Topic: Composition

Goals: Grids, proportion, and hierarchy

Objectives: Control composition

Focus: alignment, asymmetry, hierarchy

Homework:

1 icon

2 alignment

 

1 Icon: Final

• Revise your icon create a 5 inch negative and a positive version
• Add a 1-point outline to each square
• Center each version on a 8.5×11″ page
• Print and bring to class

criteria: for grading

• follow directions

• perfect craft

• participated in critique to demonstrate understanding

• homework completed

• presented on time

 

2  Alignment with hierarchy

Show 3 levels of hierarchy using size and weight
**Make dramatic scale changes 

Repeat the assignment from last class

Remember:

• • Do not align all your text to the edge of the page
  • Do not circle all text around the center of the page
  • Create alignments
  • Think about reading a page with different types of text,
    title, subhead, text, callout, sidebar, etc.
  • Using less text might help

1. 1. 1. Create 3 different compositions
      2. Use dummy type to align to both horizontal and vertical grid lines
      3. For each composition, create 3 levels of hierarchy
      4. Outline each composition with a 1-point rule
      5. Save as a jpg
      6. In Miro, choose a box that is to the RIGHT of the GREEN rectangle: Alignment 2
      7. Add 3 compositions to one box. Add your name.

• • • • Align dummy type to the grid
      • Use horizontal and vertical alignments
      • Use multiple alignments
      • Do not create a center column
      • Aligning on the edge of the page does not count as an alignment

Where do you place your hierarchy for greatest emphasis?

 

Past criteria

1  Use a grid, 5-column

• • • • • • •  golden ratio proportion
                        we should have a sense of the grid, even when it is not showing

2  Use hierarchy to create a composition based on each proportion system                       •  use at least 3 levels of hierarchy
•  where do you place hierarchy to emphasize the grid?

3 Use alignment

Make sure your text is not centered
check that you do not have the same space above and below

Mass your white space
make sure you have a large group of white space