Class Info:

This agenda provides a detailed outline to give a clear vision of the day’s class.

Category: Influence

To-Do: before class

Prepare to describe your work in terms of graphic shape

Topic

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

Prepare to describe your work in terms of graphic shape

Critique

review final icon designs

Lecture

http://designatlas.info/

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due on Thursday 3/8

Who are your influences?
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd1200d052-f2022childers/2022/03/16/design-influence-resources/

You might start here:
https://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/%2Bcollections%3A%22Just%20Type%20Two%22/_/grid/relevance/asc/0/48/90
https://www.peoplesgdarchive.org/

Revise your choices of influencer

Who are your influences?

• Revise your influencer based on today’s discussion
• Choose 3 design influencers that interest you

• Look to designers that have created varied solutions and systems––that work with typography.
• Avoid designers that focus on one thing, like only book covers, illustration or photography.

1. 1. 1. Create a separate page for each influencer
      2. Add basic information about your designer

• • • • • • name
          • dates
          • location
          • medium
          • quote

4  Choose 3-4 images of your designers work

5. Upload to Miro to discuss on Monday, 3/6

Resources:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. http://designatlas.info/
            2. https://www.peoplesgdarchive.org/
            3. https://archives.design/
            4. https://www.politicalgraphics.org/
            5. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiW2ULDFeIm_OuvwhM2lygxwhoNddrEFk5tYI9zbldw/edit
            6. https://www.rit.edu/carycollection/graphic-design-archive
            7. https://designarchives.aiga.org/

 

 

 

Activity

Workshop: align type to the grid

What is alignment?

Proportion systems: design precedents of grid design

gridded posters

more grids

Guide to using Grids

Open new InDesign doc

8.5×11″

NO MARGINS

NO facing pages
NO automatic text box

5 columns
NO GUTTERS

InDesign

Layout > create Guides

5 columns
NO gutter

5 rows
NO gutter

Use your text tool to create a new text box

Dummy text will fill your box

Select all
Font: Helvetica
size: 10
lead: 12

Align your text in the grid

Copy your text box

Alter your font, size and lead

Align your text in another grid positions

Create “alignments” by using 5 text boxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity: class 2

Alignment Workshop: align dummy type to the grid

grids, proportion, and hierarchy

Align to the grid

Proportion

1  Use a grid, 5- or 3-column

• • • • • •  golden ratio proportion (your 5-column grid) (image below)
          • rule of thirds proportion (your 3-column grid)

2  Add dummy type to emphasize the grid
                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

 

Next week:

Preparation for hierarchy

How we see:

How we see: visual attention science. start at 2:50 – 9:30

https://www.linkedin.com/video/live/urn:li:ugcPost:6821094794379501568/

start at 3 minutes – 9.30 minutes

 

Homework

Icon

Influence

Due 3/1

Due 3/6