Assignments

Please bring 1 book (examples below)

• A book you would like to read

• A favorite book

• A book from your childhood that brings back memories

• Or, a random book you find on a shelf, coffee table, under someone's bed....

Choose a graphic design work, artwork, architecture... that inspires you to say, "WOW"!

Post an image of your choice and list the various media, elements, color, line, texture, used and describe how the choices are important to the visual communication of the idea; why it makes you say "WOW". This can be one of your own artworks or one of someone else.

Examples: Print media, collage, construction...

Element examples: Text, line, structure, balance.

Submit the image of your chosen work along with your statement.

This will be your first post to your online portfolio.

In this assignment you will create an image based on old school cut and paste technique to document a past or current news story or event using type font, color and imagery.

Your image can utilize only cut out pieces from newspapers, magazines... or you can mix cut out pieces with color, images or text that you create on your own or pull from the internet. You can hand build this or you can create your image using this technique in Photoshop, Inkscape or any online design program. Save as a .jpeg and post it on your website.

The viewer should be able to understand the story that you are telling without any additional understanding of the news story that you are telling.

Do not use excessive type to tell the story

Students will be asked to view and critique 3 other students work and do the following:

1. What is the story about? (Give details on which elements convey the story and how)

2. Is color or imagery used to convey meaning or emotion? (How does the color or imagery affect the meaning and mood of the piece)

3. Layout: The layout should impact the meaning. How does the layout affect the meaning? Which elements are affecting the meaning?

Students learned about copyrights, copyright law and copyright infringement.

Shepard Fairey is most widely known for his famous Obama “Hope” poster. That poster has become an iconic symbol of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. He was later sued by the Associated Press and the photographer who took the picture, Mannie Garcia, for infringement of copyright.

Fairey argued he was entitled to “fair use exemption” that he had effectively transformed the work into an idealized image “that created powerful new meaning and conveys a radically different message.”

Students create a poster to convey a message in the style of artist Shepard Shepard. It could be a political message, a sale image or create a new meaning for the image.

Throughout the years, the slogans used in advertising for Coca-Cola have reflected not only the brand, but the times and place. Slogans provided a simple and direct way to communicate about Coca-Cola.

This assignment:

Design an ad or a can design along with a slogan for Coca Cola that represents Hawaii

Criteria:

1. Must use Coca Cola font (you can use a font generator of your own or hand drawn font)

2. Ad or can must represent Hawaii or Hawaiian culture

3. Slogan must represent Hawaii or it’s culture (Coca Cola slogans of the past)

4. If you choose to make a can design (product) it must be functional

The role of the Graphic Designer is to target their designs to a consumer audience. A great example to study is the grocery store, which has some of the best items and displays to illustrate the targeting of consumers.

Students will take a trip to the grocery store and photograph 2 items or design elements (products, signage, displays, layout…) that they think are effectively targeting the intended audience.

Explain: The targeted consumer in paragraph form

• What you know of the targeted consumer for each product or design element.

• What does the consumer already know about the product or design element?

• How do you see the consumer's knowledge?

• Is this successful or not successful? Explain your reasoning.

Create:

A Google slide presentation

Present:

Present to class

In the work of art by Sonny Assu, called Breakfast Series, we are initially confronted by the familiar colorful cereal boxes of our youth, luring us with their smiling animal mascots promoting sugar-laden cereals. Upon closer inspection, we see that Assu has turned the pop art inspired graphics on the five boxes into commentaries about highly charged issues for First Nations people—such as the environment, land claims, and treaty rights.

In this assignment students create a work that has personal meaning from a cultural, religious, or political stance.

The cereal box should include:

6 panels - front, back, side, side, top, bottom

Brand of Cereal (real or imagined)

Name of Cereal

Colorful graphic imagery

Ingredients

Nutritional information

(Perhaps a fun game on the back)

Anything else that a cereal box might have on it graphically such as a barcode….

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Designers look to history not only to learn where we have been, but to learn about human trends and behavior. As we know history repeats itself and oftentimes successful design from the past can be updated with a few contemporary tweaks to make it relevant today. There is a reason for the success of past design trends. Your job is to find the reason for that success.

Students are assigned one of the following design periods to research. Students will be creating a package design for either a toy or a beverage. This can be a real toy or beverage or one that you imagine. The design should accurately portray the time period Cultural / Societal issues and design elements and include time period related colors, form, motif and materials.

• Victorian

• Arts & Crafts

• Art Nouveau

• Bauhaus

• Art Deco

• Doo Wop

• Swiss Style / International Typographic Style

• Pop Art

• Deconstructivism

Pop art is characterized by the use of images from popular culture. Advertising, comic books, magazines, and other things that filled people's ordinary lives were major inspirations for the Pop artists who reused these images in ironic ways.

Students are asked to find an example of something that would be popular culture. They could find it there community, home, cupboard... Once found a good, they are to take a picture of it and transform it into "Pop Art". Include 1 or 2 relevant words that would make the viewer understand, utilizing a design characteristic of the period, that this is Pop art.

Once finished they will post their image of the original item and your Pop Art It! design work on your website and write a reflection on the following:

1. List the characteristics of the Pop Art design style portrayed in this image. (What makes this Pop Art?)

2. Discuss each design characteristic by answering the following questions:

Does the structure in the image contain design characteristics of Pop Art? What are they? How are they used?

Does the design characteristic serve a purpose? Is it simply a decorative element?

1. How does your item represent popular culture?

In this assignment students studied the the deconstructivist movement and it's Graphic design beginnings in the 1970's and 80's.

Part 1 of this assignment was to explore texture and how to create a texture using Frottage. Various design programs were used to teach students how to vector a texture and the the vector textures were then used in this assignment.

After completing part 1, students chose and item or event for which they would create an ad. Once the image was chosen the students would physically or digitally tear the image apart. The fragmented image was then used, along with their vector texture to create a Deconstuctivist style ad.

The students ads are located in their portfolio along with a reflection that addresses the following;

1. The characteristics of the design style portrayed in this image.

2. A discussion on each design characteristic, answering the following questions:

1. • Does the structure in the image contain the Deconstructivist design characteristic? Explain how the design characteristic is used? What purpose do these characteristics serve? Or are they simply decorative elements?