What's We'll Be Covering In Week 7...
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 7...
Capstone Criteria
Level 1 Students Capstone Criteria - Snack Food / Cereal Packaging
Resources
Working on elements for your Capstone Project.
February 28th is the next check in
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.
Practice: Visit Canva.com and have a look around at their Typography Terms Page. It's awesome.
Project: Redo Your Personal Logo as a Vector File (Due Wed. February 26th)
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 (Due Wed. February 26th)
Your job is to use typographic symbols to recreate a character or super heroes. Look at these examples:
Packaging Project - Production: CubeeCraft.com
Your task is to create your own CubeeCraft Character of Yourself and anyone else. Practice printing, cutting, shaping and assembling your character. 81/2" x 11". Set up your final to print on cardstock.Blanks have to be fed into the side tray of the printer.
4pts - Your character is recognizable and assembled well and stands on its own. You used Adobe Illustrator. It's created it to specification.
You used an exacto-knife to assemble it successfully. It's on time.
3pts - Your character is kind of recognizable and assembled sort of well and kind of stands on its own. You used Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop It's created mostly to specification.
You used an exacto-knife or scissors (DON'T USE SCISSORS)
2pts - Your characters are not really recognizable or assembled well.
It wasn't assembled correctly and it falls over. You used Adobe Photoshop when you should have used Illustrator. The size is incorrect and you print 3 - 4 times before you realize it should be on cardstock. You have to use glue or tape to have it function.
You used scissors (DON'T USE SCISSORS) instead of an exacto knife.
What We'll Be Covering In Week 7...
Capstone Criteria
Level 2 Students Capstone Breakdown
Level 2 Students Capstone Project Task Sheet
Working on elements for your Capstone Project. February 28th is the next check in
Practice: Visit Canva,.com and have a look around at their Typography Terms Page. It's awesome.
Project: Typography Poster (Due Wed February 26th)
Your job is to use typographic symbols to recreate a character or super heroes. Look at these examples:
Packaging Project - Production: CubeeCraft.com
Your task is to create your own CubeeCraft Character of Yourself and anyone else. Practice printing, cutting, shaping and assembling your character. 81/2" x 11". Set up your final to print on cardstock.Blanks have to be fed into the side tray of the printer.
4pts - Your character is recognizable and assembled well and stands on its own. You used Adobe Illustrator. It's created it to specification.
You used an exacto-knife to assemble it successfully. It's on time.
3pts - Your character is kind of recognizable and assembled sort of well and kind of stands on its own. You used Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop It's created mostly to specification.
You used an exacto-knife or scissors (DON'T USE SCISSORS)
2pts - Your characters are not really recognizable or assembled well.
It wasn't assembled correctly and it falls over. You used Adobe Photoshop when you should have used Illustrator. The size is incorrect and you print 3 - 4 times before you realize it should be on cardstock. You have to use glue or tape to have it function.
You used scissors (DON'T USE SCISSORS) instead of an exacto knife.
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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.