You Can't Miss This: Typographic Dating Game

Alright. I found the nerdiest but cutest game online for designer this week on Unbeige.  Yup, you heard me right with the title... it's a Typographic Dating Game. The online game was created by Aura Seltzer, an MFA student in graphic design at the Maryland Institute College of Art. We all know that typefaces have different personalities, "physiques, voices, and virtues." Combining different typefaces takes skill and comparability... much like dating. Therefore, she's made the typefaces into eligible bachelors and bachelorettes. The game is designed to go through a four strategy process in finding the perfect typographic match.

The game also brushes you up on terminology and history of typefaces. I played this game for a solid 45 minutes just to see the different partnerships of typefaces I could make. Whether the duo works out or not, I found that this can definitely help you (in a fun way!) with trying to figure out a typographic scheme that sends out the message and personality you are looking for your design.

You definitely have to check this out.




Also, on a completely different note for those who like nerd designer games like I do... you gotta check out this typographic guessing game. The game helps you identify and distinguish one typeface from the other. You'll keep playing until you get a perfect score... or at least I did!

 

Critique: Food Feature

This week, I decided to critique my food feature. I'm pretty proud of what I came up with. Check it out here:

I really wanted to adapt Whitney's arrow into the spread and I think I accomplished it well. With the color palette, I had help from Kuler.Adobe.com to come up with an earthy but bright color scheme. For my typography choices, I wanted something modern but neutral enough of a personality to adapt to all of the different stories. This is my secret: it's Flama, the same type Nick chose for our magazine prototype. I love the clean lines and the borders that give the layout an earthy feel to it as well. I tried to make the layout simple enough to transverse for the other stories.

Nonetheless, LOVED your design Kelsey (you are getting a lot of compliments from me this week in my blog entries). 


Let me know what you guys think and what I could've done to change it!

Response: Online Portfolio

Hello all. Well this week has been absolutely stressful for me in both school and in my personal life. Oh well. Because I wasn't in class on Tuesday for the online portfolio critiques, I decided to post what I have so far on my online portfolio. You can find it here. I decided to switch from Cargo Collective to Virb (Thanks Kelsey). I was getting way too frustrated with adjusting the template and I decided to start from scratch at Virb. So far, I'm liking what I've come up with. It still needs some major work, but I could use some constructive criticism.

I wanted to go for a very modern and simplistic look, but now I'm thinking it's too plain. It needs a little oomph to it and I have yet to figure out what else it needs. But I did finalize my logo and I'm in love with it. I decided to bring in my trademark paint splatters in my logo (I also have the exact same colored splatters on my resume). I feel like the paint splatter demonstrates my version of painting... on a computer and through design. This is partly because I have no artistic ability by hand.

Anyways, I'm working on trying to have my navigation bar located on the left hand side of the page. However, I am struggling to have the navigation bar on the left hand side to have the different categories of "Magazine covers," "News Design," etc.

It's just the detail stuff now that I have to work with since I was able to get all of my work pulled from the servers AND into a .jpeg format.

Let me know what you guys think.