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Independent Project

Note from Mrs. Donovan:

This is your chance to do whatever you want and to think and develop your skills! Once you turn in your proposal (which must come first!!!!) and get my approval for the project you may not switch your project. You may improve upon it or change things in order to solve problems but you may not change the intended piece. Take the time to really think about it but remember this is up to you….Please avoid statement like “I don’t know what to do” and “I hate this project” as these are common statement when faced with creating your own work. Those statements usually come out when you are not truly thinking about all of the possibilities...and remember your first idea is usually not your best. You should work on advancing your skills or learning something new. I do not want to see something too easy!

Assignment: To wrap up the school year I want you to develop an independent project that you can work on over a 2-3 week period. You are to develop a concept for a project that is not too close to something you have already done. You may take something that you have done and use it as a jumping off point but it must be changed to become either much more advanced or twisted into something new. You may work in mixed media, digital art, build a mock up, etc.

Grades:

1. Written Proposal (project development grade) I want a sketch or google doc describing your plan so that I may approve it and be able to understand it without you "just telling me."
2. Final Piece (project grade) overall grade on final printed or built piece
3. Artist Statement (project development grade) a final written piece posted to your blog with image of your final project using the Artist Statement Handout as your guide

Matchstick Books-Type/Image Relationships

EU: Designers work with relationships between type and image when developing their layouts to create a dynamic effect.

EQ: What are the four type/image relationships? How can you use the relationships between type and image to advance your design?

4 Type & Image Relationships

"When type meets image, there is automatically a dialogue between them, and each can pull the other in many different directions"-Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell

Book: Type, Image, Message: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop

Authors: Nancy Skolos & Tom Wedell

Separation: TYPE and IMAGE operate independently from one another

Fusion: TYPE and IMAGE merge into one entity

Inversion: TYPE and IMAGE trade places and the type takes on pictorial
properties or the image takes on typographic qualities

Fragmentation: TYPE and IMAGE displace one another

Assignment: To design and build an accordion layout matchstick book 

which highlights 2 type and image relationships

The layout of everyone's book will look like this

Format: Ten Panels, 3 x 4.5 inch format attached to boxes. Panels designed with at least 2 type/image relationship, running theme througout, color theory, and 1 4-sided cover design 

Document Set up: Get Illustrator template from Mrs. Donovan to design within or copy over. 
Required: 

1. Typography showing at least 2 Text/image relationships
2. Images 
3. Texture Overlay
4. Design Elements
5. Running pages
6. Single Pages

Color: You should choose one color group to work with (3 main colors and variations of those colors in light and dark)

Fonts: Two or three fonts that work well together (contrasting= thick vs. thin, bold vs. light, serif vs. san-serif, decorative vs. simple, or all of the above)

Images: Images can be pulled from the internet or your own. They should be manipulated in some areas to pull in to your design concept

Design: Some design aspect should bring the panels together to push a cohesive look when the book is pulled together.

Texture Overlay: Bring in at least one texture from the web that you can overlay somewhere to add to your design using blend modes

Infographic-Illustrator

EU:  An information graphic is a graphical depiction of data and information which can be compared to a mini research paper on any topic designed as a visual 

Infographic=data visualization

EQ: How does a designer take information on a given topic and use this information to effectively design an infographic? How can the information be visually organized in a unique way?

Check out this video: How to Create Infographics Part 1

Steps: 

1. Decide on a topic
2. Narrow the topic down to a specific focus
3. Start researching and gathering information (keep a word doc with the sites you have used for research as you go so that you can site them at the bottom of your design later)
4. Take the information you have gathered and break it up into categories or groups
5. Start sketching a visual idea to be created in Illustrator
6. Develop ideas for small icons through  your research which can be used in your design
7. Sketch a layout for the entire graphic which shows your visuals, a title, and the information placement as well as a specific size
8. Start Designing
9. Choose a color theme (stick to it throughout for a cohesive look)
10. Make sure to use grid theory (like your magazine) and alignment
11. You may use Photoshop only to add fx to text or to a texture into the design

Assessment: (2 Project Grades)

You will be graded on the research (layout and icon sketch, google docs information and citations) as well as the overall design

1. Brainstorm/Sketch
2. Research 
3. Creativity
4. Software/Design
5. Citation
6. Reflection

Magazine Layout-Dispersion Effect

EU: Designers work using a grid system when designing layouts for publications to successfully combine imagery and typography (three type levels).

