What is dada – history Although Dada was a response of the post-first world war, it soon spread and by the end of the nineteenth century, various artists congregated together in Zurich and decided that because life and the war made no sense, they felt the need to protest and rebel against the horrors of…
The apple 1 was a revolutionary piece of technology for its time. Steve Wozniak the creator of said computer (both designed and hand-made) revolutionized the way we use computers nowadays. The apple 1 was released in 1976 and can be considered to be Apple’s first product. Steve Wosniak was inspired to start developing the apple 1…
The key aspect discussed is Art Nouveau, an innovative and new form of art became fashionable from the late 19th century (1890) to the 20th century. Art Nouveau spread the perception that design and art were a part of the everyday normal life. This style was thought-out to be quite avant-garde and consequently was called…
Printing is widely affected by dot gain, this is shown when prints come out darker than expected. This is the result of halftone dots increasing in diameter during the prepress. This happens while preparing media and machine’s optical and physical properties for the printing process. Mechanical and optical are the two main types of dot…
Both screen and printed media are commonly found around most parts of the world and they both contribute largely to our daily lives. All the information we need can be found through these types of media. Print: Printed media is one of the easiest ways to spread information and advertisements to the targeted audience as…
Raster A raster image is a picture made out of a huge amount of pixels (one dot on a screen that represents one colour). Raster images are very commonly seen in our everyday life as these can vary from photos to many other pictures found in media created by programs for producing and editing raster…
The pantones (or PMS – Pantone Matching System) are an assortment of colours that are created by ink, printed using a single run. They have a numbering system so that every individual colour is unique and can be identified easily. This system was created to help manufactures everywhere to communicate the specific colour they need…
Pixel values represent the colour and how bright a specific pixel in an image is. Pixel value varies according to certain images. Binary images only need a 1-bit number stored for every pixel (black or white) whereas gray scale images have pixel values of only one number to indicate t he amount of gray needed…
The acronym ICC profiles stand for international colour consortium. These profiles are information stored in various devices that are capable of outputting or inputting imagery. They are recordings of how many colours the input/output devices are capable of capturing or showing. Such examples of these devices could range from any type of output devices (mobiles,…
RGB and CMYK are the two colour models every designer will at one point work with. They are different modes of colours both used for their specific task. One is used for digital work and the other for printing purposes. RGB The acronym RGB stands for red green and blue. These are the…