Graphic Design 1
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NOTE: Projects are listed from most recent to least recent!
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EXTRA CREDIT:
For extra credit you can redo ANY assignment for a better grade. You can redo AS MANY ASSIGNMENTS as you like. All extra credit is due TUESDAY, December 5.
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PROJECT 4 (final project):
Make a multi-page PDF portfolio of your work in InDesign. The portfolio should have at least 10 pages (5 spreads). Show all of your work from this class. These are all of the assignments you have done:
-Little Miss Sunshine response collage (the desire for fame, fortune, celebrity)
-Super Size Me design about consumption using pages from your sketchbook
-Amsterdam poster
-World Bank currency (three banknotes, total of six sides)
Title each work, date it, and describe it. If you like, describe the assignment and explain how you came up with a solution to the assignment.
Output the PDF “book” and turn it in to me as a digital PDF file.
DUE: Thursday December 7, last day of class.
Have the PDF “book” open in Acrobat and ready to show to the class on that day. Also on that day, turn your PDF “book” in to me as a digital PDF file.
DESIGN this portfolio. InDesign is for DESIGNING.
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CRASH COURSE IN INDESIGN
How to make a multi page PDF two-page spread book
TO BEGIN:
Before you begin, got to InDesign-Preferences-Units and Increments and set to INCHES.
-Then go to File-New Document (NOT new book)
-set page size to letter for a traditional saddle stitch book (made in folios printed front and back).
TEXT:
When you want to add text you have to make a text box.
You can create outlines just like in Illustrator.
If there is a red + it means there is more text than what your seeing.
You can highlight text & adjust kerning (space between each letter) and letting (space between each line).
Uncheck “hyphenate” on top.
IMAGES:
For InDesign TIFF is the best format, but high resolution JPGs are fine too. You can also drop in PDFs.
Be as close to 100% size from the beginning so you don’t have to resize the image too much.
To place an image,
-File-Place
-Click on page you want to place image on
(Shortcut for place: Command D)
-The image appears with a loaded cursor
-Hold down shift to resize, then
-Go to Object-Fitting:
Fit frame to content OR
Fit content to frame (Option-Command-E)
Also, use
Object-Arrange Bring to Front
Object-Arrange-Send to Back
(you can also do that in the layers palette)
To put color on all page backgrounds, do this on EACH page:
-draw a box on each page and fill it with the color
-then go Object-Arrange-Send to back
-then go object-Lock position
EXPORT AS PDF BOOK:
When done,
-File-Export: choose format: Adobe PDF
-then an export PDF window will come up
-choose whether you want it in all (single page) or spreads
-choose which size (in top drop down menu that says “custom”)
print resolution: laser prints (lulu generally wants this)
ebook: for email
press: printing press
screen: for just screen viewing
-READ the WARNING screen that comes up; make sure all is OK
-Two files will export (one is automatically generated); keep BOTH in your folder
PACKAGING
Go to File-Package
It will tell you what is wrong
Package-Save
FULL SCREEN VIEWING
To view your InDesign book full screen when it is done:
-Command L, then arrow forward and backward through the images
-you can zoom in and out on the images (command + or command -)
TIPS:
-To get rid of lines around everything, be in preview mode (bottom right square on tools bar)
-View at optimized or high quality display (View-Display Performance)
-Don’t embed your images; your InDesign file will get too large. Instead, keep all of the images in a separate folder within a folder with your InDesign document. The images are only LINKED; if you do not have the original images, THE IMAGES WILL NOT SHOW UP. Go to windows-Links to see your links.
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PROJECT 3: Create your own currency in Illustrator for the “World Bank.”
All three banknotes (total of six sides) are due DUE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 16
Please have all banknotes cut out, NO WHITE BORDERS.
This is a contemporary banknote from Lebanon:
This is an old ten guilder note from Holland. Now they use the Euro.
This is an old fifty guilder note:
1. Look CAREFULLY through this amazing website (most of the currencies will let you click to enlarge!):
Link to more of these posters
Graphic Design I
PROJECT #2:
Amsterdam poster
8 1/2 x 11 version DUE TUESDAY OCTOBER 24
FINAL 11 x 17 version DUE THURSDAY OCTOBER 26
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Make a 11 x 17 (tabloid size) poster for the summer 2006 Study Abroad Program in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Manipulate an image or images in Photoshop, then add the type in Illustrator.
Place your image from Photoshop into Illustrator and add ALL text in Illustrator.
REMEMBER:
-Work in CMYK mode in Photoshop & in Illustrator
-Flatten your image before you bring it to Illustrator (save as new version & as a TIFF file).
