Essays on Typography

Before the advent of the computer, artists and artisans alike utilized a complex tool in making their letter forms; the hand. At ten digits, five for each hand, the hand was efficiently the first digital lettering tool, utilized in engravings, carving and in the production of the various letter forms. The hand, while allowing for a few technological flaws and eccentricities, still facilitated the creation of some of the most beautiful lettering forms ever made. The advantages of the hand as a lettering tool underscore the paradox that, with technological advancement, both a loss and profit were incurred. The Continue reading...

Introduction

In virtually every curriculum, textbooks form a fundamental part of executing the learning process. They are vital features of not only learning but also teaching as a profession all over the world. Mathematics is one of the few universal subjects taught in schools of different levels across the world. Early debates concerning the application of textbooks in class for both learning and teaching of mathematics have since raised numerous questions concerning textbooks as a representation of the chosen curriculum. For this reason, quite a number of learning institutions have prioritized equivocal selection of mathematics textbooks that best suit their Continue reading...

DIETARY ANALYSIS ASSIGNMENT

Spring, 2014
Overview The ultimate purpose of this activity is for you to evaluate the adequacy of your diet and improve your current dietary intake patterns. You will use a federally-supported, public software program (SuperTracker, associated with ChooseMyPlate.gov) to analyze your diet and energy balance. The printout will tell you how well your diet meets your recommended nutrient and caloric intake values (RDAs, AIs, and AMDRs). You will also identify 3 areas that need improvement.

When using SuperTracker, please enter a personal “profile” so that your dietary requirement estimates are as accurate as possible.

Recording Your Dietary Intake You will need to write down everything you eat and drink and your activity patterns for a three day period ( Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

Toofa Beauty Salon is a business enterprise offering beauty services and solutions. In a bid to expand more in the beauty industry, the store desires to establish a website where it can interact with its users more rewardingly. This paper details the development of the website of the company. The website puts in place the best industry wide practices for availability, access, navigation and usability. Specifically, this specification report explores the accessibility techniques employed in the development of the website, website description, design and implementation. It also includes evaluation mechanisms and validation and testing Aspects. Finally, it will provide Continue reading...

Opening Word

It is possible to open Word in the following ways:
- Through the start button
- Click the Start button
- If there has been previous opening of a word document lately, the Microsoft Word icon appears on the list of Start menu. Click on the Word icon to launch a Word document.
- If there are no recent openings of word files, the Word icon might not appear. In such a case, click on All Programs, Navigate to Microsoft Office option and click on Microsoft Office Word 2007 from the list of Microsoft Office applications.
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The overall aim of the paper Studies of Interference in Serial Verbal Reactions by J. Ridley Stroop is to demonstrate how interference influences the reaction time of a given task. The paper presents an experimental work in the naming of colors while reading the names corresponding to the different colors. The time taken to name a color differs greatly when a color is given and the corresponding name turns out to be the name of the color as opposed to a scenario where the name of the color does not denote the color on which the name is written. Continue reading...

The following is the chosen piece to be assessed in this assignment:

“One of the most dangerous mistakes that can be done by the patient is to take medicine contrary to the prescription. This not only compromises the recovery process, but it also jeopardizes the life of the concerned patient. It is important for every patient to put into consideration the instructions given by a physician during prescription, so as to enhance the recovery process.”

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This piece of information stresses on the importance of taking medicine in the right way and procedure. It is targeted to the general audience at large, in respect of drugs given or bought under the direction Continue reading...

Three Keywords for Typographic Linen Napkins

The Typographical Linen Napkins are towels designed and manufactured by Morla Design. The Linen Napkins usually, well sewed with grosgrain wool that exerts natural patterns and are fine textured. The linen napkins sold in a pack of four and cost $40 to $75. The towels used in hotels for serving customers and also as hand wipes.In marketing, the development of attracting ideas to sell a product forms the most essential part of the product’s marketability. Keywords are critical because they allow market analysts to attract consumers thus making them develop an interest towards the product. Keywords are even Continue reading...

Introduction

It is argued that advertising is the cornerstone of every business. Through advertising, a means of marketing communication, a business encourages, manipulates and persuades a target audience to start or continue using their products or services. The modern day advertisement appeals to the consumer through an array of ways as exemplified in the essays written by Cohen, Bovee and Fowles. The placement of an advertisement is very important to its purpose. In making this choice, one should choose a medium that will ensure penetration to the target audience. In addition to placement, the design of an advertisement is very Continue reading...

