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Gestalt: Final

This post is going to be combining a few different class days in Visual Communication I.

Wednesday 9/7: We toured the Print Shop and got our information to print our final version of our Visual Order: Gestalt books. I did not get a desk crit with Emmy that day.

Monday 9/12: I was absent this day with a doctor's note, but I sent my mockup to Emmy, while others brought their printed mockups to class for group critiques.

Wednesday 9/14: This day we started our new project Monday Prototyping, which has it's own blog post. For Gestalt, I wanted to make this note to place the feedback I got on my mockup.

  • Tyler
    • Make body text lowercase. Words in capital letters have the same shape (a rectangle) so, they’re harder to distinguish
    • Rethink horizontal lines, everything is already distinguishable in their own space
    • Rethink border around both left and right side
    • How to make everything more related
    • First few pages have block behind text, but not the rest
  • Emmy
    • Too safe!
    • Other people are making their text do the same thing as the picture, how can I make more of a unity between the two
    • Don't think about the audience
    • Pictures are really the only thing interesting, how can I make the other side interesting
  • Toni
    • Incorporate what we are doing in Image to the book
    • Get messy!
    • Everything is too straightforward
    • How can I make people have to look for the information, but not make it illegible 


 Monday 9/19: Finalized Visual Order book was due, we had to bring our final print to class, and upload the final on Issue, which is here!
I definitely like certain pages more than others. I felt pretty rushed with this, but I am going to go back and work on the things I want to change, and incorporate the information I got during critique.

Class Critique:

  • White text is good
  • "Table of Contents" is too close to the top
  • "Closure" is the only word in the whole book that crosses over to the next page, so try to apply that to other places
  • "Asymmetrical Balance" page does not read well, whole thing should be redone
  • Some words explain the term visually but some of them don't like Dilation
  • Focal Point page, text on bottom left is too light to read

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