Tuesday, April 20 – Pattern Design PDF due by 8 p.m. in Google Drive
Wednesday, April 21: 8 a.m. live Critique for Pattern Design
Wednesday, April 28: Work day for Music Poster – email check in
Tuesday, May 4: Music Poster due in Google Drive by 8 p.m.
Wednesday, May 5: live Critique for Music Poster and Last day of class!
For your Pattern Design project you are working on a Pattern Collection –
Three DIFFERENT patterns that work within a theme.
Think of all the different ways to find connection – theme, color, line, shape, texture.
Your final PDF file should have 4 artboards.
Mock ups are a powerful tool for designers to use to visually present their designs to the masses. You may choose any direction of where you see your pattern being used – ideas include but not limited to –
Textiles – pillows, bedspreads, towels, etc
Clothing – shirts, hoodies, swimsuits, etc
Products – backpacks, notebooks, mugs, etc
Packaging – tea, wine labels,
Here are some resources for free mockups – but lots of others online too.
Adobe Stock (10 free images)
https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/mockup
If you’d like to challenge yourself to something more complex – try Dimension and this tutorial for 3D packaging visualization.
It’s our last project… Let’s make it great!
Adobe Illustrator is for illustrators.. In this project, you need to communicate your “illustrative style” by starting from a blank document and using the pen tool, in addition to others, building a cohesive poster design for your favorite band. The poster illustration should be seen as an illustrative ad, marketing a particular performance/location.
Once you decide on your band/group/solo artist, work in your sketchbook to play around with composition, type and color palette. Your aesthetic direction is very important in this project!
Saul Bass: Master Graphic Artist
Charley Harper: Graphic Artist and Illustrator
Music Festival Branding Campaign
Typography + Music Illustration
Fort Lauderdale Designers: Iron Forge Press
Requirements:
Choosing a band of your choice, design an illustrative advertising poster combining all of your acquired technical skills so far: THE PEN TOOL, image trace, pattern making, typography, shape builder, the blob tool, recolor artwork, layer/file management, etc. Is an “effect” something you would like to try?
This could be your dream concert, favorite band, with a fictional location/time and date.
Design elements to consider: Composition, basic principles of design (Repetition and Rhythm , Scale and Proportion, Directional Force, Balance, Emphasis, Contrast), Typography, Color Theory.
Size requirements – larger: 13 x 19″ – 18×24″
Great tutorial from Adobe:
https://creativecloud.adobe.com/cc/discover/article/how-to-make-an-album-cover-in-adobe-illustrator
Books to reference:
1000 Posters from Toulouse-Latrec to Sagmeister
Naive: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design
*** LINK FOR 60 FREE ILLUSTRATOR BRUSHES ****
Link to Just Like Being There – documentary on Gig Posters (watch it! On Netflix)
BELOW you will see some beautiful student examples from previous semesters!
DUE: Tuesday, May 4 – in Google Drive. Last critique and meeting: WEDNESDAY, May 5
Watch these Video tutorials:
Create a digital pattern repeat in Illustrator using 2-5 colors within the file.
Requirements:
1. Experimenting with: Basic tiling, brick, hexing, and mirroring.
2. Present a ” Pattern Collection” for critique consisting of 3 different patterns with one unifying theme
Things to think about:
1. Color palette/harmony
2. Execution: What do you see this pattern being used for?
3. Tech: pen tool, shape builder, arrangement of layers, (overlapping shapes) composition, Recoloring Artwork, scale tool, etc.
4. Stylistic: Abstract, non-representational, representational, whimsical, geometric?
Online Research:
Spoonflower – print on demand by textile designers and artists.
Michelle Weinberg: Miami artist and designer
Marimekko: Modern Scandinavian design
And, of course, we can’t talk about wallpaper design without talking about the amazing Arts and Crafts artist and designer, William Morris.
