Graphic Design Definitions

1. Budget
* A Budget is generally a list of all planned expenses and revenues.

2. Project Brief
* A project brief is a written explanation given to the designer, which outlines the aims and objectives of a design project.

3. Pantone colour system + Swatch
*The pantone colour matching system the standardized colour reproduction system. So that there is a global way of matching colours.

4. Process colour
* Process colour is also known as CMYK colour model, witch is a subtractive colour model used in printing.

5. Motion Graphics
* Are graphics that use video and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or a transforming appearance?

6. E-print
*An E-print is a digital version of a document that is accessible online.

7. Off set press
*An offset press is a printer that uses ink coated plates and rubber blankets to transfer an image on to a printing surface.

8. Positive + negative space
*Positive space is the space of the page that is taken up by a graphic or colour or some sort of thing, Negative space is the space surrounding positive space that has nothing inside it.

9. Copywriter
* Someone who is paid to write content for a website.

10. Widows + Orphans (type)
* A widow is a very short line – usually one word, or the end of a hyphenated word – at the end of a paragraph or column. A widow is considered poor typography because it leaves too much white space between paragraphs or at the bottom of a page. This interrupts the reader’s eye and diminishes readability.
Like a widow, an orphan is a single word, part of a word or very short line, except it appears at the beginning of a column or a page. This results in poor horizontal alignment at the top of the column or page.

11. Type foundry
* A type foundry is a company that designs and/or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers. Today's digital type foundries accumulate and distribute typefaces (typically as digitized fonts) created by type designers, who may either be freelancers operating their own independent foundry, or employed by another foundry.

12. Type Setter
* A typesetter is someone who presents textual material in graphic form on paper or some other medium.

13. Moveable Type
*Movable type is the system of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document (usually individual letters or punctuation). The first known movable type system was invented in China by Bi Sheng out of ceramic between 1041 and 1048 AD.

14. Pica
*A Pica is a printer's unit of type size, equal to 12 points or about 1/6 of an inch or an equivalent unit of composition measurement used in determining the dimensions of lines, illustrations, or printed pages.

15. Spread
*Spread refers to two adjacent facing pages in a magazine or other publication.

16. Bleed
*Bleed is a printing term that refers to printing that goes beyond the edge of the sheet after trimming. The bleed is the part on the side of your document that gives the printer that small amount of space to move around paper and design inconsistencies.

17. Mock up
*In manufacturing and design, a mockup is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, evaluating a design, promotion, and other purposes.

18. Proof
*Proofs are preliminary versions of work that are normally created as part of the proofreading or editing process.

19. Contact Sheet (photographs)
*A contact sheet is a printed version of a films negative.

20. Why don’t we use comic sans
*Because it is crap. And Luke does not like it.

21. Why don’t we use Rainbow Gradients?
*Because it looks like someone spewed on the page. And Luke does not like it.

22. Why don’t we use lens flares
*Because Luke does not like them.

23. What is a SLR Camera?
*A single-lens reflex (SLR) camera is camera that uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system which permits the photographer to sometimes see exactly what will be captured by the film or digital imaging system, as opposed to pre-SLR cameras where the view through the viewfinder could be significantly different from what was captured on film.

24. Why shoot RAW
*You can easily change white balance
*The biggest advantage is that in a RAW image you have the complete amount of data that the sensor recorded when you took the picture.
*When you use your RAW decoder of choice, you have a precise control over the digital darkroom adjustments you can make to the image. You can tweak the white balance, your able to recover detail in highlights and shadows, and the options for sharpening are much greater.

25.What is an EM?
*A unit of measurement in the field of typography, equal to the point size of the current font.

26. What is postscript?
*PostScript (PS) is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982. PostScript is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas.

