ADOBE SOFTWARE, THE WORKBOOK and YOU
1. Finish filming and photography if necessary.
2. Begin selecting/preparing photos for layout in Photoshop--Think in terms of creating PATHS to isolate SELECTIONS--it is essential to making your document work properly in InDesign for PATHS to be present.
3. Set up your InDesign document. File>New>Document. # of pages = 10. Make sure the FACING PAGES box is checked. Letter sized document. Portrait orientation.
4. Create graphics in Illustrator.
5. Select a HEADLINE typeface (can be flashy) and a BODY COPY typeface (should be serif or sans serif).
Monday, May 18, 2009
SCRIPT/STORYBOARD/COPYWRITING SESSION
1. You must get your SCRIPT/COPY and STORYBOARD approved before you can begin filming. Themes must be school appropriate. If anything is not done to criteria, it will be given back to you for revision.
2. Each subgroup (people assigned to work on a single problem) is responsible for the following items:
A. SCRIPT: Must be typed and properly formatted (includes all speaking parts, location descriptions, camera shots, and stage directions.)
B. COPY: The copy is the script, altered for use in the workbook. It must also be typed. The procedure for solving the problem should be clearly described while using the theme from the script.
C. STORYBOARD: Scene storyboard should consist of at least eighteen panels. This is a minimum of three storyboard worksheets per subgroup. A minimum of four different camera angles should be featured in your storyboard. See the sheet for details.
1. You must get your SCRIPT/COPY and STORYBOARD approved before you can begin filming. Themes must be school appropriate. If anything is not done to criteria, it will be given back to you for revision.
2. Each subgroup (people assigned to work on a single problem) is responsible for the following items:
A. SCRIPT: Must be typed and properly formatted (includes all speaking parts, location descriptions, camera shots, and stage directions.)
B. COPY: The copy is the script, altered for use in the workbook. It must also be typed. The procedure for solving the problem should be clearly described while using the theme from the script.
C. STORYBOARD: Scene storyboard should consist of at least eighteen panels. This is a minimum of three storyboard worksheets per subgroup. A minimum of four different camera angles should be featured in your storyboard. See the sheet for details.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Logo/Business Card Questions: Balance and Repetition
1. What type of balance does your logo have?
2. Name at least two types of repetition listed on page 126 of Basics... that can be seen in your business card design.
3. How will you carry the balance and repetition you have established here into your letterhead and envelope?
1. What type of balance does your logo have?
2. Name at least two types of repetition listed on page 126 of Basics... that can be seen in your business card design.
3. How will you carry the balance and repetition you have established here into your letterhead and envelope?
Monday, May 4, 2009
Independent Study Q4 Grades
7 tasks:
1. Journal/Sketch (10 points, 5pt for journal entry, 5 pt for sketch.)
2. Journal/Sketch (10 points, 5pt for journal entry, 5 pt for sketch.)
3. Images/Artists/Techniques (15 pts, 5/image, 5/artist, 5/technique)
4. Images/Artists/Techniques (5 pts, your choice of 1 category.)
5. Project Proposal (10 pts--tell me 200 pts worth of project and criteria.)
6. 3 questions for Chris Huntress--written on paper.
7. 1 question to Chris Huntress verbally.
7 tasks:
1. Journal/Sketch (10 points, 5pt for journal entry, 5 pt for sketch.)
2. Journal/Sketch (10 points, 5pt for journal entry, 5 pt for sketch.)
3. Images/Artists/Techniques (15 pts, 5/image, 5/artist, 5/technique)
4. Images/Artists/Techniques (5 pts, your choice of 1 category.)
5. Project Proposal (10 pts--tell me 200 pts worth of project and criteria.)
6. 3 questions for Chris Huntress--written on paper.
7. 1 question to Chris Huntress verbally.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Logo Thumbnails
When presenting your thumbnails for approval, be able to do the following:
1. Explain how each of your sketches combine at least 3 ideas from your concept board.
2. Discuss how each of your sketches incorporate at least 3 grid structures.
After receiving approval:
1. Scan your 2 or 3 best sketches into the computer.
2. Start looking at and learning some of the Illustrator techniques listed on the assignment sheet. Decide which you will apply to your logo design. If you are already familiar with some of the techniques listed, try to work with others.
3. Place your sketches in an Illustrator document and reduce their transparency to 50%.
4. Begin drawing the logos in Illustrator on separate layers, using the pen and shape tools.
5. Enhance the basic form of the logos through experimenting with applying the new techniques to the designs.
When presenting your thumbnails for approval, be able to do the following:
1. Explain how each of your sketches combine at least 3 ideas from your concept board.
2. Discuss how each of your sketches incorporate at least 3 grid structures.
After receiving approval:
1. Scan your 2 or 3 best sketches into the computer.
2. Start looking at and learning some of the Illustrator techniques listed on the assignment sheet. Decide which you will apply to your logo design. If you are already familiar with some of the techniques listed, try to work with others.
