Hewr Khaled Mohamed Walid Bayazid (0337650)

27.09.2022 – 16.10.2022 / Week 5 – Week 7 Hewr Khaled Mohamed Walid Bayazid / 0337650 Design Principles  / B' of Mass Comm (Hons) (Broadcasting) Project 1: Self-portrait PROJECT 1 BRIEF Create a portrait of yourself by applying the various principles that you had learnt through these weeks. Contemplate on your life experiences, which includes your culture, your family, your friends, your schooldays, your favourite hangouts, your favourite music, food, musician, etc. Observe your surroundings – people, vehicles, buildings, plants, signages, nature, and activities. Record these in sketches, photography and/or video recording. Study all the visuals that you had collected. Select visuals that you find relevant and interesting to you, which you can translate into a design work to create a portrait of yourself. Remember to apply design principles in your work. For materials, you may use any of your choice, but do consider their suitability to best express your idea. DESIGN PROCESS Visual...

02.09.2022 – 30.09.2022 / Week 1 – Week 5 Hewr Khaled Mohamed Walid Bayazid / 0337650 DPI / Bachelor of Mass Communication (Hons) (Broadcasting) Project 1 LECTURES WEEK 1 / Introduction to Digital Photography & Imaging In the first week, we were introduced to the module. Mr. Martin addresses the following topics: the importance of photoshop for graphic designers the history of photograph manipulation photograph manipulation after photoshop - digital imaging tips of successful graphic designers We were also briefed about our assignments for the entire semester. Our tasks for the week were to play the Bezier game, create our e-portfolio blog, pick three designs from Pinterest that we particularly liked (with a brief explanation), and working on the first part of Project 1, the physical collages. WEEK 2 / Introduction to Photoshop We were introduced to Photoshop in week 2, focusing on the lasso tool, pen tool and layering. After the lecture, as we were supposed to work on our dig...

02.09.2022 – 20.09.2022 / Week 1 – Week 4 Hewr Khaled Mohamed Walid Bayazid / 0337650 Design Principles  / B' of Mass Comm (Hons) (Broadcasting) Exercises DESIGN PRINCIPLES The design principles I selected for my artworks are balance, contrast, harmony & unity, movement and repetition. Here is a brief recap: PRINCIPLE 1 / Balance Balance refers to the distribution of visual weight in a work of design – the visual equilibrium of the elements that causes the image to appear balanced. It can be either symmetrical or asymmetrical. Fig 1.1, S ymmetrical Balance Example Fig 1.2, As ymmetrical  Balance  Example PRINCIPLE  2 / Contrast Contrast refers to the juxtaposition of strongly dissimilar elements, this prevents the visual experience from being monotonous. Fig 2, Contrast  Example PRINCIPLE  3 / Harmony & Unity Harmony involves the selection of elements that share a common trait – it's the sense that all of the elements in an artwork fit together, whe...