Job Posting: Graphic Designer
Looking for an experienced, detailed and innovative graphic designer for a new print publication.
Job Description:
This position is perfect for candidates who love using their creative mind to create contemporary, fashionable and eye-catching marketing materials and advertisements.
The ideal candidates must be able to take the lead on a campaign and be professional and open to feedback from clients.
We a
OPEN LAB HOURS for May 12-20
Please note: we will NOT have regularly scheduled classes after May 13!
We WILL be meeting during finals week.
Monday/Wednesday Class: Our final is May 19 from 1:30 - 3:30 pm.
Tuesday/Thursday Class: Our final is May 20 from 6-9 pm.
The lab will be open the following hours next week:
Monday May 12: 4-6 pm
Tuesday May 13: 3-6 pm
Wednesday May 14: 10-4:00 pm
Thursday May 15: 10:00am - 6:00 pm
Friday: CLOSED
May 19: 3:30-6:30 pm
We WILL be meeting during finals week.
Monday/Wednesday Class: Our final is May 19 from 1:30 - 3:30 pm.
Tuesday/Thursday Class: Our final is May 20 from 6-9 pm.
The lab will be open the following hours next week:
Monday May 12: 4-6 pm
Tuesday May 13: 3-6 pm
Wednesday May 14: 10-4:00 pm
Thursday May 15: 10:00am - 6:00 pm
Friday: CLOSED
May 19: 3:30-6:30 pm
button_10up.ai | |
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Graphic Design 2:
How to Export to .MOV from Aftereffectshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMW5zzC7fQCOVER LETTER EXAMPLE:
Download file here:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMW5zzC7fQ
May 6/7 Class Notes and Activities
Graphic Design 1 - Project 4 Details
Due in class May 6 - Your proposed subjected for the brochure. 1-2 paragraphs submitted on Canvas
Today in Class
- Discussion of tools to choose color palettes, fonts and images (copyright free) or creating your own illustrations for the brochures.
- Button Design: Crafting an Icon or Message
Due in class May 6 - Your proposed subjected for the brochure. 1-2 paragraphs submitted on Canvas
Today in Class
- Discussion of tools to choose color palettes, fonts and images (copyright free) or creating your own illustrations for the brochures.
- Button Design: Crafting an Icon or Message
Graphic Design 2 - Project 4 Details
Animated alphabet - Due May 20 (Final)
Create a 16.5-29.5 second motion graphic alphabet sequence (3-2-1 countdown + .5 seconds of black + .5-1.0 seconds per letter). Explore motion based on the sound of each letter. Get the audience to see the sound of the each letter through typography and motion (but you may not use sound). Use only grayscale and basic transform properties (no effects). Your target audience is children ages 3-8.
Part 1
Storyboard and Brainstorm. Checked in Class - must have at least 20 frames.
Part 2
How to change the duration in Aftereffects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb0gM5OoeG8
Using AfterEffects, create a project and a new composition that is 720 x 540 (NTSC, D1, Square Pixels), 16-29 seconds (00:00:16:15 or 00:00:29:15).
Create a “final” composition and use only text layers and the basic transform options for text layers. Use only one standard typeface with solid letterform design – good examples:
Baskerville, Minion, Adobe Garamond, Didot, Frutiger, Univers, Futura, Caslon
In your final composition include the countdown (3 seconds), then .5 seconds of black and then your 26 letters.
Title all layers with their respective letter names. Keep your timeline organized.
Output
Mov file using animation compressor, above dimensions.
SUBMIT on Canvas:
A digital folder: titled lastName_firstName_Ex1 that contains:
aep file: titled lastName_firstName_Ex1.aep
mov file: titled lastName_firstName_Ex1.mov
Create a 16.5-29.5 second motion graphic alphabet sequence (3-2-1 countdown + .5 seconds of black + .5-1.0 seconds per letter). Explore motion based on the sound of each letter. Get the audience to see the sound of the each letter through typography and motion (but you may not use sound). Use only grayscale and basic transform properties (no effects). Your target audience is children ages 3-8.
Part 1
Storyboard and Brainstorm. Checked in Class - must have at least 20 frames.
Part 2
How to change the duration in Aftereffects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb0gM5OoeG8
Using AfterEffects, create a project and a new composition that is 720 x 540 (NTSC, D1, Square Pixels), 16-29 seconds (00:00:16:15 or 00:00:29:15).
Create a “final” composition and use only text layers and the basic transform options for text layers. Use only one standard typeface with solid letterform design – good examples:
Baskerville, Minion, Adobe Garamond, Didot, Frutiger, Univers, Futura, Caslon
In your final composition include the countdown (3 seconds), then .5 seconds of black and then your 26 letters.
Title all layers with their respective letter names. Keep your timeline organized.
Output
Mov file using animation compressor, above dimensions.
SUBMIT on Canvas:
A digital folder: titled lastName_firstName_Ex1 that contains:
aep file: titled lastName_firstName_Ex1.aep
mov file: titled lastName_firstName_Ex1.mov
May 1, 2014 Class Notes and Activities
Project 4 - Graphic Design 2
May 1: Simple Aftereffects Tutorial
Using the logo that you created for Project 2 - OR your own logo (this works best with a VECTOR file --- you can import PSDs and AI files into Aftereffects -- create a simple animation using the below tutorial.
Due Tuesday, May 1.
http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-starting-after-effects
Due Tuesday, May 1.
http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-starting-after-effects
Kinetic Type Alphabet
Part 1: You are creating an animated alphabet
Part 2: Storyboard 26-30 frames of the letters of the alphabet as if they were being animated. Think of this as a flip book - what would each of the letters be doing and how would they relate to each other?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBaVKPtCF4
You may not use the following:
images
color
or sound
This is a simple animation storyboard with type only. You may use different fonts.
