Lee's Musings

Here it is. As teased in the last post. My final actual last post for the graphic design class I’ve been taking. It feels like the class was at the same time both very short and also very long. I guess the saying still holds true: “The days are long, but the weeks are short.”…

Well this is it. The final project (other than the portfolio) for this visual design course. I got my desk ready for one last brainstorm session. Well, last for this class. This desk has seen many sketches and scribbles made on it over the years before this class and will most likely continue to do…

Confession time: I’ve never actually been to Bonnaroo. But I have always wanted too, so that counts right? What better way to imagine I was at a music festival than to make a graphics package for it? Well, probably watching videos of it or something would work better, but that wasn’t the assignment (I watched…

Specifically, that’s what the three assignments were this week. The overall theme was about images. And what better way to explore images than to make them? Well, at least assemble them. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for my projects. I found that for this assignment, the “pre-planning”…

Color is an essential element of visual communication, carrying deep-seated meanings and associations that vary across different cultures. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, understanding these cultural nuances in color perception is crucial for effective communication and design, and an improper use of color could lead to misunderstanding or even unintended offense. In this post,…

I don’t think I’ve ever thought this hard about fonts before. I mean, when I was a kid sure, I’d play around with wingdings or whatever weird fonts and pretend I was writing in a secret code that only I (and anyone else with Microsoft Word) could understand. But I’d never really thought about it…

It’s hard to believe that it’s already ice cream season again. Especially hard to believe since, while I write this, there is currently snow on the ground outside. Don’t get me wrong, I like snow in general, but it doesn’t typically inspire me to eat ice cream. So in preparation for this project, I had…