You have been hired by Snapchat to add more Geo Filters to their app for the Rapid City area. You will design 2 separate filters. However before you can start your digital designs, you need to sketch out your ideas first. Use no line paper (computer paper). Your teacher must approve your sketches before you can begin.

What are GeoFilters?

• Geofilters are for public places that are meaningful to you and your community, like parks, cities, neighborhoods, landmarks, and more.
• Snapchatters have to be near the specific location to use the Geofilter.
• Community Filters are available around special locations and landmarks, or during certain occasions and holidays. Snapchatters just like you create them, and it’s free!
• Are you hosting a local meetup, networking event, graduation, or conference? If so, create a Geofilter to promote it and encourage as many attendees as possible to send out snaps at the event using the Geofilter.
• Remember, Snapchatters all over will be able to use the Community Filters you submit, so they should be high quality.

Community Filter Guidelines

• Pick a location where people are likely to gather and send Snaps — like a city, neighborhood, park, or school.
• Make sure your Community Filter is relevant to the location and something that Snapchatters will want to use!
• Plan and draw your Geofilter thoughtfully — it should only cover the relevant area. Don’t cover an entire country, state or province.

Artwork and Graphics Guidelines

• Be creative and make your design visually compelling!
• Make your artwork 100% original, and don’t include clip art, even if it’s royalty-free.
  • Make sure what you are designing contains school appropriate imagery and concepts.
  • Using different parts of different pictures is okay.
• Don’t use logos or trademarks.
  • The only exception is that we will accept college and university logos submitted by an official .edu address affiliated with the school.
• Don’t use photographs, or photographs that were edited to look like they’re illustrated.
• Don’t use hashtags.
• Don't cover up too much of the screen with your artwork!
  • Place text and important elements outside the buffer zone of your Filter — 210px from the top and bottom

Filter Template

• US Snapchat Filter Template

Submission Guidelines

Follow these guidelines when you submit your GeoFilter:

• Create a Lastname + Geofilter Project folder
• Save your project as an .AI file and name it Lastname + Geofilter within your folder
  • Make sure your file is 1080px wide and 2340px tall (the template ensures this)
  • Keep your file size under 300KB
• Include a good description of your Community Filter (Word Document)
• Save your file in .PNG format with transparency enabled

You will turn in your entire project folder which contains both file types and your write up.

*** You will be graded on the complexity and creativity of your filter. If you finish significantly early, then your grade will suffer.

Make sure you review the rubric for this project to make sure you aren't going to lose any points!

Create a Colorful Polygonal Animal by selecting an image of animal online and then using polygonal shapes and triangles to design a colorful animal shape recreation. You will only use color and the pen tool to create polygon shapes. See the examples for ideas. Your image size is 800 width and 600 height.

Save your completed graphic as a AI (Illustrator file) and then export as a JPEG file. Name the file as Last name + Animal and save in your Illustrator Project folder. Submit both files to your teacher via the DropBox

Here is an excellent tutorial to guide you on your way, How to Create a Low Polygon Portrait in Photoshop

For this project, we are going to explore how to use all the different types of Text tools that we learned in Intro to Illustrator. You will create a piece of art, ONLY using Text!! You must you use color and pay attention to using a variety of fonts, font sizes, and angles of all your text. DON'T BE BASIC!

For your art piece, you must use the following in your design:

• Type Tool
• Vertical Type Tool
• Type on a Path: Closed Path
• Type on a Path: Open Path
• Area Type
• Vertical Area Type

You will be awarded points on the complexity of your design. It is easier if you SKETCH First!! Look at the examples to the right-------> as inspiration.