Major Projects
Smaller assignments will allow you to practice the tools you will need to complete the major projects. These projects make up the biggest percentage of your grade.
Saul Bass Movie Poster
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You will be looking at the artwork of famous illustrator Saul Bass.
We will be talking about his "flat" design style.
Choose any film to create a movie poster inspired by Saul Bass. We will be creating this poster in Illustrator.
Sketch your designs and scan them, or find online images as a reference
Consult pinterest for inspiration, and refer back to the illustrator basics tutorials if needed.
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Digital Portrait
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For this project you will investigate different tools needed to create a portrait of your choosing.
View pinterest & google Portrait tutorials to find a portrait style you want to recreate.
Follow the tutorial to create a portrait using an image of yourself or someone else.
Choose one tool or technique that helped you create this portrait
Create your own tutorial "how to" sheet that describes this tool.
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For this project you will investigate different tools needed to create a portrait of your choosing.
View pinterest & google Portrait tutorials to find a portrait style you want to recreate.
Follow the tutorial to create a portrait using an image of yourself or someone else.
Choose one tool or technique that helped you create this portrait
Create your own tutorial "how to" sheet that describes this tool.
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Brand Identity
One potential career in the graphic design field is logo design. When designers create logos, they do not only imagine what the logo will look like, they have to take into account the entire “brand identity” of a company. We will talk about what brand identity is.
Choose any brand or logo. Research this brand
Recreate the existing logo in Illustrator
Re-Design this logo & then show the graphic standards
Show this logo on a product.
One potential career in the graphic design field is logo design. When designers create logos, they do not only imagine what the logo will look like, they have to take into account the entire “brand identity” of a company. We will talk about what brand identity is.
Choose any brand or logo. Research this brand
Recreate the existing logo in Illustrator
Re-Design this logo & then show the graphic standards
Show this logo on a product.
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Layout / Book DesignMusic & Art go hand in hand. For this project we will design a few pages of a CD Jacket for a music artist. CD covers have been done a million times, for this I want you to focus more on the typography of the inside of the book where you will design the song lyrics. We will be printing these & constructing them.
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Wedha Pop Art Portrait (WPAP)
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Motion GraphicsAfter Effects is a program in the adobe suite to create motion graphics & video. To help us learn After Effects, we will be using our Illustrator WPAP project & animating it.
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Collage
This is a very open ended project, the only requirement is that it is a form of collage- a piece mixing different images & layers to create a unified composition.
You may want to include some hand drawn elements - hand drawn & scanned, drawn with the pen tool, drawn in photoshop
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InfographicInfographics are a great tool to show information in a quick, eye catching way. You will be thinking of one topic to research and create an infographic for. Create simple graphics in Illustrator and make a
SIMPLISTIC, easy to read infographic. See Examples
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Digital Painting
Digital Painting is one field in graphic design which is gaining in popularity. After completing the brushes assignment where you practice painting in photoshop, you will complete a digital painting using an image as a reference, preferably an image you have taken.
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