branding (Week 3)

Students are all finished up with their logos from their graphic design, and everybody passed their first assessment involving the use of technology to analyze elements and principles of a design and communicate ideas.  We have created our digital portfolios and posted our first projects along with reflections.  Next week we will look further into identity design as we look at branding practices, and will create a brand for ourselves as we make a set of promotional materials.  We will wrap things up by creating a branding guide or identity standard for our imaginary companies.

Here are some of the early sketches from some of the identity designs.

Above are some of the digital versions that I thought turned out well.  These students also did a great job following the design process in class!

It's been a great start to the term and I'm excited to see what else everybody can come up with!

identity design (week 2)

Students worked hard at finishing their research assignment this first week of class.  Now we are ready for our first design.  We will be discussing graphic design as visual communication, then will be learning about identity design.  We will use technology to analyze elements and principles of identity designs to communicate and express ideas.  Students will go through the design process to create a logo that they will use to brand their work for this term.  Much of the work will start off with paper and pencil sketches.  We will make small changes on our work based on feedback from our class.  We will then learn to utilize software to create our product digitally, then will upload it to a class portfolio.

Students will turn in their sketches, digital portfolio, and reflection fora a 20 point assessment.

2016/2017 School Year is Here!

Welcome to graphic design class!  This is a great class that allows you to combine art, design, and technology to change the way people look at the world around us!  Tuesday we will have incoming freshmen and will hand out our student handbooks, get familiar with the high school, get set up with our computers and will do a project where we can get to know each other.  Wednesday the upperclassmen will be back and then we will go over the syllabus and get to know our whole class.  I'm looking forward to seeing what creative ideas you come up with this term and learning new ways to create great works of art!