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My Graphic Design Blog
IMAGING-GRAPHIC DESIGN I
AGD 2020 21 - 22
Welcome to my Blog!
It's my pleasure to present to you my journey as a rising senior through my fall semester of 2021 in both my Photographic Media I and Imaging-Design I classes. Along with, my spring semester of 2022 in both Graphic Design II and Imaging-Graphic Design II. Hope you enjoy my work!
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Michael Ford
Feb 27, 20231 min read
High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America Timeline
I have attached a link to my graphic design blog. For this project I read the book "High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to...
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Michael Ford
Jan 23, 20231 min read
The Story of Sushi: Sushi Timeline Project
For this project I created a timeline of the history of sushi from our reading, The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice...
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Michael Ford
Nov 21, 20221 min read
Flip Book Project
For our end of semester project we were asked to create a flip-book with two or more motions. First, we drew out our sketches and once...
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Michael Ford
Nov 11, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 10
For this Adobe Animate assignment titled, "Creating Interactive Navigation" we learned the following: Create button symbols. Duplicate...
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Michael Ford
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 9
On Friday, October 14, 2022 we continued working on our Adobe Animate assignments. This lesson was titled, "Animating Shapes and using...
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Michael Ford
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 8
On Monday, September 26, 2022 we worked on our Adobe Animate assignment titled, "Animating the Camera". For this lesson we learned the...
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Michael Ford
Oct 14, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 7
On Friday, September 23, 2022 we continued working on our Adobe Animate assignments. This lesson was titled, "Inverse Kinematics with...
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Michael Ford
Sep 19, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 6
On Monday, September 19, 2022 we continued working on our Adobe Animate assignments. This lesson was titled, "Puppet Warping". For this...
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Michael Ford
Sep 19, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 5
On Monday, September 16, 2022 we continued working on our Adobe Animate assignments. This lesson was titled, "Layer Parenting And Classic...
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Michael Ford
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 4
On Monday, September 12, 2022 we continued working on our Adobe Animate assignments. This lesson was titled, "Advanced Motion Tweening"....
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Michael Ford
Sep 9, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 3
On Friday, September 2, 2022 we continued working on another Adobe Animate assignment titled, "Animating Symbols with Motion Tween". For...
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Michael Ford
Sep 7, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 2
On Wednesday, August 31, 2022 we worked on our second Adobe Animate assignment titled, "Creating Graphics and Text". For this lesson we...
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Michael Ford
Sep 7, 20221 min read
Adobe Animate Lesson 1
On Monday, August 29, 2022 we started our first Adobe Animate assignment that's titled, "Getting Acquainted". For this lesson we learned...
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Michael Ford
Aug 24, 20221 min read
Rush-draft for Flip-book Project
On Monday, August 22, 2022 we presented our rush-draft sketches for our Flip-book Project. I came up with the idea of a jellyfish moving...
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Michael Ford
Aug 17, 20222 min read
12 Principles of Animation
On Wednesday, August 17, 2022 we watched a video on the 12 Principles of Animation. Listed below are the 12 principles along with, some...
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Michael Ford
Apr 20, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Dreamweaver Practice 2
On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 for our second practice assignment in Dreamweaver titled, "HTML Book Chapter". The application-specific...
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Michael Ford
Apr 8, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Dreamweaver Practice 1 & Intro
On Friday, April 8, 2022 we were first instructed to complete the intro to Dreamweaver that consisted of us getting familiar to the...
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Michael Ford
Apr 1, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Animation Practice 4
On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 we instructed to imagine having a client, Bay Preserve, who wants to add an interactive animation the kids'...
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Michael Ford
Apr 1, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Animation Practice 3
On Monday, March 28, 2022 we were instructed to imagine having a client who wants to create a series of ads to place on Web sites that...
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Michael Ford
Mar 23, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Animation Practice 2
On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 we were instructed to pretend that we were hired to create an animated introduction for a shopping mall...
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Michael Ford
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Animation Practice Intro 2
On Monday, February 28, 2022 we explored the Adobe Animation interface. Which explored various ways of controlling Animate's panels....
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Michael Ford
Mar 4, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Animation Practice 1
On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 we had a workday so we could catch up on some work. I started doing our Adobe Animation practice assignments....
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Michael Ford
Mar 4, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Animation Practice Intro 1
On Monday, February 28, 2022 we watched a video on Youtube about Adobe Animation. My professor instructed us to practice the second half...
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Michael Ford
Feb 23, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 8
On Wednesday, February 23, 2022 we were informed for this project that our client is a costume designer who is launching a new online...
