– Monday –

Today you will begin learning about the principles of design. The first concept is the most basic. Artists and designers work with points, lines and shapes in almost every aspect of what they do. No matter how simple or complex the design, it can all be broken down into these simple elements. 

The first part of your project is to create a new page on your principles of design document in Canva. For you, this will be page 7. 

• Create a rectangle on top of your page that is about 1.8 inches and add a text box for a title and another one for the definition. 

• Then use the lines in your elements tap in order to divide the page into five sections. Each section will get it's own title, definition and examples. 

• For the Points section, just create a circle and make it very small. You can create any design you want. 

• For lines, make a bunch of different lines of different thicknesses, both straight and curvy. 

• For regular shapes, find shapes that are geometrically perfect. 

• For organic shapes, you want things that look wavy and irregular. 

• For forms, find examples of elements that look 3 dimensional.

– Tuesday –

Today you will be creating a city using the one point perspective technique to create a city. This time you will be overlapping shapes in order to make your design appear as if you are looking down the road of a city. 

• Watch the tutorial video below

• Use the same document you began yesterday and in the second artboard again create a line in the middle of your page to create a horizon. 

• Mark the middle of the line with a line or a small shape and begin by creating boxes using the process in the video below. 

• After you have at least 3 buildings on each side you will now create a few windows and doors and these must also follow perspective. 

• Make a ground and sky using rectangles. 

• Finalize your design by adding details like sidewalks, road lines, clouds, sun and even trees if you have time. 

– Wednesday –

The first part of your project today is to create a new page on your principles of design document in Canva. For you, this will be page 9.  Copy the rectangle, title and definiton from the last page and change the words. Then use the lines in your elements tap in order to divide the page into three sections. The idea today is very simple. You are showing different examples of alignment and proximity. You do not have to use the same shapes or the same colors I'm using, but whatever objects you create should be aligned according to the imaginary lines shown in the example. 

• The first row shows objects aligned to the left, to the center and to the right.  This is pretty self explanatory. 

• The second rown shows objects aligned along a diagonal line, objects aligned to fit within two parallel lines and a grid of objects. For this grid, make one element and then use the Option+Click and drag method to copy the element quickly. 

• The last line explains different ways of arranging objects on a page. In close proximity, all the objects are right next to each other. In group proximity, similar objects are next to each other but appart from other groups of objects. In random proximity your objects should be all over the place with no alignment. 

The second part of the project involves illustrator. You will be creating a simple architectural drawing using a grid. A grid is a great tool in many design programs that allow you to make regular shapes that conform to a specific scale or geometry. Architects, designers and engineers use these tools extensively.

Check out this video to learn a little bit more about architectural drawing. Basically it is a way to show the layout and proportions of a room as if you were looking at it from the top down.

– Thursday –

Now that you completed your first exercise, we will begin on our main project. You will be using the same system of grids, scale and aligmnet in order to create your very own dream tiny house. A tiny house is a structure that has the bare necessities to live. It must have a living room, kitchen, at least one room and a bathroom. The size of your house is limited to the 30x30 footprint that you created earlier. 

Check out the video below in order to get your project from a simple layout to a full architechtural drawing.

– Friday –

Today is your opportunity to finish your Tiny house project, as well as any other outstanding project that you might need to complete.

For your Tiny house project, you need to add furniture, windows,  and plants and a car for scale. You can download the plants and car from the google classroom. Note that when you import or copy your car, you cannot resize it as this would break the scale. However, the trees can be resized to any size you need. 

 After you are done, export your project as a png and load it to Canva. You should have a total of 10 pages in your Canva document.