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Our group had edited our paper on Technical Instructions based on the suggestions that we have received from the Usability Test.
On the title, we decided to further narrow down our target audience because just like what the Beta Group had said pertaining to our paper, the topic we want to use is still too broad and will most likely take up more time than what is allotted to us. Thus, we changed our title from ‘How to Use Twitter’ to ‘Twitter for Beginners’.
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Introduction:

I always believed that the construction of a font must be sturdy and durable, as it’s a powerful method to enhance the message pursued to be delivered, giving it the significance strife and a meaning. I saw in Picasso’s artwork the durability a letter would strive and a strength that would make a font as strong as a painting. In his different approach on geometrical shapes, as his beautiful strong lines delighted a designer like me and I appreciated above all the organization of imagery and the thoughtful proportions and shapes formed. I saw them as a Continue reading...

Introduction

History of Typography
Typography is the study of types the faces types and the evolution of printed letters. It can also be defined as the study of handwriting that offers a unique base for making type designs. It involves the art and methods of type designs, changing the type characters and their arrangement. Before the invention of movable types by one Johannes Gutenberg, books were mainly produced by scribes where lay copies were being used to serve the market. Several people who were involved in the invention of movable types include Garamond, Gutenberg, Divot, Arnold and Giambatista whose earlier Continue reading...

Typography involves arranging types for the language visibility. The work involves adjusting spaces between letters and group of letters. This work is to ensure that the text in the design is readable. Typography`s aim is to capture interest of the reader. A well-designed typography creates images in the mind of the reader. A number of factors affect readability in typography.
The choice of typeface is a factor that affects readability. The typefaces should not be narrow because narrow typefaces are not readable. They should not be thin. Thin typefaces do not please the eye. The shapes of letters Continue reading...

The readability of a website is determined by the goodness of its appearance and design; therefore, fonts play a very significant part in Web design. It really matters what type of font one uses in their website. According to Rahul (2013),Google fonts provide people a great collection of open source licensed real-type fonts. It enables people access a free way to use web safe and stylish fonts on their websites without paying money for its usage license. Google Fonts enables one to use more fonts in their website without even uploading the font to their server.

How Google Fonts Work

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Abstract

Three conditions were used to evaluate a replica of the Stroop effect in an experiemt where 287 participants took place. The experiment was carried out on university undergraduate students selected randomly irrespective of gender. The aim of the experiment was to replicate the basic Stroop effect. The experiment was guided by three hypotheses. First, Colour naming will be fastest when the word is a colour name and it is presented in the colour it names. Second, colour naming will be slowest when the word is a colour names and it is presented in a colour other than that it Continue reading...

Introduction: An overview of usability concepts, design guidelines, principles and theories:

Designing an interactive system requires thorough task and user analyses aimed at collecting enough information to come up with a sound functional design. Some of the issues to consider when designing an all-round interactive system are availability, reliability, integrity, portability, integration, standardization, security, and the administrative tasks of budgeting, maintenance and scheduling (Shneiderman & Plaisant 2010).
The design process is quite iterative and as design concepts and ideas are suggested, they need to be assessed so as to provide user friendliness, low error rates, efficiency in task performance, user satisfaction, and ease of retention. Designs that target the needs of Continue reading...

Tips for PowerPoint Presentation

First, make PowerPoint presentation simple. A complicated PowerPoint will derail the speaker and confuses the audience. Secondly, use few bullet points and limited text to avoid boring the audience. Thirdly, use a few transitions and animations that are professional and subtle. Fourthly, use graphics that are of high quality to make the PowerPoint slides attractive. Fifthly, select an appropriate font that can be read from the furthest end of the room. San Serif is the most appropriate for PowerPoint slides. Sixthly, use an appropriate color that will evoke the feeling or emotion that the presentation is intended to convey. Continue reading...

1. Which website is the least commercial? Why?
EnterText is the least commercial website because the website is poorly designed, least informative and ill-categorized. There are no options for plugins or feed for YouTube, twitter or Facebook on the website. In short, it is not attractive and exciting enough to draw in crowds.
2. Which website is the most commercial? Why?
Most commercial website is Bill O'Reilly.com. Even if one is unaware of the identity of Bill O'Reilly, one visit to his webpage reveals a deluge of information about him. All the plugins for Facebook page, twitter, Google +, YouTube Continue reading...

Introduction

“Indulge in the Color of Passion” is the ad’s attention grabbing slogan. The product is the Color Sensational Lipcolor, where the model, Christy, was explicitly identified to be wearing the Red Revival shade . The advertisement is featured in the Family Circle magazine and captures the audience’s interest due to the attractive face that is magnified in the ad; needed to focus on the sensual red-colored lips of the model. The advertisement is likewise filled with the predominantly red color, aside from the model’s lips, there is the half-hidden image of a red rose, with the other Continue reading...

