Everything Adrian

Here, you will find my professional and creative work. Please enjoy!

This is the Brainspace, where all my posts go. You’ll find a mix of stuff from class assignments to personal projects here. Anything new will wash up on these shores, be sure of it!

  • WordPress Essential Training

    LinkedIn Learning Summary WordPress is a flexible program that allows for lots of customization depending on what conveniences the author is willing to trade for them. One of the features that stood out as particularly… Read more

  • Cropping Photographs

    LinkedIn Learning Summary John McWade’s LinkedIn course focuses on different compositional and cropping techniques for photographs. Strategies like focusing on people’s faces and finding descriptive slices help the designer fit the photograph in the space… Read more

  • Ideas & Advertising Concepts

    LinkedIn Learning Summary As designers we must be attentive to the needs of our client. Craig Smallish’s LinkedIn course emphasizes the importance of visiting the client’s physical place of work if possible. This is intended… Read more

  • Color

    LinkedIn Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations While much of Mary Jane Begin’s LinkedIn Learning Course only had to do with Western techniques of color design and application, the history that Begin goes over early in… Read more

  • Set Perfect Text

    LinkedIn Learning Summary John McWade’s videos on setting perfect text convey very specific advice. While Sean Adams and Ina Saltz both had a looser artistic direction to their courses that could be applied to non-western… Read more

  • Typography

    Linkedin Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations In the course Graphic Design Foundations: Typography, the instructor Ina Saltz explained the basic principles of typography in graphic design. These basic principles apply to written languages other than… Read more

  • Layout and Composition

    LinkedIn Learning Summary: Graphic Design Foundations Sean Adams’s course on graphic design basics emphasizes simplicity and boldness. For as long as we can keep the viewer interested, Adams says, they will digest our message. Adams… Read more

  • Visual Metaphor of Print Ad

    This week we continued talking about color’s symbology and explored the process in which a designer develops ideas into rough concepts and then pitches them. These concepts, From Craig Smallish’s linkedin Course and the Psychology of Color… Read more

  • Visual Blog Journal Website

    Following the LinkedIn course on WordPress, it would be interesting to understand how blogging is managed in other countries. Studies have been done on how blogging can be used in educational settings overseas to teach… Read more

  • Infographic Analysis

    When choosing a career in design there is so much data to shuffle through in order to find the selection you want to work towards. Sites like Glassdoor and Ziprecruiter have useful data, but their… Read more