graphic design: term 3: week 2: Design Process

We've made it through our first week of graphic design!  Students have turned in their papers where they researched careers and fields of graphic design.  We are now working on our design process which includes the following steps:
1. Purpose
2. Research
3. Planning(outlines, sketches, draft, feedback)
4. Production

Your students should be able to explain what each of these steps mean, and what we do at each stage.  We have been going through this process for the first time with our first design, which is an identity design.  We are creating logos using our initials.  Students played some logo identification games for their research, then we discussed what rules we feel we need to follow to create effective logos.  We then sketched ideas on paper.  We did a gallery walk to give everybody feedback, then went into small groups to have conversations about our work and what direction we want to go with our projects.  The next step is to create our designs on the computer.  We are learning to use our digital tools at the same time as this, so we have a lot of new things going on at once here.  Below is a brief tutorial of a logo design we will do together as a class.

Once we are finished with our digital design, we will create portfolios on crevado.com, then will upload our design with a reflection to be graded.  Students have been doing a great job so far, and I'm excited to see how these first designs turn out!