Project 03/ ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR / Creating Icons and Altering Identities
Project 03 is in introduction to Adobe Illustrator CS5. In Part One, Students will complete four exercises that will help them to learn basic skills in Illustrator. Exercise 01: Drawing Shape and Working with Color Palettes, Exercise 02: Redraw a Popular Icon, Exercise 03: Alter the Re-drawn Icon and Exercise 04: Draw an Animated Character.

Each Exercise will inform the next. In Exercise 03, students will alter a famous icon by changing it’s color or shape etc. Will the formal changes to the logo alter its intended meaning as well? Exercise 04 will incorporate traditional drawing skills to create an illustrated figure.

In Part Two, students will design a logotype for a magazine that is about the color of their study for Project 01.

Completion of Project 03 will demonstrate their knowledge of Adobe Illustrator CS5. These exercises and logo design will require students to compose ideas [make sketches] and utilize key aspects of Illustrator in order to developo their ideas and turn them into a finished file. Finished Illustrator files will be printed as laser and ink-jet prints and all Adobe Illustrator files will be turned in electronically into the Instructor’s Drop Box .

[Click here to download Project Brief for Project 03]

[Click here to download link to files for Exercises 02 and 03]



[Click here to download Exercise 05 example]

Project 04 / INDESIGN
Students will be designing a 16 page Booklet or magazine (printed and digital-Epub for IBook IPad / tablet viewing) which will serve to acquaint them with Adobe InDesign CS5 as well as utilizing the Lab’s printers to create a final physical proof of their booklet. This project will be turned in electronically to the Instructor’s Drop Box as well as a final printed booklet will be due on the last day of class.

[Click here to download Project Brief for Project 04]

[Click here to download Grid Exercise Demonstration for Project 04]

[Click here to download contents for Project 04]