‘Graphic Design’ Archive
Playing with Portfolios
Tonight I’ve been messing around with Issuu, a sleek-looking PDF publishing tool (thanks for the recommendation, deevee!). I really like that you can flip through PDF documents as if they were 3D magazines. So, I quickly pulled together a small portfolio in InDesign, outputted it as a PDF, and uploaded it to Issuu. You can see the results below.
Springtime Poster
Here is the latest addition to my ever-growing Printing Press concert poster series. I made the background using a photo I took of a magnolia tree during my excursion to High Park.
In conclusion, trees with pink flowers are awesome.
New Year, New Post, New Poster
Hello, world! I haven’t posted here for a while, but now it’s a new year, and I heard a rumour that new years can involve starting things afresh. Things like blogs. I’m not really into making resolutions, but if I were, I’d definitely resolve to update my blog as often as humanly possible.
Speaking of the new year, I rang in 2009 at C’est What, a restaurant/bar/all around cool place in downtown Toronto. Pool, poutine, and awesome people were involved, so it was a really good time.
Every time I see a pool table I think of The Music Man. Anyone with me?
On another note, I’ve already completed my first poster design of 2009, and I’d like to share it with you!
For this poster, I used both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. In the past I was more of an exclusively-Photoshop kind of girl, but nowadays I really do like Illustrator a lot. If you couldn’t tell, I created the happy ghosts in Illustrator. I love vector images (which is what you’re creating in Illustrator) because you can blow them up to any size and they retain their smooth edges. This is because the images are actually based on mathematical formulae instead of pixels. It seems that math has come in handy in the real world after all!
♥ Dara
Forgive me, blog, for I have sinned.
It seems that I have completely abandoned my poor website!
Sorry, friends, readers, strangers, and bots that are perusing my site! I’ll chalk it up to starting school and settling into a new routine. If you don’t know, I am taking Graphic Design courses at a certain college in Toronto. They’re definitely interesting!
Here is another poster that I created a little while back:
One positive thing that I can say about design school is that I will never take computers for granted again! Most of our work is done by hand, so we draw thumbnails by hand, collage by hand, and draw fonts by hand (!!). Crazy stuff!
♥ Dara.
Another Printing Press Poster Design
Here is another poster that I designed for a Printing Press show earlier this summer. I made this poster long before the last one I posted. In retrospect, I should have posted this one first and the other one second. Shhh, don’t tell anyone!
♥ Dara.
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