Allison Burtch
Comm Lab: Design
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Visual Language Color Test
Visual Language Color Test

Apparently I have perfect color vision. Did everyone get this? I was hoping for more interesting results.

ITP logo ideas
ITP logo ideas

Good logo design: Pentagram. Can’t really pick one. Some ideas for the logo design: What is ITP? It’s in a constant state of redefinition and always changing with time and technology. But one thing that remains the same is that collaboration is always key. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Which [...]

Comm Lab 2D Design: Business Card

allison_buscard copy inspiration for minimizing text

Visual Language: Composition

Create grid lines attract the eye, keep it exploring, nothing front and center Golden Section – based on a ratio of pi – divides a line segment at the unique point where the ratio of hte whole line A to the large segment B is the same as the ratio of the large segment B [...]

Visual Language Week 3

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Visual Language: Bad Signage
Visual Language: Bad Signage

In previous summers I used to sit at the base of the Manhattan Bridge after work and wait for friends to get off work and commute home. We’d sit on this ledge, drinking a tall can, grabbing some noodles from the cheap noodle shop across the way and hang out. It was fun. Except for [...]

Good design
Good design

1850s WALL HANGING While perousing the internet recently, I found a picture of an 1850s wall hanging of the planets. I like it because it tells multiple stories but needs no key: – One can intuit that the M V E M J S U N stands for Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus [...]

Design: Week 1

Good design tells a story (you may disagree with the story). Design Guidelines: How to stay out of trouble 1. Start with a grid Line things up “the grid is such a useful, functional way of finding or creating order in many, many design problems.” – Khoi Vinh, NYT Line things up Consistently credibility is [...]