How did the tile design assignment prepare you for the mosque façade?
The tile design assignment prepared me for the mosque facade because it was an opportunity to learn how to use photoshop and having less of an opportunity to mess up the entire project. If you mess up, you can easily go back and you can try lots of designs in a short period of time.
What keyboard shortcuts saved you the most time?
Command E and Command J were the most helpful while making the mosque, because I had a lot of repetitive patterns and I was able to merge it so I could copy and paste it, saving me time.
What were the advantages and disadvatanges in working in a digital medium in contrast to one of the other mediums we have explored?
Advantages to working in a digital medium is that we can try many different designs in a short amount of time. A disadvantage is that everyone is at a very different level concerning computer ability, so it takes some people much longer than others.
How could this assignment change to have student’s work look different from one another?
This assignment could be changed to have student’s work look different from one another by having the student design their own mosque template, or having several different mosque templates and letting students choose which they want to use.
Describe how the color is used in this piece.
Color is used as a unifying element in this piece. Variants of the same color are used throughout out the three different tiles and the background colors. Mosques that used the colors from the tiles in the design for the background look more together than those that used other colors.
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