This course will allow students to use their creativity and technical skills to produce popular visual products, such as custom logos, iPhone covers, business cards, magazine and book covers, product labels, and more. You will be introduced to and use Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator; the industry-standard applications for graphic design. Students will be also learn design elements and principles, color theory and typography as the foundations of good composition.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of Graphic Design I
Students who are looking to be challenged and inspired by learning, to collaborate on projects and use creative technology, this intermediate level course is for you. Expanding on the skills and knowledge acquired in Graphic Design I, the course will emphasize the relationship between text and image through a series of design-based projects. This is a challenging class, which requires creative problem solving, conceptualizing and imagination. Graphic Design II builds upon the concepts introduced in
Graphic Design I.
This full year course is offered to students seriously interested in the production of the school’s yearbook, Nauset Tides. Emphasis is placed on page layout and design, graphics, digital photography and the use of Adobe In-Design© (desktop publishing).
This class may be repeated for credit.