Craftsmanship Exercise

Project#1

september

no class

For Monday:

1. Find another 15 examples of your subject. Paste them into your journal.
   
   
2. In your journal, draw 20 thumbnails of your subject.
   
   
3. Complete Lessons 1, 2 & 3 in Illustrator text.
   
   
4. Complete the Self Studies in Lesson 2 and 3.

1. Gestalt, Abstraction and Repetition *
2. Review journal sketches
3. Technical questions
   

For Monday:

1. In your journal, draw 30 more thumbnails of your subject.
   
   
2. Complete Lessons 4 & 5 in Illustrator text. Complete the Self Studies at the end of each chapter.
   
   
3. Study Gestalt - there will be a quiz on Monday

Due Wed:
10 designs on the Illustrator template

3:00 Richard Jochum Workshop

For Monday:

20 more designs moved to Illustrator templates

critique - 40 designs in Illustrator

For Monday:

Revisions from critique

30 more designs moved to Illustrator templates

october

All 100 designs finished

critique

Poster Due

critique

critique

revisions

critique

Project#3

Personal Name Tags: total of 12

Given Problems: My name is... and I...
am a chameleon, have got hiccups, am accident prone, love candy, am an acrobat, am a designer.

For Monday:

Illustrator Tutorials: Chapters 7, 8 &9

Decide on the 6 personal themes for your name tags

Create a minimum of 3 thumbnails for each personality (total of 36)

november

Review work

In your journal: Research the following 10 designers.

Write at least 200 words on each designer. Discuss why their work is important to the graphic design industry. (response can be typed, but must be pasted in your journal)

Paste 2 examples of work for each designer next to the written work. (color copies if work is in color)

Dedicate 1 page in your journal for each designer.

Please complete them in the following order.

1. Giambattista Bodoni
2. Neville Brody
3. David Carson
4. William Caslon
5. Milton Glaser
6. Jonathan Ive
7. Aldus Manutius
8. William Morris
9. Wally Olins
10. Paul Rand

Due Nov 4th

Digital Terms

Studio

Critique

Final Project

Project #3 - Due on the server

Design Brief Due

No Class - Thanksgiving Break

december

In Progress Critique

Last Day of Class

Final Critique