intro

01 - Design Intro - Writing/Fonts and Design

The basic shapes and forms - Circle, Square, Triangle / Sphere, Cube, Pyramid. These shapes/forms are the building blocks of all design. Paired with the "principles of design" and "elements of art," they are how we develop almost every product, logo, painting, sculpture, and building.

The first exercise is drawing your name and sharing your writing with everyone in the class. This gives a sample of your writing to everyone else, and you get a sample of theirs. This stylized communication may remind you of the font. Fonts convey meaning, as well as the letters that spell the words. Sometimes even more so!

Some artists to consider while drawing your circles.

Roman Opalka

On Kawara

Ai Wei Wei

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM

Dear Data is a project by artist/designer(s) Stefanie Posavec and Giorgia Lupi that makes data beautiful. It tracks day-to-day events over the course of a week and the year-long correspondence is about that week's data. Each postcard is sent through the mail.

Tega Brain makes art about seeing large amounts of Data.

Font Excercise:

We will explore writing and mark making
primary forms
letter shape designed for efficiency of writing

Orange Square Designs

Download the sheet below and work this exercise in your sketchbook.
Make 6 designs for each of the words
Choose the best one of each set and create a design with orange construction paper.

Assignment:

Arrange your design clockwise so that the designs match the words below. (see image upper right)

playful
tension
congested
order
increase
bold

This assignment is from the book, "Visual Literacy, a conceptual approach to graphic problem solving" by Judith and Richard Wilde.

Square Design Project Outline

drawing/sketching

paper arrangement

John Baldessari

Design Rubric

04 T-shirt Design

Look at previous Student Projects for inspiration
Use Custom Ink website in addition to Photoshop to create a design for your shirt
You can make a Baylor McCallie T-shirt for the fall or a Ragtails Tshirt in the spring.
You can also create another t-shirt of your choosing that is Baylor related.

Examples

Handouts

Worksheets

You will use only black and white shapes to create balanced designs.

Black Squares

You will use four black squares inside a larger empty square to illustrate several concepts.

shape worksheet