First Week Back and Already Staying Back

It's the end of my first week back at JCU for 2012! Woohoo, only like another 12 more weeks to go...

Anyhow, you may recall my last entry I mentioned I was new to Adobe Illustrator. Well, I've stayed back at UNI for a bit tonight (since 6pm - Sunday) and I've actually managed to come up with a pretty usable design for the NM1401 Introduction to Graphic Design Course.

It's tutorial ones, submission for this week. Here's some JPGs of my work.

An example A3 Library Sign for shelving - Colour coded to the chart below.

Now I just need to get into these tutorials that the lecturer has left us to do - Click here for the Adobe Illustrator links.

The type of  fonts I have used in the Library signage image above are 'sans-serif' which means the font doesn't have the small projecting features that a 'serif' font has. 

Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al., 1993 )

De Lange, R. W., Esterhuizen, H. L., Beatty, D. (1993). Performance differences between Times and Helvetica in a reading task.Electronic Publishing, 6(3), 241-248.