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Illustrate with Collage
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Tools and materials
• Substrate to glue onto
• Papers to cut up
• Adhesives
• Scissors and/or
X-acto knife
• Burnisher of some kind
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This short chapter is a reminder that you can also use collage
as an illustrative tool, not just for abstract backgrounds. In
Chapters29 and 30, Carmen explained in detail how to develop
and assemble a collage. Here are a few samples of how simple
shapes can be used to embellish certain graphic design and
web projects, especially for those of us who can’t draw.
Also experiment with combining collage with found objects
(Chapter 38) ...