WEEK 7 Dec. 21, 09

Due today: Turn in files (5 total) for HeartSmart packet.

WEEK 6 Dec. 16th - Midterm

~ Today Midterm practical test ~

Midterm file name - name_logorecreation.eps

• turn in my drop box by 12:15pm

Due: Mon. 21st - Cereal Box packet completed

WEEK 6 Dec. 14th - Midterm

Today lecture on Cereal Box packet.

Due Wednesday: packet- all files for HeartSmart Cereal Box design

Wednesday - Midterm practical test

WEEK 5 DEC. 9th

Project 2 - Packet

Fonts & files provided by instructor

Cereal Box Artwork

WEEK 5 Dec. 7th

Critique corporate identity package today

WEEK 4 Wednesday Dec 2nd

~look at handout for Corporate Identity Package for details~

Lab: Students used your initial designs and created an Corporate Identity Package (Due Monday 7th mounted)

Due today: final designs for both companies - .pdf

WEEK 4 Monday Nov. 30th, 09

Book: lecture

Designing Brand Identity

1. What is brand?
2. What is brand Identity?
3. What is branding?
4. Who are stakeholders?
5. Why invest?

Present PDF's today

Project 1 due 7th - Corporate Identity Package

Handout

Turn in PDF's by the end of class on the 2nd for Steve Davis.

WEEK 3 Wednesday 25th

Due for next week: (Monday 30th) PDF review

Project 1: Corporate Identity logo

Choose one logo

Size: 5x5

Color: 2 colors (optional tints and shades)

Project 2:

Choose one logo for each company

Client: Steve Davis

Companies: Advanced Spinal Care & dropweightutah.com

Size: 5x5

Color: 3 colors (optional tints and shades)

WEEK 3 Monday 23rd

Activity & Questionnaire: VARK

1. Visual

2. Auditory

3. Read/Write

4. Kinesthetic

Check off:

• thumbnails/roughs for Advanced Spinal Care & Dropweightcare.com
• Illustrate in b/w 3 logo.

WEEK 2 Wednesday Nov. 18th, 09

Lecture on Ch. 27

Transparency

• Changing an object's opacity or blending mode
• Controlling which objects the transparency settings affect
• Using the transparency grid

Lab:

Student's need to illustrate in black and white their 3 designed initials they created from the roughs sketches in their sketchbooks.

Homework:

Day class:

1. Create 10 total thumbnail sketches for Steve Davis(details for project 2). Five for each company by Monday 23rd.
2. Finish illustrating your 3 initials letter designs in b/w for class on Monday.

Night class:

1. NO CLASS on Wednesday 25th. I will be in St. George for Thanksgiving. HAPPY THANKSGIVING students.
2. Illustrate 2 designs each b/w (4 total) one for Advanced Spinal Care and one dropweightutah.com by Monday 23rd.
3. Finish illustrating your 3 initials letter designs in b/w for class on Monday.

Project 2 - WEEK 2 Monday Nov. 16th, 09

Logo Design

Client: Steve Davis

Companies: design for the two companies

1. Advanced Spinal Care
2. dropweightutah.com

Description for both companies:

• Steve is a chiropractor
• Active healthy lifestyle
• Professional - medical clinic
• colors - blues/reds (only after created in b/w first)
• simple design - client does like chrome look

If you want to contact:

SDAVISDC@GMAIL.COM

801.798.2515

Homework for night class(to be presented first of class on Wednesday 18th)

Homework for day class(to be presented first of class on Monday 23th)

5 sketches(10 total) in-between thumbnails to roughs sketches

Hint: don't think about color right know and DO RESEARCH!!!!

Project 1 Week 2 Monday Nov. 16th, 09

WEEK 2 Monday Nov. 16th, 09

Ch.26 In this chapter

When objects are put in a clipping set, the topmost object (called the "clipping path") crops objects or images below it, like a picture frame

• Creating a clipping set
• Selecting objects in a clipping set
• Adding to and deleting from a clipping set
• Releasing a clipping set

pg. x

Register this book to access the exercise files for the lesson

In-class assignment

Handout

Design a Logo of Letters!

Companies of every kind sign their names with linked letters called ligatures. Ligature means to tie. Ligatures make excellent business signatures. They're handsome, simple, and compact. And they're fun, too-we all have initials! Some letters link in lowercase but not in upper. What follows are a variety of ways to get your letter pairs beautifully together.

1. Use shared strokes
2. Almost-identical strokes
3. Angled to vertical
4. Curved to vertical
5. Uppercase-lowercase
6. Horizontal crossbars
7. Mid-letter crossbars
8. Remove a stroke
9. Remove part of a stroke
10. Reverse the field
11. Crop!
12. Follow the white line
13. Disconnect and attach
14. Interlock
15. Overlay
16. Build bridges
17. Use transparency
18. Color the negative spaces

If your letterstrokes don't quite match...

• Try changing case
• Try a different font

HW - 3 rough sketches to present at the beginning of next class

Course Syllabus

• Looked over the course description, course objectives, required texts, course policies, grading criteria, and evaluation methods
• BOOKS: Designing Brand Identity and Illustrator CS4 Visual QuickStart Guide
• Bring books to class everyday or keep in car
• Evaluation methods changed a little no written assignments and projects are 40% not 30%
• Night class meet at 6:00pm, no later

WEEK 1 Wednesday Nov. 11th, 09

Practical Quiz - Logo recreation

Abstracts/Specs:

Recreate an existing logo given by the instructor. Illustrate the logo from the grayscale template. Reproduce the logo as close to the original as possible. Remember to use correct colors and gradients for your work. Drop an .eps file into my drop box on the server before the end of class.

Objectives:

• Test knowledge of program
• Utilize knowledge
• Learn how recreate logos
• Develop visual skills