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...