4 Logo Collection

All of the head phones were left out. If this happens again, no head phones will be made available to people to use. They get taken and damaged by other classes. There are several more tutorials coming up, so plan to put away the headphones in the future.

• White on Black Logo design finished up
• Spot Color and Pantone Color next
• Finish up Traced Scans-I will start grading these during break.
• Turn-in your Gallery Walk feedback from Thursday.

Master Path & Peer Feedback

Work on your tracing until 8:10.

Next:

You will need your sketches:

• Look through your sketches and find a design that meets the following criteria:
• clear message about the type of business-Graphic Design for this assignment (required for full credit).
• eye catching
• memorable
• You will have 20 minutes on the Master Path (Master Path-defined as a black on white design used by graphic designers to create collection of designs based on the same logo) .
• Open an Illustrator document set to 8.5" x 11"
• Select a font close to the sketch you have chosen.
• Set the type size to 200 pt
• Type out your letters (don't not drag out a text box. Simply click and type) and apply create outlines once the spelling is double checked. A tracing is another option using a scan and the pen tool.
• Move the anchor points to reshape the letters to fit your design. 
• Move the letters to the position that you want using the direct selection arrow (the white one)

• Gallery Walk Activity
• Working with your row of 3 to 4 rowmates (the 5 students closest to the walls will work together), leave out a piece of paper to give advice to each rowmate on the following topics:
• Clarity of the business message (does it tell you they are a graphic designers?)
• Is the arrangement dynamic? (Explain why or why not. If not, what do you recommend?)
• Is it a black on white typographic logo? (explain the changes needed to improve the design)
• Make adjustments based on the feedback from the Gallery Walk and be sure to save your work into your H drive.

The remaining time can be spent on the tracing and the tracing game from yesterday.

Term-end Wrap-up

Current

• Turn in sketches for the Agenda Cover.
• Design Agenda Cover

Coming up

• Finish up Cross Country Design
• Finish up Red Raider
• WI State Park Sticker

Completing the POS

Please check you email for the rubrics for the POS. A few people have messages about items that need to be completed or fixed.

The POS needs to be shared with Mrs. Hoch. Please create a PDF of the front and back cover. Save it in the provided PDF folder in the N drive.

4 weeks left

We will be working on State Cross Country this week.

• Final Sketches
• Threshold Exercise
• Color Layers

Please schedule yourself for IE on Tuesday and Thursday if you still need to complete the Red Raider. They should be ready for grading by Friday.

Wrapping up the week

#1-Complete the Cross Country Sketches

• Get feedback
• Hand in

#2-Work on the Red Raider Design

#3-Create a distressed  version of the Red Raider

Career Day

2nd Hour-8:25-9:15

Go to 4th hour next

State Cross Country Designs

Program of Studies should be in the turn-in folder now.

State Cross Country to do list:

• Work on sketches
• Start the distressed design tutorial
• get feedback from Peers not sitting near you
• turn in reviewed XC sketches

Gallery Walk

Combination logo lab time.

• keep developing your idea.
• are you finished? Create another possible design.
• the Gallery Walk will start at 10:40

Gallery Walk Critique-3 people not in your row

• Is the logo well organized and and eye catching?
• Is the logo one that the client could not easily create in word, or other word processing program?
• Does the logo meet the criteria set up by the client?
• Is this design flexible enough to use in a variety of situations?
• Based on the 4 questions what suggestions would you give the designer.

Combonation Logo

• Peer Feedback
• 3 people
• not sitting in your row
• Circle your final choice and hand your designs back in
• Begin developing your design in Illustrator
• could scan
• could just jump in and create

Combination Logo Requirements

10 Sketches due by the end of class on Wednesday

Logo Requirements:

• WRPS School Nutrition and a icon (This will become their Trademark)
• Must fit in a square
• Able to use it in multiple sizes
• Must promote the program
• Websites
• Facebook
• Menus 
• Flyers
• Target Audience is K-12 students
• Any colors
• WRPS is copyrighted and must use the provided colors
• Think bright and eye catching
• Slogan is an option. Be creative
• Icon
• fruit
• vegetables
• fresh foods
• Keep It Simple

4 Typographic Logos are due by the end of class on Tuesday in the "N" Drive.

Adding Color

The Master Path and the White on Black Logos look good!

