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This week we are continuing to learn about Identity Design, and will be working on putting together some business stationery for our imaginary graphic design companies.

Purpose: Create business stationery for your graphic design company (letterhead, business card, and envelope).
Research:  Look at class examples and do image searchesPlan:  Come up with procedures how you will budget your time with this project.Sketches:  Make several sketches for each element of this project, draw Mock-ups on paper.Draft/Critique:  Class 5 Square ActivityProduction:  Create it with photoshop, post it to your capzle with a reflection.
The dimensions for the project are as follows:letterhead 8.5 x 11 in.business card 3 x 2.5 in.envelope 9.5 x 4.124 in.

This week's Photoshop Ninja Achievement Badge Winners!

Great job to all the graphic design students learning essential photoshop skills that will help them to be more successful this term!  Congratulations to the students who have earned two points, which earned them their Hong-Kong Phooey Photoshop Ninja Achievement Badge....
Grace, Levi, Will, Cade, Shalee, Will, Aspen, Jessica, Richard, Katei, Vanessa, Sissy, Ian, and Bryce!

Also, Congratulations to Shalee on earning her Michaelangelo Photoshop Ninja Achievement Badge!

Congratulations to you all!  You should be very proud of yourselves.  You are well on your way to becoming complete Photoshop Ninjas!

Graphic Design Student of the Week (Week 1)

Congratulations to this week's graphic design student of the week winner!  So many students started off the quarter the right way by really doing a great job with the whole design process, and we had a lot of great creative logos.  I really liked this week's winners logo because of the colors and hand-drawn style of the actual logo.  Great job and keep up the great work!

Creating an Identity

This term we have started our identity design work.  Each student is creating a logo for their imaginary graphic design company, using their initials.  This also gave us a chance to model how to properly use the design process (purpose, research, plan, sketches, draft/critique, and production).  I have looked at our paper draft copies of the student work and was really happy with what I have seen so far.  Here are a few examples that I thought were the most creative and well-done so far in the project.

We are learning the ins and outs of photoshop and hopefully by the end of the week will have our logos put into digital format.

Photoshop Ninjas!

We have completed our sketches and drawings for our logo project as we are learning about identity design (I will post pictures in upcoming week).  We are now ready to create our logos on the computer, but first, we need to learn a little Photoshop!

This term I am trying something new.  Students will have a list of Photoshop skills that I feel are essential for a strong foundation of the program.  Students will demonstrate me these various features throughout the term.  When they have successfully demonstrated a feature to me, they are awarded points.  Finally, after a certain amount of points, they will be recognized with Photoshop Ninja Achievement Badges.

Here are the badges...

Hong-Kong Phooey Badge  (2 points)

Michaelangelo Badge          (6 points)

Steven Seagal Badge         (10 points)

Bruce Lee Badge              (12 points)

Chuck Norris Badge          (16 points)

Yoda Badge                      (20 points)

Students will be recognized for badge achievements each week along with the Graphic Design Student of the Week!  Have a great rest of the week!  Photoshop Ninja Training starts.....NOW!

Term 3 Graphic Design

I hope everybody had a great Holiday Break and a Happy New Year.  Now that we've had a chance to take a break from school and recharge our batteries we should be ready to attack the second half of this school year!  Graphic Design students will learn rules, procedures, and expectations, then will get started with an introduction to the design process.  By the end of the week we will be creating our first design.  Students will need a sketchbook/journal every day and will need to be able to access their school email.  Be sure to be prepared and have these materials ready to go.

Graphic Design Student of the Week (Week 8)

Final reflections have been turned in and graded!  This week's graphic design student of the week did a great job with her typograph inspired by the First Things First Graphic Design Manifesto.  This student consistent with her work ethic all term long and turned in quality projects.  Another remarkable note is that this is her THIRD DESIGN STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARD!  Great job all term, and thank you for all of your hard work!