Due: 8:30, Monday

goal: refine your composition

To Do

1. 1. refine your letter
   2. choose and object
   3. watch

1   Finalize: your letterform

1. 1. Refine your letterforms

Criteria

• • • • • • square format?
          • does the design use shape or line?
          • does it have an equal amount of black and white?
          • does it demonstrate a figure-ground principle? (does the eye shift back and forth between

2. Once completed, create a negative version.

A negative version is exactly the same except that it uses the opposite color.

• • • • • • What was black will be white, what was white will be black.
          • The positive and negative versions MUST be exactly alike except it reverses color
          • One way to do this is to “invert” your letterform in photoshop
            • Select object  >  Image > Invert

 

 

 

 

3.  In illustrator, create a 7 x17″

fill with 50% black

place both versions on the grey

Use a 1 inch border and 1 inch between squares

Save as a pdf

Create a jpg and post on Miro

 

 

 

2   choose: an object

In our next project, we will create an icon from an object that you can hold in your hands

1. 1.  Choose 3 objects that have distinct identifiable qualities that define them.

Choose an object that everyone in the class is familiar with.  to make your icon identifiable

For example, if your object is in the shape of a square without any discernible marks, your icon may be interpreted as a square and not your object

Our icon will work be black and white. do not use color as an identifying  mark

2.  Bring 3 objects or pictures to class on Thursday.

4   watch: how do we see

How to affect what we see.  

1. 1. Watch: How optical illusions trick your brain (5 minutes)

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_s_jacobs_how_optical_illusions_trick_your_brain

2. Add a comment to the Openlab Comments
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