finishing things up (week 8)

Graphic design students will be demonstrating their photoshop skills by teaching the class how to make emoji designs they have created.  We will then look at environmental designs and photomanipulations.  Finally, we will do some work with the First Things First graphic design manifesto then it will be time for our next term.  This has been a lot of fun in this class these 9 weeks!

Photoshop Skills (Week 7)

Students have been doing some good work while finishing up their typography designs and learning about layout designs.  We will be finishing up layout designs with some movie posters.  Students will be learning about minimalism and looking at some work of Saul Bass.  Students will then create a Saul Bass or minimalism-style poster inspired of their favorite movie or t.v. show.  We will then be doing a variety of work that will allow students to demonstrate their ability to use the tools we have been learning to use this term.  Below I have some pictures students have turned in that I thought turned out nicely.

Good work students putting together these projects and also using the design process!  Keep up the good work!

Layout Designs (week 6)

Next week graphic design students will be learning about the components of layout designs.  We will use a variety of collateral designs, magazine covers, and poster layouts.  Next week I will post some of the typography designs the students made.  I was really pleased with what they came up with!

Typography (Week 5)

Students did a great job of finishing up their identity design unit, and I have some of their great work included below.

 

 

 
Students will start learning about typography next week.  We will create a variety of different typography projects, and will look at some different practices that are being used in the field of graphic design.  One graphic designer we will learn about is David Carson.

I have really been impressed with the students so far this term and look forward to seeing their skills improve as this term goes on!