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Final Exam

FINAL EXAM
We’ll meet promptly at the start of exam period at 2:30 Wednesday 5/22.
THERE WILL BE NO LATE ENTRY TO CLASS DURING FINAL
Bring your printed & trimmed letterforms (in color + proper size) before class starts (we’re not going to have time to trim in class.

Final Project Brief for Reference here

RE-SUBMISSIONS
If you’d like to resubmit any of the previous projects, you have until the start of the final exam period to submit on dropbox here. CREATE A FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME & SUBMIT USING SPECS/ FILE NAMING FROM ORIGINAL PROJECT BRIEF (all of which is linked on this site).

WK 14

IN CLASS
We’ll look at your New/Old tech project Dropbox here
We’ll critique R1 of your Final Project one-on-one
Work in class to refine
We’ll discuss multi-artboard Ai setup and exporting single PDFs

HOMEWORK
Rework & Finalize your Final Project
Submit as single page PDF’s & Print/Trim for class Due at Final Exam 5/22

Submit single page PDFs here

FINAL EXAM
We’ll meet promptly at the start of exam period. NO LATE ENTRY TO CLASS DURING FINAL
Bring your printed & trimmed letterforms (in color + proper size) before class starts (we’re not going to have time to trim in class.

RE-SUBMISSIONS
If you’d like to resubmit any of the previous projects, you have until the start of the final exam period to submit on dropbox here. CREATE A FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME & SUBMIT USING SPECS/ FILE NAMING FROM ORIGINAL PROJECT BRIEF (all of which is linked on this site).

WK 13

IN CLASS
Recap of Photoshop Tools

  • Layer Masks
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Clone Stamp
  • Edit>Transform>Distort

EXERCISE
Download this image.
We’ll walk through touching this up as a group.

Assignment
Introduce Next Assignment
PDF of Assignment here
I’ll follow with Dropboox link to post

Final Project
PDF of Project here
R1 of this (digital only) we’ll walk through this one-on-one in class on 5/8
Final will be due Printed and trimmed during final exam period 5/22

HOMEWORK
Complete Project 05 and submit here
Name file FirstnameLast_P05_NewOldTech_01.png or jpg

phone image

Week 12

IN CLASS
Critique Woodstock Poster R2
Watch Helvetica Part 3

LECTURE
Freelance – Getting the $ more the work

HOMEWORK
Enjoy the break. No class next week: 4/24

WK 11

IN CLASS
Critique Woodstock Poster R1
Watch Helvetica Part 2

NEW TOOLS
Halftone Images in Photoshop (see below for detail)

HALFTONING Step-By-Step
1. Open or create your image in Photoshop

2. Convert to Grayscale
Image-Mode-Grayscale in top bar, click Discard color info

3. Optional – Use levels adjustment layer to add contrast

4. Create Bitmap
Image – Mode – Bitmap in top bar
in Pop Up – Select Halftone Screen under Method, click OK
Next Pop Up – Adjust Frequency (lower freq. equals bigger effect, higher freq. equals more detail)
Shape: round, line, diamond – you can play with any of these

5. Undo and retry if you aren’t happy with it

6. Save image as TIFF, and place in Illustrator (where you can scale, change color, repeat, etc.)

Halftone Example

 

WATCH
Next 30mins of Helvetica (trailer)

HOMEWORK
Round 02 of Woodstock Poster
Submit on Dropbox  AND bring Printed & Trimmed poster to next class 4/17

WK 10

IN CLASS
Critique Printed Gig Poster 01
Type Lecture
Introduce Next Project

WATCH
Next 30mins of Helvetica (trailer)

RESOURCES
PDF presentation of Typography intro

Quick Type tutorial by Adobe

HOMEWORK
Complete a second gig poster. Details below:

  • Woodstock (research the show)
    Details here: https://www.woodstock.com/
  • Must include: lineup for all 3 days
  • Create a logo/lockup for Woodstock 50 (or 50th)
  • Imagery & typographySubmit PDF with crop marks & bleed settings, AND print 11″x17″ for next class
    Submit PDF Here

Project Brief here

WEEK 09

IN CLASS
Look through Photoshop Exercises
Lecture + Introduce our Next Project

NEW TOOLS
Review Masking + Adjustment Layers in Photoshop
Filtering Images/Layers
Selecting Images with Unsplash.com (very high resolution, creative commons photos you can use)
Review type tools in Illustrator
Using both Illustrator & Photoshop together
Saving PDF with cropmarks

PRESENTATION
You can access the Presentation PDF here

PROJECT 05:
Project 05 Brief here

HOMEWORK
Design 11×17 poster for next class 11/13
Print 11×17 in color with trim marks
Submit PDF in this Dropbox folder

Week 08

IN CLASS
Quick critique of Illustrated Avatars on screen

NEW MATERIAL
Introduce Photoshop!

  • Recap of Raster Images
  • Tour of the interface
  • Document Setup/Pixel Dimensions
  • Layers
  • Making Selections
  • Non-Destructive Editing
  • Masking
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Moving layers/images between documents

Screenshot to pasteboard: Cmd+Shift+Ctrl+4
Selecting imagery online (use tools-> size in google search)

RESOURCES
Intro to Photoshop Tutorial

PS tools

 

IN CLASS EXERCISES
Use this image to clone out the deer
Use this image to clip the creature and add a color background
Use this image to make everything black + white except flowers (and change the color of flowers as a bonus)

HOMEWORK
Combine a person/animal and a food by masking 2 found images together.
Save your working file as a PSD.
Upload your image into this Dropbox folder

Example

Week 07

IN CLASS
We’ll take a look as a class, and meet 1-on-1 to work on your Illustrated Avatar
Work in class to finish these. Push much farther if you feel like it’s complete.

New Tools:
Clipping Masks (to use images to fill shapes, or hide parts of other groups/objects/images)
Compound Paths (to make multiple shapes act like 1 shape)
Why Clipping Masks over Pathfinder?

Project 03 PDF + Rubric

HOMEWORK
Final Illustrated Avatar
Put your 2 page PDF in this Dropbox Folder named FirstLastname_P03_Avatar_Final.PDF
You don’t need to print these!