What are we learning today?
1. Review Paper, Printing & 4-Up
2. Demo: Cutting Notepads Apart
3. Cutting Backing & Mounting
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Principles of Design
- Find an effective advertisement from a magazine
- Take a picture of the ad & upload it to Google Drive
- Download the photo from Drive to your laptop
- Open the photo in Photoshop
- Straighten & Crop the photo
- Jot down some notes & ideas about it’s use of the POD’s
- How does it use each of the 6 principles?
- Is it a good use of the principle? Why?
- Is there anything that could make the ad more effective? How?
- Make a Screencast using these notes
- Upload the Screencast to Schoology
Notepad
- Choose a theme for your notepad
- Grab a sheet of paper & fold in half twice
- Draw a design in each square using the same theme
- Choose the best design & make a rough
- Vector the image in it’s own Ai file
- Layout a comprehensive using the rough template from Ai
- Make a 4-Up
- Print a proof sheet
- Choose 25 sheets of paper
- Place the paper in tray 1 of printer, tell others NOT to print
- Send the job to the 419-C1 printer
- Collect & jog prints
- Put prints apart
- Cut cardboard (mat board) for backing
- Make a mount for one print
- Pad the notepad
- Trim the edges
- Tuck thumbnails, rough, comp, mount & rubric into pad
- Turn in to bin
3. Cleanup
4. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: Cutting Notepads Apart, Mounting
Period 3
What are we learning today?
1. Next Project... Logo!
2. Review Logo Design & Rationale
3. Discuss Planning
4. Week’s Plan
5. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Tips Book
- Research tips for good photography
- Choose tips for your book
- Rephrase & restate the tip in your own words
- Choose how you will show the tip in your book
- Draw 4 thumbnails for your book layout
- Choose the best layout and make a full size rough for it
- Layout the book template in Adobe InDesign
- Add your text to the template
- Take & import your photos for the book
- Need a before & after, with/without
- Take a few shots for each
- Edit your levels & color
- Crop & resize the photo to fit the box in InDesign
- Place your pics in InDesign
- Build the front background in Photoshop & place into InDesign
- Export the file as a Print PDF & upload it to Schoology
Logo
- Choose a name or image for your artist
- Brainstorm & draw 4 thumbnails using that name or image
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Scan the rough
- Place the scan into an Ai file, lock layer, create second layer
- Vector your logo with shapes & pen tool
- Add color to the logo
- Save as an Ai file and upload the image w/thumb, rough to Schoology
6. Cleanup
7. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 4
What are we learning today?
1. Quizlet
2. PPT: Rasters vs. Vectors (Part 2)
3. Review Making Thumbnails
4. Review Making a Proof Sheet
5. This Week’s Photos
6. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Practice Vector
- Launch Ai
- Place the logo
- Create a new layer, lock the first
- Change the fill to none, stroke to bright color
- Zoom in (Ctrl +) on the inner ear
- Draw the three lines to make the shape
- Select and color the inner ear
- Draw the white silhouette of the head
- Color it and send it to the back
- Draw the blue oval with cutout
- Color the shape
- Draw the final white outer oval & color it
- Upload the final image to Schoology
Illustrator Dog
- Find & download the file
- Create new layer, lock the first
- Follow steps on handout to create the dog
- Be as precise as possible in shape, size & color
- Save the images as an Ai file
- Upload the final image to Schoology
7. Cleanup
8. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None
Period 5
What are we learning today?
1. Review Screen Printing Project
2. Discuss Making Thumbnails
3. Developing a Rough
4. Objectives to Accomplish Today:
Final Vector
- Choose an image to trace (hi res, line art)
- Get the image approved
- Create a new layer, lock the first
- Change the fill to none, stroke to bright color
- Draw around and complete each colored shape separately
- Test each completed shape by filling it once complete
- Upload the final image to Schoology
Screen Printing
- Choose a name or image for a company
- Brainstorm and draw 4 thumbnails
- Choose your favorite thumbnail
- Develop that design into a large, clean, colored rough
- Obtain, label, & degrease a screen
- Coat the screen
- Convert the vector to black & white, email to Mr. Tate
- Expose the screen
- Wash out the screen with a cone spray of water
- Patch Pinholes
- Block out the screen
- Cut paper to print on
- Cut out the comprehensive, center it on cut paper, tape in place
- Print the design
- Reblock the screen
- Reclaim the screen
- Mat the best print
- Paperclip thumb, rough, comp, 2 prints, matted & rubric
5. Cleanup
6. Review/What’s Next
Handouts: None