GRM23 – Visual Technologies Final
Posted on May 16th, 2013
FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION due Monday May 20th at 12:30pm sharp. Final Critique is scheduled for 12:30pm – 2:30pm.
FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION due Monday May 20th at 12:30pm sharp. Final Critique is scheduled for 12:30pm – 2:30pm.
FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATION Thursday, May 16th at 6pm sharp. Final Critique is scheduled for 6pm – 8pm.
PROJECT TWO: Greeting Card Set (1,4,5,6)
Objectives: Use Adobe Illustrator to create four illustrations that demonstrate a visual theme and continuity among the “set.” Use the “seal exercise” or similar logo or emblem for the back of the greeting cards. Detailed description of the Greeting Card assignment
Due April 10th – Postponed until Wednesday, April 17th
Welcome Back. I hope you all had a pleasant and productive Spring Break. We continue to practice making paths with Illustrator’s pen and editing tools.We’ll also continue our study of the transformation tools, gradients and patterns. We’ll wind down the introduction of Illustrator with a look at its 3D capabilities, and we’ll learn how to work with the Type tools by completing at Type Exercise I call “The Seal.” Due Wedensday, April 10th.
Discover article exercise – due at the end of class tonight, March 7th. If you have not completed your exercise (some have already turned it in), you will turn in whatever you have completed as of tonight. I’d like the pdf and the InDesign Package sent to me by email, usendit or other web transfer means. Post your layout on our blog.
Tonight the class will review the status of our book project. Students will share their progress with the class. We will determine the book’s size and other specifications so that each student can begin to set up printable files. Determinations will be discussed among the author’s and will be based on:
In week 7 we reviewed these InDesign Topics:
Menu exercise – use style sheets to recreate one of the panels in the Melrose Café Menu. Sample menu handed out in class. Submit by email when complete. Due at the end of class.
We also discussed our book project. Students are to come to class Week 8 with an outline of the content to be included in their chosen chapters. Students will begin to thumbnail concepts onto 2-page spreads in Week 8.
Exercises:
Upon completion of the two exercises above, students can expect to gain a basic understanding of:
Strokes, Fills, Layers, Patterns
Reading:
March 11–15 is spring break…early, no?
Lecture will include a discussion of transformations. We’ll also discuss the remaining exercises and project and how we’ll fill out the remainder of the semester after spring break, including the poster project with the postponed deadline.
Transition from Raster to Vector
Catch-up Week – 2-18-13, President’s Day Holiday took a bite out of the schedule, with this week being a transition from the pen tool in Photoshop, to the introduction to the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator, a vector program.
We begin our study of Adobe Illustrator with practice templates, which introduce the Illustrator path. Templates are located in the right sidebar in the Illustrator section.
When you have completed the templates you will understand:
Tonight we will continue duplicating the Discover magazine layout we began last week. We will review features such as:
We will finalize the chapter assignments for the book tonight and we will discuss the final project in more detail.
Due at the end of class. Everyone must send their Level 3 files to me by email. Also, I expect everyone to be reporting attendance by email every week or you will be counted as absent.
