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My Review of Codeacademy So far

 

Ihave been doing a class on Codeacademy.com so about a month or so. The reason why I decided to start learning coding is that I want to be more then just a graphic designer. If you are not taking advantage of many of the free products to learn I do not understand why not. The lessons are very helpful and easy.

Before starting Code Academy I had done a course that I found on youtube on how to code and etc. But over time I did not use what I learned. So eventually I ended up forgetting a majority of everything. Code Academy helps you to learn by actually doing projects.

When you are doing a lesson you code from scratch and you are able to see the effects. Seeing what you are learning being put in use is remarkable. One thing that I do is to do at least one lesson daily from Codeacademy. You have to remember that if you are learning something knew you are not going to retain learning so much in one day.

The Course that I am doing is web fundamentals. After I finish that one I plan to move onto another and continue learning. Whether you are a graphic designer, fashion designer or whatever nowadays knowing just one skill will not be as valuable as it once was before.

Continue learning and definitely check out Codeacademy.com if you get the chance and want to learn how to code.

Apartment branding why is it so horrible?

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There has been many times when I have seen the logo for complex that is totally different on a business card, Compared to the one on the gate. This could simply be branding not being thought all the way through to the last piece. When you start anything that requires a brand you want it to be similar in every aspect.

If you were for example lets say Nike you would not want to have a Michael Jordan logo on something that is not related to his brand. Then another company example would be Holiday Inn. If you were opening a Holiday Inn branded Hotel you would not just put the word Inn in big letters on the building and put Holiday Inn on your business cards.  It simply would not work because using the word Inn would be confusing and is a word that is used in many different brands.

When you are designing anything think about every aspect of branding. This means from the logo, stationary, building letters and etc. You want people to know what to look for.

Made it

To Florida safely thank goodness. The drive down was pretty long and I must say enduring the long drive I know have more respect for truck drivers.

Well I just had to let you all know what happened and that I made it here to Doral Florida safely and getting all settled in. I also uploaded a Vlog of the drive down and how it went. In the meantime check it out below while I get the blog posts coming back.

Currently in the process

Of Relocating to Florida. The posts will resume next week and I’ll definitely have a Video showcasing the trip and how it went. So in the meantime you can keep up to date with me on twitter,instagram and you can even send me a lovely email

Style vs Approach

Eames House

One of the big debates that people seem to get confused is having a design style vs approach. To me a style is what you come up with from the approach to completing a project. Because if you want to design a poster in a swiss design style then you would have to learn the principles and then take an approach to come up with a similar style.

Your style will mold itself when you continue to work on your approach to projects. The way to improve your approach is to practice thinking about how to approach the project differently. The approach could range from doing things differently then you normally would to designing in a different place.

So with this said do not worry so much about your design style. Style is something that everyone seems to want to have. Your style will develop overtime through looking at more design and designing more. Your approach will develop the more you look at how you are working from beginning to end.

How to take better instagram photos

 

I’ll be the first to admit that I had no idea how to take photos for instagram. One of the many things that I did was to learn how to take pictures that I would like to see. For example if its interesting to me then out of the hundreds of millions people on instagram, i’m sure someone would find it interesting. Another thing is to be you in your photos.

You have to remember what you post is what people are going to base you on. If you are posting pictures wearing ton’s of jewelry, luxury clothes and etc people are going to expect you are well of. So be careful with doing that. Honestly there is a lot of good people on instagram and a looottt of bots on there. But that could be the same for ton’s of other social networks.

So here are the steps I take when shooting an instagram photo

  1. Stop and ask yourself is this interesting to me
  2. Would this be worth sharing to others
  3. Would this be worth remembering
  4. What would happen if someone close to me seen this
  5. Is this going to be detrimental to my image as a person
  6. Am I sharing to much personal information

Now after those steps now its time to set up your shot

  1. You can either use your built in camera or instagram (prefer to use either one)
  2. Hold your camera straight as possible either landscape or portrait (looking at sideways photos on instagram is really annoying to look at and people don’t really shoot photos like that)
  3. Have fun taking photos
  4. Experiment with what looks right
  5. Use hashtags #
  6. Use filters (really only certain ones get used often on instagram)
  7. Leave comments on peoples photos (its more of a connection then just a like and people seem to appreciate them more)
  8. Like peoples photos

What are some ways you use instagram?