Remember today to save as from your Master Path. Do not change the Master Path!

We will be looking at color today.

• Spot Color 
• 3 Color Pantone Color
• Presentation templates

If you finish early, begin working on the WOW tutorial.

Catch up Day

The Gallery Walk assignment has been graded. A handful of people did not answer all this questions, or did not offer constructive feedback. Otherwise, everyone did a nice job on this assignment. We will continue to do this throughout the term. Be sure that you are using the feedback to improve your design.

Scan & Trace is graded. Many people did not hand in this assignment. With that in mind we will be looking back at the designs and learning about guidelines. The guideline are a great way to better organize you designs. Everyone has an opportunity to use them to improve their tracings, turn them in for a final time.

Font Manipulation is also graded. Several people did not complete all the requested tasks. Also several people did not turn this assignment in at all. 

This is a great time to check your grades, ask questions and make improvements.

Coming up:
-Spot Color
-3 Color Pantone

Master Path

Saving Issues
The trace and scan needs to be finished up. The final document must include the template and the tracing.
Today is a good day to get this finished.

The MASTER PATH...

Task #1-Use Illustrator to create a typographic logo for yourself.  This is for a design business for yourself.
-It should reflect who you or your business are...edgy, trendy, sweet, bold, Gothic, etc.
-It can be as simple as your initials with the word Design or more complex like a full company name.
-It should be eye catching.
-It should work well large or small.

Task #2-Use your sketches, if you have designs that you like.  You can also redesign at this point if you have new ideas after trying some of the tools in Illustrator. Use google to find inspiration, if you are feeling stuck. Be inspired, but do not copy.

Task #3-Make you design fill the page either wide, tall or both.

Task #4-Use only black for your letters.

Sketching Final Day

This is the last day to work on the sketches. They are due at the end of the hour.

Work on Ch.10 after you have completed your sketches. You will be given extended time on the chapter reading.

Designing a Typographic Logo:

-Think back to what we talked about this week regarding brainstorming.

-Think about what the chapter reading described as methods of recording brainstormed ideas.

-Finally, your logo should have 3 characteristics:

1. Easily Recognized

2. Visual Meaning

3. Memorable

  
The sketches will be due by the end of class Friday.  You will have time in class today to work. We are going. Learn how to transfer and collage as an alternative to sketching.

Be sure to create at least 5 transfers and 5 collages in your sketch collection.  Place a star by the transferred sketches. They can be difficult to distinguish for pencil sketches. 

Check out dafont.com and see if you can find inspiration for an original font of your own.


Due Friday:

Chapter 10 Guided Reading
50 logo sketches

1. Pen Tool Test
-This is a timed test based on using the pen tool. It is not graded, but it is a pretest of what you know and and later what you have learned.

Timer

2. Guided Reading...due Friday!!! Chapter 10 Turn in form for Ch 10

3. Videos-We are going to be moving into our first design problem.  As we do this we need to understand more about typography and logos.

4. Logo Sketches

Wrapping it all up

Website construction will continue through next Tuesday.
Wednesday, Seniors will present their websites first followed by everyone else.
Thursday we will finish up any presentations not given on Wednesday.

Fill Those Folders

Today and Tuesday we will continue to create and prepare files for the websites. 
On Wednesday we will being using Dreamweaver.

Websites

We are transitioning into websites for our final unit.
All the handouts you need are located in the Google Drive. Two of them must be filled out completely and handed in to receive full credit for your finished website.
Two options are available for this assignment:

• Fine Art Portfolio
• Completely Pointless Website
• this option must creatively present information that people would not be interested in knowing.
• No celebrities
• No name brand products or logos
• Use things in unconventional ways
• Funny is good. Inappropriate is not.

An amazing clearing house -no games please or I will remove you from the internet.

POS for Web

Sketches are due now. Get feedback and hand in your designs.

