Findings While Browsing Art

The booklet is a guide to provide art museum docents or teachers an art museum gallery visit that can add hands-on activities to the museum tour as a way of engaging the visitor in the appreciation of the museum's artworks and art in general. This booklet's artworks are not at the museum's collection but are part of a private collection (a requirement of the graphic design class assignment to use personal photographs), but a QR code is provided to link with the Toledo Museum of Art e-museum site where museum artworks from its permanent collection can be chosen to be included in art gallery activities. Above, one can appreciate the screenshots of the two spreads of four pages of the booklet that describes two hands-on gallery activities: Puzzle and Collage.  The formatting of the pages is similar to maintain uniformity of the design, understanding where the data is located that helps in the understanding that is required when engaging in a step-by-step activity.  The backgro...

 

 

 https://blog.prototypr.io/grid-system-as-backbone-of-every-good-design-part-1-545a6c9800fe The article "Grid System as Backbone of Every Good Design. Part One" was written by Vera Fesianava in November 20, 2016. It tells her own experience as an technical editorial designer. She stresses the importance of using modular grid as a "layout to organize elements of a page." She calls it the "law of proportion." Also, alignment should be considered as one of the fundamental design principles that "maintains design integrity and clarity" that helps the reader maintain a visual understanding (order, clarity and rationality) of the text and graphics. It is by creating a master page, with modular grid, as a template that is applied to all pages, with some modifications in each page according to the editorial requirements that makes the choices of the designer to present an individual or unique work.  There are some guidelines and concepts (graphic design ...

The booklet's audience are children and adults. The booklet will be a step-by-step guide to be used as an interactive tool of communication among people that are visiting art galleries or art museums. It will be considered as a complement to the art conversation that is taking place in the blog, reason why the main title of the booklet is the title of the blog. Each gallery activity will have an artwork connection with the Toledo Museum of Art (with e-museum link). Also, an online version of the booklet will be available in the blog. The first issue of the booklet is dedicated to art-related activities that can be done as an individual or in groups that are visiting a museum. The booklet can be used by docents, students or adults that would like to have an enjoyable interaction with art. The photographs used in the cover and other pages of this booklet will be of artworks that are part of my personal home decoration, artworks that were bought in Colombia, Paraguay or as gifts from ...

 

 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSe4xVXHhI&t=242s This YouTube video was published in 2017, where we learn examples of typographical errors that could lead to confusion and misunderstandings by the reader, especially if he/she has few seconds to understand the information conveyed by the flyer, card, or other communications media.   Mr. Benjamin Banister's https://portfolio.benjaminbannister.com/why-typography-matters   website specifies typographical designing solutions such as: display a hierarchy of information by importance of data, considering that the reader reads the information from top to bottom. Adjust the weight of the information by font size and other font characteristics (bold, italic, etc.)

 

 

 

 

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/how-to-choose-a-typeface/ T he reading of the article "How to Choose a Font: A Step-by-Step Guide," written by Douglas Bonneville, on March 24, 2011, helped in my understanding of the importance of developing a planned  set of steps when choosing a typeface.  As an undergraduate visual arts student enrolled in a graphic design course, most of the information in the article was new to me.  Also, I have realized that I have been missing the many components of the art process that takes place when creating a poster, a book, an advertisement, a logo, etc. We are used to enjoy the final product that we do not stop to think about the graphic designers' art process who created them.  The following basic questions are some that I have found important to address when planning to choose a font and a typeface: What is the difference between typeface and font? What are the parts of letters? What are the parts of numbers? What are the part...

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Toledo Museum of Art ( Sculpture Garden) Josiah McElheny, Moon Mirror , 2019. Glass,  steel   http://emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/81330/moon-mirror?ctx=f0fe0ad6-0d24-447f-b657-767ef3474ea9&idx=0                       Matt Wedel. Pyre, 2017 .  Earthenware https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/matt-wedel-phenomenal-debris