Here are some links to his famous designs:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Books referenced for this project:
1. Grammar of the Ornament by Owen Jones
2. “Over and Over: A Collection of Hand drawn Patterns” by Mike Perry
See below for amazing former student pattern collection examples!
Today will be a lab day for Infographics – work from home to gather information and plan your project
These are the steps I would recommend for this project:
Next week we will also do a technical demo on how to use the “Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork” feature in Illustrator so you can be sure you are certain about your color decisions.
Color support:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/adjusting-colors.html
Extra AMAZING link for professional Data Visualization examples
https://visual.ly/product/infographic-design
We will meet live at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 3 – please have your project started and have questions ready!
Hello students! With this Illustrator typography project, you might want to consider downloading custom typefaces! Here is a great website that has thousands of options – DaFont
How to install:
1.Sift through to find a typeface you like
2. Press the “download” button
3. Find the file in your “downloads” – double click the .otf or .ttf file to instal in your FontBook.
4. Once installed in your FontBook – you can use the font on any platform on your computer!
Infographics Design Project: Charts, graphs and maps:
Continuing our studies of visual communication, our next assignment is to produce an infographic on a subject matter of your choice. You can approach this from anything to a scientific manner to a humorous/witty manner. Charts, graphs and maps are all part of graphic design – we see them as accompaniment to magazine articles, newspaper spreads and web graphics. Publications from anything such as the NYTimes, to National Geographic, to Maxim use infographics, not to mention countless information based and news websites. Try using a mind map for brainstorming to develop your design approach for this assignment.
Anything from bar graphs, to pie charts, to Venn diagrams, to “pinned maps” to an original idea is acceptable.
You may use hand drawn elements, vector graphics, simple lines and shapes or a combination of several.
See these links for visual research: See Pinterest “Infographics” or “Graphs” Also take a look at Cool Infographics for inspiration.
This site Pop Chart Lab has a bunch of beautiful vector based charts and infographics
Also check out this artist, Chad Hagen for his “Nonsensical Infographics” which I personally love.
First things first: Scour the internet or newspaper or a magazine for an article you think would be appropriate for illustration through an infographic. The best articles include statistics, literal communication devices and images as well as a sense of “measuring”.
Ideas to consider: 1. Monetary worth 2. Usage Statistics 3. Compare/Contrast (Something vs. something else) 4. A “How to” 5. Dissecting an object/idea/concept 6. Top 10 ____ 7. Percentage of _____ 8. Demographics.
Element your design must have: 1. Chart or Graph or Map – or combination of the three. Design must combine images and numbers to balance a sense of measuring.
Second step: Technical: Be sure to watch the following Adobe videos on
Illustrator Charts/Graphs tutorial
Final design: 11″ x 17″ (or longer) vector graphic design.
Due date: TBA
Also – you must turn in a hard copy/web link of the article (if applicable) you are illustrating.
Check out this link for great resources on color design and accessibility
These are great reminders to remember
One of the best articles I found: Accessibility and Gradient Design
Here are some ADA compliant gradients that I specifically thought were helpful:
7 things you should know about ADA compliance
EXTRA extensive and comprehensive PDF handbook on “Access Ability”
Thank you, Michell for asking a great question! Hope this helps.
Hey students! Great class today to introduce some basic concepts in Illustrator. Remember that you can check back with the recording in Blackboard or see the links below or tutorials on the left menu if you get stuck.
Wednesday, Feb. 10: Live critique at 8 a.m. on Collaborate.
Please upload your .pdf file by Tuesday at 5 p.m. so I can get it onto our Critique Hub for viewing.
See you then! And know you can email me anytime with questions!
Adding image and artistic effects
Some great videos
Grain effect:
Clipping Masks with inserted Textures/Brushes, etc.
Making a Clipping Mask with a transparent texture from Photoshop is a great idea too. This way you can apply the texture to the interior of block text, a closed path or a shape.
https://ncoughlin.com/posts/illustrator-apply-texture-to-vector/
Vintage Halftones
Glowing – Inner and Outer Glow:
