Work on Your Illustrator Posterized Portrait

Try to complete and post your illustrator portrait today.

Upload Final Logo plus document all of your progress

Include the entire Logo Design Process

Description of your idea

First Thumbnails - at leart 15-20

3-5 Best Ideas - Second Revision

Final Skectch of best idea - Include Typography

Illustrator Digitized Logo - at least 3 variations with color and Typography

Final Logo

Here is a great example of the project from a former student...now at KC Art Institute

Bailey - Personal Logo Project

Photoshop Collage 1

Today we will work on a collage in photoshop.
We'll make a collage with the photos in this post.
I will give step by step instructions in class.
Next time you will use your own photos to make a collage.

Download the pictures to your computer:

Intro to Adobe Illustrator

Today we'll begin working with adobe Illustrator. Illustrator is a Vector Based graphics program. So far we have worked only with a Bitmap based graphics program, Photoshop.

We will learn about the some of the basic tools in Illustrator and do a brief exercise using these tools.

Selection Tool
Direct Selection Tool
Pen Tool
Layers Pallette

Here is a Pen Tool Cheat Sheet to help you

For today we will download and trace the objects in the page below:

Expressive Typography Excercise

Choose 5 words from the list below. In 5 different compositions, arrange each word to express its meaning. You can change the size, spacing, placement and orientation of the letters.

You can repeat, omit, slice, block or overlap words or letters.

You must not use drop shadows, or stretch or distort the letters.

Use Arial Black Typeface only.

You will use photoshop to create an 8x8 document with 2 inch guidelines. The letters must be aligned with the  2 inch grid.

compression

transition

contraction

addition

subtraction

disruption

repetition

elimination

migration

expansion

confusion
...and 3 words of your choice

Are You Follwing the Design Process?

Take a look at the link. How well are you following the logo design process? Will you be able to document your work as in the example below?

Logo Design Process - Creative Juice

Refine your logo sketches

Take a look at the following rough sketches:

http://www.dwuser.com/education/content/zero-to-logo-the-creative-process-in-7-steps/

https://www.davidairey.com/showing-sketches-to-clients/

Choose your 3 best ideas and elaborate on them.

Show 5 variations of each of your 3 be