Cristian Ceren

Manipulating Text: An introductory practice on how to manipulate text around a page for better presentation and optimal viewing.
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Double Page Spread: Working with a spread layout and special spacing on pages. Manipulating images, pull quotes and margins. Drop cap technique learned in this assignment.
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White County Flyer: Working with small pages isn't easy. Putting all the information necessary for the flyer in the appropriate space was problematic. Plus, it was imperative to make sure that each element on the page was adequately presented.
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Getting to know you bookmark: Another space arranging project. Relevant to self information was presented in a bookmark style space. For my theme I used a classic old computer theme. With console typography and dark background.
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Restaurant menu ReDo: For this one, I redesigned the menu of a local restaurant. I changed fonts, colors and images. I tried to make the menu look delicious and at the same time, easy to read and graceful to the eye.
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Organization Brochure: For this one I chose Smiles For Christ as my organization. They provided me with basic information about the program, as well as some unknown facts. I included several high quality images that Tania Salgado provided for Smiles for Christ
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Visual Type History: The purpose of this project was to get acknowledged with the way that type changes over time. With the different movements in arts and the different time periods, typography has been volatile regarding the satisfaction of users and readers. I did mine about the history of the letter 'ñ'
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Found Alphabet: For this assignment, creativity was key. The letters of the alphabet are everywhere in a typical day, but how carefully does one have to be observing every landscape in order to appreciate the alphabet in everyday's life? I used sticky notes and online folding tutorials.
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Typeface poster: For this assignment I chose Segoe UI, the official font of microsoft's systems. Required information was the typeface designer, the art movement that inspired the typeface, and the variants that the typeface is encountered in.
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Expressive Type: For this assignment, the purpose was to demonstrate how type can communicate ideas without the necessity of carefully elaborated graphics.
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Magazine Layout: The purpose of this assignment was to recreate a spread of a magazine. The difficult part is finding the exact font choices and images and graphics. But other than that, it was a lorem ipsum. I chose a section on the Popular Tech Magazine.
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Newspaper layout: For this assignment, we had to create a layout for a newspaper that we would title after whatever we wanted. I chose the name "Today" (from a picture I got of someone asking "can you bring me today's newspaper?") it can't miss. I tried to keep a cohesive look and chose some easy to read fonts. Plus added some traditional style options for this project
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Style Guide: The style guides for Today's Newspaper.
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Personal branding: This is it. The consummation of all I have learned this semester on Typography and Graphic Arts. A detailed guide on how to use my personal brand and how I came up with my branding choices.
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