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School-Assignments 1
As I told you earlier, I have a past as
an adult student at Niagara College in Welland, Ontario, Canada. For two years I
took classes to be-come a graphic designer. Well, suddenly I found myself
in the United States and Florida, to where my husband was transferred, and
where I couldn't or still can't work due to not being in the
possession of a visa, which would allow me to work here.
The other day I went thru some old
items in a big black portfolio I used to carry around almost every day. In
there found some work
from assignments I did in school during my 4 semesters 1991-1993. |
These items are perhaps not very good
since done by a beginner, but the pieces will show you what we did in this
kind of classes before
the help of computes. We had wonderful old equipment for typesetting
and the cameras were huge and exiting to work with. Then again, some
in the graphic business are still done by hand. Peoples talents and
workmanship is hard to exchange for robots. They still must be programmed
by the same talented people. However today, how sweet it is to not have to
draw lines in ink with a pen and ruler or mess with glue to put the types
in place.
Trust me on this one!
/Margareta |
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Above is a sketch in ink on the
song Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me. It expresses the
difficulty I felt in being a student, so much older than my
class-mates and not being able to share their interests and the
future youth has ahead.
- I too had a dream... I worked hard, and I tried
to become a friend... "Susan", I hope it worked out for you.
The strange thing is, that my intuition and fore sight about having
graphics done on the computer was not well received. This was even
held against me for the rest of the last school year. "There is no
way to make a strait line on the computer....", he said angrily
(1992).
Well, I guess I have the last laugh there, but I do think I left a
second thought about the matter, and I bet none of my teachers are this
ignorant any more :-).
I wonder what they do now. The Graphic Design
course isn't on the curriculum any more.
Well, if they notice my pages they will know they
aren't forgotten :)
My art-essay? I think I still got it. How valuable
and a joy those art-history lessons still are. And then naturally the
English classes. Forgive me for all mistakes today, but my Canadian
English has probably been quite mixed up with the American
English. What did you use to note... wordy. Still am! Business
English was easy. I knew it from before.
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Some
examples from the first year
Since this is about
the introduction to Graphic Design's fundamentals, you will notice that a lot of work is done in
pen and ink in the first semester. I will spare you my color-wheel,
hand-lettering and also my life-drawings. |
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The obligatory Christmas-card was supposed to
be silk- screened, but time ran to quickly that first very fun and busy
first semester 1991. To cut in ruby-lithe takes a lot of practice and a steady hand. Is this
a lost art and craft? I must admit I enjoyed doing this, but it was rather
difficult.
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