Introduction

In the various advertisements in different mediums, the designers of these advertisements spend a great deal of time, effort, and resources to select various facets and elements which would be deemed crucial and effective in sending an appropriate message to the target audience. The advertisement selected was that of the innovative features of a faucet from Touch2O® Technology, apparently manufactured by Delta Faucet Company. The current essay hereby aims to demonstrate one’s powers and abilities to observe and provide effective attention to detail. As such, the results of one’s observation, analysis, and conclusions drawn from the discourse Continue reading...

Introduction

Advertisements are forms of promotional strategies that organizations apply to enhance awareness for their products. These advertisements usually aim to make the target customers respond through purchase and continued support for the product. Just like the other three marketing mix elements (product, price and place), the strategies designed to enhance promotional efforts differ. Their effect, likewise, depend on how the important elements of an advertisement are chosen, created, and applied. In this regard, the current paper aims to present an analysis of a print advertisement, particularly that of Old Spice, and argue that it failed to create the needed Continue reading...

Analysis of Dodge Ram Print Ad

A full-page print advertisement for the Dodge Ram pickup truck appeared in a recent issue of MotorTrend magazine. The advertisement used a variety of both overt and subtle techniques to promote the truck as desirable for some of the typical readers of the magazine. MotorTrend’s demographics skew toward males, middle to upper class socioeconomic status, and those who have a passion or at least an elevated interest in automobiles as more than just reliable transportation. The advertisement is designed to appeal to those readers who want a truck that conveys power and dominance, pride in their home country Continue reading...

Communication

Power Point is a powerful and ubiquitous program Microsoft developed to aid in making presentations. Microsoft PowerPoint offers a facility to create attractive presentations, which incorporate video and animations. Its primary function is to help in designing, creating and editing presentations. A presentation is a collection of screens; slides presented by one to a group of people. In order to make effective presentations, the most noteworthy thing is to understand the content of the message. One should keep the audience attentive and interested.
Making an effective presentation, which maintains the attention and interest of the audience, can be a Continue reading...

Abstract

In this essay the reader will find a set of complete instructions that he/she should follow thoroughly in order to create documents for several papers and essays with the correct formatting features for them.
These instructions are carefully planned and organized according to a detailed process analysis and will ensure that, in the end, the users will have the knowledge to easily create written documents for any paper, essay or situation.

Thesis: This essay will explain in detail how to make proper use of the computer software program Microsoft Word.

Keywords: process analysis, word, document, format, user, write.

Before starting

- Open Microsoft Word.
On your computer’s Start Menu, click on the icon Microsoft Word to open the program. Continue reading...

Introduction

Print and web are powerful medium that get used to communicate messages to respective viewers and or users. There exist differences between both medium even though they appear to disseminate similar messages. This paper aims at comparing and contrasting the differences and similarities of three newspaper articles in their print and web versions.

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For both the newspaper print and web version of this article, the message communicated is similar and replicate each other.
There is a difference in the font size and style of the wordings in print and web versions of the article. The font size and size Continue reading...

Introduction

Logos and branding designs serve as businesses link to existing and prospective customers. They help draw attention to the business and give them a distinguishing look from businesses in the same industry or other types of trade. As such, developing one's brand image using the appropriate logo and typography can lead to impulse sales and better business options. The focus of this paper is the evaluation of two real-world sign typography for two companies, namely, Loves Salon and Jinse Home Décor and Boutique.

Loves Salon

The company uses a San Serif typeface for the name of the organization where the Continue reading...

Website design is an important aspect of developing a website that is user friendly and draws the attention of those who access the site. If the website that you create does not function properly or keep viewers on the page for an adequate amount of time before they click away, then the page will not be effective in any way. A number of different parts of website design are needed to build an effective webpage and this memo will detail those areas in reference to the same pages given.

A Special Report: Living Healthy

The first thing that I noticed with this website is Continue reading...

Internet readers can choose thousands of blogs covering a wide range of issues. Popular bloggers are able to earn money from their blogs. To create a popular blog, one needs include several key components in content and design (Doctorow, 2002). Everything from the overall outlook of the blog page to the quality of the content covered contributes to the success of a blog page. Since blogs are generally meant for easy reading, the page layout and the tone of the content should capture the interest of the reader and cause them to return to the blog page for more.

Blog analysis

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Christopher Lawson Epicurean Food Merchant Products are supposed to target up-market spenders. This is because the products offered are high quality and handmade. These organic goods are made for those who would not mind spending a couple more dollars on a good, healthy, organic and tasty product. The image that the product labels like to capture is that of high class goods.

The logo was done in a colorful manner, using the fonts Rockwell and Times New Roman. There are soft shadows used behind the tomato to bring in a sense of ease. This is used by creating a Continue reading...

1. Abstract
With eth advent of computing devices, there has been a phenomenal growth in the adoption of electronic displays. There has been adoption of electronic displays in these Continue reading...

