Class Info:

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Category: Influence

To-Do: before class

Prepare to describe your work in terms of hierarchy and scale.

Topic

Topic: Design Influence
Goals: Experience the varied universe of design
Objectives: Explore and expand on influences

 

Critique

Review hierarchy assignment

Workshop

• • Present your research 

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Essential elements

What does your influence stand for?

How has it influenced you?

• Avoid designers that focus on one thing, like only book covers, or illustration or photography.
•  Look to designers that have created varied solutions

 

Lecture

Review: align type to the grid

What is alignment?

Proportion systems: design precedents of grid design

gridded posters

more grids

Guide to using Grids

   

 

 

 

 

 

Activity: Alignment

Workshop: align type to the grid

grids, proportion, and hierarchy

Align to the grid

Meaning

Apply the parameters from the last two assignments

Use text based on your influencer

Use a typeface based on your designer

Apply 3 levels of hierarchy

Place emphasis on a quote
your quote should not be more than 15 words.

Also include

• designer’s name
• era
• primary location
• medium

 

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

3  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?

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

Review & critiques homework

 

 

 

Homework

due 3/9

due 3/16