Lessons
Briefs
American Gods brief 1
Julian Opie
here and here
Opie image
Illustrator tutorial one
tutorial two
tutorial three
Brief: Create two A4 book covers for a favourite TV show/film/game
Film poster brief
Take (download or screengrab) any landscape film poster from design company Allcitymedia. Using Photoshop and Photoshop rulers/grid, carefully trace every element in a separate layer, changing opacity of the original.
Label each element.
Underneath, make notes as to the design principles used.
Film poster brief 2
Recreate your own film poster in exactly the same style as the above, taking good quality images from outnow.ch it is a good website. It is also in German... Suchen means search, bilder means images, click on the image to view. Use this font for the credits.
Magazine brief
Design a three page spread about how to make the most out of Long Road using current students' images and experiences.
The InDesign document needs to be A4 9 column layout
Skim-read the relevant bits of this first.
For practice, you may like to design a rough three page magazine design using these materials from the Guardian story about Rohingya people escaping destruction of their homes in Myanmar. Here is some background reading.
HELP
InDesign
InDesign Grid Lesson
see also
https://960.gs/
video
https://www.lynda.com/Design-Foundations-tutorials/Typographic-posters/373790/408729-4.html
http://thegridsystem.net/categories/templates/
http://mark-anthony.ca/modular-grids-indesign/
wrapping text around objects/images:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/text-wrap.html
Great grid tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_ogtsVNhc
Great InDesign intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshfNo-i8Ws
Font fun
Watch the font video
Have some font sketch time
Design an alphabet
Put it in Illustrator
Add it to 2-3 products, which works well, why? Blogpost.
Consider kerning and x space and leading.
Brief: Create a two page article. Using InDesign. Alice In Wonderland text/images.
Watch and make notes on the tutorials first:
Images in InDesign tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YL2QSai9Ng
Text in InDesign tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE6ywQW4sX8
Alice In Wonderland text.
Brief: Use just one coloured circle and one triangle create an A5 poster that will be titled Design Principles
Leave space so you will write the principles in over the next few lessons
(use the colour wheel and dafont)
Colour intro
http://www.creativebloq.com/colour/colour-theory-11121290/2
T-shirt design/Illustrator tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw2qUdfvbEQ (quick overview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWnkIPur2Q (detailed)
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/illustrator-tutorials-beginners.html
Great typography videos
creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/typography-tutorials-1232719
Brief:
Create a social media website
Think through and make detailed notes on a) purpose b) content c) target user/membership (and why they'd find it useful/emjoyable)
d) production plan with launch date e) possible revenue streams and how much money it could make
f) Draft how the pages will link using a link-plan (with boxes)
g) Justify why certain pages will better link to others, and why that will suit the target audience
h) Consider legal and/or ethical issues i) budget j) launch date k) timescales l) security & privacy of users
Watch 10 mins of a TV show that is not meant for someone in your target audience. Look at the marketing. How have the producers of the marketing campaign targeted that audience? Annotate the images as an A3 poster.
Baseline grid (InDesign):
Prefs/Grids & Guides
Layout/Create Guides
Key terms
vector
bitmap
DPI
resolution (72 web 300 print)
rasterise
CMYK/RGB
serif
sans serif
the grid
American Gods brief 1
Headline Review, the book’s publisher wants a graphic designer to do a product tie-in with the TV show.
The cover of the book must use a still image from the show.
And recreate a neon text effect.
The cover needs to include:
Now a major TV show on Amazon Prime
The author
The title
Any awards the book’s won
Document needs to be
6.125 inches by 9.25 inches at 300 dpi resolution
here and here
Opie image
Illustrator tutorial one
tutorial two
tutorial three
Brief: Create two A4 book covers for a favourite TV show/film/game
Film poster brief
Take (download or screengrab) any landscape film poster from design company Allcitymedia. Using Photoshop and Photoshop rulers/grid, carefully trace every element in a separate layer, changing opacity of the original.
Label each element.
Underneath, make notes as to the design principles used.
Film poster brief 2
Recreate your own film poster in exactly the same style as the above, taking good quality images from outnow.ch it is a good website. It is also in German... Suchen means search, bilder means images, click on the image to view. Use this font for the credits.
Magazine brief
Design a three page spread about how to make the most out of Long Road using current students' images and experiences.
The InDesign document needs to be A4 9 column layout
Skim-read the relevant bits of this first.
For practice, you may like to design a rough three page magazine design using these materials from the Guardian story about Rohingya people escaping destruction of their homes in Myanmar. Here is some background reading.
HELP
InDesign
InDesign Grid Lesson
see also
https://960.gs/
video
https://www.lynda.com/Design-Foundations-tutorials/Typographic-posters/373790/408729-4.html
http://thegridsystem.net/categories/templates/
http://mark-anthony.ca/modular-grids-indesign/
wrapping text around objects/images:
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/text-wrap.html
Great grid tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_ogtsVNhc
Great InDesign intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshfNo-i8Ws
Font fun
Watch the font video
Have some font sketch time
Design an alphabet
Put it in Illustrator
Add it to 2-3 products, which works well, why? Blogpost.
Consider kerning and x space and leading.
Brief: Create a two page article. Using InDesign. Alice In Wonderland text/images.
Watch and make notes on the tutorials first:
Images in InDesign tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YL2QSai9Ng
Text in InDesign tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE6ywQW4sX8
Alice In Wonderland text.
Brief: Use just one coloured circle and one triangle create an A5 poster that will be titled Design Principles
Leave space so you will write the principles in over the next few lessons
(use the colour wheel and dafont)
Colour intro
http://www.creativebloq.com/colour/colour-theory-11121290/2
T-shirt design/Illustrator tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw2qUdfvbEQ (quick overview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWnkIPur2Q (detailed)
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/how-to/illustrator-tutorials-beginners.html
Great typography videos
creativebloq.com/graphic-design-tips/typography-tutorials-1232719
Brief:
Create a social media website
Think through and make detailed notes on a) purpose b) content c) target user/membership (and why they'd find it useful/emjoyable)
d) production plan with launch date e) possible revenue streams and how much money it could make
f) Draft how the pages will link using a link-plan (with boxes)
g) Justify why certain pages will better link to others, and why that will suit the target audience
h) Consider legal and/or ethical issues i) budget j) launch date k) timescales l) security & privacy of users
Watch 10 mins of a TV show that is not meant for someone in your target audience. Look at the marketing. How have the producers of the marketing campaign targeted that audience? Annotate the images as an A3 poster.
Baseline grid (InDesign):
Prefs/Grids & Guides
Layout/Create Guides
Key terms
vector
bitmap
DPI
resolution (72 web 300 print)
rasterise
CMYK/RGB
serif
sans serif
the grid
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