3. Place your sketches in an Illustrator document and reduce their transparency to 50%.
4. Begin drawing the logos in Illustrator on separate layers, using the pen and shape tools.
5. Enhance the basic form of the logos through experimenting with applying the new techniques to the designs.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Typography Test Review
This is what you need to know for the typography test, and where to find it:
World of Letterforms Video:
1. What the letter A originally symbolized
2. Who invented moveable type & what they created with it
3. What did Mantius create and why?
4. What did Bodoni, Garamond, Baskerville & Benquiat create?
In your typography packets:
1. Type measurement conversions: Points>Picas / Points>Inch / Picas>Inch
2. How to measure LEADING
3. How to measure the line length of different text alignments (Examples A-E)
4. How to use the E-Gauge to measure type
In Basics of Design: Layout and Typography for Beginners
1. 4 Things to Know before starting a design: Page 2
2. Graphic Design Principles: P 12-14
3. Graphic Design process: P 14-19
4. Different text alignments: P 101-104
5. Type Anatomy: P 205 (baseline, ascender, serif, counter, descender, x height, crossbar, cap height)
6. Vocabulary: Thumbnail, rough, comp, alignment, format, visual hierarchy, grid, serif, sans serif, decorative, script.
Miscellaneous online info:
1. How LEADING got its name: http://lowendmac.com/designer/11.html
This is what you need to know for the typography test, and where to find it:
World of Letterforms Video:
1. What the letter A originally symbolized
2. Who invented moveable type & what they created with it
3. What did Mantius create and why?
4. What did Bodoni, Garamond, Baskerville & Benquiat create?
In your typography packets:
1. Type measurement conversions: Points>Picas / Points>Inch / Picas>Inch
2. How to measure LEADING
3. How to measure the line length of different text alignments (Examples A-E)
4. How to use the E-Gauge to measure type
In Basics of Design: Layout and Typography for Beginners
1. 4 Things to Know before starting a design: Page 2
2. Graphic Design Principles: P 12-14
3. Graphic Design process: P 14-19
4. Different text alignments: P 101-104
5. Type Anatomy: P 205 (baseline, ascender, serif, counter, descender, x height, crossbar, cap height)
6. Vocabulary: Thumbnail, rough, comp, alignment, format, visual hierarchy, grid, serif, sans serif, decorative, script.
Miscellaneous online info:
1. How LEADING got its name: http://lowendmac.com/designer/11.html
Business Card Thumbnails:
In creating our business card thumbnails, we will focus on the design principles of EMPHASIS, CONTRAST and ALIGNMENT. You will set up an InDesign document and apply these principles to your experimenting with typography options for your identity system.
1. Create a Portrait oriented Letter sized document in InDesign, with 0.6 inch top and bottom margins and 0.5 inch inside and outside margins.
2. Create guides at the following locations.
Use the X and Y dialogue boxes at the top of your screen to enter the numbers:
X coordinates-- 0.5, 4, 4.5, 8
Y coordinates--0.6, 2.6, 3.2, 5.2, 5.8, 7.8, 8.4, 10.4
3. Label this layer "Guides". Lock the layer.
4. Start another layer. Label it "Thumbnails."
4. On the second layer, make a Rectangle (the tool without the x inside the shape) measuring 3.5 x 2 inches. Place it at x0.5/y0.6, using the X and Y dialogue boxes at the top of your screen to enter the numbers.
5. Begin experimenting with the fonts you used in your concept board. Develop eight possible typographic solutions in the business card spaces. Each solution should address the following design principles. Indicate what you have applied and where on your printed thumbnail sheet.
EMPHASIS: There should be a clear visual hierarchy in the design. (A strongest point of emphasis, backed by secondary and tertiary accents.)
CONTRAST: Apply contrast to the styles of type in your design and your color choices. Try combining a decorative or script font with a serif or sans serif font in each solution. Try combining regular and bold type, etc. Be sure that whatever choice you make, that the type retains LEGIBILITY. Experiment with contrasting colors, in the type and background colors.
ALIGNMENT: Use the Paragraph panel to try out different type alignments in your thumbnails. Experiment with each alignment style (Left, Center, Justified, Right) at least one time. Think about where your logo would fit on the card once it is developed.
6. Your business card should list the following information:
FIRST AND LAST NAME
JOB TITLE
COMPANY
1234 YOUR STREET
ANYTOWN, MN, 55555
(555) 555-5555
PROFESSIONAL_EMAIL@ANYCO.com
In creating our business card thumbnails, we will focus on the design principles of EMPHASIS, CONTRAST and ALIGNMENT. You will set up an InDesign document and apply these principles to your experimenting with typography options for your identity system.
1. Create a Portrait oriented Letter sized document in InDesign, with 0.6 inch top and bottom margins and 0.5 inch inside and outside margins.
2. Create guides at the following locations.
Use the X and Y dialogue boxes at the top of your screen to enter the numbers:
X coordinates-- 0.5, 4, 4.5, 8
Y coordinates--0.6, 2.6, 3.2, 5.2, 5.8, 7.8, 8.4, 10.4
3. Label this layer "Guides". Lock the layer.
4. Start another layer. Label it "Thumbnails."
4. On the second layer, make a Rectangle (the tool without the x inside the shape) measuring 3.5 x 2 inches. Place it at x0.5/y0.6, using the X and Y dialogue boxes at the top of your screen to enter the numbers.
5. Begin experimenting with the fonts you used in your concept board. Develop eight possible typographic solutions in the business card spaces. Each solution should address the following design principles. Indicate what you have applied and where on your printed thumbnail sheet.
EMPHASIS: There should be a clear visual hierarchy in the design. (A strongest point of emphasis, backed by secondary and tertiary accents.)
CONTRAST: Apply contrast to the styles of type in your design and your color choices. Try combining a decorative or script font with a serif or sans serif font in each solution. Try combining regular and bold type, etc. Be sure that whatever choice you make, that the type retains LEGIBILITY. Experiment with contrasting colors, in the type and background colors.
ALIGNMENT: Use the Paragraph panel to try out different type alignments in your thumbnails. Experiment with each alignment style (Left, Center, Justified, Right) at least one time. Think about where your logo would fit on the card once it is developed.
6. Your business card should list the following information:
FIRST AND LAST NAME
JOB TITLE
COMPANY
1234 YOUR STREET
ANYTOWN, MN, 55555
(555) 555-5555
PROFESSIONAL_EMAIL@ANYCO.com
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