GRAPHiC DESiGN: quiz review

QUIZ REVIEW

Go over the 4 principles from this website that we've covered recently. Make sure you are familiar with the examples and how each principle is used.

PROXIMITY, ALIGNMENT, CONTRAST, & REPETITION.



In groups of 2 come up with solutions for this design problem.
Write out a plan to answer these questions and come up with a way to make this better. Sketch your idea, then you may add color. 

  • Using the design principles how could you improve this business card?
  • Who would be going here? What age? College students? Elderly people? 
  • Do the images work FOR the business or are they distracting?
  • How can you unify the information?
  • How can you make it clearer?
  • Think of the name of the place, and how can you show the theme of it through the design?
  • What colors might work better?
  • What type of fonts might work better?
  • What is the most important information?
  • Is there any information that should be included, but is not?


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