Assessment 1 - Design Module

Design Your Blog!

Learning Activity 15: Colour Research Assignment

Open this MS Word document - and follow the instructions. It's a research assignment to develop your understanding of colour use and allow you to explore online resources that might help in your study / work.

Save it somewhere safe, then submit it for feedback from your teacher.

Learning Activity 14: Research type on the Web

Answer these questions:

What happens to the searchability and accessability of your web site if you set your type using Photoshop or Flash?

List all of your standard html typefaces you can use in your web site for mac and then PC.

List all of the things you can do to a typeface using html (hint: bold is one variation, there are 8 altogether)

Submit your answers in an MS Word file using the assignment tool

Learning Activity 13: Poster Design

Using MS Word or Photoshop, choose one of the following quotes and design a layout based on it. Size is A4, - landscape or portrait. Just type only - no illustrations. Use any typeface families and any colours.

Experiment with different sizes of type. Break the quote down into words and emphasise the words that need it. See if you can convey the meaning of the quote in the type.

"Tell me the past and I will recognise the future" Confucius (511 - 479 BC), Philosopher China

The quotes should determine how you manipulate the type - use the type confidently, experiment and have fun.

Either print it out and take a photo or even easier, take a screenshot, place into a photoshop and save it for the web and submit it via the Assessment Tool and publish it to your Flickr CertIII Media Set with a comment on how and why you arrived at the design.

Learning Activity 12: Good and Bad Type

This assignment requires you to grab a digital camera and find 5 examples of what you feel are good examples of typeface usage (eg: logos, signage, print layouts, graffitti, car graphics, t-shirts etc) - and use 5 examples of bad typeface use.

Generally, you might expect to find 'unrefined' typeface use in flyers, regional papers, community groups, newsletters, mechanic workshop signage, etc. Save your pics and submit them to Flickr with captions explaining why you think it looked bad or good.

Learning Activity 11: Match 6 typefaces to 6 shoes

This requires you to make 6 typefaces to 6 shoes. This activity places emphasis on the 'cultural influences' that determine how a typeface makes you feel.

Learning Activity 10: Your name in a typeface

Find a typeface that you like and represent it using sizes and styles in a manner similar to the Gills Sans panel below.

Learning Activity 9: Sketching Layouts

Sketch a layout for the entry page for a website. Your choice of a type of website.

Sketch a layout for a club newsletter. Your choice.

Sketch a layout for a raffle ticket book. Your choice.

Indicate on each of your designs.

-The Grid
-Any copy (text) and use "greeking" as shown above where the text is represented as lines.
- Photos/artworks (use a box with a cross in it as above)

Take a photo of each and submit them using the assignment tool for feedback

Learning Activity 8: Grid Layout

Find 2 magazine layouts that adhere to a grid. Take a photo / scan them and submit them using the assignment tool for feedback. Indicate on each of them where the grid is. Use a marker pen if necessary. Make sure you take a photo before you cover it with a pen, you may need it later.

Find 2 magazine layouts that dont appear to follow a grid. Submit these two as well. Explain why you think they dont use a grid.

Find 2 examples from anywhere that adhere to a grid. Car signage clothing architecture. Your choice. Submit these for feedback.

Learning Activity 7: 100 Apples

Chris gave permission to leave this one! (phew)

Learning Activity 6: Whitespace

Find 3 examples (1 from each category) where whitespace has been used effectively in:

1. Print Publishing
2. Street Advertising
3. Your Choice

Take a photo of each & submit all three photos via the assessment tool for feedback

Learning Activity 5 - Positive & Negative Space

This activity encourages you to explore the nature of negative space. You have to interpret 3 subjects using neg. space. You have to sketch your designs.

The brief:

Use only negative shapes to visually interpret a subject. Choose just 3 from the following subjects:

cluds
whipped cream
Moby Dick
Jaws
sugar
ghost
polar bear
smoke
ice cream cone
kangaroo

The subjects themselves should not be drawn, only the surrounding negative space and only in the colour black.

Learning Activity Four- Using shapes and space to convey meaning

Using up to four black squares, create an image to express the meaning of each of the following six words:

1. order
2. increase
3. bold
4. congested
5. tension
6. playful

Learning Activity 3 - Identifying Elements & Principles

Chose the 'busiest' layout from the 3 that you used for the previous task (layout hierachy) and on this, first in pencil then in high contrast marker, mark where you see elements or principles of design, Try to identify as many as possible in your chosen layout. Identify if its an element or principle.

Take a picture/scan of it and stick it on your blog ready for feedback and submit it here using the assignment tool.

Learning Activity 2: Identifying Focus & Hierachy

3 Layouts from Magazine Covers, adverts, webpages DVD sleeves etc

1 of 3 layouts has at least 5 identifiable levels of hierachy ie 'seems busy'

A photo of each of your 3 layouts showing your arrangement of discs + a favourite layout.

Published to Flickr.

Learning Activity 1 - Identifying Focus & Hierachy

Introduction

Hi all! This is my cert III studies online portfolio.

Hope you enjoy, thank u - Martin.