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Exams? Exams!!

I have exams for my graphic design course this week. First one was last night, the written test. Questions included being asked to illustrate various design principles and examples of type empathy, identifying different examples of type and classifying their family and explaining details about the lithography printing process and other print terminology.

I'm reasonably confident that I did well. There was one typography question that I know I got wrong, but the rest of it was pretty straight forward and I actually enjoyed it (this is the point at which my cousin rolls his eyes and exclaims "that nerdy studious cousin of mine!") I had plenty of time to complete it and so, in my own perfectionist manner, put a bit more effort into some of the illustrations of type and design principles than was probably necessary. I even threw in a bit of cartoon humour instead of simply illustrating a square or circle which would have been enough.

Tonight I have my second exam which is a brief using Adobe InDesign. Although I find it frustrating that some of the user interface aspects of InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop are not consistent across the Adobe suite, I think I have my head around how to do most things in each of them and am fairly confident about this one.

Then next week is my final exam, a brief using Adobe Illustrator. Once that is over I have about a week to finish off my portfolio for final submission, then I am done for the year! I am happy with how some of those pieces are coming along; I'll post them to the site when I get a chance, I promise!