Week 15 April 18th - 21st
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!
Design Challenge : Menu Design Project Specifics * Please Read* (Project will be due Monday, April 18th)
Alternative Capstone Schedule
Students Who Are Absent On Capstone Night Will Be Presenting Monday, April 18th In The Front Office Conference Room at 11am. You will have a minimum of five minutes to present your work to our panel and answer questions.
What will you be uploading. A grading rubric can be found here.
10 Points Total
1pt - Cohesive Proposal
1pt - Prep
1pt - Presentation
(What your space looks like, is designed like, how you present yourself how your product / game / skillset is presented to any visitors.)
1pt - Proof of Concept
(thumbnails, sketches, ideas, concept drawings)
1pt - Your portfolio
1pt - Photo or Video of you or your group set up in your areas.
1pt - Photo or video of visitors interacting
1pt - You Attend
2pts - Proof of this is cohesively presented and uploaded to Focus or in the desktop link to the class in-box.
Software of Choice Deep Dive Project Starts April 18th. Due Friday April 29th
DESIGN CHALLENGE: Discover Some Software You've Never Used (5 pts total)
Your job is to fill out the above project sheet and upload it to Focus.
(Software cannot be something you've previously made / created)
The standards based question is for completion AFTER the project.
Once completed, you'll look through the Florida State Standards and pull all of the skillsets you used or obtained
during your software deep dive and compile them in a .WORD document.
What you're turning in to Focus is:
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Your Proposal (.Word file)
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A Document Showing What State Standards Highlighted (.Word file)
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Your Completed Discovery Project
SOFTWARE DISCOVERY RESOURCES
What do all the Adobe softwares do?
Adobe.com Software Descriptions
The 12 best open-source tools for designers
Capstone Questionnaire
DESIGN CHALLENGE: Capstone Questionnaire
Your job is to fill out the above questionnaire and leave your feedback in regard to the Capstone event.
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
We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C792):
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After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up.
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Be sure the Lexmark C792 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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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.
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You can lose your printing privileges is this happens
Turning In Your Assignments
Save And Upload To Focus
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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
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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 Files
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.PSD files preserve your layers, allowing you to come back and work on files with all your work preserved.
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.JPEG files are compressed for display online. 300 resolution or better. Anything below is too blurry.
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.PNG files are high quality and create a transparent background.
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.AI files are native to Adobe Illustrator
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.ID files are native to Adobe InDesign
We have a class network to save your class work:
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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.