Storyboards need to be in your sketchbook, not on screen. For more interesting kinetic type examples, see:
http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/examples-kinetic-typography-11121304
Part 1: You are creating an animated alphabet
Part 2: Storyboard 26-30 frames of the letters of the alphabet as if they were being animated. Think of this as a flip book - what would each of the letters be doing and how would they relate to each other?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQBaVKPtCF4
You may not use the following:
images
color
or sound
This is a simple animation storyboard with type only. You may use different fonts.
Storyboards need to be in your sketchbook, not on screen. For more interesting kinetic type examples, see:
http://www.creativebloq.com/typography/examples-kinetic-typography-11121304
Project 4 - Graphic Design 1 - BROCHURE
You will design an informative (2-3 paragraph), tri-fold brochure and button pin for a social issue, or subject that interests you.
Some possible social issue/topics (or use your own):
OR - you could do an informational brochure
-How the Internet Works
-How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
-How to...?
Topic Research: Due Monday May 5/Tuesday May 6 (TT class)
Some possible social issue/topics (or use your own):
- Environmental Pollution
- Wildlife Conservation
- Open Space/Local Parks (Rockville, Suisun Marsh, etc)
- Prop 13/Property Tax
- Educational Reform
- Public Health Issues (Obesity, Diabetes, Environmental Contaminants, FDA Regulations, etc)
- Human Trafficking
- Homelessness
- Net Neutrality
- Plagiarism in the Arts
OR - you could do an informational brochure
-How the Internet Works
-How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying
-How to...?
Topic Research: Due Monday May 5/Tuesday May 6 (TT class)
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April 22 (Tuesday/Thursday Class) - Guest Speaker Visit
Tonight, we have Sarah Wasley Smith as a guest speaker starting at approximately 7:00 pm. Here's some info:
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Sarah Wasley-Smith has been working as a graphic designer for over 30 years. She has designed for a wide range of products and services and she currently works as Senior Designer at the corporate headquarters of Arc - a company that has locations throughout the US as well as China, Australia and the UK. She welcomes the opportunity to meet all of you and hopes you ask her lots of questions.
sws_presentation.zip | |
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: CLASS THIS THURSDAY EVENING, 4/24, WILL BE CANCELLED.
April 28 (MW Class) Film in Class: Objectified
Available on Netflix
Clipper Card Rough Draft - Wednesday April 23
Final Draft due May 7.
Animating with Photoshop
Create a new file with the following settings.
Go to Window and select Timeline to show the timeline animation feature of Photoshop.
Create a video timeline.
Create a new Blank Video Layer.
Resume Exercise - aka Intro to Indesign (and Self Promotion)
Please download the attached files for the exercise.
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stevestevenson.idml_1.zip | |
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File Type: | zip |
grid_template.idml | |
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CLIPPER CARD
San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art is closed until 2016. For their grand re-opening, they have hired YOU, their graphic designer, to come up with a new design for the San Francisco Municipal Transit's Clipper Card, used for Muni and BART to transport people all over the city.
See Clipper's branding guidelines here.
Your guidelines:
You must use the Clipper Logo on the front of the card (you are only designing the front) - I have provided the eps files from their website below.
You must pick ONE of the following design periods for your visual reference and inspiration:
See Clipper's branding guidelines here.
Your guidelines:
You must use the Clipper Logo on the front of the card (you are only designing the front) - I have provided the eps files from their website below.
You must pick ONE of the following design periods for your visual reference and inspiration:
- Arts and Crafts
- Art Nouveau
- Art Deco
- Modernism
- Bauhaus
- Suprematism
- Constructivism
- De Stijl
- Surrealism
- Dada
- Futurism
- Cubism
blackandwhiteclipperlogo_eps.ai | |
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colorclipperlogo_eps.ai | |
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businesscard.ai | |
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March 31/April 1
SOLANO CAREER FAIR - May 3
Solano's career fair is from 10-3 pm on Saturday May 3rd. I am looking for volunteers to:
A. Help facilitiate an activity in room 1315 in Adobe Illustrator
B. Volunteer for shifts at the tables outside for our department
A. Help facilitiate an activity in room 1315 in Adobe Illustrator
B. Volunteer for shifts at the tables outside for our department
Design History Notes and Lecture Slides here:
Design History Videos watched in class: http://www2.open.ac.uk/openlearn/design_nutshell/
Design History Videos watched in class: http://www2.open.ac.uk/openlearn/design_nutshell/
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Due today for Graphic Design 1: 10 sketches for your Illustrated Name Project OR Infographic Project, in your sketchbook.
Template for Illustrated Name Project:
Template for Illustrated Name Project:
illustratedname_template.ai | |
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Template for Graphic Design 2 - Timeline
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March 26/27
Posters due for critique!
In class: Install posters outside 1315 classroom.
Due Next Week:
Graphic Design 1:
10 thumbnails/concept sketches for the Illustrated Name project.
Graphic Design 2:
10 thumbnails/concept sketches for your INFOGRAPHIC project.
In class: Install posters outside 1315 classroom.
Due Next Week:
Graphic Design 1:
10 thumbnails/concept sketches for the Illustrated Name project.
Graphic Design 2:
10 thumbnails/concept sketches for your INFOGRAPHIC project.
March 25 (Tuesday)
Extra Credit - DEADLINE - Monday April 7/Tuesday April 8. Sorry for the short notice - we need to get these hung up in the Dean's office sooner than I thought!
Graphic Design 2: Sketches for Infographic due.
Graphic Design 1: Designer Brief Outline
Please find your name in the list below. TONIGHT (March 25 for Tuesday Thursday classes) you must turn in a brief outline for your paper. More info on the paper and Illustrated Name requirements here.
By TONIGHT, March 25 - you must submit an outline containing the following:
Designer Brief:
Monday March 24/Tuesday March 25
Bibliography and Outline Due
Bibliography must include 4 Resources you will use for your paper on your selected artist. ONE of these resources must not be from the internet!
An outline of your paper which includes:
Designer Brief:
Monday March 24/Tuesday March 25
Bibliography and Outline Due
Bibliography must include 4 Resources you will use for your paper on your selected artist. ONE of these resources must not be from the internet!
