Lesson Tasks and notes

This weeks lesson was sketching techniques and how sketching can help a designer in their workflow.

This week is about typography and how typography done well can provide clear communication.

 Brand positioning (brand strategy, positioning strategy/statement) is the process of positioning a brand in the mind of their customers. Kotler[1] defines brand positioning as “the

Apple Inc (or just Apple with ordinary people) is an American technology company that produces and sells consumer electronics, software and personal computers. Their most

In this task, I’m going to look at how an established well-known brand employs their brand identity. To do this, I’ve visited their website, nikita.no

Task instructions: Create two consumer profiles for a fictional client. You are free to choose the client and the product. List the things that you think are important to include in a consumer profile and show your research.

One of the most useful tools I have found early in the designing process is a moodboard. A mood board is a collage of images,

They say that it is not the gear that makes the photographer, and I guess that’s true. But it does help to have a quality camera and know how to use it.

The concept of capturing light is old and the history of photography starts with the discovery of the camera obscura, where light streaming from a

The light around us has certain qualities such as warm or cold (or somewhere in between). This is what is called colour temperature and with

Now that I have been through the basics of photography, it is time to practice.

In this lesson task, the goal was to produce an 8-page brochure for a fictitious travel agency, with images, sensible headings and dummy text.

In graphic design (or any design I suppose), the concept of negative and positive space exists. The negative space, or “white space” is empty space,

Symmetry in the design world refers to a spatial relationship between elements, and where the elements reflect eachother horizontally and/or vertically, or are centered within

In my daily work, I design and implement websites for clients. While I have been working with graphic design, I see that there is a

In this task, I’m going to analyze and trace a grid in printed piece and trace the underlying grid.

For those of you that doesn’t bother to scroll down to the bottom, here is the pdf file Brief The brief of this project is

Before sending a document to a printer, there are alot of things that needs to be checked and double checked again.

This week, we are working with print production and how different colour systems are used in different situations.

In order to master the art of photograpy, one must master the camera with settings, lenses and all equipment needed to create the photographs you

In my semester project I chose to make a visual profile and some print material for my business, Hoser og bånd, and applying this in

My portfolio can be found online at portfolio.sivhansen.no

The second semester starts with screen based design, such as web pages and apps. As a graphic designer, you don’t need to know how to

When starting any web project, there are a lot of information that is required in order to “get things right”. Noroff presents a list of

In this task, I have compiled a list of 10 websites I concider good and 10 bad ones, with a comment on why for each.

Wireframes can be used to visualize a concept, an idea, a design direction or information with tools from pen and paper to digital wireframes that

This week, I have explored lightning in portrait photography. There are many ways to do lightning, and there are no right or wrong way (the

In lesson task AW21 Put Thought Into Your Design,I analyzed the requirements for the website where I present Løten as a travel destination. In this

Let’s say I had 10 000 NOK in my marketing budget. Would I use it to marked a website? No. Even though the lesson task

Wordpress is the most used publishing system in the world, with more than 30% of sites on the internet is a Wordpress site.

In the WordPress repository, you can find thousands of themes. Some themes are developed for a spesific usage, and some are so-called “multi-purpose themes”. Astra,

This lesson task is a part of the course assignment for Graphic design 2, also called CA08. It consists of 4 parts, where logo design

In this project part, the goal is to explore the visual language of a piece and create to coherent designs: one infographic and one brochure

Everywhere around us are items packed in something. Every item has it’s own set of requirement for the surrounding package, and a package has to

A point of sales, or a point of purchase as it is sometimes referred to, is how your product is displayed in a sales location

In my project exam, I made a website for Ballongfisk Ceramics, yet another business of mine. All my life I have dreamt about being a

This portfolio is a part of semester 2 of my graphic design course at Noroff School of Technology. It summarizes the work I have done

When working with websites and typography, there are three ways to use fonts: All of them have benefits and drawbacks. By using only system fonts,

This weeks task is to recreate a layout, and so I did. The result The next task was to use flex-box and grids to create