Week 3b 2020: Logo Research

Sept. 8 - 11, 2020

Assignment: Logo Research
Details: Research what your logo needs to communicate to your consumers.
Links: https://99designs.com/launch/logo-design/bdcd9bb46fad1420/brief

Background Information
-Name in logo.
-Type of organization or product.
-Target audience.
-Type of Industry.

Visual Style
-Word mark: Organization name in a stylized type/font become the logo.
-Pictorial mark: An image or shape that is easily recognizable is used to represent your business.
-Abstract mark: An abstract shape or symbol in used to convey the values of your business.
-Letter mark: Letters/initials from your business name are used to create a logo.
-Emblem: Organization name enveloped by a pictorial.
-Character: A character or mascot to represent your business.
-Web 2.0: Representing trends from the internet including gradients, rounded corner etc.

Colors

Common associations in Western culture

• Red: Passion, Anger, Vigor, Love, Danger
• Yellow: Knowledge, Energy, Joy, Intellect, Youth
• Green: Fertility, Wealth, Healing, Success, Growth
• White: Purity, Healing, Perfection, Clean, Virtue
• Blue: Knowledge, Trust, Tranquility, Calm, Peace, Cool
• Black: Fear, Secrecy, Formal, Luxury
• Purple: Royalty, Wisdom, Spirituality, Imagination
• Orange: Creativity, Invigoration, Unique, Stimulation
• Gray: Balance, Sophistication, Neutrality, Uncommitted

Cost
- $299 Logo Design.
- $449 Logo Design and Business Card.
- $599 Logo Design, Business Card, Letterhead, Envelop, Facebook cover.

Week 3 2020 Pen Test & Logo Trace

Sept. 3 - 6, 2019

Assignment: Pen Test
Details: Download the Pen Tool test and practice manipulating curves.

Download: Pen Test

Assignment: Trace a professional Logo (25pts)

Details: download a few logos, open them up in Illustrator and use the pen tool to trace and redraw a couple of logos.

Week 2 2020: Floorplan

August 31 -  September 4, 2020

Objective: Learn how to create and move shapes

Assignment: Nameplate.ai
Description: Using the pen tool create a Name Plate.

Save As: 04_Nameplate_XX.ai
Export As: 04_Nameplate_XX.png

Objective: Using Layers

Assignment: Floorplan.ai
Description: Draw one floor in your house. use layer for walls, doors, windows, furniture and text.

Save As: 04_Floorplan_XX.ai
Export As: 04_Floorplan_XX.png

Week 1 2020 Welcome

August 24 - 28, 2020

Welcome to Digital Graphics Art Intro. This semester you will be learning how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, Animate, html, Audio, Film editing and many other software programs. Digital Graphics takes patience and practice but can be very rewarding. Each week you will be given an assignment do the best you can do. All of your assignments will be placed in an electronic portfolio.

Starter
Every day on the board answer the starter question in the first 5 minutes of class.

1st Day
-Take a picture of yourself
-Write a bio about yourself.
-Write 2 goals for this class.

Assignments
-Disclosure
-Pretest

Illustrator is a Vector based tool used to create logos, clip art, t-shirt designs, and many other graphics. Learned how to use the Selection Tool, Moving objects, creating rectangles, ellipses, changing color of the fill and stroke, Duplicating, rotating. Went over the Zoom tool, Align, and Pathfinder.





Assignments:
-Disclosure
-Boxes & Shapes 

Assignment: (boxes.ai)

Description: Only using boxes and color create a graphic or image.

Assignment 2: (Shapes.ai)

-Draw an image using the shapes tool.

Description: Add a background and other details to your shapes image.

Week 37 2020 Online (All done. Have a good summer.)

May 18 - 22, 2020

You are all done. Nothing new this week. Just turn in anything from the past weeks. Have a good summer.

Week 36 2020 Online (Post Production: Editing)

May 11 - 15, 2020

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Daily Requirements: 

1. Visit Website: www.freemangrafix.com.

2. Answer daily Starter.

3. Enter your answer into the google form. https://forms.gle/yfufL6qpSzQxebeEA

How to turn in work: Copy and paste the progress form and document your work with screenshots and
writing what you did each week and submit to Canvas. Progress Form.

1. If you have a camera and editing software do film project.

2. No Equipment you will need to write and research how film and how you would
have implemented your ideas.

3. I will have a Zoom meeting one a week to answer any questions.

Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/2057032934
Password: 171479

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Objective: Edit Video and Export
Assignment: Edit Video and Export
Details: Choose some editing software to edit your video clips with. For example; Premiere Pro, iMovie, Vegas Pro, Wevideo, and others.

Links:
Apple: iMovie
Chromebook Video Editor: https://www.wevideo.com/
Example: https://www.wevideo.com/view/1705347197

Week 35 2020 Online (Production: Capturing)

May 4 - 8, 2020

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Daily Requirements: 

1. Visit Website: www.freemangrafix.com.

2. Answer daily Starter.

3. Enter your answer into the google form. https://forms.gle/yfufL6qpSzQxebeEA

How to turn in work: Copy and paste the progress form and document your work with screenshots and
writing what you did each week and submit to Canvas. Progress Form.

1. If you have a camera and editing software do film project.

2. No Equipment you will need to write and research how film and how you would
have implemented your ideas.

3. I will have a Zoom meeting one a week to answer any questions.

Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/2057032934
Password: 171479

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Objective: Download Video to Computer
Assignment: Capturing & Downloading Video
Details: Upload your video clips to your computer and organize them in a folder ready to edit.