Partial overlapping within trapping is super important. If you’re not careful, colors will bleed into one another.
How to:
Assignments can sometimes seem ‘boring,’ but this particular one on trapping was full of valuable lessons in printing.
The top “A” is a Plain black, and the bottom is a rich black. You can see that the plain 100% K mix actually looks see through when the overprint fill option is turned on.
Rich black contains each of the four inks in CMYK. It contains Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. This form of mixed colors is more appealing to the eye and comes out much darker than plain 100% K black.
To check you black CMYK mixes in Illustrator, follow these steps:
Near the 1880’s, people were amazed by the sequential photographs that Eadweard Muybridge learned how to create. He used a series of somewhere between 12 and 24 cameras that sat side by side. They were opposite of a reflecting screen of some sort. There were threads attached to the shutters that went off when the horse moved by. Eadweard Muybridge caught sequential images of a horse walking, trotting, and also galloping. The first motion-picture show was created from these pictures and shown at the San Francisco Art Association.
Photo description: Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic study of a man jumping a horse, from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872–Completed 1885. Volume IX, Horses, 1880s; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
As a class, each of us cut invitations for the portfolio show. The order that it was said to go in required each of us to teach another student the right way to print and cut the invites.
However, A few problems quickly came to the surface.
Students were rushing invites that are important.
Students weren’t putting in their full effort because they didn’t see the importance within the invites.
In a workplace someday, every little detail matters in products for the customer. It doesn’t matter if you “like” the project or not. A job isn’t something that you can slack in the little places and get away with it. I’ve learned that the more effort you put into everything you come across, the better.
Slackers aren’t rewarded. Work to the best of your ability and good things will come your way! Your work will not go unnoticed by those around you!
Inspiration is everywhere! You just have to keep your eye out for it.
Pin it!
Like it!
These two are the easiest to have access to other people’s work. However, there are so many apps and websites to find inspiration from. Ultimately, no one should want to copy someone’s work exactly. Every single person looks for inspiration from people around them. That’s the joy of posting and sharing your work.
Be careful that you don’t fall into trends that will fade! Be yourself, be unique, and show your own personality through your photo shoots.
Hexadecimals are a Base-16 System that is commonly used to represent different colors.
This type of color is mainly used for on screen viewing, as it matches up with RGB. Finding a match between CMYK mixes and Hexadecimals can be extremely difficult with vibrant colors. If working with print, stick to CMYK.
While working on a website, or something with on screen viewing, hexadecimals are great!
Within this example, there is the color name, hexadecimal, and then the RGB numbers.
The Hexadecimal form is below the color. Below that is RGB coloring.
Many online tools can convert between hex code and CMYK! Make use of those when needed.
Every single person counts sheep in their head differently.
Imaginations truly are infatuating.
The idea of creating a tee-shirt back of counting sheep popped into my head when I was struggling to sleep. I began counting sheep in my head when all of a sudden… My brain thought “Wow, not everyone imagines counting sheep the same way.”
Later in the semester, we were assigned an “Original design piece” and right away, this is what I wanted it to be. Quickly, I grabbed a pen and my notebook and began rough sketching my ideas. Personally, sketching and I have a love, hate relationship.
I feel as though majority of the time, my sketch feels better than what I can do within the software. Trial and error led me to an adorable designed tee-shirt back. I also decided to embroider “losing sleep…” on the front! I sure love how it turned out and my hopes are that you will too!
This past week and a half, I’ve been perfecting printing, scoring, folding, stapling, and cutting each of my personal magazines.
Learning to do each of these things was super fun. We learned from a student and then proceeded to teach another. This way of learning makes sure everyone fully understands what they’re doing. Teaching others also makes individuals comfortable with doing the same things alone.
Scoring and folding the magazine was definitely my biggest struggle. Getting the perfect midline in each spread is important and it takes extra time to get it perfect! Stapling was tedious as well. If the staples are crooked, the spreads won’t align correctly.
At the school, we have a cutting machine that makes the cutting process quite easy. Simply pushing buttons with the right measurements ensures that the cut is as close to perfect as it can be!
Looking at my completed magazines brings me so much joy, but also satisfaction. I can’t believe that every piece of this magazine was created by my hands and imagination (that came to life)!
There was a painting session today in the Southeast Tech dorms. At first, I wasn’t sure if I would go, but I decided to take a chance—and I’m so glad I did! Everyone choose a canvas and colors to create whatever they wanted. I went for a fun idea and painted a disco watermelon.
Since the color options were limited, I had to mix black, white, and primary colors to get the shades I wanted, which took some extra effort. But painting was such a nice break from staring at a screen. As a designer, most of my creative time is spent in front of a computer using Adobe software, so it felt amazing to create something with my hands instead. I love painting, but I don’t always make time for it. After this event, I think I’ll start again! As soon as I put brush to canvas, I felt so much stress melt away.
Today there’s a Rascal Flatts concert in Sioux Falls! I can’t wait to get all dressed up and go. I’ve been listening to the setlist for quite awhile and know almost every song. I’m super excited because we had friends fly here from Arizona that are going with us! I love whenever we get to see them! We get all caught up and talk for hours!
