Below are examples of past students morphed projects.

Below are

poster

What makes a good poster...?

Rule 1: Define the Purpose

Rule 2: Sell Your Work in Ten Seconds

 Rule 3: The Title Is Important

Rule 4: Choose your colors wisely 

 Rule 5: Many of the Rules for Writing a Good Paper Apply to Posters, Too

Identify your audience and provide the appropriate scope and depth of content. If the conference includes nonspecialists, cater to them. Just as the abstract of a paper needs to be a succinct summary of the motivation, hypothesis to be tested, major results, and conclusions, so does your poster.

Rule 6: Good Posters Have Unique Features Not Pertinent to Papers

 Rule 7: Layout and Format Are Critical

 Rule 8: Content Is Important, but Keep It Concise

 Rule 9: Posters Should Have Your Personality

 Rule 10: You of all people should be proud of your finished product 

 

 

We are all responsible to creating an eye catching/informative poster that announces we are having a yearbook cover design contest . We want it to involve the whole school not just art students. 

Halloween Cards

As you know we need to raise money to help pay for the yearbook. Our first fundraiser other then selling ads is going to be a Halloween card sale along with candy. Students may purchase candy and a card ( designed by you) for one dollar during each lunch period. 
You  are all  responsible for creating 10 cards each.  5 homemade cards and 5 digital cards created in Photoshop. Remember you are CREATING your own design do not steal your images off the internet. If you use a picture form the internet make sure you transform it completely to make it your own. If you do not that is considered PLAGIARISM !! 
Make these fun, silly and scary

Please use markers, colored pencils, magazines, construction paper and your imagination. You may use anything you want in the TAN filing cabinet.

logo and color theory

Each of you will be selecting a logo that already exist and you are going to improve it using Photoshop. We have gone over all of the elements and principles of design, make sure you are using these concepts in your design. 

 Requirements for this assignment are :
Create a new logo in Photoshop
Show all previous logos from past decades of your product 
Explain why the logo today is uncusseful in your eyes
Explain why your new logo is more successful.

We will be watching a video on how to create a logo. 

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Good/ Bad Photography

What makes a good photo?

It is not about the subject matter.

It is about the COMPOSITIONAL layout. ANYTHING can be an interesting subject matter.

A viewers eye path is very important. Your viewer will first be attracted to the brightest subject in your image, once they have found the image you want their eye to travel around the photograph, but not out of the frame.

Lighting can also make or break a photo.    

Objective: you and a partner will travel around Vermilion high school and take photos of all elements and principles of design. Make sure you are conscience of what makes a good photo and try 

Element and Principles of Design

Just because you have a graphic design computer program on your computer does not mean you are a graphic designer. You first need to understand the principles and elements of design in order to create something pleasing to the eye. 
Please get out your handout from yesterday as we watch the video on discovering which elements and principles are used being used.

Along with the Elements and Principles of design you as graphic designers need to be able to pick out a good photo from a bad photo and also need to be able to capture a good photo.  Below are examples of both good and bad photos. 
Lets talk about what we see.
 

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Welcome Graphic Designers

This is your class blog site. I will be posting assignments and Photoshop tutorials on here so make sure you check it frequently. Not only will we be working on the yearbook but we will be fundraising and exploring the world of graphic design and Photoshop. This is a fun class, but you must manage your time with projects or you can get very overwhelmed.