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

1/13/10

Due to the Artel lecture this afternoon, attendance today is not mandatory.

The lab will be open if you would like to get to work on the second exercise: Figure/Ground War. Both exercises should be posted to your blogs by 3 PM Monday (we will have a little time at the beginning of class for technical issues.) The lab will be open all day Friday, Saturday from 1-5, and Sunday from 1-5 for you to work. Have a great weekend!

Typography and Composition Ex.1 Single Letterfom