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    #1
    Hello everybody. I am doing a project for school and I would like some feedback!! Please! Here attached are my plates.

    Here is the project instructions:
    Using a self-chosen recipe or set of instructions, along with the typographic variables listed in this statement, you will experiment with multiple ways in which the written message can be effectively displayed. One final plate will be rendered in accordance to each of the variables listed below. Black text on a white background should be use for all plates except for the Color and Visual Punctuation plates.
    1. Proximity—Making sure to keep all type the same weight and size, vary the space between
    words, lines, paragraphs, etc. to create hierarchy. UPPER case may be used starting here.
    2. Weight—Place emphasis on important communicative words by varying the typographic weight
    within your text. All type must remain the same size. Italics may be used starting here.
    3. Size—Keeping all type the same weight, vary the size of key words within your text to further
    emphasize specific messages, feelings, and/or emotions.
    4. Weight and Size—Combine principles of both weight AND size to create compositional
    meaning. Experiment with relationships between weight and size to ensure proper message.
    5. Color—Create typographic emphasis through principles of weight, size, AND color. Explore
    how adding color to your design enhances meaning, and generate explorative studies when
    necessary. Your color composition must be original—you cannot take previously created
    plates and simply add color to change the designs.
    6. Visual Punctuation—Keeping with the variables of weight, size, and color, add visual elements
    (geometric shape, line, etc.) to your designs to enhance meaning and typographic message.










  • #2
    This is a very typical design school assignment and a good one to learn about different type setting devices.

    The use of red and green I totally understand as Italian food and flag are red and green. But why have you picked flamingo pink and cream? I don't understand the relevance of the visual punctuation that you have used. It looks like you're trying to illustrate a clapperboard...why?

    Avoid: Widows, orphans, bad hyphenation.

    You've adhered to lots of straight lines. Have you considered setting text on curves? Spaghetti is very curvy y'know?
    Last edited by Buda; 02-27-2013, 12:19 AM.

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    • #3
      I don't have a critique of the work, just the assignment itself. Despite reading over it three times, I can't figure out what the assignment is about. What is a "plate, for example?" A plate of pasta or a printing plate or what?

      I don't know, maybe I'm just being dense or something.

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      • #4
        Project

        A plate is a 10 x 10 inches print in This project. The compositions I attached are just some of the ones I came up with. I would like to get some comment to the colored one mostly (te green,red and white one) and see what I can do to make it batter. I will try placing text on curvy lines even tho the amount of text is quite a bit for a 10by10 inches composition.

        If you could mark on the paper, what would you do different?

        Thanks for all your answers!!

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        • #5
          nice work !

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          • #6
            Is there suppose to be six plates?

            The red & green one I think looks nice. Maybe give one of the subheads more emphasis. Do you want it to say "THIS IS THE BEST SAUCE IMAGINABLE!!! in just 10 steps" or "IN ONLY 10 STEPS!!! make this luxurious sauce"?

            In my typography class we had to cut out letters and words that represented us, and use spacing and weight to make a portrait. It was such a pain. But you started to get the idea to stop thinking in words and start thinking in blocks, and how size and space made contrast or visual interest.

            There's an interesting and really quick video on youtube from David Kadovy that shows how he uses proportion to layout a page. I used a similar technique when I did my business card in school and it helped build a hierarchy. That or a grid of some kind is something I always use to organize my pages. Everyone's got their own way of doing things thought. Just my ¢2.

            Here's that youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i8gGqbNIHg

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            • #7
              the headline is really misleading. half of the points aren't even about pasta sauce. did you write the copy?

              i got a penne a la vodka feel from the pink and cream colors.

              i think the numbers are too large in the circles. also, you may have lined them up, but they don't look centered.

              nothing in this stands out except #10 "Practice makes perfect pasta"

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              • #8
                I'm drowning in the rivers!
                No really, I thought you weren't supposed to salt pasta water? Something about most of the salt goes down the drain?
                Eh whatever!
                If I had to pick one of these, I'd pick the third one...only because I can actually read it.
                Maybe even try using the subject of each section...

                Like:

                Cheese is not just a garnish. Enrich the Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras ultricies libero ligula. Ut sodales adipiscing iaculis. Praesent enim ante, pharetra at aliquam et, mollis ac odio. Mauris rutrum sem quis felis dapibus ultricies. Quisque at neque massa. Mauris fringilla mollis massa porta interdum. Aliquam quis condimentum lorem. Fusce vestibulum pulvinar ligula sit amet facilisis. Sed eget imperdiet massa. Sed auctor rhoncus aliquam. Etiam nec velit purus. In id est est. Nunc eget lorem non velit mattis varius.
                Work on making it more readable. Right now, I barely want to take the time to read it because off the bat it is already too much.
                Trick the reader into seeing lots of small amounts of text, rather than lots of text in a small amount of space.
                Also....orphans.

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                • #9
                  I am Italian. Straight from the boat. I am just an international student here in the US and I have never ever ever seen my parents or my grandma not putting salt in the boiling water! It is the most important thing. U need a lot of water (not just enough to cover the pasta like ppl do here. A LOT) and you need three full spoons of the big salt).

                  However going back to the designs. I will fix those widows etc. But I can't really make text bigger. Remember this is a 10 x 10 print. It looks small now.. but when printed it will look fairly big! I agree with the numbers. I will reduce the size inside the circle. Forget about that pink and cream one. I am not using it anymore.

                  I am just not happy with my green, red and white one. I don't know what I should do to make it better. Maybe place text on curvy lines. I have to explore more.

                  More advices are appreciated! thank you!!!

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                  • #10
                    Firstly you need to understand the designing requirement, what exactly is required for designing. It should be very clear otherwise you will lack at a certain point.

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                      • #12
                        Visual Punctuation

                        Hello everybody. Thanks for all the comments.

                        This morning I was tweaking and changing stuff and now I have this composition. I am not happy with it yet.. I would like some feedback if you don't mind!!!

                        Thank you again!

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