An outline of your paper which includes:
- Introduction
- Paragraph 1
- Paragraph 2
- Paragraph 3
- Paragraph 4
- Conclusion
Graphic Design 2:
Design History Infographic:
Phase 1: Research - Due March 25 (TONIGHT)
Find the rough time period of your assigned historical era (from when to when roughly, did this phase occur?)
Find at least 10 important dates from this time period in the world of art and design.
What were 5 important historical figures that influenced or were otherwise important during this historical period?
What are three ways this historical period of design is characterized? In other words, how could you tell if something was in 'Bauhaus' style for example?
Please answer these questions and submit your answers in a 1-2 page response on Canvas.
Please cite your resources.
Dont' remember your historical period? Find your name here.
Christian Metivier - Art Deco
Chase Davidson - De Stijl
Lawrence Dillahunty - Bauhaus
Jonathan Clavio - Dadaism
Heather Jaeger - Art Nouveau
Kyle Kiefer - Arts and Crafts
Here are some cool examples of infographics, showing integration of text and image that relate the facts with the visual story of the piece.
Phase 1: Research - Due March 25 (TONIGHT)
Find the rough time period of your assigned historical era (from when to when roughly, did this phase occur?)
Find at least 10 important dates from this time period in the world of art and design.
What were 5 important historical figures that influenced or were otherwise important during this historical period?
What are three ways this historical period of design is characterized? In other words, how could you tell if something was in 'Bauhaus' style for example?
Please answer these questions and submit your answers in a 1-2 page response on Canvas.
Please cite your resources.
Dont' remember your historical period? Find your name here.
Christian Metivier - Art Deco
Chase Davidson - De Stijl
Lawrence Dillahunty - Bauhaus
Jonathan Clavio - Dadaism
Heather Jaeger - Art Nouveau
Kyle Kiefer - Arts and Crafts
Here are some cool examples of infographics, showing integration of text and image that relate the facts with the visual story of the piece.
March 25 Class (Tuesday Thursday only)
Due today:
Graphic Design 1: Outline for Designer Brief
Due Wednesday: Poster final printed in color 11x17
Graphic Design 1: Outline for Designer Brief
Due Wednesday: Poster final printed in color 11x17
March 20 TuesdayThursday /March 24 MW Class
Our music playlist for the evening: RJD2 Radio on Pandora.
What's due next week:
MONDAY(MW Class) /TUESDAY (Tues/Thursday class)
WEDNESDAY
What's due next week:
MONDAY(MW Class) /TUESDAY (Tues/Thursday class)
- Graphic Design 1 - Outline for Designer Brief
- Graphic Design 2 -Outline for Infographic based on your historical era.
WEDNESDAY
- Graphic Design 1 - Outline for Designer Brief
- Graphic Design 2 -Outline for Infographic based on your historical era.
Design in the Community - EXTRA CREDIT PROJECT
After speaking with the Printmaking class, the Dean and others in the department, we now have some guidelines for our project.
TONIGHT: Ten Thumbnails based on the following Ten Commandments for the project.
Our files will be going in frames of various sizes. Here are the available size for outputting your file.
4"x6"
8"x10"
11"x17"
13"x19"
12"x 12"
The Ten Commandments of the Dean's Office Project
1. Your file must be vector format (.ai, eps)
2. You may use only the following colors (attached as an ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange File)
After speaking with the Printmaking class, the Dean and others in the department, we now have some guidelines for our project.
TONIGHT: Ten Thumbnails based on the following Ten Commandments for the project.
Our files will be going in frames of various sizes. Here are the available size for outputting your file.
4"x6"
8"x10"
11"x17"
13"x19"
12"x 12"
The Ten Commandments of the Dean's Office Project
1. Your file must be vector format (.ai, eps)
2. You may use only the following colors (attached as an ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange File)
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3. You may only use straight lines.
4. Use abstract shapes, pattern, line --- OR you may use type.
5. If you use type, you must use Futura (any fonts within the typeface family are okay to use, including using glyphs, characters and numbers as decorative elements.
6. No gradients.
7. No violence or vulgarity.
8. Keep it simple and abstract. To represent music, in other words, being abstract means that you would not necessarily use lines to form musical notes. To represent love you would not use text to form the shape of a heart.
9. You may use the following words in your composition, representing them either with shapes and lines, OR with text.
4. Use abstract shapes, pattern, line --- OR you may use type.
5. If you use type, you must use Futura (any fonts within the typeface family are okay to use, including using glyphs, characters and numbers as decorative elements.
6. No gradients.
7. No violence or vulgarity.
8. Keep it simple and abstract. To represent music, in other words, being abstract means that you would not necessarily use lines to form musical notes. To represent love you would not use text to form the shape of a heart.
9. You may use the following words in your composition, representing them either with shapes and lines, OR with text.
- Creativity
- Independence
- Expression
- Skillful
- Differences
- Eclectic
- Technology
- Color
- Texture
- Rhythm
- Idea
- Innovation
- Expansion
- Evolution
- Understanding
- Curiousity
- Kindness
- Work
- Wonder
March 18/March 19
Due: Graphic Design 1& 2: Poster Rough Draft on Canvas - 8 pm
Please submit your rough draft for the poster assignment; we will have our critique at 8:00 pm.
The final posters will be displayed on the hallway in our building; final posters will be due March 27.
Today's Class Activity:
Design in the Community
Site Visit (15-20 minutes)
The Dean of Liberal Arts has given the Graphic Design classes a great opportunity - he wants us to decorate his office, which currently has green walls the color of a hospital room. We will be visiting his office tonight to check out the layout of the room.
Each of you will be creating a pattern piece for his wall. Keep in mind - this mural will be seen by everyone who visits his office - the president of the school, faculty members, and other Solano students.
Class Discussion/Brainstorm (30 minutes)
What do you feel would best represent Solano Liberal Arts in an interior space?
Drawing/Mind-Mapping (1 hour)
Please submit your rough draft for the poster assignment; we will have our critique at 8:00 pm.