Wrapping up Illustrator

Past Due:
-Program of Study

Due Next:
-Red Raider (4 piece logo)
-Distress Text Tutorial
-Threshold Study
-State Cross Country

Red Raider

Grades are posted for the 6 week conferences. Please double check them.

Program of Studies Cover-Front and Back will be graded next. Be sure your design are complete and in the turn-in folder.

Red Raider

• Based on the red wolf
• include unique facial markings
• does not have the heavy neck ruff of the northern wolves
• Original designs only and no clip art looking designs
• Final will contain 4 designs
• Head shot
• Full Body
• Typographic Logo
• Combination logo of head and type
• Turn in 5 documents in your personal folder in the N drive turn-in
• head
• full body
• typographic
• combination 
• all 4 together 

Assembly

1:35 Assembly Schedule
TIME	PERIOD	DURATION
7:35 - 8:35	1ST	60 min
8:42 - 9:44	2ND	62 min w/announcements
9:48 - 10:18	3A LUNCH	30 min
10:21 - 11:21	3A CLASS	60 min
9:51 - 10:51	3B CLASS	60 min
10:51 - 11:21	3B LUNCH	30 min
11:28 - 12:28	4TH	60 min
12:35 - 1:35	5TH	60 min
1:45 - 2:52	Assembly	67 min

Mrs Hoch...

Followed by... 

Work time for Program of Studies sketching

Traced scans should be completed and turned in by today. This should be placed in the turn-in folder on the N Drive.

There are still a few people who need to turn in transfer, collages and a few whole sketchbooks.

Corrections can be made on the chapter worksheet once I grade them. Did you hand your's in?

The MASTER PATH Typographic Logo is one of several final pieces for this unit.  We will start creating it today. It will be due early in the week after spring break.

Great start on the sketches so far!
Keep it fresh and interesting. 
Try fitting letters into one another.
Feature multiple sizes of letters in several logos.
We will try 2 layout methods, collaging and transferring on Today.

Take a break now and then and work on the guided reading for Chapter 10. The chapter and the handout are in the Google Drive. The handout is due on Tuesday. 

Graphics Wrap-up

Websites

• you have through Thursday to work on your website. They will not be presented unless Mrs. Lent feels that the class is not working.
• Websites are turned into the N Drive as follows:
•  There is a folder in there for the websites
• Create a folder here with your name on it.
• Copy your asset folder and all of its contents and place it in the turn-in folder with your name.
• Check that the webpages in this folder all work before you call it good!!!!!!
• Work on the follow, if you finish your website:
• the Jerry Marshall Awards program cover
• the State Parks sticker
• more pages for your website
• If you turn in any missing work, you must email me or it will not be graded.

To do first:

-View actual examples of agenda covers from over the years at Lincoln, and those from other school. 

-Research designs online.

-Create 10 sketches for the agenda design.  These designs should be icon/image and font based.  Include The Lincoln High School and the year at minimum.  You can also include quotes, images and designs.  The sketches should be basic, mostly showing the placement or layout of important design elements.
-Get feedback 

-The design can be based on Lincoln, Lincoln High School or visually exciting design.  Design something you would want to use.

-Keep the 10% rule or use original photographs or drawing for your work.

-Be clever and think out of the box and off of the line.

A winner was chosen...

Thank you and your students for the designs! The email came at a perfect timing because we had a meeting yesterday afternoon and were able to vote.  Our top favorites were Madisyn Podoll, Malcolm Holliman, Ryann Swanson and McCartney. The committee wanted to go with a design that was unique and not similar to others we have had in the past and chose McCartney as this year’s t-shirt design!!

The committee was so pleased with your student’s talent and hope you would be willing to help design again next year. 

