Computer Graphic Design

The Principles of C.R.A.P. 2017

Today we are going to start learning about the Principles of Design. Specifically, we will be studying four major principles that will help everything you create look better and will help you to identify how to improve your own creations and the creations of others.

These four Principles are Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity, which form a very amusing (if slightly unfortunate) acronym: C.R.A.P.

Follow along with the in-class demonstration or watch the attached PowerPoint presentation to learn how we’re going to use the Principles of C.R.A.P. to make things that don’t look like crap!

Objective:
Students will identify and explain the Principles of Design, and effectively identify when these principles are (or are not) being used in a published work.

 

Links:
Topics Discussed:

  • Principles of Design
  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Alignment
  • Proximity
Assignment:

  1. Read “1 – README – The Joshua Tree Epiphany” silently while I read aloud in class.
  2. Read the rest of the document that introduces the four Principles of Design.
  3. Watch the PowerPoint slideshow for further clarification on what the principles are, how they are used, and what they look like.
  4. We will go over the principles in detail throughout this week.
  5. Make sure you understand what the four principles are, what the terms mean, what they look like, and how we use them in our documents, as we will have a Check for Understanding later this week.
Assigned: September 5th, 2017
Teacher Pacing Due Date: September 6th, 2017
Computer Graphic Design

Student Profile Project 2017

Objective: Students will use will use all of the skills they have acquired in the previous week’s lessons to produce a document that represents them and their goals.
Student-Friendly Objective: I can use InDesign to make a document that represents myself and my goals.
Topics Discussed:

  • InDesign Page Layout
  • Default Settings
  • Pages Palette
  • Layers Palette
  • Links Palette
  • Stroke Palette
  • Color Palette
  • Swatches Palette
  • Fill
  • Stroke
  • Type Tool
  • Type on a Path Tool
  • Character Palette
  • Character Formatting Controls
  • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Font
  • Leading
  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Vertical Scale
  • Horizontal Scale
  • Baseline
  • Baseline Shift
  • Skew
  • Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justified)
  • Indent
  • Drop Cap
Assignment:
  1. Download the Student Profile Example and use it as your guide to completing this project. Create a new 51 pica x 66 pica document in InDesign.
  2. You must have all of these sections on your profile, with all the information listed on sample.
    1. “My Schedule“
    2. “Vital Information“
    3. “Personal History“
    4. “Favorites“
  3. You must have five pictures. Save all pictures in a folder in the same location as your .indd file to preserve the image links. Your pictures should include:
    1. A picture of yourself that clearly shows your face
    2. Four other pictures of your choice (You may use the Internet)
  4. Headlines:
    1. Each section must have a headline describing the section.
    2. See the sections above for the four headlines for the sections that you will need 24 pt type or bigger.
    3. The largest headline will say “Student Profile: Your Name” in 36 pt or bigger type
  5. Fonts:
    1. You may only use three different fonts.
    2. The size for the body copy (all the words that aren’t headlines) is 12 point.
  6. Color:
    1. Use as much color as you want. I will be printing them in color and hanging them on the cabinets in my classroom.
  7. Design:
    1. This is your design. Do not make it look exactly like the example shown in class, or anybody else’s profile.

Turn in your completed Student Profile .indd file, and all of the images (a minimum of five) you used to the Google Classroom assignment page by Friday, September 1st, 2017.

Assigned: August 28th, 2017
Teacher Pacing Due Date: September 1st, 2017

It’s super effective!