Nico

PART 1

Take 30 minutes to create a poster that represents you or things that you enjoy. This activity is to help us familiarize ourselves with Adobe Illustrator basics and if you've used it before, explore new tools.

We'll be having a feedback session at the end

Title your file "Name"
Upload your AI file
Export your file as a PNG or JPEG
Upload your designs here to your facilitator's folder

Curvature_Nico.mov

Curvature Tool

Learn how to use the curvature tool to make waves and other shapes.

Gradient_Nico.mov

Gradient Tool

Learn how to incorporate multiple colors into one object.

PART 2

We'll be making posters that build awareness around our social justice issue and we'll take 15 minutes to brainstorm together.

Then we'll take 1 hour and 20 minutes to actually design a poster around our issue. Each poster should include:

A title
A clear theme that relates to your social justice topic
Color scheme
An element that you draw, trace or create out of shapes

Look at these widespread movement posters for additional inspiration

HOW TO SAVE, EXPORT & UPLOAD

1. SAVE

Save your poster as an Adobe Illustrator file to your desktop.
Title it: "First Name_last name"

2. EXPORT

1.

Go to "File", "Export As"

2.

Title your work, export as PNG to desktop

3.

For "Resolution", choose "High (300 ppi)".

For "Anti-aliasing" choose "Art Optimized (Supersampling)"