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WEEK THREE Sept 7-11

Review See below

Homework due Friday September 11, (download printed version)

Part One: Review of layers, Adjustments (see tutorials on website).

Using the composite methods we’ve learned in the past two weeks create the
following:

1.Using a personal image and your NAME and CONTACT INFO for a
SELF-PROMOTIONAL postcard 6” x 4” at 300 ppi.

2. You can use a scan of your artwork, photograph you’ve taken or original art in photoshop. Please don’t use found art on the web.

3. Please print out and crop. (trim to edge of paper.

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Part Two: RESEARCH

From the following list, you will be assigned one type of design to research.
Please submit one to three example and be prepared to talk about them in class:

Things to think about:
What a designer does in this field.
The importance (or not) of image in this field.
The importance (or not) of type in this field.

Research methods: Use YouTube, Google images and other searches, books, the Library web pages, materials found at home, school or other sources.

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT:

  • Advertising design
  • Animated products design
  • Book design
  • Corporate designs for logos, trademarks, stationery, annual reports, newsletters and collateral publications
  • Design of promotional/marketing materials for nonprofit organizations
  • Digital art Exhibition design
  • Film or television titling and on-air graphics
  • Interactive media design
  • Magazine design
  • Museum exhibitions, publications and signage
  • Newspaper design
  • Packaging and label design
  • Studio photography
  • Video or film design and production
  • Web-page design

Layers, type layers, layer blends, healing brush tool, crop tool, Adjustments (Hue/Saturation, Levels, Color balance, Replace color,) and fills, advanced selections,


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