Hi, Graphic Design 2 & 3 People,
Right now I have one page for both classes because of time constraints.
If you need to contact me, please use rachel.robinson@washoeschools.net
This site is constantly being updated. Please be patient as there are some serious time constraints.
Make sure you are checking in on FORMS everyday which you can access through TEAMS also check the TEAMS Blog for additional instructions.
This assignment will take your best effort and much work, but will be highly rewarding when you see your final professional design.
You will also need to create a resume for this project to present to the committee 7 days prior to the contest.
We will loan you a SillsUSA jacket to wear for the competition/presentation.
You will also need black pants/or skirt and a white shirt with no logos or writing on them. A black tie is also preferred. Make sure you read the specifics of dress on the document.
You should be finished before spring break March 11th, with all your elements printed out and put together on your presentation boards. The teacher can get you the presentation boards and do the printing, but you MUST GET IMAGES TO HER A WEEK IN ADVANCE, by March 5th so we have time to print and mount work. Printing on the professional printer to the sizes we need IS VERY TIME CONSUMING, so do not wait until the last minute.
We will be filming you for your presentation.
Designing for SkillsUsa should be your # 1 Priority right now. I should have the images to print to size by March 5th for your presentation boards so we can get them cut and mounted by March 11. Here are the steps:
Read the ENTIRE Pin and T-Shirt Doc that is below #7 it is also on Teams in both the blog and the file folder.
Choose which you are going to do: Pin Design or T-Shirt Design or Bulletin Board Design.
Remember that the 2020-2021 THEME is: SkillsUSA: Champions at Work,
Empowered to Succeed
The above Theme will be your inspiration and in your explanation to the judges for why you chose the elements and the design. This is different from what the actual type will be on both your T-shirt and Pin-design which is: Wording on the pin must reference the name of the State, the year, and SkillsUSA
The following text must appear on the T- shirt design: “SkillsUSA [State Name]”, and the current year of the national competition.
The SkillsUSA emblem or SkillsUSA logo (or elements of either) should not appear on the design.
Now, research things that represent Nevada, research what designs have won in the past for both Nevada and National.
Create three thumbnail sketch ideas and send them to me via rachel.robinson@washoeschools.net or show me in class for credit and feedback. THIS IS REQUIRED BEFORE YOU START! Look carefully at the past presentation boards students did that I presented in class so you can get a feel of what your thumbnail sketches should look like and the entire process should look like. Each student will have to do a presentation board after all, so save the steps you do along the way because those will be used on your board.
Start your work on the computer. All work besides the thumbnails must be done digitally via Photoshop or Illustrator. Show your work to the teacher once a week for credit and feedback - THIS IS CRITICAL!
You are not finished with this project until Mrs. Robinson gives the final O.K.
Only 5 people will be able to actually submit designs to compete for T-shirt Design and only 5 for Pin design. However, unlimited people can compete in the bulletin board design and presentation. These will be chosen by Mrs Robinson, Mr Zorn and Sindie Read of CTE. Even if you do not compete, you will still be producing a presentation board so you can understand how to put it together and present. Presentations will be filmed.
Pin & T-Shirt (1).docx
Once you click on the link below you will go to the SPOON GRAPHICS sugar skull tutorial.
Below this paragraph is a skull image template to use as a guide when drawing your outlines and placing the eyes, nose and mouth so your skull has the basic proportions of a regular skull. You will make it the bottom layer of your Illustrator file and it will eventually be deleted once you have the correct placement and proportions.
The chapter reading is in the period 7 folder under files. You will post your work to your website once we create our websites this week or you can use your old Graphic Design Website, but you must share it with me again at rrobinsonarts@gmail.com. Email me with questions at rachel.robinson@washoeschools.net
GOALS of this assignment are that students will have the opportunity to learn the following:
How to create complex symmetrical objects
How to use clipping masks to cut complex multilayered shapes
How to vary strokes and create pattern
How to align, and combine shapes
How to follow a tutorial and then apply your own esthetic choices to make it your own personal design
PERFORMANCE STANDARD 2.1 : IDENTIFY AND APPLY THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
2.1.1 Identify the applications of color, line, shape, texture, size, and value in samples of graphic work
2.1.3 Incorporate color, line, shape, texture, size, and value in student-generated graphic work
2.1.5 Demonstrate the elements of design through digital sketching
GRAPHIC DESIGN 2 , 2nd ASSIGNMENT
GRAPHIC DESIGN 3, 1st ASSIGNMENT
This assignment is a modern design take on the old art style of Cubism. We will have a cubism quiz, (coming soon,) based on the video below. We will also have a quiz on Cubism.
GOALS of this assignment are that students will have the opportunity to learn the following:
How to create complex symmetrical objects
How to a break face down into a semi-Cubist style
How to use clipping masks to cut complex multilayered shapes
How to align, and combine shapes
How to follow a tutorial and then apply your own esthetic choices to make it your own personal design
This gives students the opportunity to understand type design and layout
Graphic Design 2 students will do a chalk board style poster. Click on the Chalk Board Type Assignment link below.
Graphic Design 3 students will do a different style of poster using a retro style of design that will be on a link below.
GOALS of this assignment:
Students will have the opportunity to learn about creating an illustration that has a purpose of informing and inspiring based on a magazine article that they will write.
Students will have the opportunity to incorporate a short well written writing sample into their portfolio of work.
Students will have the opportunity to practice and create dynamic page layout in Adobe Illustrator.
Students will have the opportunity to have their work be part of a class self published book to be sold.