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Michael Ford
Feb 23, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 7
On Friday, February 18, 2022 we were introduced to a hypothetical client who is a real estate developer and is planning a new presales...
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Michael Ford
Feb 23, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 6
On Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 we were informed for this project that we are an in-house designer for a printing company, so our...
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Michael Ford
Feb 14, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 5
On Monday, February 14, 2022 we imaged that our client is a performing arts center that is preparing to publish its schedule for the...
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Michael Ford
Feb 7, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 4
On Monday, February 7, 2022 we were instructed to pretend that a client of ours is the Redevelopment Authority for the city of Lancaster,...
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Michael Ford
Feb 4, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 3
On Friday, February 4, 2022 we were asked to imagine that our client is a curator at the local Museum of Art and History. The institution...
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Michael Ford
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 2
On Monday, January 31, 2022 we imagined having a client who publishes a monthly magazine for car enthusiasts. Hypothetically speaking,...
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Michael Ford
Jan 28, 20221 min read
Imaging-Design II Photoshop Practice 1
On Wednesday, January 26, 2022 we were asked to imagine that we have been hired to create the artwork for a local band's new CD release....
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Michael Ford
Nov 30, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Final (Day 10)
On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 I finished creating my Visual Storytelling Project. Below are two versions of the same video. One is with...
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Michael Ford
Nov 19, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Photoshop & After Effects Transfer (Day 9)
From Friday, November 19th to Tuesday, November 23rd I added my sketches to Photoshop and then to After Effects. Midway through the...
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Michael Ford
Nov 18, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Illustrator Complete (Day 8)
On Thursday, November 18, 2021 I decided to remove the side panel designs that I created. All my sketches have been recreated in Adobe...
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Michael Ford
Nov 17, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Illustrator (Day 7)
On Wednesday, November 17, 2021 I finished recreating my sketches onto Adobe Illustrator and decided to see how it would look to have a...
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Michael Ford
Nov 16, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Illustrator (Day 6)
On Tuesday, November 16, 2021 I managed to finish lines 2 to 4 sketches and lines 9 to 10 sketches along with, starting on line 8 sketch...
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Michael Ford
Nov 12, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Illustrator (Day 5)
On Friday, November 12, 2021 I managed to finish lines 5 to 7 sketches along with, working on lines 2 to 4 and lines 9 to 10 sketches in...
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Michael Ford
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Illustrator (Day 4)
On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 I managed to complete line 1 sketch along with, working on lines 2 to 6 sketches. Adobe Illustrator Sketches
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Michael Ford
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Illustrator (Day 3)
On Thursday, November 4, 2021 I started uploading my sketch for line 1 onto Adobe Illustrator. I managed to successfully create the boy,...
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Michael Ford
Nov 1, 20211 min read
Adobe After Effects Assignment 2 (Week 12)
On Monday, November 1, 2021 we were given an assignment. For this assignment since we've been working on Adobe After Effects for quite...
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Michael Ford
Oct 27, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Sketches (Day 2)
On Thursday, October 28, 2021 I continued working on my sketches. I finished my sketch for line 7 and started sketching for lines 5 and...
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Michael Ford
Oct 27, 20212 min read
Adobe After Effects Practice 7 (Week 11)
On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 we practiced making an air traffic control video for planes. It illustrates a radar going around in a...
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Michael Ford
Oct 25, 20211 min read
Visual Storytelling Project - Poem and Sketches (Day 1)
On Tuesday, October 26, 2021 we started a new project where we had to select or write a story or poem. Once we've selected that story or...
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Michael Ford
Oct 20, 20211 min read
Adobe After Effects Practice 6 (Week 10)
On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 we continued learning about Adobe After Effects. For this practice assignment we worked from our Media 10...
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Michael Ford
Oct 19, 20211 min read
Finalizing my Self-Portrait (Week 10)
On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 we critiqued our self-portraits that we created in Photoshop. We had to find a self-portrait by an artist...
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Michael Ford
Oct 18, 20211 min read
Adobe After Effects Practice 5 (Week 10)
On Monday, October 18, 2021 we continued practicing how to scale, rotate and use the opacity feature. This time we revisited the wiggly...
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Michael Ford
Oct 8, 20211 min read
Adobe After Effects Practice 4 (Week 8) Workday Homework
Friday, October 8, 2021 was a class workday. We were instructed to create the video below from what we've learned so far. Video
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Michael Ford
Oct 6, 20211 min read
Adobe After Effects Practice 3 (Week 8)
On Wednesday, October 6, 2021 we resumed practicing using Adobe After Effects. My professor started us off with another way to import...
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