The final posters will be displayed on the hallway in our building; final posters will be due March 27.
Today's Class Activity:
Design in the Community
Site Visit (15-20 minutes)
The Dean of Liberal Arts has given the Graphic Design classes a great opportunity - he wants us to decorate his office, which currently has green walls the color of a hospital room. We will be visiting his office tonight to check out the layout of the room.
Each of you will be creating a pattern piece for his wall. Keep in mind - this mural will be seen by everyone who visits his office - the president of the school, faculty members, and other Solano students.
Class Discussion/Brainstorm (30 minutes)
What do you feel would best represent Solano Liberal Arts in an interior space?
Drawing/Mind-Mapping (1 hour)
March 13/March 17 Graphic Design 1 & 2
Today we will review the effective use of type and begin an exercise using Adobe Indesign to create a process book/branding guide for Project 2.
Please download the zipped file here (BOTH GRAPHIC DESIGN 1 and 2.)
Please turn in this exercise by the end of class.
Please download the zipped file here (BOTH GRAPHIC DESIGN 1 and 2.)
Please turn in this exercise by the end of class.
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Lecture Notes below.
typerules.pdf | |
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My Demo Files (Packaged Indesign File and PDF)
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styleguide_folder.zip | |
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File Type: | zip |
March 10 MondayWednesday /March 11 TuesThursday
Moodboard Template (Moodboard Due Today)
moodboardtemplate.ai | |
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File Type: | ai |
Poster Demo Files
Download the following files - there are also my finished template and demo on Canvas. All demo materials are on Canvas in the Poster Demo folder.
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File Type: | ai |
Install the Bebas Neue Font below.
bebas-neue.zip | |
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infographic-elements_1.zip | |
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File Type: | zip |
sealife.ai | |
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File Type: | ai |
william_morris_thistle.ai | |
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File Type: | ai |
vintagepaper.jpg | |
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File Type: | jpg |
DUE:
Graphic Design 1
Your moodboard, 8.5 x 11 which should be uploaded to Canvas as a PDF. (Save the Illustrator File, too! )
Your moodboard should contain:
10 thumbnails for your poster designs for your company.
Graphic Design 2 -
We will show, in class, your logo on a business card and/or a letterhead or t-shirt.
TODAY IN CLASS:
PROJECT 2: Poster design -
NOTE: Many contemporary posters use photography as an element - IF you choose to use photography, you must take the images yourself.
We will review moodboards and graphic design 2's uploaded content for their companies.
Graphic Design 1&2: Introduction to poster design using Indesign in class.
For next week: Complete rough draft of Poster.
DEADLINES for PROJECTS:
GRAPHIC DESIGN 1:
Project 2: LOGOTYPE AND IDENTITY
Monday March 17/Tuesday March 18:
Finalized Vector Logos complete
Rough Draft of Posters Submitted to Canvas
Wednesday March 26/Thursday March 27:
Finalized Posters DUE uploaded to Canvas, and printed 11x17 for Critique.
PROJECT 3:
THE ILLUSTRATED NAME& CURRENCY AFFAIRS
You were given the name of a famous designer and/or illustrator. The Illustrated Name and the Designer Brief both center around this designer. You will be designing an illustration of this artist's name in the style of their artwork.
Designer Brief:
Monday March 24/Tuesday March 25
Bibliography and Outline Due
Bibliography must include 4 Resources you will use for your paper on your selected artist. ONE of these resources must not be from the internet!
An outline of your paper which includes:
Wednesday March 26/Thursday March 27
Bibliographies and Outlines Returned with Edits
Wednesday April 9/Tuesday April 10:
Rough Draft of your paper - must be at least 1500 words.
SPRING BREAK
NO CLASS April 14, 15, 16, 17
Monday April 21/Tuesday April 22:
Rough Drafts Returned with Edits
Wednesday April 30/Thursday
FINAL DRAFT DUE
The Illustrated Name:
Wednesday April 2, Thursday April 3
Rough Draft Due Monday April 7/Tuesday April 8
GRAPHIC DESIGN 2:
Graphic Design 1
Your moodboard, 8.5 x 11 which should be uploaded to Canvas as a PDF. (Save the Illustrator File, too! )
Your moodboard should contain:
- 3 colors representing your company - usually this means 2 main colors, and 1 accent. Think about your main colors as something you might use as a background of a website or a poster - or the main color for your logo. The accent color is the color that appears the least in your re-branding - it might be a small spot of color on the logo, or the type spelling out the name, etc.
- 3 images representing the image/identity you want for your company.
- 3 typefaces
10 thumbnails for your poster designs for your company.
Graphic Design 2 -
We will show, in class, your logo on a business card and/or a letterhead or t-shirt.
TODAY IN CLASS:
PROJECT 2: Poster design -
NOTE: Many contemporary posters use photography as an element - IF you choose to use photography, you must take the images yourself.
We will review moodboards and graphic design 2's uploaded content for their companies.
Graphic Design 1&2: Introduction to poster design using Indesign in class.
For next week: Complete rough draft of Poster.
DEADLINES for PROJECTS:
GRAPHIC DESIGN 1:
Project 2: LOGOTYPE AND IDENTITY
Monday March 17/Tuesday March 18:
Finalized Vector Logos complete
Rough Draft of Posters Submitted to Canvas
Wednesday March 26/Thursday March 27:
Finalized Posters DUE uploaded to Canvas, and printed 11x17 for Critique.
PROJECT 3:
THE ILLUSTRATED NAME& CURRENCY AFFAIRS
You were given the name of a famous designer and/or illustrator. The Illustrated Name and the Designer Brief both center around this designer. You will be designing an illustration of this artist's name in the style of their artwork.
Designer Brief:
Monday March 24/Tuesday March 25
Bibliography and Outline Due
Bibliography must include 4 Resources you will use for your paper on your selected artist. ONE of these resources must not be from the internet!
