Einführung in Technische Systeme

Getting to know basic systems of design.

Introduction to Technical Systems was held during the 1 term in the University of Design in Schwäbisch Gmünd. As students we were introduced to various software such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Fireworks. With each software we had to accomplish a little task, which are outlined in more detail below.

As students we were introduced to various software such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Fireworks.

Adobe InDesign: Choose a magazine and reverse-engineer its underlying grid. Then use the grid to create 4 new pages for a fictional magazine of your choice.

Adobe Fireworks: Take a picture of yourself and draw yourself as a low-resolution avatar.

Adobe Illustrator: Take a picture of an object and redraw its outlines using the pathfinder tool.