Give your design a personal touch. Think about adding some origami or note-folding to it!
See examples and get plenty of links to money folding, note folding, traditional origami, Toy Paper monsters, even Star Wars origami (and diagrams!), plus amazing paper art by the likes of Jen Stark, Peter Callesen and Richard Sweeney!
Will this inspire you to create something unique for your next design or ad campaign?
Direction is realized in the movement of the eye through a design. It helps you as a designer to draw attention to the key points of the layout. Direction gives peace to the design because as a viewer, you know exactly where to go next in the information and you are not left feeling overwhelmed. Direction is used to create focus, emphasize important areas and organize information. Learn more about this vital principle of design and see some examples of it in use.
I was able to finalize the restoration of the SP15 on Saturday! Yay! I’m finally ready to print, but I’m going to take a break for a couple of weeks to recover. See before and after pictures, get a link to the Flickr set to see more photos of the restoration process, plus a step by step guide to reassembling the paper gripper and announcing the winners of Creative Curio’s birthday giveaway!
By Stephen Tiano
I logged my first experience setting type during the pre-computer age in a mandatory, ten-week high school shop class forty years ago. We took individual pieces of metal type, lead I believe—lowercase characters from a compartmentalized drawer and uppercase in a drawer above that—and set type one line at a time in a frame. We sometimes needed extra, blank pieces of metal to space out lines. Just as likely, though I do not remember doing this, would be the need to fit type by shaving tiny slices of the soft metal from either side of an individual character.
Despite—or perhaps because of—what I remember of that old class, the first thing I check after setting a page of type is word spacing.
Contrast is an opposition of attributes. It can be present in any of the elements of design—not just value with which it is commonly associated—which is why it is not grouped with them as an element. You don’t always have to make objects be in high contrast to each other, though; low contrasting items can contribute to the sense of unity within a piece.
Last Saturday was my final letterpress class. I really enjoyed it! If you’ve missed my previous letterpress articles, you can visit week 1 and week 2. I’m a little sad it’s over, but that’ll give me more time to get the Vandercook SP15 press up and running! I printed my second set of cards on the Vandercook again (never got a chance to use the C&P). Even though this was only my second time on a press, it was definitely easier than the first time.
The real exciting part for me this week was more cleanup on the SP15! If you’ll remember last time, I shared that I’m restoring a Vandercook printing press so that I can use it. It doesn’t belong to me, but it’s not being used by anyone right now and it needs some love and attention and a gallon or two of Evapo-Rust! Click any of the pictures below to see a larger version on Flickr.
It sure doesn’t seem like I started this blog a whole year ago. Time really has flown by!
Thanks to everyone who has become a friend over this year! Vivien, Tara, David, John, Jacob Cass, Jacob Carter, Kristarella, Esben, RaShell, Steve, Liz, Charity, Brian, Sander, Doug, Tracey, Rob, Jamie, Alec, Paul, Toon, Blue Buffalo, Liam, and so many more that I can’t name you all… I’ve enjoyed getting to know you!
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