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ARTS 347: Final Course Reflection
Creating a website and working on designing it has been an important part of this class for me as well, and something that I think will...

Emma Laing
Dec 4, 20242 min read


VALDES 345: Textbook Chapter 6 and Starting Project 4
This week's textbook reading was on essential design skills that come into play when designing in the realm of editorial design. This...

Emma Laing
Nov 16, 20242 min read


ARTS 347: Amber Cox Design Field Trip Reflection
I ended up taking away a multitude of information from this talk, not to say that some of the other discussions weren't as helpful for me...

Emma Laing
Nov 15, 20242 min read


ARTS 347: Project 3 Reflection
This week, we wrapped up project 3 for Interaction design for deployment on Friday at the Columbia Museum of Art's Arts and Draughts...

Emma Laing
Nov 9, 20242 min read


VALDES 345: Textbook Chapter 5 and X-Fest Poster
This week, we read chapter 5 of the textbook, which explores layout design, an essential of impactful editorial work. It stresses the...

Emma Laing
Nov 8, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Textbook Chapter 4 and X-Fest Logo and Poster
This week's textbook chapter covered the ins and outs of editorial design, the ability to understand the publication, what the elements...

Emma Laing
Nov 1, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 246: Textbook Reading Chapter 3 and X Fest Logo Design
Chapter three of the textbook talks about everything and anything dealing with covers in editorial layouts. The text talk speaks on the...

Emma Laing
Oct 25, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Textbook Chapters 1 and 2
The first two chapters of "Editorial Design: Digital and Print" introduce the fundamentals of editorial design, tracing its journey from...

Emma Laing
Oct 18, 20241 min read


ARTS 347: Design FieldTrip Reflection and Adobe Aero Module 1
On Monday, we had David Levine, who is part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, meet with us over Zoom to talk about what he does and...

Emma Laing
Oct 15, 20243 min read


ARTS 347: Project 2 Reflections and Figma Reading Module 4
This week was an exhausting week in class, but it was really rewarding when I got all the elements of my Ad campaign turned in and did my...

Emma Laing
Oct 11, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Skillshare Tutorial 5
This week, I watched the Skillshare video "Making your First Zine: From Idea to Illustration" by Kate Bingaman-Burt. I love the...

Emma Laing
Oct 3, 20242 min read


ARTS 347: UX/UI Design Better with Donna Lichaw
Donna Lichaw, on the "Design Better" Podcast, talks about her experience as a leader and author, Lichaw merges personal stories with...

Emma Laing
Oct 3, 20241 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Skillshare Tutorial 4
This week, I chose to watch the Skillshare tutorial on "Typographic Poster Design: From Sketch to Vector" by Martin Perhiniak. In the...

Emma Laing
Sep 26, 20242 min read


ARTS 347: Design FieldTrip reflection and response to John Maeda on AI + Design
This past week, we met with Dean Schuster, who co-founded and works at Truematter here in Columbia, South Carolina. Truematter's core...

Emma Laing
Sep 26, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Skillshare Tutorial 3
This week, I watched one of the recommended Skillshare tutorials, "Think Like a Designer: Making an Art Poster" by Chip Kidd. I have...

Emma Laing
Sep 19, 20242 min read


ARTS 347: Designed with Kare: Influential Graphics of Apple’s Early Macintosh Computers Article and Project 2 Progress
This week, we read Designed with Kare: Influential Graphics of Apple’s Early Macintosh Computers , an article about Susan Kare, the...

Emma Laing
Sep 19, 20242 min read


ARTS 347: Figma Module 3 and Project 1 Reflection
This week we read Figma Module 3 on the importance of prototyping in design. This article emphasizes the importance of prototyping and...

Emma Laing
Sep 12, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Skillshare Tutorial 2
For this week, my last week of my free trial of Skillshare, I watched a tutorial called "Creating Mood Boards with Adobe Indesign" as I...

Emma Laing
Sep 12, 20241 min read


ARTS 347: Figma Module 2 and Airline Mobile Screens
This Figma Module on how to design for accessibility and inclusion in design was extremely helpful and important as I start working with...

Emma Laing
Sep 6, 20242 min read


VALDES ARTS 345: Skillshare Tutorial 1
I chose this video because I felt that it fit well with what we have been working on with our design manifestos as Sophia Yeshi in this...

Emma Laing
Sep 5, 20242 min read
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