EQ: How can you create a dispersion effect in Photoshop and successfully use that design within a magazine layout to promote a specific subject matter. 

Unit: Publishing Design

Assignment: (2 Grades)

Grade 1: Using an original or internet image, create a dispersion effect to be used withing a magazine layout

Grade 2: Using a grid system, design a layout to complement and work alongside your your image by sketching out your plan

Grade 3: Design your layout on the computer using Photoshop and/or Illustrator

*along with grid systems we will also be looking at text using the character palette in Illustrator as well as text wraps

Your design must Include:

• Grid System
• Design effects
• Dispersion Image
• Page numbers
• Magazine Name
• Article title
• Highlight areas
• Text boxes
• at least one text wrap
• at least one additional image

Horizontal layout size-16.75 x 10.875 inches

Dispersion Effect Tutorial-Click Here

Layout samples

Digital Art: Music into Art

Objective: Create and Design a digital abstract piece of artwork inspired by music with a focus on pattern development, shape/form, and color

EU: abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colors, and textures.

National Standard: Visual Art/Creating

Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using contemporary practice of art and design. 

EQ: How can you, as a designer, look into the world of synesthesia to create a digital work of abstract art?

Kandinsky

Composition VIII

1923

Peter Balkov

Assignment Steps: 

1. Choose one of your favorite songs to inspire your work (appropriate for school)
2. Start by listening to the music with your eyes closed and begin to figure out what you are seeing, when you see it, and break apart the sounds and rhythms that you hear. 
3. Brainstorm on paper the colors, the shapes, and the composition you may start with
4. Using Illustrator and/or Photoshop, begin to build your design (size is up to you)
5. Work in varying levels to push the concept

Assessment: 

1. Rough Draft: Hand sketch or quick computer sketch
2. Overall Design
3. 1 page written reflection (use google docs to share with me) that is copied and pasted to blog post with design discussing the following questions in no particular order. Do not copy and paste the questions. I would like them in an essay format. 

• What song and artist did you choose? Why?
• When you closed your eyes could you see color and design? 
• Did certain parts of the song stand out to you over others? 
• Were there certain parts of the song that you felt strongly about illustrating?
• How did you decide on your particular composition?
• Describe some of the shapes, patterns, and colors you chose and why.
• Do you think that you were able to get the image in your head into an artwork?

Helpful Resources/Links:

How Designers Get Influenced by Music

Synesthesia-Artist with Entangled Senses Paints Musical Explosions

Painting Music: Rhythm and Movement in Art

Kandinsky: The Painter of sound and vision

Youtube Video-Painting Music

The Meaning of Colors

Elements and Principles of Art

10 Awe-Inspiring Examples of Abstract Art

Note from Mrs. D: This is absolutely not an easy assignment. Getting something out of your head onto the page is harder than you think. It is so important to really spend some time to listen to the music, to visualize, and to sketch out some of your thoughts before you begin. 

Tattoo Design

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

EU's: 

1. Media arts ideas, works, and processes are shaped by the imagination, creative processes, and by experiences, both within and outside of the arts. 
2. Media artists plan, organize, and develop creative ideas, plans, and models into process structures that can effectively realize the artistic idea.
3. The forming, integration, and refinement of aesthetic components, principles, and processes creates purpose, meaning, and artistic quality in media artworks. 

EQ's:

1. How do media artists generate ideas? 
2. How do media artists organize and develop ideas and models into process structures to achieve the desired end product?
3. How do media artists improve/refine their work?

Assignment: To design and develop your own to using both Illustrator and Photoshop

Objectives:

• Pick two of your favorite things to create a composition and idea around
• Create an original design using both Illustrator and Photoshop to add color
• Color must show airbrushing techniques and value
• Line weights must vary to show interest
• Must show texture in one piece within the tattoo
• Live tracing may be used in no more than 30% of your piece

Steps: 

1. Read this short article - How to Design your own Tattoo 
2. Brainstorm ideas and layouts (how would your ideas piece together?)
3. Draw a base to scan in and build over or begin to create piece in Illustrator using only black or deep blue line
4. Vary line weights and add in pieces of texture
5. Bring final design into Photoshop to apply color through airbrushing (Do not use gradients for all, blend through use of the paintbrush)
6. Class Critique
7. Refine design and color
8. Print on temporary tattoo paper (design must be flipped backwards for printing)
9. apply tattoo and photograph
10. Post both design and photograph to blog with a short reflection