Note to Reader: I’m really really tired as I write this. I made a Duarte inspired stick figure of myself before sitting down to write. It had crazy googley eyes and a hunched back. Between the computer crash – wipe out – reload last week and FTP connection issues this week, not to mention the stock market crash at work and Sofia’s issues…I’m a little on edge.
These factors have encouraged me to be a minimilist about this week’s readings (ch. 6-10).
Prominence – if everything is equal, nothing attracts attention – Prominence sets visual relationship. Lots of ways to establish prominience, size, proximity, color….
Grids- ah, ha…grids come in 4 coloumn, 5 column and Fibonacci. Silly me, I thought they only came in thirds. Isn’t there a rule of thirds?
I learned don’t want to do anything in 3-D (or everything in slide show has to be in 3-D). Similarly, lighting issues can create consistency issues for projected presentations.
Colors and fonts discussions reminded me of Williams! Kerning scares me. The attention to detail!
Duarte’s book has great examples throughout. I loved in Chapter 8.Black and white images on color background. Easy way to get consistent feel in images. Tracing paper images onto photos. What a cool effect. [Can I justify the purchase of a scanner for an assignment?]
Duarte also encourages us to use the common placein presentation photos. In the example below, a Duarte staff member used the common, but the images all work together.
Finally, creating panoramas and scenes with slides was another brilliant idea. Who thinks to replicate a winding pathway feel to a slide show? Yet it works beautifully. Madame Curie and Mark Twain look stunning on page 190.
