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Posted on March 20th, 2013
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GRM23 – Week 10
Posted on March 18th, 2013
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.
Re-covered Competition
Posted on March 18th, 2013
If anyone has extra time and wants a challenge, this design blog is hosting one of their “Re-Covered” competitions. This one is a challenge to redesign the poster for the film, Battle Royale. You don’t really have to know too much to participate, though I think it’s pretty great and worth watching if you like this sort of movie.
Here’s a link to the actual competition prompt (with guidelines and rules): BATTLE ROYALE RE-COVER COMPETITION.
And to look at their previous design challenges, click here.
It sounds like a cool extra project to work on, so I wanted to throw it out for anyone who might be interested!
GRM24 – Week 8
Posted on March 7th, 2013
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:
- printing and binding capabilities
- purpose / type of book / audience
- book’s content – text and images
GRM24 – Week 7
Posted on March 7th, 2013
In week 7 we reviewed these InDesign Topics:
- text flow and threading
- automatic page numbering
- automatic jump lines
- paragraph rules
- inline graphics
- style sheets: paragraph, character, and object styles
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.
GRM23 – Week 8
Posted on March 6th, 2013
Exercises:
- Oscar, the weiner dog (photo)
- Magnolia Lion (line drawing) – extra credit
due March 20th (4,5,6)
Upon completion of the two exercises above, students can expect to gain a basic understanding of:
- Strokes and fills
- Using and transforming swatch library patterns
- The stacking order and Layers
- Practicing path transitions
Strokes, Fills, Layers, Patterns
Reading:
- Introducing the Pen Tool in Photoshop and Illustrator (4,5,6)
- The Illustrator Workspace (4,5,6)
- Chapter 12, Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
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.