An outline of your paper which includes:
- Introduction
- Paragraph 1
- Paragraph 2
- Paragraph 3
- Paragraph 4
- Conclusion
Wednesday March 26/Thursday March 27
Bibliographies and Outlines Returned with Edits
Wednesday April 9/Tuesday April 10:
Rough Draft of your paper - must be at least 1500 words.
SPRING BREAK
NO CLASS April 14, 15, 16, 17
Monday April 21/Tuesday April 22:
Rough Drafts Returned with Edits
Wednesday April 30/Thursday
FINAL DRAFT DUE
The Illustrated Name:
Wednesday April 2, Thursday April 3
- 10 Thumbnails Due
- Final drafts, begin work on 2 versions of their name.
Rough Draft Due Monday April 7/Tuesday April 8
GRAPHIC DESIGN 2:
March 6 - Graphic Design 1 & 2
Graphic Design 1:
Next week, submit on 1 8.5 x 11 moodboard (digital, must be submitted as a PDF on canvas):
The Name of Your Company and Logo
3 colors respresenting your company re-branding (2 main, 1 accent)
3 images
3 typefaces
Graphic Design 2:
Please submit your vectorized logo as well as a business card and either letterhead or a t-shirt with your design on it. Make sure to label your files with your name on Canvas.
Today in class we will work on creating your moodboards.
We will also begin thumbnailing for POSTERS which you will create for your companies.
James Victore, Poster artist. http://hillmancurtis.com/artist-series/james-victore/
Begin research for next project - need at least 4 citations/sources for your artist or historical period.
Next week, submit on 1 8.5 x 11 moodboard (digital, must be submitted as a PDF on canvas):
The Name of Your Company and Logo
3 colors respresenting your company re-branding (2 main, 1 accent)
3 images
3 typefaces
Graphic Design 2:
Please submit your vectorized logo as well as a business card and either letterhead or a t-shirt with your design on it. Make sure to label your files with your name on Canvas.
Today in class we will work on creating your moodboards.
We will also begin thumbnailing for POSTERS which you will create for your companies.
James Victore, Poster artist. http://hillmancurtis.com/artist-series/james-victore/
Begin research for next project - need at least 4 citations/sources for your artist or historical period.
March 4 - Graphic Design 1 (Tues/Thurs) - March 5 (Mon/Wed
Graphic Design 1 -
For next week:
Please submit your vectorized logo for your chosen Solano company.Find Images based around your aesthetic.
Choose 3 Colors - 2 main colors and 1 accent. Choose at least 3 images and 3 typefaces you would use to accompany your logo in print or web format.
Graphic Design 2: Please submit your vectorized logo as well as a business card and either letterhead or a t-shirt with your design on it.
Graphic Design 1:
You were each given the name of a well-known designer or illustrator.
For our next project, you will be asked to write a 1500 word designer brief, an opinion piece, on this particular designer, using 4 resources, one of which must be non-internet-based (print, journal, magazine, etcetera).
You will also be creating illustrations and symbols in the visual style of your artist.
Your task is to find 3 facts about this person, and me their name.
At 8:30, (3:30 for Monday/Wednesday classes) ---I will show one slide of each designer's work.
You are responsible for telling me 3 facts about this designer. Be able to tell me what they are known for in their work, and what their contribution has been to the field of graphic design.
Graphic Design 2:
You will be given a historical period. Your assignment for the END OF CLASS: Research and be able to tell me 3 facts about this historical period. Why was it important? How could you visually identify something as "Bauhaus," Arts and Crafts, etc?
At 3:30 I will show slides of these historical periods. You are responsible for 3 facts about this historical period.
For next week:
Please submit your vectorized logo for your chosen Solano company.Find Images based around your aesthetic.
Choose 3 Colors - 2 main colors and 1 accent. Choose at least 3 images and 3 typefaces you would use to accompany your logo in print or web format.
Graphic Design 2: Please submit your vectorized logo as well as a business card and either letterhead or a t-shirt with your design on it.
Graphic Design 1:
You were each given the name of a well-known designer or illustrator.
For our next project, you will be asked to write a 1500 word designer brief, an opinion piece, on this particular designer, using 4 resources, one of which must be non-internet-based (print, journal, magazine, etcetera).
You will also be creating illustrations and symbols in the visual style of your artist.
Your task is to find 3 facts about this person, and me their name.
At 8:30, (3:30 for Monday/Wednesday classes) ---I will show one slide of each designer's work.
You are responsible for telling me 3 facts about this designer. Be able to tell me what they are known for in their work, and what their contribution has been to the field of graphic design.
Graphic Design 2:
You will be given a historical period. Your assignment for the END OF CLASS: Research and be able to tell me 3 facts about this historical period. Why was it important? How could you visually identify something as "Bauhaus," Arts and Crafts, etc?
At 3:30 I will show slides of these historical periods. You are responsible for 3 facts about this historical period.
March 3 - Graphic Design 1
I will be checking your 20 thumbnails in class today for your Solano logo.
For this week:
Graphic Design 1 -
Find Images based around your aesthetic.
Choose 3 Colors - 2 main colors and 1 accent. Choose at least 3 images and 3 typefaces you would use to accompany your logo in print or web format.
Graphic Design 2 -
I will check your moodboard in class. Create a refined comp of your logo with at least 1 color. Begin designing business card and letterhead.
For this week:
Graphic Design 1 -
Find Images based around your aesthetic.
Choose 3 Colors - 2 main colors and 1 accent. Choose at least 3 images and 3 typefaces you would use to accompany your logo in print or web format.
Graphic Design 2 -
I will check your moodboard in class. Create a refined comp of your logo with at least 1 color. Begin designing business card and letterhead.
Graphic Design 1 - Color Exercises - Tues/Thursday class Feb 27
Defining colors:
Using the template provided for each of the following options - create:
Defining Colors - defining colors template (below).
Advancing Colors - Select two different hues, one for the squares and one for the background, that will make the squares advance. Alter the tone on four of the five squares to see how it affects the advancement of the image. An advancing color is one that seems to come FORWARD.
