Rundown: Week Ending 1/16/15

2nd period Design Team

This was a pretty big week for 2nd period Design. We kicked off the week with a 1-day design challenge that asked students to design a logo for a new athletic shoe company.  While the work was quick, some of the results really showed off that these students know how to design for a particular audience.

Students also progressed in their chocolate bar designs. A few even made it to the prototyping phase and began wrapping bars. Tweaks and changes followed, leading to some really great results!

We finished the week by working on our airline project.  This week, our teams met with our client teams in Mr. Schmitt's Applied Math class to go over what their airline companies want to see in a look for the paint designs of their jets. Our teams will design a logo and entire exterior paint job of the plane and mock up a final design. 

 5th and 6th period Graphic Design

5th and 6th period classes put their single color photo collages to use by creating full color wheels from the individual color files. The results are awesome!

Rundown: Week Ending 1/9/15

2nd period Design Team

This week brought major progress on our chocolate bar packaging project. Many students moved from the sketching phase to working on their wrapper in Photoshop.

5th and 6th period Graphic Design

5th and 6th period classes have been finishing up their single color digital photo collages.  These collages will be used next week to create color wheels.

Rundown: Week Ending 12/5/14

2nd period Design Team

This week, we continued working on making sure our portfolio blogs are up to date. Our work with principles of design focused more on balance in design. Students made animated GIF balance maps of asymmetrical and symmetrical photos and design to post to their blogs. We finished the week with a 30 minutes design challenge that asked students to consider BALANCE, EMPHASIS and typography.

5th and 6th period Graphic Design

This week, we studied LINE as an element of art. Specifically, the 5 types of lines and the idea of implied line (lines created by other lines or other elements of art). Additionally, we discused negative and positive space.  To demonstrate learning, students used various lines and a color scheme of their choice to fill the negative space of their artwork with color zentangles.  The remaining white space becomes positive space when the viewer reads the student's name or nickname.

Rundown: Week Ending 11/14/14

2nd period Design Team

This week, we explored the design principle of pattern in design and art.  To illustrate, we created repeating patterns using only 1 image. The representational square in the pattern is the image placed so it's recognizable to the viewer.  The second set of squares are abstract, made from distorting the original image.

Students have been posting this year to their own online portfolio blogs.  Please take a look at the doccument below to see your student's work so far this year!

CLICK HERE TO SEE A LIST OF LINKS TO ALL 1ST SEMESTER DESIGN TEAM STUDENT BLOGS!

5th & 6th Period Graphic Design

Most of this week was spent with students creating a list of student norms that will hang in our room and guide student behavior in our class.  Those norms can be found in the syllabus documents students took home to have reviewed and signed by families.  See the student norms in the syllabus here for 5TH PERIOD and here for 6TH PERIOD.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL GALLERY OF THIS TERM'S "ABOUT ME" MAGAZINE COVERS!

Rundown: Week Ending 11/7/14

5th and 6th period Graphic Design classes shifted this week with the end of the quarter.  Quarter 1's 5th and 6th period classes spent the week finishing any lingering assignments.

2nd period Design Team

This week, we studied the design principle CONTRAST.  Specifically, using blur to create contrast and direct the viewer's eye.  Also, we explored mixing ABSTRACT and REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGES.  Students did several activities relating to these concepts and blogged about them.

2nd period students also got a chance to make some digital art by mixing ABSTRACT and REPRESENTATIONAL images.  This lead to some VERY interesting results!