Foundational Skills: Design: Projects: Memes

  • How do I organize and author visual designs to communicate effectively?

What am I making?

  • 3 (or more) Memes with different tools!

    • A "captionable" photo of a human or animal...

    • combined with a typed message that matches the mood of your photo

    • with an overall attractive, noticeable design

  • example Meme page you would put on your Google Site

    • use 3 of the Principles of Design terms to describe each of yours!

How do I make it?

Steps

  1. Find a source photograph - usually has a person or animal with some kind of noticeable expression.

  2. After signing into your student Google account, go to https://spark.adobe.com.

  3. Create a new Project, title it Meme.

  4. Add your Photo and edit it, scale it; best to "pin it to the background."

  5. Add your Text messages; use suggested color schemes and pick fonts with character.

  6. Download your image as a PNG or JPG.

  7. On Google Sites, under Pages, find or create a new page called Memes.

  8. Insert an Image and upload or select your PNG or JPG that you created in Adobe Spark.

    • As a caption, discuss how your Meme image shows one of the Principles of Design

  9. Repeat steps #1-8 using other tools such as Canva, Photopea, Photoshop.

  10. Write about what you learned doing this assignment, mention skills and techniques.

  11. When done, push the Publish button, review the settings, and publish.

  12. Then click the chain-link button, Copy the link for your page, and paste it into Google Classroom to "turn in."

Principles of Design

  • Balance

  • Composition (also Alignment, Proximity)

  • Focus (also called Emphasis)

  • Rhythm (also Movement, Repetition, Pattern)

  • Unity (also called Harmony)

  • Scale & Proportion

  • and some extras... Variety, Contrast

Career Connections

  • Making graphics to quickly communicate an idea is useful in many careers and social situations

Resources