Receding Color - Repeat the previous exercise with receding color in the foreground squares.
Controlling Tints and Values - use tints and values template.
Using the template provided for each of the following options - create:
Defining Colors - defining colors template (below).
Advancing Colors - Select two different hues, one for the squares and one for the background, that will make the squares advance. Alter the tone on four of the five squares to see how it affects the advancement of the image. An advancing color is one that seems to come FORWARD.
Receding Color - Repeat the previous exercise with receding color in the foreground squares.
Controlling Tints and Values - use tints and values template.
- On the second template (tints and values); Begin on the top left and work right fill each square with tints of cyan, dropping by 10 percent each time, working from 100 percent on the top left to 0 percent on the top right. Select and copy the entire row and paste it nine times below the original. You should have ten rows of ten squares ranging from 0 to 100% cyan. Do not use layers in your file, since they will make the file too large.
- Begin at the top right and working down to the bottom, fill the first row with increasing percentages of yellow, beginning with 0 percent on the top right and ending with 100% at the bottom right.
- Now working from left to right, begin adding the corresponding amount of yellow to each cyan squares on the row, until all the squares on the second row across have 20% added to them, the third row has 30% added, and so on.
- When you have completed the chart, change the background to black to see how the tints are affected. Try the exercise with cyan and magenta, and magenta and yellow. If you do, save the charts - they'll make a handy reference later.
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Feb 26/27
Graphic Design 1:
Color lecture and reading attached here - complete color exercises.
(Feb 26/27 for M/W or Tues/Thurs) , and is due Monday (M/W class) or Tuesday (Tuesday/Thursday class).
For Monday (MW) or Tuesday (Tuesday Thursday class):
Graphic Design 2:
Complete 1 composition in your sketchbook using a complimentary color theme, and one using an analagous color theme.
Complimentary - colors which are OPPOSITE each other on the color wheel. (Examples: Blue and Orange, Yellow and Purple, Red and
Analagous - Colors which are NEAR each other on the color wheel. (Examples: Blue, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet)
Complete your MOODBOARD exercise - as shown on Canvas, for WEDNESDAY March 5th ( or THURSDAY, March 6 for Tuesday Thursday classes.
Color lecture and reading attached here - complete color exercises.
(Feb 26/27 for M/W or Tues/Thurs) , and is due Monday (M/W class) or Tuesday (Tuesday/Thursday class).
For Monday (MW) or Tuesday (Tuesday Thursday class):
- have your twenty thumbnails ready to show for your logo (for your chosen Solano/Fairfield company).
- Complete your color exercise.
Graphic Design 2:
Complete 1 composition in your sketchbook using a complimentary color theme, and one using an analagous color theme.
Complimentary - colors which are OPPOSITE each other on the color wheel. (Examples: Blue and Orange, Yellow and Purple, Red and
Analagous - Colors which are NEAR each other on the color wheel. (Examples: Blue, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet)
Complete your MOODBOARD exercise - as shown on Canvas, for WEDNESDAY March 5th ( or THURSDAY, March 6 for Tuesday Thursday classes.
Feb 24/25: Introduction to Type
Communicate the following using ONLY text ( same as our circle exercise) in a 4 inch x 4 inch grid (same as our last exercise).
- Chaos
- Migration
- Speed
- Love
February 11
Today we talked about semiotics, signs and symbols. Lecture slides are posted here and on Canvas.
Graphic Design 1:
Pick 3 logos and write notes, in your sketchbook, about what strategies they employ
to convey their message. Are they didactic, or poetic - do they use a metaphorical image?
Graphic Design 2: More information on class today here.
Project 2: Icons
Design a logo based around an animal. Pick one of the 3 following groups:
children 5-12
college students
senior citizens
We watched two ads in class:
Chipotle's "Scarecrow"
Wheatabix Dubstep/Dancing Bear ad
And I passed around the AIGA guide to ethics and pricing for graphic design:
Lecture notes here:
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February 3 MW/February 4 TT: In-Class Workday, Adobe Demos
January 30: Guest Speaker Brittany Metz at 7:30 pm
Workday for your projects!
January 28 TT & January 29 MW: Adobe Photoshop CS6
Turn in your EXERCISE FILES on Canvas. (Exercise: Circles and Type AND the apple logo exercise).
Some Helpful Adobe links and tutorials:
Adjustment Layers
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-787ba.html
Adjusting Levels:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/levels-adjustment.html
Today we will be taking your scan from your photo, and adjusting the contrast and levels of brightness using adjustment layers - this lets us edit the scan of the drawing without permanently altering it.
We'll go over the layers panel in Illustrator, in brief, and then began creating versions of your image in different abstractions. You will ultimately create the following:
1. Scan of Full Tonal Value Rendering in Paper on White Paper (this is your scanned drawing, adjusted as needed)
2. Solid black and white reductive representation, done in vector-based application on White background (Illustrator)
3. Black and White Reductive Representation done on BLACK representation
4. Hyper-reductive representation, like an icon, done in Illustrator.
You will work on these in class today.
Our lecture slides are below.
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January 27 MW/ January 23 TT:
Graphic Design 1: Type and Bleeds
First, please download the attached PDF, which details the use of the Type tool, and explains what a bleed is (we will need to know this for print design).
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January 27 MW/Jan 23 TT:
Graphic Design 1: The Pen Tool
Today's exercise will teach you how to use that oft-misunderstood tool in Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign - the pen tool.
When I first started using the Adobe Suite I had far more experience drawing freehand than I did drawing with a vector software program. I often liken this experience to playing Guitar Hero as someone who actually plays guitar in real life. When I first played Guitar Hero I thought I would dominate the game because I already knew a little about music and could play chords, but it turns out, the mechanisms of playing guitar in the video game is a bit different than playing guitar IRL (In real life). The pen tool in Adobe Illustrator is a bit similar. Unlike your actual pen, this tool uses line segments connected by points, which can be curved with Bezier Direction Points.
