Jordan Cook 's Graphic Design Canvas

Introduction      This week we are finishing up the brand identity for our restaurant. This has definitely been an interesting and knowledgeable process. I cannot stress enough that I have learned a vast amount of information in such a short time, and I have enjoyed designing the brand for Nigerian Street Buka.      One of the projects for this week is to create a menu. I mean, you cannot have a restaurant that does not have a menu.      While going through the process of creating the menu, I learned how to use Paragraph and Character styles a bit more in depth. These two features of Adobe Illustrator make the process of designing projects with text way more efficient opposed to going in and editing everything piece by piece. I have also seen what it’s like to have a group of brand identity products flow together.     I chose to do a trifold menu.  In my menu I kept the consistent color palette of green, black, red, orang...

Introduction       2024 has barely dipped its feet in the water and many trends are already in the works. In the article "Top 13 Design Trends for Cutting Edge Design in 2024" , Enina Bicaku discusses these trends. Link: https://looka.com/blog/graphic-design-trends/ Why Graphic Design Trends Matter      Graphic Design Trends are crucial to the evolution of design and the world. By staying up-to-date on these trends, you can communicate and keep your audience fully engaged. They will appreciate this gesture because you thought about their interests throughout the process. Humans like to know they are being kept in mind.      Bicaku quotes the writer and activist Toni Cade Bambara, "The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible.", and then she explains that "Graphic design trends aren't only a sign of times, they're sometimes a catalyst to change themselves".      According to Bicaku, these are the 13...