" Faces of type are like men’s faces. As we have worked with the past two projects (logo design & the poster animation), the area where students have struggled the most is with handling type in their designs. This is a common problem. The people that we design for (our audience) often fail to understand the hidden importance of the choices that designers make when designing with type. Designers can't make that same mistake. This week, we'll be working on a number of small projects to help you understand how type also uses contrast (including size, color, shape, and personality) to help form meaning in a design. Here are the steps we'll be following:
The final project we'll be working this calendar year will take about two weeks to create. This project will be due on Thursday, December 20th. You are going to be creating an accordian text book. This will require you to use both Photoshop and Illustrator. Below are the objectives for this project:
We ended last week by working with Illustrator's Shape Builder tool and many of you had ah-hah moments as a result. We're going to continue to use this Illustrator tool this week with a new project that we'll be working with in InDesign. InDesign has undergone quite a few changes because of how publishing has moved towards different medias beyond the printed page. The designed page can now have interactivity, animations and motion never before possible with paper and ink. The advent of digital readers allow us to use motion in our designs. That will be our focus this week. This web page explains some of the new features that allow InDesign to do basic animation work. The finished project that you will be creating this week will be a choice between an animated cover of your favorite book or a poster design of a favorite movie. Here are the steps we'll be following for this project:
Below is a sample animation of the project for this week Below is an instructional video of a new tool added to Illustrator CS5. This tool may help you create logo icons in a simpler manner. The basic workings are as follows:
I hope that you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday break. The year seems to be rushing by at break-neck speed and I'm thankful for the good work that has been done thus far. This week, we'll be having our SkillsUSA in-lab competition. The competition will be held on Wednesday, and both AM and PM students will be taking part. The winner will be representing our school at District competitions in February.
You are going to be creating a company logo following a design brief that will be given to you on the competition day. Below are the skills you will be asked to demonstrate in the competition:
This short week we need to finish work on a number of initiatives and start a new project - below are our goals for the week:
List of Potential Careers related to Graphic Communications and Commercial Art:
Most of the careers listed above require a minimum of a 2-year Associates Degree and a few require a 4-year Bachelors Degree depending on the area of specialization. Below are some strong links to pages that describe the above careers and may help you with your research: Yesterday, you were given the key research questions that needed to be answered to help us build our client's brochure. Your assignment was to compile the answers to those key questions in a Word file. The components were:
Using the form below, please submit your word file: Escher Research DocumentThank you, your assignment has been sent Over the next three days you will be completing a Webquest on tesselations and the work of the artist, M.C. Esher. Esher was an amazing artist and I believe you will be impressed with his work. Here are the steps you will follow:
As part of your research for your project, it might be a good idea to become more acquainted with the new pattern tool in Adobe Illustrator. The videos below will help you create your own tessellations: |
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