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This Week:
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Please have all your ASSIGNMENTS ONLINE, and have a link on your wiki page to your blog. And do this all by Wednesday, April 29 at 5pm. Also, if for any reason you can't get your work online, drop off a disc of your work in my mailbox (AT 812, in Sheena Orr's office).
FINAL - TUESDAY APRIL 28, 10:30 AM - 1 PM (probably won't take that long). Present your Final Project to the class.
Another neat multi-touch app. (Learn how to do that here.)
Things to keep in mind as you design your final project - Remember, you're combining TEXT and IMAGE in a DESIGN SPACE.
Design Space:
- Full Bleed or Borders?
- Is there BREATHING space?
- Is there a GRID you're designing against? (doesn't need to be rectangular grid)
- Assymetric or symmetric design?
Type/Text:
- Is there a clear distinction between Display (Title, main heading) and Body text?
- Is there CONTRAST (light/dark) between body text and background?
- If the background of your body text is TOO BUSY (visually active), BLUR it (in PhotoShop)
Image/Graphics
- Are you using Bitmaps and Vectors for what they do best?
- Are images MASKED in some way, or do they have ugly BORDERS?
Previously on DIG 3110
Two other resources: Communication Arts (magazine), and FontShop
Design Anarchy book, on Adbusters.org. (click on 'Experience the Book')
More information on the Manifesto/Final Project - see the Assignments page.
Wrapping up the Sequenced Graphics assignment, and consolidating all your material into your Web Presence.
Some lessons to learn from Banksy.
Visiting Artist
The fantastic story of the Chinese grass-mud horse !
Didja like the textures? Here are some fantastic textures - aerial pictures of the earth.
More on Clipping Masks in Illustrator.
Working with text blocks in Illustrator.
Some examples of the world of Sequenced Images With Text under Assignments
Your feedback on your stickies is up - enter your 'z' number (capital z plus 8 digits - no extra characters or spaces), hit return. If you haven't linked the wiki yet - PLEASE DO SO!
You can TURN OFF the email notification feature, and then you WON'T get dozens of email notifications whenever someone edits something on the wiki: Log in, in 'VIEW' mode, click on 'Pages & Files', click on 'Wiki Settings', click on 'Notifications & RSS', and then DE-SELECT 'Enable email notifications for this wiki'. You're done!
Tuesday, HAVE YOUR PHOTO MONTAGES READY TO SHOW & SHARE!
One last old school photomontage (circa 1977):
(image size: 44 KB)
Here's the full sized 1200dpi scan for you to experiment on: Scan1200dpi.zip
(image size: 3.5MB, or 3,500 KB - almost 80 times bigger than the web-friendly image)
Two more photomontages, one of the most famous ones of the 20th century, and one not so well known (click on my name at the bottom of the page, then on "design" and then the dot under '1984').
(plus, another version of that first one: smaller, and larger image mosaic. plus, a list of who's in that montage.)
OK, you should've gotten an email, your INVITE TO THIS WIKI. Please set up an account, select your password, and CREATE YOUR (WIKI) HOME PAGE!
1 - Click on Create a page on the menu on the upper right.
2 - Name your page - - first & last name, but NO SPACES (Use underscores).
3 - Choose a template - - please select course_template. That will give you the course banner and main links.
4 - Click on the Create Page button.
5 - When the page pops up, change the title to '(Your name)'s Awesome Home Page" or something like that.
6 - Click on the Save icon on the bottom of the page. You've now created a page!
7 - Now, click on the YOUR PAGES link below the top banner, or in the sidebar on the right.
8 - Click on the EDIT tab on the top of this page. * * * * SPECIAL COURTESY FEATURE (bug) ON SAFARI * * * (Might also happen on other browsers, too) If you see 'Loading' under the Pages and Images and files tabs on the right bar on the page, RELOAD the page (apple-R on the Mac, Command - R on the PC). You should see a bunch of pages listed, including the one you just made.
9 - On the Your Pages page, SELECT one of the 'Your name here' placeholders. Type your name there, and SELECT it.
10 - On the list of pages under Pages tab on the right, click on the NAME of your page. Click on the Save icon on the bottom of the page. Test the link - it should bring you to the page you created earlier. You've just created a link to your page from the YOUR PAGES page of the Wiki!
And one more note - - the Wiki will only allow one person to edit the YOUR PAGES page at one time. If you get a message that 'so-and-so has stolen the link to this page' or something of the sort, just wait a few minutes until that person is done, then add your name to the page.
Can you all do this by Tuesday? Should be fairly straightforward. Good luck!
ALSO FOR THE WEEK: Keep working on your VISUAL VOCABULARY (i.e., your Sticky Notes).
COURSE OVERVIEW
What the course is about?
Here's a brief intro of 'Multimedia', and here's another: an Overview of Multimedia (PDF format, 3.7MB - - a little dated, but what this course is based on)
Production Component - Digital Tools
Design Component - Theory and History
Interactive Multimedia Sequence - 3110, 3711, 4713, 4930, 4943
Welcome to The Wiki!
The Lab - Not Used to a Mac - what do I do?
Intro - Visual Literacy, Design, and Vocabulary
Frameworks for Design
Your Visual Vocabulary
Part 1 - Bitmap Fundamentals (PhotoShop)
Bitmaps and Vectors
Color Modes and File Formats
PhotoShop Work Flow: Big Picture
Photoshop Interface - Getting to know your way around it.
Inputs: photos, digital media, native sources
Selection: Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand
Cut, Copy, Paste
Layers: Duplicating, Arranging, Opacity, Merging, Layer Modes, Masks
Image Adjustments:
Image Manipulations: Filters & Effects
Actions and Automation
Output: Master files, saving for particular applications
Making a Layer Mask
More Advanced Techniques and Recipes
• Custom Header for Wordpress Blog
• Background graphic for web page
• Inline graphic for web page
• Navigation Bar for web page
Part 2 - Vector Fundamentals (Illustrator)
Illustrator Big Picture: The Bezier Curve
Letterforms and Type
Clipping Path
Pathfinder
How Illustrator and Photoshop work together
Compound Paths
Illustrator, Text Layout, and Typography
Trace Bitmap
Part 3 - Visual Design History
Graphic Design History Overview
Modern Art (Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism)
DADA and the Avant-Garde
Typography and Futurism
Dada photomontage
Illustration and Poster Design (1905-1930s)
Constructivism
DeStijl
Logo Art and Symbols
Bauhaus
The New Typography
Design in the 50s and 60s - 70s
International Design: the Formation of the New York School
More Swiss Design
The Blue Note Album Covers
Impact of Advertising and Art Direction
Visual Directions in Modern Art - Late 1940's to the 1970's
Rise of PostModernism
Digital Design
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