Monday, February 22

Class Critique of Project One: Movie Poster Made Completely of Type

Printing with the laserJet 5550dn

Exercise: Color Harmony:

ILLUSTRATOR BALLOON FACTORY

choose from the following color harmonies to color your balloons:

(for a total of 9 balloons, each with a minimum of 3 colors from one of your four wheels)(be sure to label the balloon with the color harmony you choose):

warm hues

cool hues

analogous

complements

split complements

incongruous

triad harmony

tetrad complements

tetrad split complements

Copy and Paste all 9 balloons onto a single, tabloid sized Illustrator document

Wed. February 17

Printing with the laserJet 5550dn.

Class Critique of Project One: Movie Poster Made Completely of Type

No homework (= no blogpost) for this weekend

Monday, February 15

Drawing with the pen tool.

Work in class to finish Project One, due Wed. February 17th.

YOUR SENTENCE Designs

Remember that the integration of the sentence into the design should work with the essence of that design, with the original design strategy.

NO letters can be on the same horizontal.

Strategies for these exercises will come from Chapter 3, Section a of the online flash text:

You are only making two designs, so you cannot use the same strategy twice.

Vocabulary for the Next Blog Post (due 2/8)

Describe how (at least) two of the following elements are used to achieve (at least)

two of the following principles in your blog post for this weekend:

ELEMENTS:

Point

Line

Form/Shape/Space

Movement

Color

Pattern

Texture

PRINCIPLES:

Balance

Proportion

Rhythm

Emphasis

Unity

ELEMENTS and PRINCIPLES of DESIGN

ELEMENTS of DESIGN from the Cornell website

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/element/element.htm

PRINCIPLES of DESIGN from the Cornell website

http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/principl/principl.htm