-Have your 100% size done by the time you bring the image into Illustrator (so you don’t have to resize in Illustrator)
-Also have any raster effects done by the time you bring the image into Illustrator
-Put image on its own layer in Illustrator
-Save the Illustrator file as a TIFF file when done
INCLUDE:
-some text describing the program
http://international.fsu.edu/Types/College/Amsterdam.aspx
-classes offered:
Drawing I
Survey of Studio Art Practices
Survey of Dutch Design
Photography for Non Art Majors
Digital and Photographic Images
Possible upper level independent study in studio art or design
-dates:
Summer 2007 June 30 – August 11, 2007 (6 weeks)
-fees: $4950
-program code: AM01
-what’s included/not included:
see
http://international.fsu.edu/Types/College/Amsterdam.aspx
-contact info:
Call the International Office at
(850) 644-3272 or (800) 374-8581,
or email
simonsen.kirsten@gmail.com/
sgroenig@gmail.com
-the IP website address: http://international.fsu.edu
-the IP logo. I will put it on each of your computers as an EPS file.
IMPORTANT “RULES”:
-This should NOT look like a collage. It should look like DESIGN.
-DO NOT use ANYTHING you find online
(NO photographs, graphics, drawings…nothing)
-You MAY use any photographs you find at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstenrae/sets
You can download them in their original size from that site.
-Use http://international.fsu.edu/Types/College/Amsterdam.aspx
to get information to use. Read that page carefully so you
understand the program.
-Look at http://www.londonnewmediadesign.com & click on
2004 for design ideas.
-Do some research on the city of Amsterdam, art/design
in Amsterdam, and the history of the city.
IMPORTANT!!
For the ROUGH version, bring it on October 19 in digital format,
ready to be projected from your computer.
Also put the Illustrator version in the Generic Drop Box.
(DO NOT MAKE THIS VERSION LARGER THAN 300 K)
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For the FINAL version, bring it on October 24 printed out
or print it first thing in class on Tuesday (NOT RECOMMENDED).
Also have it in digital format, ready to be projected from
your computer.
Also put the Illustrator version in the Generic Drop Box.
(DO NOT MAKE THIS VERSION LARGER THAN 300 K)
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IMPORTANT: DUE DATE CHANGE
CURRENT PROJECT IS NOW DUE TUESDAY OCTOBER 10
Please bring it printed out or print it first thing in class
on Tuesday.
Also have it in JPG and PSD format, ready to be projected
from your computer.
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SUPER SIZE ME LINKS:
http://www.supersizeme.com/home.aspx?page=aboutmovie
http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/supersizeme/#critics
Graphic Design I
PROJECT #1 part 3
DUE TUESDAY OCTOBER 10
Please bring it printed out or print it first thing in class
on Tuesday.
Also have it in JPG and PSD format, ready to be projected
from your computer.
FOR THIS PROJECT,
1. Watch Super Size Me in class.
2. Scan or take photographs of a page or pages from your sketchbook.
3. Use some or ALL of the images into to make a 8 1/2” x 11 composition in Photoshop that talks about consumption and that responds or relates to the film.
Besides using your sketchbook as a sources, you MAY also include:
-found text
-text generated digitally in Photoshop
-photographs
-drawings
IMPORTANT:
AGAIN, YOU DON’T NEED TO PRINT THIS OUT.
Bring the project to me on a CD or Flash USB Drive.
Also have the project open on your computer when you get to class.
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Graphic Design I
PROJECT #1 part 2
DUE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21
For this you need a hard back, 9” x 12” or larger sketchbook, a glue stick,and good scissors (and packing or scotch tape if you like).
Fill pages with the following
Pages 1+2: images of consumption
Pages 3+4: found stuff, garbage, etc. that relates to consumption
Pages 5-on: 5-10 examples of compositions (art or design or whatever) that you like.
Write why next to each.
Do the pages facing each other, so each makes a two page spread.
Think about how the spread works as a whole.
Think about the gutter.
Think about composition.
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Graphic Design I
PROJECT #1 part 1
DUE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 9
Merge some or ALL of the high resolution images you collected that relate or respond to Little Miss
Sunshine into ONE 8 1/2” x 11 collage in Photoshop.
Show that you understand:
resolution (DPI)
document set-up
document saving
selecting
erasing
blur tool
You MUST include: text, photographs, AND diagrams or drawings
Most importantly, make something interesting!
IMPORTANT:
YOU DON’T NEED TO PRINT THIS OUT. Bring the project to me on a CD or Flash USB Drive. Also have the project open on your computer when you get to class.
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PROJECT #1 part 1 preparation
DUE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7
See the film LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE.
Collect 5 high resolution images about THE DESIRE FOR FAME, FORTUNE & CELEBRITY in any form (go to Google Images, search only for “large” images).