What's We'll Be Covering In Week 6...
Level 1 Students
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Typography
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Poster History & Design
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Your Capstone Criteria
Level 3 Students
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Your Capstone Criteria
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Typography - Chromadepth Project
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Certification Overview
What We'll Be Covering In Week 6...
Monday Feb. 10th - Tuesday Feb. 11th
Symbols & Pictograms
You'll be exploring the perspective tools needed to create isometric proportion landscapes and rooms.
Process Task Sheet Project due Tues. Feb 11th
Emoji Task Sheet Project due Tues. Feb 11th
Don't forget to include what style you designed your emojis in (Samsung, Apple, etc.) on your final w an example.
Place all your designed emoji's on one sheet and turn in.
Tuesday February 11th - Friday February 14th
We'll be talking about the history of type and the rise of typography as an artistic means of communication. Click the link below for more information on projects and typography.
Typography Overview PowerPoint
Practice Project: Familiarizing Yourself With Typography
Your job is to take as sheet of newsprint, find 10 different fonts - 5 serif and 5 sans-serif. Then, rule out some lines and start to mimic as closely and best as you can, your font while drawing your name (First and Last). DON'T TRACE.
Practice: Visit Canva,.com and have a look around at their Typography Terms Page. It's awesome.
Practice Project: Font Language and Perception
Your job is to take each word and find a font that “Speaks” to what your writing. Also, Find a font that is absolutely wrong for these occasions or words. You can do this in Microsoft Word or lay it out in Illustrator.
When finished, turn in a copy to the class folder as a Word or .AI file.
Project: Redo Your Personal Logo as a Vector File
Using what you know know about design your job is to remake your personal logo using Adobe Illustrator.
Your final should be turning in an .AI file when complete. Show your original and your redo.
Project: Typography Poster (*Coming Soon* Due Date TBA)
Your job is to take a favorite quote / music lyric / line from a book and make it into a poster.using Typography as your main art source.
Size should be standard poster size. Design is up to you. Only thing I am looking for is you designed with type and laid out your quote according to specification. Should have the name of who the quote or line originated from.
What You Should Know About AI So Far
Select & Direct Select Tools
What End Points are
Handles
Pen Tool
Stroke vs Fill
.AI Format
Vectors
Gradients
Swatches and their Libraries
What the Shapebuilder does
What the Pathfinder does
What We'll Be Covering In Week 6...
Capstone Criteria
Level 2 Students Capstone Breakdown
Level 2 Students Capstone Project Task Sheet
January 31st - Capstone Proposal Letter was Due
January 31st - Capstone Timeline Breakdown was Due
February 11th - Chromadepth Project
We'll be talking about the history of type and the rise of typography as an artistic means of communication. Click the link above for more information on projects and typography.
While I am Absent, THIS!
Practice Project: Familiarizing Yourself With Typography
Your job is to take as sheet of newsprint, find 10 different fonts - 5 serif and 5 sans-serif. Then, rule out some lines and start to mimic as closely and best as you can, your font while drawing your name (First and Last). DON'T TRACE.
Practice: Visit Canva,.com and have a look around at their Typography Terms Page. It's awesome.
Practice Project: Font Language and Perception
Your job is to take each word and find a font that “Speaks” to what your writing. Also, Find a font that is absolutely wrong for these occasions or words. You can do this in Microsoft Word or lay it out in Illustrator. When finished, turn in a copy to the class folder as a Word or .AI file. WORD LIST
You'll be using your design prowess to create a 3D project using Chromadepth technology. This is a terrific way to demonstrate mastery of type design along with making a unique portfolio piece.
Project: Chromadepth Image Project Due: Feb 11th
Your job is to take a favorite quote / music lyric / line from a book and make it into a poster.using Typography as your main art source.
Size should be standard poster size. Design is up to you. Only thing I am looking for is you designed with type and laid out your quote according to specification. Should have the name of who the quote or line originated from.
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Goals and Scales For Commercial & Digital Arts
WIX.com is a simple web page creator that lets you look at thousands of website templates and then save one and edit it. Remove their pictures, put in yours. Remove their text, put in yours. Changing color schemes, etc.. The best portfolio pages have a simple landing (or Splash) page, and then links to your gallery.
Design an online portfolio for yourself. Include your artwork you've designed this semester, year or so far during your time in class. Your name should figure prominently into the design.
Pages should include:
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Index Page - Example Page - About You Page - Contact Page
*Pictures for upload must be saved JPEG, BMP, PNG or TIFF file formats.
RESOURCES
Printing Your Files & Saving Files For Web
We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C790):
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After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up.
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Be sure the Lexmark C790 Printer is selected.
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Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)
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Be sure to scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.
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Print to the Lexmark (Copy 2) printer
Saving For Web In Photoshop
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Open your work. Select all. Choose EDIT, then COPY MERGED
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Create a new file and size, then paste what you just copied.
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Make sure your file is resized.
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Make sure your file has no white around it and it's cropped.
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With your file open, go to FILE - SAVE FOR WEB & DEVICES (Legacy)
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In the upper right corner, select the JPEG option and make sure it's set to HIGH QUALITY
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In the lower left corner, you'll see the file tag JPEG and a time it take to load in seconds. It should be under 100 seconds.
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Choose SAVE and select your block folder.
Turning In Your Assignments
We have a class in-box. The shortcut to it is on your desktop:
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This folder contains YOUR folder with your class work. It is where you can keep your design work in class or move things into from your One Drive or your Flash Drive if you do work at home.
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Above your folders are numbered ‘In-Boxes’, each one corresponding with a project. This is where you turn in your completed work for a grade. Doing so gives me a date and time stamp of when you turn your work in.
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Find the numbered In-Box. Open your work and choose "SAVE AS", then choose your file format, choose the inbox (which may have a folder in it already with your name to make it even easier).
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Keep in min that when you’re working on something and save it to your folder, you may be required to turn in a different, specific file format other than .PSD, such as a .jpeg or .png.