Tutorialized.com

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/

Above is a link to a tutorial based website. The website enables users of design based programs to search and locate a tutorial of their choice. On the site are option boxes and a search engine to allow the user to easily locate their tutorial. As a student of Visual Design I find this website extremely useful because it allows me to locate any tutorial that I like for any design program. The website has tutorials for all major design software such as

Adobe Design Suite
Flash
Fireworks
Dreamweaver
Gimp
Paintshop Pro

Tutorialized is also useful as it breaks down each program choice into categories, E.g. If you were to select Photoshop tutorials it will give you options for which specific tutorial you would like, you are able to select from a variety of specific tutorials from textures to image and text effects The site also gives opportunity for the user to submit their own tutorials.

Tutorialized can be located through simply searching through a search engine of your choice. Tutorialized is a popular site and is usually the top result of the search, “design tutorials.” The website can also be located through advertisements on other web sites.

Advertisement Analysis

Visual Design

Advertisement Analysis

Above is a flyer from a Drum and Bass night called, “Therapy Sessions.” This specific style of drum and bass music is known to have a dark and heavy sound to it, so it is important to relate the style and design of the flyer to the style of the music.
The designer has decided to use dark colours and shades to relate to the style of music. The typeface at the top of the flyer is, “grungy,” and fits well with the style of the flyer. The main typeface is a serif style font, this style of font works well with the flyer because it adds to the flyers dark and sisister style.
All of the text is in white on a black and grey background; this allows the font to stand out due to the contrast of blacks and whites.
There is an image used as the background of the flyer, the image is of a skeleton posing. The designer used this style of image to once again stick with the horror theme of the flyer. With the night being a Christmas special, the skeleton is of a film titled, “The nightmare before Christmas,” this relates to the night being a Christmas special.
The layout of the flyer is centred which allows the viewer to read the advertisement with ease. Their vision will instantly be lead to the main heading and from this they will read and follow the flyer downwards.
As a viewer you instantly get an idea of the style of music being advertised due to the colours used.

Mind-Map Visual Design

A mind map that demonstrates that I know what I mean by Visual Design



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Introduction

This is my learning diary, this demonstrates my visual literacy, my understanding of the topics covered in the module and experimentations based on those.