Topic: Graphic images

Goals: Communicate through form

Objectives: Visual representation

 

Homework:

1. icon: digitize your icon

 

review of icon process

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Reminder:  subtract your sketched icon from your letter

Use layers

• • • • • • • letter
            • icon
            • 4 white rectangles to crop
            • 1 point outline

If your letter is black, your image must be white
•work with shapes, not lines.
•Focus: figure/ground and asymmetry

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1. 1. Create your icon and letterform in Illustrator
      • 5-inch square with a 1-point outline
      • Remember to use the 4 white rectangles to crop (see the letterform assignment for details)

  Refine until your icon fits this criteria:
  ****you will probably need to redraw to fit this criteria 

A. The image is the color of the background
If your letter is black, your background and all of your image is white.
  Or, reverse the colors.

B. The image subtracts from the letter.
It uses the counter-form of the letter and does not add to the letter

C. Your square image uses form only, NO line and has a 1-point outline.

D. Your image is square, asymmetrical and not centered.

2. Save as a jpg or make a screen shot

3. Create another variation and save.

4. Continue to refine you have 4 varitations that fit the A-D criteria above.

5. Print your 4 sketches. With pencil, add a check for each criteria (A-D) to each page
If your icon does not fit ANY of the criteria, go back and revise.

Failure to complete this step will result in incomplete homework

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. Bring your 4 sketches with checked criteria to class.
REMEMBER: you final sketches must fit all criteria.