This means that it might be a little clumsy at first. But don't worry - with time and practice, you'll be using this tool just as you would a regular pen. It's great for outlining objects, and creating smooth lines and vector graphics (like for a logo). The cheat sheet below might help you remember some of the pen tool's functionality. You can print this as a guide if it helps you.
When I first started using the Adobe Suite I had far more experience drawing freehand than I did drawing with a vector software program. I often liken this experience to playing Guitar Hero as someone who actually plays guitar in real life. When I first played Guitar Hero I thought I would dominate the game because I already knew a little about music and could play chords, but it turns out, the mechanisms of playing guitar in the video game is a bit different than playing guitar IRL (In real life). The pen tool in Adobe Illustrator is a bit similar. Unlike your actual pen, this tool uses line segments connected by points, which can be curved with Bezier Direction Points.
This means that it might be a little clumsy at first. But don't worry - with time and practice, you'll be using this tool just as you would a regular pen. It's great for outlining objects, and creating smooth lines and vector graphics (like for a logo). The cheat sheet below might help you remember some of the pen tool's functionality. You can print this as a guide if it helps you.
Graphic Design 1: The Pen Tool Exercise
Please download the attached graphic of the Apple logo. Using the pen tool, trace the logo, and then modify your tracing somehow - add a worm to the apple, take another bite out of it with your Pathfinder tool, etc.
Download the logo here:
Download the logo here:
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January 21: GRAPHIC DESIGN 1 & 2: File Hierarchy & Structure
Organization is extremely important in the professional world of design. It's good to get into good habits now.
BACK UP your files! This means that your data MUST exist in more than one place at once at all times. It can't just be on your flash drive. If you don't have a computer to back up your flash drive to, create a dropbox or Mediafire account. www.dropbox.com.
Organize your Flash Drive, and Dropbox Account in the following manner:
Main Folder Name: Graphic Design 1 (or 2)
- NOTE! Before you proceed to the exercises for today's class, you MUST organize your files in the following hierarchy.
- Take a SCREENSHOT of your desktop (Command + Shift + 3) so that I can see that you actually created these folders.
- Email this screenshot to me at [email protected].)
Organization is extremely important in the professional world of design. It's good to get into good habits now.
BACK UP your files! This means that your data MUST exist in more than one place at once at all times. It can't just be on your flash drive. If you don't have a computer to back up your flash drive to, create a dropbox or Mediafire account. www.dropbox.com.
Organize your Flash Drive, and Dropbox Account in the following manner:
Main Folder Name: Graphic Design 1 (or 2)
Graphic Design 1: Introduction to Illustrator
Please refer to the handout below, which has great comprehensive information on the basics of Illustrator CS6.
We will go through all of these items from the handout IN CLASS.
Graphic Design 1: Illustrator Exercise:
Download the template.
Using ONLY:
Black and White
Circles
The Pathfinder Tool in Illustrator
Communicate the following words:
Chaos
Migration
Speed
Love
Save this file as LastName_FirstName_Exercise1.ai. Save this in your Exercises Folder.
Project 1 - Object Oriented Design
Timeline:
Value Study of your Chosen Object DUE
MW Class: January 22
TT Class: January 21
Illustrator Exercise Due:
MW Class: January 27
TT Class January 28
Matte Cutting Workshop, Workdays, Illustrator Demo
MW Class: January 27
TT Class: January 28
February 3-4 Illustrator Workdays, Lecture
February 10-11 Illustrator Workdays
Final Due:
MW Class: February 19
TT Class: February 20
We will go through all of these items from the handout IN CLASS.
Graphic Design 1: Illustrator Exercise:
Download the template.
Using ONLY:
Black and White
Circles
The Pathfinder Tool in Illustrator
Communicate the following words:
Chaos
Migration
Speed
Love
Save this file as LastName_FirstName_Exercise1.ai. Save this in your Exercises Folder.
Project 1 - Object Oriented Design
Timeline:
Value Study of your Chosen Object DUE
MW Class: January 22
TT Class: January 21
Illustrator Exercise Due:
MW Class: January 27
TT Class January 28
Matte Cutting Workshop, Workdays, Illustrator Demo
MW Class: January 27
TT Class: January 28
February 3-4 Illustrator Workdays, Lecture
February 10-11 Illustrator Workdays
Final Due:
MW Class: February 19
TT Class: February 20
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Graphic Design 2: Self Portrait
Illustrator Exercise: Create Your Own Avatar - Black & White Only.
Part 1: Due: 8:45 in class tonight for Tuesday/Thursday class, including written work and thumbnails.
1. Read the following excerpt/interview with Milton Glaser, graphic designer and Illustrator.
When Milton Glaser was sixteen, he decided to draw a portrait of his mother. “I was just sitting in front of her one night and I thought it would be fun to sketch her face,” he says. “So I got out a piece of paper and charcoal pencil. And you know what I realized? I realized I hadn’t the faintest idea what she looked like. Her image had become fixed in my mind at the age of one or two, and it really hadn’t changed since. I was drawing a picture of a woman who no longer existed.”
But as Glaser stared at her face and then compared what he saw to the black marks on the paper, her appearance slowly came into view. He was able to draw her as she was, and not as he expected her to be. “That sketch taught me something interesting about the mind,” he says. “We’re always looking, but we never really see.” Although Glaser had looked at his mother every single day of his life, he didn’t see her until he tried to draw her. “When you draw an object, the mind becomes deeply, intensely attentive,” Glaser says. “And it’s that act of attention that allows you to really grasp something, to become fully conscious of it. That’s what I learned from my mother’s face, that drawing is really a kind of thinking.”
…
Glaser is eighty years old, but he still works in a small studio on East Thirty-second Street in Manhattan. It’s a cluttered space, the white walls hidden by old art books stacked ten high. Above the front door, chiseled into the glass, is the slogan of the studio: ART IS WORK.
