Fundamentals of Design By Maximo Duchimaza

• Why you picked the topic? • What you wanted to express through the editorial montage(s) • What were the challenge(s) of visualizing data • What were the challenge(s) of working in three programs (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign) • Did your ideas about the topic change while doing the project? The topic I picked for my social justice editorials was global warming and I picked it because I feel like it is an important topic for us to be talking about. The main message I wanted to express in my editorial spreads was that climate change is affecting the whole earth and if we don't do something to help stop it then the earth might become inhabitable for humans in the future. Some challenges I faced during the visualization of  data is trying to find something that wasn't a graph so I can remake and use it as my data visualization. But I couldn't find anything so I had to be unique and come up with it myself. Another problem I faced was trying to find new information as I f...

 I used  5 different poster design techniques for my pencil sketches. The 5 poster design techniques I used were creating a central image, overwhelming the eye, activating the diagonal, manipulating the scale, and telling a story.  The first poster was made to show the central image. Everything is placed straight in the middle to show who fought in world war 2. The second image shows me manipulating the scale. You can see it in the nazi symbol and the letter "y", which is a darker shade of pencil to show a shadow and make the picture pop out in a more 3d form. I used a diagonal in the third drawing to talking about War World 2. You can see the diagonal in the second letter shifting to the right and then switching back to the left. On my fourth drawing I used the telling-a-story method as you can see its a natzi soldier with a knife trying to stab and destroy the bible. The last drawing is just something simple that's meant to overwhelm the eye when you look at it. Wh...

She choose this poster because of the way it tells a story. This usually means it invites action, suggest motion or time, and conveys a point of view. The message this poster is telling us is about the Soviet designers promoting theater film using propaganda. Theater film was something important in those times for the soviets. They wanted to promote themselves to other people and places.   This poster shows the action, emotion, and sensation being embody through out the whole design. A example of this would be a drawing of the forest made by a American graphic designer named McKnight Coffer. For people to want to look at the forest drawing, they added a path in there. This is a convention that landscape artists all know and this is  how to get people to enter the scene and really feel the drawing that there looking at. They also used a walking path instead of a motorcycle path which is another reason to help people connect. Every poster that uses story telling must have a...

 Creating the 5 electronic roughs and the other part of the project was fun but also challenging at times. For example during the research I wouldn't really find much because a lot of the information was repetitive, but eventually I found better websites and it helped me a lot with progressing with this project. After I had my research ready everything else was pretty easy and simple to do. 

 Climate change  Climate change is a long-term change in temperatures and weather patterns. This can cause a very bad effect because warmer temperatures cause an unusual balance to nature. This puts us, humans, at risk as well as any other living thing on this planet. This is why we all should be fighting for change to stop climate change.  1. The design influencing my work is a CNN news article that talks about global warming  2. The font I'm using is times new roman because I want my project to look  formal and serious  3. red and blue colors  4.  something informative  5. It mainly targeted activists who protest climate change  6. 6X6 grid 

  The first design could be improved by making the tornado more blended in with more color. Logo 2 can be improved by adding more detail and blending in the black lines. Design 3 is good and I like it there's not much to improve. The fourth design can be improved by making the shape better and more straight. Design 5 also looks good its just a simple design but adding color could make it look better.