Exercise 10: Graphic Simplicity

Minimalism: A design or style in which the simplest and fewest elements are used to create the maximum effect

White space: The unprinted area of a piece of printing, blank space

Graphic simplicity: graphic has the simplest elements needed to convey what it is without extra details

This is an example of white space used as the apple and type take up a minimal amount of area with the rest being blank. It also has minimalism as there is only one element, the apple, that conveys the message of the company, Apple.

This image has to do with graphic simplicity as very simple shapes and colors are used to create the images, but it is still comprehended as the Bat Signal. It also has white space, the black area around the light, that is not filled in, but still can be perceived as the night sky.

This last one has a fair amount of blank whtie space around the image. It also has graphic simplicity because the boy's figure is made of basic shapes. It also has minimalism in the type as the message is very simple, but clear...and funny.

Exercise 9: Page Design

I decided to use a bold, sleeve design and a grid of photos for my page design. I decided to stick with the hedgehog theme, but had trouble finding pictures big enough to fill a page. I didn't really know what else to do because a lot of the other designs I tried didn't work out very well because of image size or I didn't quite figure them out completely.
I used Photoshop for this because I do not know how to use InDesign. I put a half inch margin around the page at first and then placed a two and a half inch sleeve. My largest image is about 5 inches and the second largest is about three and a half. My type is Bernard MT Condensed because I wanted to get close to the logos type, but I knew I couldn't match it. The color of the sleeve is from the second largest picture (A2?). I edited the "Santa hat" hedgehog picture because it was a little dark.