The Illustration by Anders Nilsen on the left is from this article from The New Yorker Magazine which is a magazine well known for it's wonderful illustrations and cartoons:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/the-secret-lives-of-fungi
Your assignment is to create an illustration on The Secret Lives of Something; ask yourself what would your object or animal's secret life look like? It is important to research your object or creature before starting and create at least 3 different thumbnail sketches as well as writing a short article on your organism or object that will later be used as a 2 page spread for a magazine layout with your illustration. Find facts or your own observations that might make it funny/startling/unexpected thereby making it more interesting. The above article may help you get ideas on how the artist who did the work to the left got her ideas for the secret lives of fungi. This is an excerpt from the above article by Hua Hsu that I found very interesting: "The largest living organism on earth today is a fungus in Oregon just beneath the ground, covering about 3.7 square miles and estimated to weigh as much as thirty-five thousand tons."
You can use traditional media and scan it and manipulate it on the computer to make your illustration a mixed media piece or just work on the computer.
Review all work with Mrs Robinson as you go along.
Post to your webpage when done.
Also, to get you inspired, here is a website with several different types of strange fungi: https://pikroll.com/miscellaneous/different-types-of-fungi-with-pictures/
Also click the ROZ CHAST link below to get more ideas.
This is an interview with the well known cartoonist Roz Chast documenting the last 8 years of her parents lives. It is an example of how our visual ideas can be compelling because of what we observe about life. The excerpt from her book is funny, sad, and surprising.
This is a list of what we want to build in your portfolio so when you graduate, you have your portfolio for jobs, internships and higher placement in college classes as well as for getting into colleges.
At least 5 Illustrations you have created
Laser cut/paper cut design for packaging or product design
A complete font alphabet that you have developed; please don't do just one, do several and pick your best for your portfolio.
3 Posters demonstrating good layout and an understanding of type and use of appropriate fonts for the message.
3 Packaging Design examples that you have created
3 Logos you have created: 1. Doodle for Google will give you 1, 2. Skills will give you at least 2 as well as developing one for yourself
Your skills competition work for both years
A seamless pattern
3 drawings on paper, the figure, the face and an animal use the advanced techniques I will include on this page.
Cartoon Illustration
Here are some links to a few really good design tutorials. Please email me ones you find and I can post them here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7LfMHlnCxEJWZ-m5BN7_ig - Every Tuesday as a really good place to learn and I will be posting more lessons from her to do.
Please note that I understand that all this may seem a bit overwhelming. But, you really need time to develop your design portfolio and we have lost so much time with distance learning. Do what you can whenever you can. I like to create while I am listening to music, or the news. Make it fun for yourself and then you will be drawn to it whenever you are bored.
Creating Passive Income With Font Design
These tutorials will help you understand, practice, and develop the art and skill of working with type and also creating your own typefaces. You can start now and develop a healthy supplemental passive income. As a graphic designer, you need to understand how to best work with type/fonts. Type is fundamental to design and creating your own will better help you understand the beauty and power of a good typeface.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY2G0r9aPYo On this video he does a really good job of explaining how to lay out the foundation, (drawing the lines and angles) of creating type.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3gvbvvzqpY This is on inking in the type
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OYhq6HbJ4U This is a really fun way to start enjoying the playfulness of type and understanding the best structures and how to create graceful form in creating a script typeface. When you create your own script typeface, create several versions of the same letter. This gives you practice and you can compare and contrast the best forms. Look at some other script typefaces on Fontspace and study the best ones, (you know I love Mans Greback's work.) We can then scan your work in and use the best ones for your finished font alphabet. Here is a link to a font I just found that I really like: https://www.fontspace.com/queen-of-the-moon-font-f22426
If you look at the font photo of Madelican to the left, you will see a tiny grid on the bottom right that you click on when in Fontspace and it will show you all the letters of the alphabet in that font. https://www.fontspace.com/madelican-font-f41388
Here are the Performance standards relating to drawing and working with type:
2.1.4 Demonstrate the elements of design through manual sketching
2.1.5 Demonstrate the elements of design through digital sketching
PERFORMANCE STANDARD 2.3 : IDENTIFY AND APPLY THE PRINCIPLES OF TYPOGRAPHY
2.3.1 Identify the anatomical components and qualities of type (i.e., x-height, ascenders, descenders, counters, etc.)
2.3.2 Apply and adjust formatting to type
2.3.3 Construct graphic works utilizing and manipulating type
In this next lesson Exploring & Developing Design Styles do the following:
Watch the numbered videos Listed under Exploring & Developing Design Styles below, and then going to some packaging idea/trend websites bulleted below this sentence to collect what you consider to be excellent/compelling/interesting/effective design styles that you would like to emulate. :
https://www.designerpeople.com/blog/packaging/packaging-design-trends-2020/
https://99designs.com/blog/trends/packaging-design-trends/ and
https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/packaging-design-trends-2020/#sustainable
2. Create a page on your website called Favorite Design Styles and then post at least 10 design examples that you think are really effective styles.
3. Explain in small notes why you think that design works and what the design is trying to convey to the target audience.
4. Create 3 packaging designs based on your favorites after you watch the videos below. Create your own seamless patterns for your packaging design. You can use Spoon Graphics as a tutorial resource site for your packaging design: https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ZEyfjMSbE Follow the instructions in the video and the instructions above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITRZ75OKrG0 Create your own seamless pattern. You can use Illustrator or Photoshop or even create it on paper with any medium and scan it in. There are also tutorials on creating seamless patterns on Spoonflower: https://blog.spoonflower.com/category/meet-the-designers/ and a great design challenge if you feel up to it: https://www.spoonflower.com/design-challenge/line-art-safari-wallpaper
I recommend really looking at what other designers have done on Spoonflower and elsewhere as that is a wealth of inspiration. Art History Note: The famous painter Henri Matisse collected exotic fabrics and costumes for his models for the compositions he would then paint and those are part of what made his work so compelling. I have pasted several of his paintings here but you can also go to the https://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm to see more.
