Graphic Design 1 Topics
May 12th
Final exam review will be online only today
April 28th
This week, we're going to work on creating a cover design for next year's AJHS Student Planner. The best design as selected by the office staff will be used for the cover.
Requirements:
- Apache Junction High School -or some variant
- 08-09
- Student Planner
- Creative and affective slogan, motto
- B&W + 1 color (usually gold)
- Dimensions 8.5" X 11"
- Resolution 200ppi
- No Clip-art
Suggestions:
Use Photoshop or Illustrator for your design. Try to incorporate photographic images in some way.
April 21st
Return to your "Survival Kit" project. Finished image due on Friday.
If you don't have a specific background for your survival kit, download and use this file.
- download the file.
- remove the objects in the middle.
- select file>merge and locate your object files.
- select each object you want to merge into the scene - work on one at a time.
- re-size and rotate each object to fit the scene/view.
- render your image - this may take a while.
April 14th
Taking a short break from the "Survival Kit" project to work on a 6 trait writing rubric assignment.
Imagine you are a graphic designer creating a tutorial for your website. Write a tutorial of how you created one of the objects in your survival kit. Pay close attention to organizing the information by using opening/closing paragraph, headlines and sequential steps.
We will be analyzing a good example of a tutorial in class.
Rough draft due beginning of class Thursday.
Final draft due end of class Friday.
April 7th
Continue working on your "Survival Kit" project
March 31st
Review materials and mapping tutorial
Brainstorm for and begin building objects for the "Survival Kit" project.
- 1 object - of your design
- 1 object - from a photo or multiple photos
- 1 object - to scale - from measurements
- 1 object - from the internet
March 24th
We are continuing our exploration of 3D Design using 3D Studio Max. This week, we will complete the Materials and Mapping tutorial. When we apply materials(color/texture) to 3D objects and then render them, they tend to look more realistic. Making things look lifelike is one of the ideas that 3D designers typically shoot for. But even when the outcome is supposed to look cartoony, there's lots of room for experimentation with the type of colors and textures you can apply.
Are you tech savvy? Can you tell the difference between real and fake?
Take the Autodesk Fake or Photo test