Friday, April 15: NO CLASSES – SPRING HOLIDAY
Friday, April 22: Lab day for Typography Project
Friday, April 29: Last day of class + Critique on Typography Project: CRITIQUE at 9 a.m.!
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Installing typefaces
Hello students! With this Illustrator typography project, you might want to consider downloading custom typefaces! Here is a great website that has thousands of options – DaFont
How to install:
1.Sift through to find a typeface you like
2. Press the “download” button
3. Find the file in your “downloads” – double click the .otf or .ttf file to instal in your FontBook.
4. Once installed in your FontBook – you can use the font on any platform on your computer!
Typographic Self Portrait – Illustrator
Our next project will challenge the following skills:
- Learning basic skills in Illustrator (pen tool, drawing on a path, installing a typeface)
- Creative expression through Self Portraiture
Two things you need:
- A photo of your face
- Text – could be a series of words, song lyrics, a poem, a combination of all
Student examples:
Online examples:
Once you gather your photo and the text you will be using, we will go over basic Illustrator pen tool skills.
The PEN tool – the pen tool is one of the most important tools to master in Illustrator. Throughout the semester you will get better at the pen tool, but only with lots of practice!
Selection vs. Direct Selection
Pen tool basics: add, subtract, convert, handlebars, curves, pencil
Fun interlude: Play this game for a few minutes to practice the pen tool 😉
More pen tool resources:
Other general Adobe Illustrator tutorials
Really good Type on a Path tutorial video
Creative Collage – Photoshop
Mastery of Photoshop selection tools including: Quick Selection Tool, Magic Wand, Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush, Layers.
Assignment : Digital Collages:
Using Photoshop selection tools and the magic wand tool,
make TWO : 8” x 10”collages using sections and pieces of your own original photographs. The two collages can be in the same style/narrative or they can be completely different aesthetics.
Use at least 3-4 different images in each collage – think about how to compose an interesting design with the images that you have. Remember to assess the formal Principles of Design – Balance, Repetition and Rhythm, Scale and Proportion, Contrast and Directional Forces. Be sure to save two versions – a .psd and a .jpg
I’d like your collages to be 75% images taken by YOU. If you need 1-2 stock images – please use pexels.com or unsplash.com for high quality, free images.
Think of a way to create a collage with any of the following themes: 1. Memory 2. Documentation 3. Texture (see above links for free texture images) 4. Fantastical Landscape 5. Self Portrait See Maggie Taylor’s work or Jerry Uelsmann’s b/w photo work for inspiration on fantastical digital collages.
Technical help with selection tools and masking:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/selection-tools-basics.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/making-quick-selections.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/select-mask.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/create-temporary-quick-mask.html
Requirements: (2) – 8″x10″ .jpgs
DEADLINES:
Due submitted to Canvas by Friday, April 1., 8 a.m.
Curated Color +
Steps:
- Visually research a contemporary artist on https://www.thisiscolossal.com/ or Art21. Your selected artist/s MUST be on one of these sites. or included in the contemporary artist list below.
- Curate a Virtual Exhibit of 8-10 images focusing on 2-5 artists working with color as a character.
- To curate your exhibit – research 2-5 artists that you respond to, download and compile 8-10 high quality images, create a title for your exhibit, write an intro paragraph about your “curatorial vision” (this is a short mission of the exhibit) be sure to site your images with artist name, title, medium and year.
- Create a powerpoint, save to pdf and upload pdf presentation to the Canvas
Final Result:
The goals of this project are to be introduced to a contemporary artist as well as major artists from art history, learn different color schemes and address and experiment with color theory.
Historic Examples of Artists who are known for their use of color:
Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh, Piet Mondrian, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keefe
Contemporary Artists that use Color as a way of Exploring the Figure:
Watch this: Nick Cave‘s “Soundsuits”
Wangechi Mutu and the Abstract, Magical Figure
Color Theory Resources:
DUE DATE: Submitted to Canvas – March 18, 8 a.m.
Color + Theory
Hello students!
