UID 16 Degree show and design talks proposal

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Experimenting with simple layout. Step 1

Description

A series of exercises from John Bower’s Graphic Design lectures. They deal with interfaces, typography and identity design.

Sorry about the chosen type in the projects below but there are not many options in the school’s computers.

Typography

Simple modern layout

Experimenting with simple layout. Step 1

Experimenting with simple layout. Step 2

Identity

Initials for own identity. Iconic-symbolic approach.

Initials for own identity. Typography approach: two letters in one

Interactivity I (pixel drawing)

Rollover the squares and click on them to draw geometric pixel-like images.

Try to draw letters.

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Interactivity II (navigation history traces)

Experimental interaction to explore the possibilities of graphic visual change of properties of an object. The interaction leaves a visual trace of decisions and changes applied on vertical and horizontal axes.

Click on every block of the figure to start the trace of your navigation.

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The teacher

John Bowers studied under the architect and industrial designer Hu Hung Shu at the University of Iowa, where he earned a BFA, MA, and MFA in design, and conducted post-graduate work with Wolfgang Weingart and Armin Hofmann at the Basel School of Design. His professional experience includes working as senior identity designer at Landor in San Francisco. He has been published in American Institute of Graphic Arts Annual, Communication Arts, Graphis, and I.D., and is the author of Introduction to Two Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function (Wiley, 1999).