Complete the Posterized Portrait

Finish your posterized portrait today. Export the artwork as a jpeg and upload it to a new blog post.

Use the rest of your time to catch up on any projects you may still need to do.

Expressive Typography Exercise

Choose 5 words from the list below. In 5 different compositions, arrange each word to express its meaning. You can change the size, spacing, placement and orientation of the letters.

You can repeat, omit, slice, block or overlap words or letters.

You must not use drop shadows, or stretch or distort the letters.

Use Arial Black Typeface only.

You will use Photoshop to create an 8x8 document with 2 inch guidelines. The letters must be aligned with the  2 inch grid.

compression

transition

contraction

addition

subtraction

disruption

repetition

elimination

migration

expansion

confusion
...and 3 words of your choice

Personal Logo Due Today

Today we will begin a new project.

Your personal logo is due today, after today we will not spend any more class time on it.

Requirements:

All source images including any and all photos that you used for inspiration or reference.

• You should have at least 5 different  photos

Pencil Sketches - Thumbnails and Roughs

• 15 Thumbnail Sketches
• 3 Roughs

Final Digital art in Illustrator with at least 4 variations. 

• 1 Black and white
• 3 color variations

Question. What are the five qualities of a great logo?

Search for the five qualities of a great logo. 

List all 5 qualities.

Find 3 logos and describe how each of them fulfills the qualities of a great logo.

We will have an in-class discussion of your findings.

Additional question.....
Do any of the logos you found use visual metaphor?

Personal Logo Project

This project will use the processes of design that we have been exploring to create a personal logo.

This logo will fuse 2 different images to create a new meaning that somehow describes you, such as an interest you have, or some aspect of your personality or life.

To begin, collect images that have some connection to you, like human made objects such as a camera, a musical instrument, a light bulb, or natural things such as a type of plant , an animal or some other natural occurrence.

Find MANY different images of these descriptive things, post them to you blog along with a list of metaphorical words that may compare the 2 things.

Example:




ideas
illuminating
knowledge
creativity

Visual Metaphors - Fusing Imagery

Find an example of a visual metaphor, copy it into your blog, and describe the meaning of the metaphor.

You might find that many visual metaphors combine 2 images to create a completely new and different meaning.

How did the metaphor you found use different images?

Check Your Grades

Check your grades today and use this class an opportunity to catch up.

I have graded the following:

• Illustrator Pen tool practice
• 4 descriptive word using Dots, Lines, and Planes
• Graphic Translation Progress