friend.

helvetica neue

the king of powerpoint titles

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>>257285
I feel the same way about this font. IT's used fucking everywhere, any time a company needs something that looks Asian or African/Egyptian, Aztec or just old they use fucking Papyrus.

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>>257285
what's your opinion on Lucida Calligraphy?

>>>/wsr/

>>256428
>in two days from now:
>"Can someone remove the text, dont know how"

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Wanted result.

The inverse procedure (classic blending) is very simple:

r3 = r1 × α1 × (1 – α2) + r2 × α2 × (1 – α1),
g3 = g1 × α1 × (1 – α2) + g2 × α2 × (1 – α1),
b3 = b1 × b1 × (1 – α2) + b2 × α2 × (1 – α1),
α3 = α1 × α2, ← I’m not sure about this.
α3 = α1 × (1 – α2) + α2 × (1 – α1), ← Perhaps this?

...where:

rgbα1 = background pixel,
rgbα2 = foreground pixel,
rgbα3 = composite pixel.

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>>259023

I would change the tone of green you're using
Right now it doesn't meet WCAG2 standards for legible contrast

Try a darker shade of green

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>>259032
I appreciate your consideration. It's true, shade of the accent color I've chosen doesn't fully satisfy me whenever I look over the page and you gave me a good technical explanation why it could be so.

At the same time I want just that right bright cyan-green color value cuz it looks so fresh imo. I'm a little afraid that a darker tone would look too dull.

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Wow, I really like those websites, OP. Good job. Seeing them makes me realize how much I still have to learn.

But you might want to correct pic related. I'm on a 1024x600 netbook and this is what Spark looks like.