Category Archives: Digital Design 1

May 26 – May 29, 2015

Assignment:

Google has hired you to create a logo for this month’s website.  Each letter has to be a different shape/object. You may add a background.  All objects and background must be school appropriate.  Save logo in your magazine folder as GOOGLE.

Document size 8.5 x 11

***DD2 class add the logo as a page to your year long magazine.

May 22, 2015

Free Style Friday.  Using what you’ve learned create a collage of your favorite things. Fill the document page. Change the opacity, add strokes, etc. to make the images “stand-out” from each other.  Use school appropriate items only. Save in your free style folder as:         “Things I Like”      Document size: 8.5 x 11

 

***If you have to take the EOC you should be studying using Gmetrix, Study Guide, or Quizlet (review assignments in January for the Quizlet lessons to study)

May 18 – May 21

Assignment

Create an ad/cover for one of the following, your choice:  Book cover or CD cover for an Artist/ Band.  Your Ads must be a design of your own researched internet-photos, quotes, and titles totally from scratch.  Your Ads must be school appropriate. The following requirements for each ad are listed below:

Book or  CD cover ( 5/18 – 5/21)

  1. Document size 8.5 x 11
  2. A background—(your original: one you’ve created)
  3. A photo (may have smaller photos that shows other artists or the  Book Author included on the Cover)
  4. A Title
  5. A Quote——“this can to be your own made up Quote or a quote from the book or a song.
  6.  Must be at least 9 layers
  7. Be creative (design, styles, etc.)
  8. Save document as “Book Cover or CD Cover ” in your Magazine folder.

May 11- May 15, 2015

You’ve been hired by Cooper Ad Agency to produce 2 ads. One will be a food product and the other one will be a travel ad for a country of your choice. Your Ads must be a design of your own researched internet-photos, quotes, and titles totally from scratch.  Your Ads must be school appropriate. The following requirements for each ad are listed below:

Food Ad  ( 5/11 – 5/13)

  1. Document size 8.5 x 11
  2. A background—(your original: one you’ve created)
  3. A Food photo (may have smaller photos that shows other foods or artists included in the Ad)
  4. A Title
  5. A Quote——“this has to be your own made up Quote for the food product”  Not what you’ve already seen.
  6.  Must be at least 9 layers
  7. Be creative (design, styles, etc.)
  8. Save document as “Food Ad” in your Magazine folder.

 

Travel (5/13 – 5/15)

  1. Document size 8.5 x 11
  2. A background—(your original: one you’ve created)
  3. A Country of your choice to visit.
  4. A Title
  5. The pictures/text in the ad must show the reader things about the country and why it’s a great place to visit
  6. A Quote——“this has to be your own made up Quote for the Country. ”  Not what you’ve already seen.
  7.  Must be at least 9 layers
  8. Be creative (design, styles, etc.)
  9. Save document as “Travel Ad” in your Magazine folder.

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                                                           EXAMPLE:

May 4 – May 8, 2015

If you need to finish your Magazine Cover you may do that first…..

Assignment:

You need to design a Music Soundtrack  cover using Adobe Photoshop for the Movie Poster you created earlier. Your Music cover can be based off of an existing Music cover but design your own photos, title and song titles or create your own music cover totally from scratch. . Your Music-soundtrack cover must be school appropriate.

Save this document as: Soundtrack  Cover in the MAGAZINE Folder.

Your document  must have:

  1. Document size 8.5 x 11
  2. A background
  3. A cover photo (may have smaller photos to show other artists included on the soundtrack)
  4. A Title
  5. All songs on the Movie Soundtrack
  6. Issue date
  7. Issue price
  8. Barcode

 

Your Music-soundtrack cover will be graded on if you included the above elements and how you carry out Unity in your soundtrack cover.

_____Unity can be achieved by carrying out a common theme in the type styles, photos, story titles and descriptions. Do all the parts work together?

_____Think about readability, can you read the type against the background? Is the type style readable? Are the sentences too long? Are the titles descriptive enough to make you know what the article is about? Does the type size signify the importance?

_____Does the photo or photos support the theme? Does the photo catch your eye? Is it too busy or too simple?

_____How is your effort and craftsmanship? You will need to be selecting, cutting, pasting and cropping. Does your cover look professionally neat?

_____Layout, how did you arrange all the elements? Is the type all lined up flush left, right, centered? Is the type over the picture or a background?  Did you add a banner with the issue date,  web site, and cost? Does the layout make it easy to read or confusing?

 

 

 

April 27- May 1, 2015

Assignment:

You need to design a magazine cover using Adobe PhotoShop. Your magazine cover can be based off of an existing magazine, for example use the layout and name of Teen magazine, but design your own photos, titles and story lines, or create your own magazine totally from scratch, around an interest you have. For example, create a magazine based on Animals, Shopping, Sports, Fashion, Music,or Fossils, etc. Your magazine cover must be school appropriate.

Go to your Magazine Ad folder and rename the folder “MAGAZINE” save this document as: Magazine Cover in the MAGAZINE Folder.

Your document  must have:

  1. Document size 8.5 x 11
  2. A background
  3. A cover photo (may have smaller photos to show other features included in the magazine)
  4. A Title
  5. Several story line titles
  6. Issue date
  7. Issue price
  8. Barcode

Your magazine cover will be graded on if you included the above elements and how you carry out Unity in your magazine cover.

_____Unity can be achieved by carrying out a common theme in the type styles, photos, story titles and descriptions. Do all the parts work together?

_____Think about readability, can you read the type against the background? Is the type style readable? Are the sentences too long? Are the titles descriptive enough to make you know what the article is about? Does the type size signify the importance?

_____Does the photo or photos support the theme? Does the photo catch your eye? Is it too busy or too simple?

_____How is your effort and craftsmanship? You will need to be selecting, cutting, pasting and cropping. Does your cover look professionally neat?

_____Layout, how did you arrange all the elements? Is the type all lined up flush left, right, centered? Is the type over the picture or a background?  Did you add a banner with the issue date,  web site, and cost? Does the layout make it easy to read or confusing?

 

April 21-24, 2015

Assignment:

You will create a magazine Ad using Photoshop.  The Ad can be of your choice for examples: a makeup product, tires, a specific car/truck, an Event, an electronic product, etc. Ad must be school appropriate.  The Ad will be graded on the following requirements:

  • Make a folder called “Magazine Ad“
  • size 8.5 x 11
  • Topic/Title
  • Informative information
  • Graphics
  • Creativity –use skills you’ve learned
  • Save the document as “Ad” in your Magazine folder

April 20, 2015

LHS 4th Grade has requested our help. They are doing a fundraiser and would like for us to design a LHS logo to be put on a hat or visor.  The following are the requirements:

1. document size 6 x 6

2. Your own creation

3. A slogan for the back edge of the hat or visor strip

4. color choices will be blue, gold, or white

5.  save the logo in your elementary T-shirt folder as:  Hat Logo