Rebecca Porter MSW, CSW

Wood County Human Services Department

715-421-8636

rporter@co.wood.wi.us

Photoshop for Design

We are finishing:

• State Cross Country (by the end of the week N Drive and Hard Copy)
• Run the Rapids (I am sending the Design I have this week. Other can still be sent this month)
• Jerry Marshall (by the end of term)

Starting now:

• How to use brushes
• Complete one of the 2 Photoshop letter form tutorials
• Complete the Photoshop desktop tutorial
• Both by Wednesday

Next:

• POS for Web
• 10 sketches
• landscape layout ((measurements TBA)
• Lincoln High School
• 2016-2017
• Can use photographs you've taken
• Could find a great PS tutorial
• Photoshop
• Agenda Cover
• 10 sketches
• Portrait layout (measurements TBA)
• Lincoln High School
• 2016-2017
• Photoshop, Illustrator or Both

Agenda Planner

To do first:

-View actual examples of agenda covers from over the years at Lincoln, and those from other school. 

-Research designs online.

-Create 10 sketches for the agenda design.  These designs should be icon/image and font based.  Include The Lincoln High School and the year at minimum.  You can also include quotes, images and designs.  The sketches should be basic, mostly showing the placement or layout of important design elements.
-Get feedback 

-The design can be based on Lincoln, Lincoln High School or visually exciting design.  Design something you would want to use.

-Keep the 10% copyright  rule or use original photographs or drawing for your work.

-Be clever and think out of the box and off of the line.

Programs and Layout

Your agenda design is a tool that students can with them throughout the day.  What would be cool or interesting to you and your classmates?

Use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or both.

Dimensions: 5” wide & 8” tall

Use guidelines to create a ¼” extra space.  The area within the guideline will fit the cover.  The purpose of the “bleed area” is to accommodate the rounded corners of the agenda cover.

This is a full color design.

It should have layers to create depth.  Find texture and paint brushes online to create visual interest.

Design dimensions are as follows:

·         300 dot resolution (155 lines)

·         5” x 8” (pull in margins)

Photoshop

Let the photoshop experience flow!

Nice work on the tutorials! These tutorials are meant to help you to learn new possibilities for enhancing your text or shapes in your designs.

We today we are trying out the brush tool in Photoshop. There are a lot of interesting brushes, and many ways to change how they look.

Upcoming projects:

1. Program of Studies for the web

2. 2015-2016 Agenda Cover

3. Website Design

Other Projects:

-Jerry Marshall Program

Past Due Assignments:
-POS
-State Cross Country T-shirt (several people did not turn in sketches, so they only earned half credit for working on the design.)

Regroup

Past Due:
-POS

• needs to be printed with your name on the back 
• placed in the N Drive

Due this week:
-State Cross Country

• Critique
• Place a copy of your design to date in the temp critique folder

-Run the Rapids

Coming up:

-Photoshop

-Jerry Marshall Program (end of the month)

A little bit of Photoshop

-Print the POS in color with name written in pencil on the back, and hand in to me.

-Turn in any sketches for State Cross Country t-shirt that were not turned in last week.


-Practice/final cross country photos will be created today:

--bring a camera or phone (I have a couple that could be borrowed)
--I need volunteers to run around (shorts would be a bonus...Yes! I know its cold, but think of it as suffering for your art!)
--You may want to bring a coat as we will be outside for about 20 minutes.
--More pictures can be taken this week as needed

In the design we can use 3 colors and like to incorporate the following:

Run the Rapids

5K Walk/Run

12^th Annual

If the design is chosen, we provide a paid entry fee for the event (includes a shirt) as well as provided additional shirts for family members in the past.  We would also recognize the individual prior to the start of the walk/run.  If you know of anyone that would be interested, please have them contact me or send me their design (along with contact information) to:

Wood County Human Services Department

Attn: Rebecca Porter

PO Box 8095

Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54495

We would need to have the design by the end of February.  If anyone would like additional information that could see our Facebook page or http://runtherapids.wirapids.org

Can everyone dig into their H drive and place a copy of your pen test into the Google drive turn in folder? Thank you!!!

Program of Studies
-Get feedback from classmates as we did for the last assignment
-Scan the design and turn in the sketches for grading.
-Choose a design to begin creating in Illustrator.
-You have this week and some of next week to work on your design(s)

Icon/Typography Logo is due by friday.

We will be talking about the about the State Cross Country Logo next.  Again, you have a real client. Copyright laws must be observed as these designs will be sold to the public!  There are 3 cash prizes for this project of $50, $25 & $15 for 1st,  2nd and 3rd place designs.