design4kids

We missed posting yesterday, and thought it best to make the last post from workshop 3 feature some of the best work from the students in this workshop. The photo above was taken during our excursion day on Wednesday when two students paired up with 1 mentor for a cross cultural experience and photo scavenger [...]

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Today we split the group in two for the morning. Half had classes in screen printing, the other half studied basic camera work and post-processing with Adobe Lightroom software. In the afternoon we all met together and resumed work on the client project, stimulated by the knowledge gained in the morning classes. Below are comments [...]

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Today was excursion day. In the morning we all boarded a boat in front of our hotel and traveled across the lake to Panajachel where we played a game that the Fotokids staff had devised. In the afternoon, we visited another town traveling by pickup truck. Upon return some of us stretched screen fabric on [...]

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Day three included morning classes in both design and photography. On the design side we focused on Adobe Illustrator techniques including type handling, making compound masks, using clipping paths to mask photos, editing and creating pattern fills. The photography classes studied aperture, shutter speed, and their relationship to exposure – then followed up with bracketed [...]

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All week as we conduct the 3rd D4K workshop we’re taking a little time at the end of the day to poll the kids on their impressions of what they are getting from their experience. Below are Ana, Werner, and Camilo’s comments from today. Ana Today we went to visit the client and now I [...]

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