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COMMERCIAL & DIGITAL ARTS CLASS YEARS 3 & 4

Tuesday - Friday January 18th - 21st

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Advanced Design

Design Principles Ep1 - Hierarchy

Design Principles Ep2 - Generating Ideas

Design Principles Ep3 - 6 Golden Rules of Layout

Design Principles Ep4.- Perfect Layout Design

Design Principles Ep5.- Pro vs Amateur moves

Satori Graphics YouTubeChannel - Check this out!

Year Three / Year Four

Design Challenge: Magazine Cover (5 pts)

Design a magazine cover with you on the front. Include at least five stories, one with a quote attached. Use InDesign as your base software and incorporate Illustrator & Photoshop as needed.

Project Specifics *Please Read*

Year Three / Year Four

Design Challenge: One Page Food Ad (3 pts)

Designing a one page print ad for a favorite food.

Project Specifics *Please Read

Resources:

25 Food Ads

Capstone Prep

Thursdays and Fridays are production days for your Capstone Project

Photoshop Certification Exam Prep  | Check out this website. Scroll down to Exam Objectives

ARTIST PROFILE
SEMESTER ONE
SEMESTER TWO
Goals & Scales
STATE STANDARDS
WIX WEB PORTFOLIO

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:

  • Index Page - Example Page - About You Page - Contact Page


*Pictures for upload must be saved JPEG, BMP, PNG or TIFF file formats.

RESOURCES

INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION
HOW TO PRINT

Printing Your Files

We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C792):

  • After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up.

  • Be sure the Lexmark C792 Printer is selected.

  • Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)

  • Be sure to scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.

  • Please DO NOT Print: Work From Other Classes, Memes you Just Made And Think Are Funny But Are Not, Pages of Solid Colors, Work that has nothing to do with our class.

  • You can lose your printing privileges is this happens

HOW TO TURN IN WORK

Turning In Your Assignments


Save And Upload To Focus

  • All work will be turned in using FOCUS/PORTAL. I will be able to grade your work, count your work and give feedback on your work using Focus.

Grading

  • Grades will be entered within two weeks of turning in your project. Some projects will take one or two days for you to complete, some will take several weeks. Please be patient as grading is completed. For every day a project due date is missed, a letter grade reduction will occur.

Saving Photoshop Files

  • .PSD files preserve your layers, allowing you to come back and work on files with all your work preserved.

  • .JPEG files are compressed for display online. 300 resolution or better. Anything below is too blurry.

  • .PNG files are high quality and create a transparent background.

We have a class network to save your class work:

  • It allows you to keep work in class that you are working on. This file contains a folder for 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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