This is due in addition to the blog posts on your projects as well as history sites.
FINAL PORTFOLIO
Students should turn in a Portfolio CD containing the original files (.ai or .psd) from all major projects beginning with the movie poster through the CD package and poster by the end of finals week.
CD PACKAGE DESIGN
A. 6 Panel package should include somewhere:
1. name of band
2. logo for band
3. name of CD
4. logo for record company
5. list of contents
You are inventing everything. The package design should convey the contents of the package. (The package design should in some way convey the genre of music, content of music, personality of band) (The bands name and logo should convey a sense of personality as well)
B. 1 poster:
1. CD release date
2. name of CD
3. band name
4. band logo
5. record company logo
On Wed., 12/3/8, we will spend half of the class time on a working critique, discussing our designs in progress.
LOGO Project Critique: Monday, Nov. 17
By Monday, NOV. 17 all components of the LOGO Project should be posted to your BLOGs:
Posted to your Design Projects Blog:
- Original 4 LOGOs
- Next 20 LOGOs (10 variations on 2 of the original 4 LOGOs)
- Final 11"x 17" LOGO poster design
Posted to your Design History Blog:
6 example Logos (1 by Saul Bass, 1 by Paul Rand) w/ a few words explaining what the logo design is saying about the company (or object of the logo design)
ATTENDANCE DURING CLASS CRITIQUES IS MANDATORY
NOTE:
LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM STUDENTS NOT PRESENT DURING THE CLASS CRITIQUE
Design Projects Blog:
What Should Be On Your Design Projects Blog by 12.10.8:
-Tutorials:
6 attempted tutorials w/ comments on usability and links back to the original tutorial
-Typography and Composition:
3 exercises:
1. Single Letterform
2. Figure/Ground War
3. Depth and Texture
-Shape,Color, and Composition:
5 exercises
-Saulbassified Movie Poster
-Movie Poster
-Exhibition Poster
-LOGO project
-CD Package Design and Poster
At least 2 of the projects must be corrected after the class critique, and the correction must be posted along side or immediately above or below the first design by 12.10.8
Also due on 12.10.8 will be a CD of all of the original .psd or .ai files (not .png)
Design History Blogs:
What should be on your Design History Blog by 12.10.8:
- 6 iconic designer posts
- 3 movie posters (1 modern, 1 post-modern, 1 post-millennial)
- 3 exhibition posters for art or design exhibitions at major museums
- 6 logos (1 by Saul Bass, 1 by Paul Rand)
- 3 music (CD or album) covers (1 modern, 1 post-modern, 1 post-millennial)
(make sure to link back to the original file)
(make sure to include the date and designer)
(make sure to include information about the presentation and assignment appropriate responses)
12.10.8
YOUR BLOGS
Please make sure that there are links to all of your class blogs
in a link gadget to the right entitled "links to my class blogs" on all of your blogs
Poster Design for Exhibition
Choose an artist from the LIST and find examples of the artist's work. Design a poster (legal size dimensions) for an exhibition of the artist's work in the UWF Gallery of Art and Design.
Included in the design (not necessarily in this order):
-colors, composition, spacial relationships, and font choices characteristic of the artist's work
-show dates (duration of exhibition is one month, choose any date before January 2008)
-artist(s)
-show title
-curator (use anyone from the art department such as either our current gallery director, Raina Benoit, or our Dept. chair, Dr. Suzette Doyon, or, if the work is French, our resident art historian specializing in French Art History, Dr. Barbara Larson (or one of your professors or...))
-sponsor (use a local Pensacola business/corporation/organization)
Not included in the design:
-visible pixels from low res. web graphics
Post to Design Projects Blog Wed.9.8.8
Prep for Exhibition Poster Design:
Use that google, find examples of exhibition posters designed by artists for movements on the LIST. Post one and include:
-link to original site
-credit artist
-date created
-movement advertised
-describe 1 aspect of the work that is characteristic of either the artist or the movement described
Post to Design History Blog by Wed.9.8.8
WEEKLY POSTS (due MONDAY)
Post to DESIGN PROJECTS BLOG:
Each week you should find a tutorial on the web that deals with a new topic either in PHOTOSHOP or ILLUSTRATOR and do it. Post the results and links us back to the original tutorial. Credit the website and, if possible, the creator. Tutorial results are not guaranteed, and if the tutorial is a flop, please say so.