27. What is an EPS + TIFF
*EPS-Encapsulated PostScript, or EPS, is a DSC-conforming PostScript document with additional restrictions intended to make EPS files usable as a graphics file format. In other words, EPS files are more-or-less self-contained, reasonably predictable PostScript documents that describe an image or drawing that can be placed within another PostScript document.
TIFF- Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) is a file format for storing images, including photographs and line art

28. What is the HBS colour system
* Hue, Saturation and Brightness. The three different ways of varying colour.

29. Describe David Carson’s work
*Yeah it’s pretty good. he has a surfer background and designs his work as such.

30. Describe Alex Trochuts work
*Its pretty cool kinda funky type of work, you know the best way to describe it is that it’s a similar style to Luke smith’s work.

31. Is the London Olympics logo good?
No! It looks like spew on a page! And I agree with the people that say that thing could give people seizures and make them physically ill. Defiantly needs re-designing.

32. Are you satisfied yet
I would’ve rathered less questions but I suppose you do what you got to do.

33. Do some star jumps
I’d rather not thanks.

final drawing

This is the final coloured drawing for my characters.

maggie colour test

Same old same old

albert colour test

this is the colour combinations for albert.

mike colour test

This is the different colour combinations i did for the character of mike to see which combination went best together.

sketch 9

This is the first set of colouring i did for the characters.

sketch 8

These are the first sketches of the wobbles the idea that i went with.

sketch 7

These are the last two characters from shrimp smackdown, frank the referee and tommy twosides the undecided audience member.

sketch 6

This is a sketch of my next idea which i titled shrimp smackdown. The characters here a gary the commentator and the two boxing shrimp sammy and pedro.

sketch 5

These are the other two zoobas. Correction the first was sporty Zooba this is cool zooba and lady Zooba.

sketch 4

These here are a sketches of the next idea i had for some characters called the zoobas. Theres cool zooba, casual Zooba and smart Zooba.

sketch 3

This is another sketch of characters during the ideas stage.

sketch 2

These are grubs which i think were my first idea.

sketch 1

This is some sketches i did while coming up with the idea for my cartoon characters. My initial ideas were insects and grubs and looks like an alien or two slipped in there.

spread 2

This is the second of my spreads, its pages 6 and 7 of the story.

Spread one

This is the first of my two spreads its pages 2 and 3 of the story.

coatrack

This is Alberts coatrack.........

Photo Frame

This is a picture of Albert and Gus at the park which hangs in his house.

Table

This is Albert's table....... yep

Closet

This is the closet in which Mog lives. As you can see Mog is peeking out of it planning some sort of scheme no doubt!

The front door

This is Albert's front door. Not much else to say about it really.....

Mog

This is Mog the cheeky little monster that lives in Albert's closet. Mog is usually up to no good and causing problems for Albert and his friends but he can be persuaded to do the right thing......sometimes!

Maggie

This is Maggie another of Alberts close friends. Maggie is a bit of a busy body know it all but she means well.

Mike

This is Mike one of Albert's good friends. Mike is a very cool cat who rarely speaks and always wears his sunnys even to bed!

Gus

This is Gus Albert's dog and best friend. He's a playful happy dog who is never mean and loves to lick people.

Albert

This is Albert the main character of my story. He lives happily with his dog Gus. he's a friendly, polite and well mannered little guy who is friends with everybody.

My Childrens Story

In class we have been given the task of creating 5 cartoon characters and writing a story about them. The name of my characters are the Wobbles and the title of the book is Albert's Birthday Disaster. The story goes as following.

"It was a bright and sunny day in the town of Wobbleville"

"The birds were singing and everybody felt happy, because today was a special day"

"Today is Alberts birthday, he hears at the door. It's his friends Mike and Maggie with presents and cake!"

"Maggie sits the cake on the table while they go and open the presents. Whats that naughty Mog up to? be careful Maggie he might steal the cake!"

"Uh Oh that naughty monster grabbed the cake while nobody was looking! that greedy Mog is going to eat it all!"

"Albert has finished opening his presents and decides it's time for cake but the cakes gone!"

"Albert is very sad, but Maggie has an idea she goes and asks Mog if he would share the cake with them"

"Mog agrees and they all enjoy the cake together, even Gus gets a peice!"