For Glaser, the quote summarizes his creative philosophy. “There’s no such thing as a creative type,” he says. “As if creativity is a verb, a very time-consuming verb. It’s about taking an idea in your head, and transforming that idea into something real. And that’s always going to be a long and difficult process. If you’re doing it right, it’s going to feel like work.”
2. Examine your photo self portrait. Answer the following questions on the sheet of paper provided to you:
3. On the same piece of paper, create a 'mind map' of yourself. If you don't know what a mind map is, please read here.
3. AVATAR: In Hinduism, an avatar is a deliberate descent of a deity to Earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being, and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation". Using your drawing and photo as a guide, create an avatar of yourself - body included. This can be stylized, but it must be done in Illustrator and you CANNOT use any avatar creation software to do this.
Begin thumbnail sketching .
Illustrator File: Create an Illustrator artboard that is 8x10 inches.
Part 1: Due: 8:45 in class tonight for Tuesday/Thursday class, including written work and thumbnails.
1. Read the following excerpt/interview with Milton Glaser, graphic designer and Illustrator.
When Milton Glaser was sixteen, he decided to draw a portrait of his mother. “I was just sitting in front of her one night and I thought it would be fun to sketch her face,” he says. “So I got out a piece of paper and charcoal pencil. And you know what I realized? I realized I hadn’t the faintest idea what she looked like. Her image had become fixed in my mind at the age of one or two, and it really hadn’t changed since. I was drawing a picture of a woman who no longer existed.”
But as Glaser stared at her face and then compared what he saw to the black marks on the paper, her appearance slowly came into view. He was able to draw her as she was, and not as he expected her to be. “That sketch taught me something interesting about the mind,” he says. “We’re always looking, but we never really see.” Although Glaser had looked at his mother every single day of his life, he didn’t see her until he tried to draw her. “When you draw an object, the mind becomes deeply, intensely attentive,” Glaser says. “And it’s that act of attention that allows you to really grasp something, to become fully conscious of it. That’s what I learned from my mother’s face, that drawing is really a kind of thinking.”
…
Glaser is eighty years old, but he still works in a small studio on East Thirty-second Street in Manhattan. It’s a cluttered space, the white walls hidden by old art books stacked ten high. Above the front door, chiseled into the glass, is the slogan of the studio: ART IS WORK.
For Glaser, the quote summarizes his creative philosophy. “There’s no such thing as a creative type,” he says. “As if creativity is a verb, a very time-consuming verb. It’s about taking an idea in your head, and transforming that idea into something real. And that’s always going to be a long and difficult process. If you’re doing it right, it’s going to feel like work.”
2. Examine your photo self portrait. Answer the following questions on the sheet of paper provided to you:
- What was the most difficult 'seeing' for this assignment - was it a particular feature that you couldn't get right?
The overall appearance, or the shading? - In what ways did you succeed in capturing your likeness?
3. On the same piece of paper, create a 'mind map' of yourself. If you don't know what a mind map is, please read here.
3. AVATAR: In Hinduism, an avatar is a deliberate descent of a deity to Earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being, and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation". Using your drawing and photo as a guide, create an avatar of yourself - body included. This can be stylized, but it must be done in Illustrator and you CANNOT use any avatar creation software to do this.
Begin thumbnail sketching .
Illustrator File: Create an Illustrator artboard that is 8x10 inches.
- Draw 15 thumbnails, each showing a very different idea, for the Illustrator 'avatar' exercise.
- Translate this avatar into an Illustrator CS6 file. Save this to your "Exercises Folder as LastName_FirstName_Avator.ai. Make sure it is sized correctly at 8 by 10 inches.
- EMAIL this file to [email protected].
Graphic Design 2:
PROJECT 1: Self Portrait
Details and Timeline
Self Portrait Assignment
The self portrait assignment has a very long history and tradition in art school. Some reasons for this:
-You have a very accommodating model, one who is committed to the success of the work, and is
always available.
-There is no need to flatter the subject; the student is free to experiment with unconvential modes of representation.
-The self portrait has always been used as a vehicle to express an artist’s inner feelings and emotions, and as a way to show this to the outside world.
Objectives:
Experiment with typographic form as mark making.
to explore positive and negative shape relationships in a design composition.
To represent the cultural, personal and social implications of the self.
1. One hand-drawn self portrait, scanned and then digitally colored in the style of a comic using Illustrator. (in class)
2. Create a self portrait of yourself using ONLY type in black and white.
Required: at least 10 thumbnail process sketches in your sketchbook before working on the computer!
Your assignment is to draw a self portrait using only typographic characters (letters, punctuation, and numbers). As your content, use the letters that spell your name or construct a short text to describe how you see yourself, or how you’d like others to see you. You can generate the characters from magazines, by hand, or digitally. You can create the collage by hand or on the computer.
-The first step is to decide on your content - the words you will be using.
-Next, begin my making sketches of yourself using a mirror or a picture of yourself.
-Then, sketch out the typographic forms you would like to use. Think about the numbers, punctuation and letters that would express the form, and content, of your portrait.
3. One image of yourself constructed from pictures of things that inspire you, or things that are a part of you and your cultural history. You will piece together a self portrait using these images in a collage format.
You may use color.
Required: at least 10 thumbnail process sketches in your sketchbook before working on the computer!
Create your own source imagery, OR use copyright free image sources.
Search copyright free images in Google or Creative Commons licensed images in flickr.
You may also use magazine images you find and create a collage that you scan in to the computer after
finishing the composition.
Project Timeline
January 21: Hand-drawn Portrait, black and white only, in class. Illustrator Exercise Assigned.
January 28: Digital Scan of Hand-drawn portrait, Rough draft of digitally colored portrait. Illustrator Ex. due. Thumbnail sketches for #2 (type portrait) and #3 (collage portrait). In progress class critique.
February 4: Working comp of digital portrait. Rough drafts of typographic and collage self portraits.
February 11: Critique for all portraits. In class demos
February 20: Portraits Due - Black and white print and/or color, 8x10 mounted to 10x12 matte board.