Autumn Schreiber Creative

Tag: typography

  • making more moodboards

    making more moodboards

    In my New Media Class, we are making website mood boards for a fictitious client. The website is for Chef Jaqueline, who specializes in making cakes and baked goods for big events. I first started off with making up a moodboard template in Photoshop and then filling it in. There are various mood board templates online that you can find as well.

    I love color and decided to hop onto color.adobe.com. They have all sorts of color palettes. I searched up terms like bakery, cookies, and cake to get some potential color options. I ended up going with a pink French bakery color palette.

    For fonts, I wasn’t too sure. I looked at other local bakery sites for ideas. Most headline fonts were bold, readable, and sans serif.

    I found a font I really liked for headlines, called New Kansas. I usually get my fonts from Adobe fonts. I went with a sans serif sub headline font, Elza. And then a simple serif font, Dolly Pro, for the body copy.

    I also had to make sure my navbar colors were easily readable. I experimented with my different palette colors to find the best option. To make sure, I used this color checker website.

    Ta Da! The finished mood board

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    • designing a portfolio: the saga

      Welcome back ya’ll! Today I thought I’d walk you through my current challenge: creating a graphic design portfolio. I am by no means an expert,…

    • design legends you should know #5 Paula Scher

      design legends you should know #5 Paula Scher

      Paula Scher is a painter, album covers, educator, layout artist and renowned graphic designer. Her Work Through The Years With a start at the Tyler…

    • figuring out Facebook ads

      I’ve been asked to create some Facebook ads (for Amaryllis bulbs) and let me tell you, I have no idea where to start. Facebook isn’t…

    • analyzing design in movies: Labyrinth

      analyzing design in movies: Labyrinth

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  • design legends you should know #5 Paula Scher

    design legends you should know #5 Paula Scher

    Paula Scher is a painter, album covers, educator, layout artist and renowned graphic designer.

    Her Work Through The Years

    With a start at the Tyler School of Art, Scher graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts in 1970. She then became a layout artist at the children’s division at Random House. Switching gears, she worked at CBS and then Atlantic Records. Her album covers received four Grammy nominations.

    In the 80’s she sought out freelance graphic design, before starting a firm in 1984 with Tyler Koppel. The firm dissolved during the recession and Scher went to work for the design firm, Pentagram, in 1991. Currently, she is the principal at Pentagram.

    As well as working Pentagram, Scher taught at the School of Visual Arts, Tyler School of Art, Yale, and Cooper Union.

    Iconic Work

    What put Scher on the map, was her identity creation for the Public Theater in New York City. Through her unique, graffiti-inspired typography, Scher was able to inspire the graphic design world.

    One of Paula Scher’s poster design for The Public Theater
    Scher’s rebranded Public Theater Logo

    Other notable logo designs are Tiffany and Co., Citibank, Windows, and the Metropolitan Opera.

    Album Covers

    Album Ginseng Woman designed by Paula Scher and Andy Engel
    Boston’s album designed by Paula Scher and illustrated by Roger Huyssen

    That’s really just a snippet of her expansive portfolio. Here’s a great book of her work! Preview it here.

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    • designing a portfolio: the saga

      Welcome back ya’ll! Today I thought I’d walk you through my current challenge: creating a graphic design portfolio. I am by no means an expert,…

    • design legends you should know #5 Paula Scher

      design legends you should know #5 Paula Scher

      Paula Scher is a painter, album covers, educator, layout artist and renowned graphic designer. Her Work Through The Years With a start at the Tyler…

    • figuring out Facebook ads

      I’ve been asked to create some Facebook ads (for Amaryllis bulbs) and let me tell you, I have no idea where to start. Facebook isn’t…

    • analyzing design in movies: Labyrinth

      analyzing design in movies: Labyrinth

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  • manipulating type in Illustrator

    manipulating type in Illustrator

    The college homework saga continues! We are currently designing the nameplate, or title, of our magazine. After scrolling through adobe fonts, I finally found my font: casserole. Which is such a fun name and just warms my Midwest heart.

    But picking a font was just the beginning. Now I have to expand my Illustrator skill set and figure out just how to manipulate type. I haven’t done a whole lot with typography so I consulted google and found these really helpful videos.

    I learned a lot about the pencil tool! I’ve become so comfortable with the pen tool, that I haven’t tried it. That ends today!

    Brainstorming

    My magazine title is musings. After thinking and surfing Pinterest, I wanted to try incorporating a quill nib into the title.

    some generic quill nibs (not my pic)

    I started sketching how I wanted the nib to replace the i in musings.

    some of my scribblings!
    some iterations

    I like the one in the middle. I don’t think I need a dot for the i. This week, I’m going to check in with my teacher and get some feedback. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to knock out the middle pieces of the quill either.

    That’s all for today folks! Did you learn anything new?

    • the final countdown: aka semester final projects

      I’ve been chipping away at my final projects! Right now, I’m finalizing my last article spread. I really want to have it nearly finished so I can get feedback and turn in my magazine before class ends tomorrow. Here are my different iterations: I think I’m leaning towards the last one. Maybe I’ll change the…

    • perfume label progress

      I’ve been steadily working on my perfume label in class. Initially, I wanted the perfume to have the scent of bleeding heart flowers, but since the bottle is an amber color, I decided on an orange scent. I’m still playing around with font combinations for the brand. But I am happy with the body copy…

    • design legends you should know #7 Jessica Walsh

      Jessica Walsh is a graphic designer, creative director, author, illustrator, design teacher, and founder of the design agency &Walsh. Her Career Walsh was born in Rhode Island in 1986. Before even stepping foot in college, she coded and designed websites at 11 years old. She got her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design in…