Freeman Grafix

Monday, September 14, 2020

Week 4 2020: MyLogo

September 14 -18, 2020

Assignment: MyLogo (50pts)
Details: Create your own business and design five different variations of your logo.

Save As: 07_MyLogo_XX.ai

Export As: 07_MyLogo_XX.png

Your logo must be a vector art graphics, no images on your logo. You can trace with the pen tool or download fonts to get clip art if you want.

Download: Download 5 Fonts
Description: Download 5 different fonts and Install.

1. Find 5 fonts.
- DaFont: http://www.dafont.com/
- ReFont: http://www.refont.com/

2. Download Font
3. Unzip Font (.zip)
4. Install font. (.ttf or .otf)

-5 logos 100pts

Illustrator Gradient Tool

Illustrator Type Tool

Friday, September 11, 2020

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.

Monday, August 31, 2020

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

Monday, August 10, 2020

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.