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professional, but not overly modern and professional a little edgy and eco-aware professional and clean fun, but clean and put professional
serious together
Who is the business card for?
Who is the business card for? Who is the business card for? Who is the business card for? Who is the business card for? Who is the business card for? Daniel Lea
Sarah Strochein Marssaie Celine von der Weid Noel Pelavin Nikki NiSchile
What does the person do?
What does the person do? What does the person do? What does the person do? What does the person do? What does the person do? company director and
director of design and art graphic designer General Director doesn’t say doesn’t say composer
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1. Neue Haas 1. Neue Haas 1. Neue Haas 1. Avenir Next 1. Avenir Next
Card specifications
Grid structure | Draw lines to identify the grid used for the card you re-created.
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CONCEPT SKETCHES
CONCLUSION
Briefly describe your sketching process. It is not ornate by any means, but
What mattered to you in Module 04?
I tried to be really free with my sketching this week. I a little more dressed up.
didn’t take the time to color in deep blacks and make it I thought that one of the key things to pull out of module
perfect, but I still kept things looking nice. I tried, instead, 4 was about designing with out pictures. That is really
to focus on ideas. As I had ideas I would just throw them the intent of the class. We took business cards this week,
out. There were a few times where I had several partial something that we are pretty used to seeing dressed
FONT COMPARISON
ideas down because I would start one and it would give up with design, and had to look for ones that only use
me another idea which would give me another. What did you notice about Trade Gothic Next LT elements of typography. It was a big of a challenge, but
when comparing it to Neue Haas Grotesk? not nearly as much as I thought. It really showed me that
DIGITAL SKETCHES you can have a strong design using only letter forms.
The first thing that I noticed was that Trade Gothic
was not terribly different from Neue Haas. They have a
What is the most difficult part of digital sketches?
number of similarities. Their x-height is the same. They
I really enjoy the digital sketches. The most difficult part are also roughly the same width. However, where Neue
was remembering to use two different typefaces on a Haas is fairly simple and clean, Trade Gothic is a little
card. I would get going on an idea and just throw the fancy, with circular g’s and curving a’s. It is not ornate by
text in so I could start the next idea while it was fresh and any means, but a little more dressed up.
a few times forgot to change my body copy typeface.