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These are instructions for the next class:

VISUAL QUOTE PROJECT

Phase 1, continued: Continue to refine your visual quote. If you have sketches, tighten up your sketches and think about what tools you want to use to execute your visual quote in digital format. (Final piece will be a jpeg file. Begin to create your design using any application of your choice. (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Procreate, collage, hand drawn elements, collage etc. Each stage of this project should include a paragraph (or more) about your thought process. This is not the final art; it is a work in progress. It doesn't have to be finished yet. Upload this to your Dropbox folder. (Due this Friday, 10/13/23.)

Regular in-person class scheduled for Friday, October 6, 2023 | 2:30pm-5:50pm

There will be no remote or in-person class today.

Please be advised that due to the severe weather conditions, all in-person classes today, Friday 9/29, are canceled, effective 1pm.

Please work on your next assignment:

I've posted the assignment in OpenLab:

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/johnlefteratos-portfolio/2023/09/29/next-assignment-visual-quote-project/

If you have trouble opening the link, here is the assignment:

VISUAL QUOTE PROJECT

Objective of the Project 

Pick a quote from a song, a poem, a movie, or written work and develop over a 6 week period 3 concepts for visually enhancing this quote for a postcard of 8.5″ w X 5.50″ h. Two concepts must have typography or typography with line art. The third concept may contain a photographic image. Writing about your design process for each phase of the project is required. Deadlines for each phase will be provided each week in class and on Blackboard. The project will be done in phases: 

Phase 1: Sketches on paper–photos taken and uploaded to your Drop box folder. 

(Due next week, 10/6/23.) 

Phase 2: Concepts Uploaded as JPEGs to your OpenLab site & presented as JPEGS to Class for Critique. Written descriptions of your design thinking should accompany each concept. A preliminary grade will be given with feedback for improving project.  

Phase 3: Concepts Revised and Final JPEGs uploaded to OpenLab site and print-ready PDFs for uploaded to Your OpenLab site. PDFs should be exported from InDesign as Print-Ready at 300 ppi and follow the production which will be provided.  

-See you all next week,

John Lefteratos

Adjunct Professor

Communication Design

There will bo no remote class today. If you cannot attend class due to weather conditions, stay home.