Week 2 Assignment

 I chose Bruno Munari for my designer this week because his artwork is exciting it reminds me of myself . Reading about his life he didn't just stick with one thing he expanded his horizon and let life take control. According to Wikipedia.org he was an artist, inventor, designer, and explored many other forms of art. To me he took certain objects and made you take a closer of his thoughts in that object that you never thought of. He has been doing art for more than 60 years and passed away in 1998. 

 

 Each picture I can feel he is excited about his designs,

 He takes simple objects and shows life to them!

 He was excited about LIFE!

Different angles of what we use everyday!

This is Bruno!!!!!!!!!!

What is due this week?

1. A review of a graphic designer... well done Ashlee and Sherry (so far)

2. 2 letter forms overlapped and blended with Photoshop layer blend mode.From the syllabus: Design 4 variations of 2 letterforms in a square....

Warm up Exercise video:
Design a series of square letterform designs

Part I

Part II

Important! Resolution should be no less than 2000 x 2000 ppi.

3. Begin work on stamp project... learn how to copy an image from the internet and open in Photoshop, etc.... "Begin work on the stammp project, decide on your project,gather your images."

Video: How to gather and save your images for the stamp project

Graphic Designers Week 2

Paul Rand was a famous American graphic designer best known for his corporate logos, such as IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, Westinghouse, and UPS, and countless others. A lot of these logos are still being used today. I found it interesting that he taught at Yale University, and he was self-taught. I loved the fact that a lot of the companies that he worked for in his beginning years are now well know beauty and fashion magazines.

Hello, my name is Mary Holloway, I'm a senior at Albertus Magnus College. My major is Business Management and I'm only 19 credits away from graduating. I hope to learn more about using Photoshop and graphics design since technology is taking over the world! I'm not so good with electronics but the help sister and niece I manage. As you can I love playing with pictures on my app photoshop.

Attendance

I take attendance each week first thing Monday morning for the prior week's work posted to the blog.  The College gets very serious about this.  Each week, there are 2 attendance records, so if you don't post during 2 out of 8 weeks, the ADP office removes you from the class  and even your degree program.  Please don't let that happen.  Please email me with any problems or concerns.  You can come see me 4 days a week at Albertus for personal help if you can get there by 5:30 pm....Monday - Thursday.  My office is 203 Aquinas Hall.

intro

Hello,
my name is Ashlee Griffin, and i am a senior here at albertus. my major is communications, and i am graduating in May. I really don't have a set expectation for this class, i don't know much about graphic design but I'm here to learn everything that has to do with it.

Welcome to Graphic Design I!

Welcome to Graphic Design I!

Class begins Wednesday, January 17th and runs 8 weeks until March 8th.  The main thing to do this week is to get all of the systems up and running.

-Read through the class syllabus linked from the list of links in the upper right of the blog.

-Post a bio and hello to this blog.  Include a statement of what you hope to learn in this class.

-Secure a copy of Photoshop   Any version after Photoshop 5 will do, and that goes back a long way.  If you have ordered it from an online vendor and are waiting for it, you can download a free copy good for 30 days from https://creative.adobe.com/products/download/photoshop  Adobe has gone to a rental model for students at the rate of $9.99 per month  You could buy a copy of an older version on eBay and it will work just fine.  Newer Macs though need to run a Windows emulator though to get an older version of Photoshop to work. 

That's me on the left with Dr. Mazen and Dr. Cole at graduation May, 2016

By the end of Week 1, I want you to:

-Post a 1 paragraph review of a graphic design artist found either at the Museum of Graphic Design or through one of the links on the syllabus.  Include an image from their work.  This will count as 1 attendance record and your Bio will count as the other for the first week.  After that, your creative work that you'll post will count toward attendance.  There are two attendance records generated each week. 

-Watch some of the videos on how to use Photoshop, posted in the syllabus.

-Let me know if you have any concerns or if you don't know how to do something.  There is a video on how to post to this blog in the list of class links in the upper right hand corner where other important links are located.

-Getting off the ground this week is very important!  The class goes by quickly.  Any delay in learning to blog, installing your software, etc will set you back quite a bit.  There are thousands of tutorials on YouTube on Photoshop as well as the videos I have made for you, linked from the syllabus.  

Looking forward to getting this class launched!