(The post does not have to be a success, but an attempt)
Total of 6 tutorials should be attempted by the end of the term.
6 TOTAL by 12.10.8
Post to DESIGN HISTORY BLOG:
Choose an artist/designer from the LIST ( link to the right on this page ) and find an image from of the artist's work to post. ( be sure to include a link to the page where you found the work, and of course always be sure to credit the creator )
Include the following information:
1. name of artist
2. date work created
3. name of movement artist is associated with
4. describe 1 aspect of the work that is characteristic of either the artist's work or the movement in which the artist takes part
Post to Design History Blog on Mondays, 6 due by end of term
6 TOTAL BY 12.10.8
Choose a logo from the web and describe what the designer is trying to communicate about the brandee and how.
Post to design history bog, 6 due by end of term, 1 should be Saul Bass and another a Paul Rand logo
6 TOTAL BY 12.10.8
Movie Poster
For this project we will take a movie made in 1945 or earlier and update it for a contemporary audience, in poster form. Change the name, change the actors, alter the plot, etc., - come up with an idea for an update/remake and create a poster for this new film. Take photos from the web (saving your links, of course), scan them from magazines, wherever - but NOT from a preexisting movie poster design. For this project we will work with a combination of photoshop and illustrator. There are no constraints on the look of the poster, however you should consider the exercises we have completed in the class and apply the design problems we have solved to the problem of communicating movie content through design.
8.5 x 11
due Wed.9.24.8
Post to Design Projects Blog
Prep for Movie Poster Design:
Find 3 posters on the web and post them to your blog (include links to the original site), 1 modern (made before 1960), 1 postmodern (made after 1960), 1 post millennial.
Describe the poster in terms of the goals of the designer. What does the design say about the film and how does it say this? How is the design trying to get you to attend a screening, what tools is she using? What are the difference in strategies that might relate to differences in the times they were produced?
Post to Design History Blog
due Mon.9.22.8
Saulbassification
Saul Bassify a contemporary movie poster. In other words, remake it in the style of Saul Bass:
Consider the defining characteristics of Saul Bass's movie poster design.
posted by Mon.9.22.8
Post to Design Projects Blog
Shape, Color, and Composition Exercise
Create 5 designs using only 3 - 4 shapes each, only 3-4 objects on the page. Think of each design as a QUICK digital thumbnail SKETCH for a movie poster/advertisement. Each design should represent a different film genre (see link)
Between your 5 designs you should use at least 1 of the shape types listed in your text:
Basic Geometric
Complex Geometric
Structured Freeform
Random Freeform
Literal Freeform
(Design Basics Index pp.130-131)
You should use the following methods for creating color combinations:
Monochromatic
Triad
Analogous
Complementary
Split Complementary
(Design Basics Index pp.214-217)
Consider how the size and placement of objects both in relation to the page and in relation to each other effects the design. Each design should use one of the composition principles from the Principles of Graphic Design website (section 3C) to complement the film genre represented:
Emphasis
Balance
Rhythm
Unity
Each design should be 4.25 x 5.5 and posted on your blog along with the film genre, method of color combination, and composition principle used.
Post to Design Projects Blog
Typography and Composition Ex.3
Depth and Texture:
Using a single letterform, create a dynamic composition with depth and texture.
1. no focal point in the center of the page
2. use a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 values: black, white, and three greys
3. design should have a sense of depth
4. design should have a feeling of texture
Typography and Composition Ex.2
Figure Ground War:
Create a design in black and white, using multiple letterforms, in which it is impossible to distinguish the foreground from the background.
1. use as many letters and shapes as you need
2. all letters and shapes should all overlap
3. your design should use equal amounts of black and white
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