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Computer Graphic Design

The Principles of C.R.A.P. 2016

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.
The 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. Make sure you understand what the four principles are, what they mean and how we use them in our documents, as we will have a Check for Understanding tomorrow, due Friday of this week.
Assigned: September 7th, 2016
Teacher Pacing Due Date: September 9th, 2016
Computer Graphic Design

Student Profile Project 2016

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.
 
Link:
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:
    1. Your own picture
    2. Four other pictures (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 text (text is 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 on the other side of this page.

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 Tuesday, September 6th, 2016.

Assigned: September 1st, 2016
Teacher Pacing Due Date: September 6th, 2016