Design: Projects: Business Card

Unit

  • Foundational Skills

Questions

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

  • How do I present myself professionally and attract interest?

What am I making?

  • A business card with your name, a title, school email address, and the name of our school

  • example Business Card page you would put on your Google Site with Principles of Design explained

How do I make it?

Steps

  1. Generate your text for your business card:

    • Name: (your name, like Rex Winterbottom)

    • Title: (you can do better than student - I used Experience Designer - it could be "Creative Creator" - have fun!)

    • Contact: (just use your es-cat.org email address, like rwinterbottom@es-cat.org)

    • The name of our school: City Arts & Tech High School, San Francisco

  2. Using a design tool like Adobe Spark or Canva, create the document with these specs:

    • 3.5 inches wide, 2 inches tall

    • 300 dots per inch (DPI) on the resolution, or 300 pixels per inch, at least (600 is okay too)

  3. Add the text, size it, color it, move it around, find a good Alignment

  4. Use Contrast in size (big vs. small) and type style (serif vs. sans serif)

  5. Movement: layout the card so it's natural to follow and process the information

  6. In the layout and colors, find Unity and Harmony, and also show Emphasis (or Focus) somewhere!

  7. Export/download your business card image in PNG or JPG or GIF format.

  8. On Google Sites, under Pages, create a new page called Business Card.

  9. Add your Business Card image, and describe how you used these Principles of Design to make it:

    • Emphasis

    • Movement

    • Alignment

    • Contrast

    • Unity

  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."

Grading

  • 4/A = Do all the steps, 2 interesting insights about "what I learned"

  • 3/B = Do all the steps, interesting "what I learned"

  • 2/C = Do all the steps, basic "what I learned"

Career Connections

  • A business card presents you to the world: potential clients, partners - it's a first impression. Make a good one!

Resources