Abstract

The colors from words that are colored and the colored words’ word patterns based on integral Stroop stimuli were provided with time advantages adjacent to each other. The experiment had to either establish the pertinent measurement color or word through a series of four keys that were randomly colored in each assessment. Outcomes of the experiment demonstrated proportioned associations involving the word and the color job. Therefore, the word can manipulate the extremely attuned color key reaction as could the color in word naming which is the actual reading. This initial kind of interference could not be translational and Continue reading...

David Carson continues to be one of the renowned typographic designers in the world. One notable example that Carson contributed to, greatly is the typographic contribution to the portrait of Natalie Portman, who is the lead in the film ‘Little White Lies.’ In this work, Carson used a vivid typographic style of applying a black foil over the whole drawing. His style, which to many seems to have been destructive, concentrated on featuring a unique design at the bottom of the work. Carson’s treatment of the lower background of the work further creates an interesting piece, which catches Continue reading...

Part One

Target Audience: Parents and Guardians of children between the ages of 3 and 9. The kids’ festival is sponsored by Johnsons and Johnson Company. Further financial assistance is provided by several manufacturers of consumables like toys, toilet soaps, snacks, and detergents. The event is slated for Christmas day.

Visuals

That dominant background color of the poster is a bright sky-blue color that is easily visible. A cartoon of a happy looking male bumble bee (putting on a red velvet jacket and a black leather belts with a candy bag in a posture that makes him appears like he is throwing Continue reading...

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- Introduction. 3
- Home Page Structure and Content.. 5
- Use of Color..7
- Text & Font7
- Ease of visibility by the search machine8
- Images.. 8
- Conclusion.9

Works Cited.10

Abstract
The report is all about e-commerce in the sense of comparing the usability of two websites for companies that sell their product or service. It aims at providing an overall evaluation of which website is superior to the other in respect of their usability by the target audience using useful criteria aspects such as font, color, and images used within the webpage.
1.0 Introduction
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Dyslexia refers specifically to learning disabilities encountered in reading. It may at times be characterized by difficulties that occur in recognizing, decoding and spelling words correctly. Due to these challenges brought forth by the disorder, there may be problems caused with reading comprehension and slowed down vocabulary growth. In addition to the outcomes brought about by the disorder, dyslexia may lead to poor fluent loudly out reading. It is thus considered a neurological disorder. It offers hindrance to aspects involved in the learning process such as reading, writing, and spelling and to some extent speaking. The neurological disorder affects Continue reading...

Question one

In regards to the design for way finding, the Facebook developer by has state of the art navigation option which allows and direct the users what they want. Facebook enables the user to navigate to different places with many simplicities. In addition, it also displays related pages, for instance, suggesting s group of people that that facebook account holder may know.
Critical analysis of the how facebook was design shows that the developer considered three things. These were attracting massive traffic, ensure high levels of user satisfaction and loyalty, and securing a substantial budget justifying the proposal in commercial Continue reading...

1) Introduction of Economic Issue
In my point of view, I completely disagree with the notion that the rich should pay more taxes. I strongly oppose over payment of taxes from the rich. In my point of view, the rich should be thanked for their great contribution to the economy of a nation rather than forcing them to pay more taxes than an ordinary citizen. It would be totally unfair to them to be victimized just because they are rich in the society (Olken, & Singhal, 2009). There are a number of reasons why I oppose this notion; one thing Continue reading...

- Introduction
Over the centuries, there has been the need to transmit secret information between a sender and a receiver. So many techniques have been developed and used in order to achieve this aim. One popular technique is cryptography; an art that encodes information as a cipher and can only be accessed by the sender or a receiver that knows the decryption code. The mere sight of coded information raises a lot of curiosity and suspicion. Anybody interested in such information may then commence efforts at deciphering the code. In order to eliminate this development, there was the need Continue reading...

In the first week we learnt about HTTP refers to Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, a term that I had heard about many instances before the first lecture. It is used in telecommunications and networks, and it made me interested in the topic since it was applicable to the internet and websites, and I had used it when browsing the internet although I did not understand its applications fully. It was exciting to learn about the previous version of HTTP (version 1.0) and the newer version that is currently in use, HTTP 1.1. The current version of HTTP is a Continue reading...

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Websites have the main function of availing information to web users through internet-enabled devices. As such, web designers must strive to develop interactive websites that provide a good user experience irrespective of the devices used to access such websites. With smartphones and tablets on the increase in the modern market, differences in device resolution requirements in web design can at times be a daunting task for web designers. The answer to this lies in responsive web design. For any web-designer with plans to implement a superb internet site, responsive web design provides a solution to design issues Continue reading...