ART 219 Digital Concepts: Structure
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Week #6
Short Writing Assignment: due today (Oct. 3, 2013) |
What you have completed already (weeks 1-5)
- PhotoShop: magazine cover
- Illustrator: vectorized posters(for an outdoor area), more than 1 composition
- 1 mounted project
- 1 typed & printed paper, including copied sources (due today)
*started planning our next project: "Typographic Art"
What we are doing today:
Pass around Attendance Sheet
*Give back mounted "Project A"
( please put large sheets of tracing paper over your mounted projects from now on )
*Talk to students individually about grades
- look at "You Want a Social Life, with Friends" - Kenneth Koch
http://www.youtube.com/embed/gjXHRUlKe_M
Here's the words:
http://buoy.antville.org/stories/355406/
Working on "Project B" [rough draft(s) due next class]
- Experiment, like a child opening up a box of crayons
- demonstrate a few more fun, Adobe Illustrator, things:
Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow…
Why should you never rasterize...?
Area Type Tool vs. Type on a Path Tool
Why should you never use the "vertical type tools"
Type: Color & Opacity
*hierarchy: an arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness
What's "Lorem ipsum"
Lipsum.com
Colect & Look at papers about "Art Books"
- Look at some art books
What is next:
( Due: Week #9, Oct. 24)
Using the work from this class, you will be creating an 8.5x11 (or 8x10in.), self-promotion booklet.
- Think about the cover, and the type & images.
HOMEWORK:
(due next class, Oct. 10)
"Project B" rough drafts ( We will look at them in class)
- Bring in Ai files, and .pdf copies