Below is some resources on Color and Color Theory.
“Theory of Colors” published in 1810: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seurat and Optical Color Mixture
Ben-Day Dots + Roy Lichtenstein
RGB vs. CMYK
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
Complementary vs Analogous
Word Play : Student Examples
Visual Elements + Word Play assignment
Visual Elements: with fine artist reference
LINE: Jackson Pollock, Bridget Riley
SHAPE: Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder
COLOR: Pablo Picasso
MASS: Fernando Botero, Alberto Giacometti
TEXTURE: Vincent Van Gogh, Anselm Kiefer, Chuck Close, Jan Van Eyck, NEW BASICS textbook: pages 18-20
Loving Vincent: the first feature length painted movie!
Book reference: Alphabet: A Miscellany of Letters; A Catalog of Type by Mike Perry;
Over and Over: Patterns by Mike Perry.
Inspiration:
NEW BASICS textbook: pages 18-20
Word play assignment:
- Create a compositional experiment using objects to visually describe each Visual Element. (5 TOTAL)
- Line
- Shape
- Color
- Texture
- Mass
- Using photography, document your visual solution for a total of 5 photographs
Some examples of descriptive words:
Line: curvy, straight, ragged, jagged,
Shapes: round, flat, organic, bulbous, slick,
Color: bright, bold, clean, pastel, or you could go with super descriptive color words like burgundy, maroon, jade, cerulean. I just read the fantastic book The Secret Lives of Color and was really impressed with the amount of color words that we regularly forget.
Mass: considerable, huge, large, substantial
Texture: abrasive, angular, bouncy, bulky, feathery, hatched, icy, layered, piercing, pulpy, ragged, razor sharp, rough, sandy, sleek, swollen, transparent, wavy
INSPIRATION:
Andy Goldsworthy site specific installations
VERY INSPIRED BY THIS LINK (Line, shape, texture, color)
Also see these former student examples of a similar project:
How to Document your Artist Book
Hello students!
Hope your artist book is coming along nicely!
Images: Total: 3-5 photos + one short video (under 1 min)
- One overall of the book – if you made an accordion book, you can photograph it in such a way that we can see the entire book. If you did more of a pamphlet or stab stitch, or anything else, one image of the front/spine of the book is just fine.
- (3-5) close-up images of your favorite pages
- 1 short (under 1 min) video of your book showcasing how it looks as you turn the pages.
- Click on these examples of a short video showcasing an artist book – a video gives us extra information and really highlights the physicality of the book, the object. This can be done simply on your phone- no need for editing, sound, etc – unless you feel into that!
- https://vimeo.com/194634296
- https://vimeo.com/194632997
- https://vimeo.com/194634049
Can’t wait to see what you produced for this first project!
Friday, Jan. 28 – Work on your Artist Book
Hello wonderful artists!
This week you are working from home on your artist book that showcases the Principles of Design. I hope you are off to a good start, have spent the week gathering your design concept and materials and are ready to start creating! Remember, any and all materials are acceptable – get messy! (Here is a fun mixed media piece I created with the same title)
I also did a separate post on being able to see the Principles of Design in Graphic Design.
We will talk about binding today as well.
Need some inspiration? Go back to the original post, check out Pinterest – or see additional inspiration here:
Principles of Design in Graphic Design
Unity and Variety: branding, logo examples.
Scale and Proportion: Pattern Design Stamp design
Scale and Proportion + Repetition and Rhythm: Hotel design
Unity and Variety + Balance + Contrast: Packaging
Scale and Proportion + Repetition and Rhythm : Packaging 2
Repetition and Rhythm + Balance: Illustrative Poster Design
Visual Hierarchy + Repetition/Rhythm: Infographic Design:
LOGOS
- A logo represents a company’s identity and has the difficult task of making a statement while at the same time providing continuity of brand. What makes an effective and powerful logo?
Lets talk about these logos, which Principles of Design can you identify?
And this link for trends in 2019 logo design
Pop quiz: Can you identify these Principles of Design in iconic logo designs?
Design Fundamentals 