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Unit 5: Masking & Textures in Illustrator

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Unit 5: Masking & Textures in Illustrator

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Day 1:

WELCOME to class!

Procedures & Routines

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Bellwork - Days 2 & 3

Day 1: Unit 1

Review Illustrator tools

Exercise 1

Day 2: Unit 1 - Column 1

Exercise 2

Start Project 1: Practice - Create an animal using circles and Shapebuilder.

Step 1: Draw - Using an image of an animal found online students will create a stylized sketch using only circles.

LG: We are reviewing the tools in Adobe Illustrator.

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Bellwork - Days 4 & 5

Day 1: Unit 1

Finish Exercise 2

Day 2:

Introduce Project 1: Practice - Create an animal using circles and Shapebuilder.

Step 1: Draw - Using an image of an animal found online students will create a stylized sketch using only circles.

Day 3:

Start Step 2: Digitize - Bringing the drawing into Illustrator, students will recreate their drawing with Circles and Shapebuilder. The finished project will include different types of gradients in the animal and the background.

LG: We are using the tools in Adobe Illustrator to create a stylized animal.

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Bellwork - Days 6 & 7

Day 1:

Start Step 2: Digitize - Bringing the drawing into Illustrator, students will recreate their drawing with Circles and Shapebuilder. The finished project will include different types of gradients in the animal and the background.

Day 2:

Continue Digitizing drawing

LG: We are focusing on how fonts are classified and how they look affects our perception and feeling of them.

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Bellwork - Days 8 & 9

Day 1:

Finish digitizing drawing

Day 2: Unit 2 Fonts

Personality of fonts & Classification of type

Exercise 1: Go to the Metaflop website and follow the instructions. Turn in a screenshot of the altered type along with the answers to the 5 questions - complete sentences needed.

LG: We are learning how the spacing around a font can affect the readability in a line of text.

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Bellwork - Days 10 & 11

Day 1: Unit 2 - Fonts: Column 2 & 3

Finish Exercise 1

Spacing of Fonts column, Kerning/Tracking/Leading

Play the KERNING game

Day 2: Column 4

Start Exercise 2: Sign in to Fontstruct, watch demo video and follow instructions for creating uppercase San Serif letters A, B & C.

Day 3:

Begin Project 2 - summative font - Create an uppercase serif alphabet. A-Z

LG: We are learning how the spacing around a font can affect the readability in a line of text.

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Bellwork - Days 12 & 13

Day 1: Unit 2 - Fonts: Column 4

Continue creating an uppercase serif font using Fontstruct.

Day 2: Column 4

Continue creating an uppercase serif font using Fontstruct.

LG: We are learning how to use consistency in the elements of a font create letters that belong together in an alphabet.

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Bellwork - Days 14 & 15

Day 1: Unit 2 - Fonts: Column 4

Continue creating an uppercase serif font using Fontstruct. K-N

Day 2: Column 4

Continue creating an uppercase serif font using Fontstruct. O-Q

LG: We are learning how to use consistency in the elements of a font create letters that belong together in an alphabet.

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Bellwork - Days 16 & 17

Day 1: Unit 2 - Fonts: Column 4

Continue creating an uppercase serif font using Fontstruct. R-U

Day 2: Column 4

Continue creating an uppercase serif font using Fontstruct. V-Z

Day 3: Column 5

Project 3: Create a logo of your business that reflects the designs of your typestyle

Read History of the Logo

Draw 3 thumbnail ideas for your combination logo

Start digitizing your strongest logo using Illustrator

LG: We are applying our newly created typestyle to a design.

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No Bellwork - short week

Day 1: Column 5: Project 3

Continue digitizing your strongest logo using Illustrator

LG: We are applying our newly created typestyle to a design.

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Bellwork - 18 & 19

Day 1: Column 5: Project 3

Finish digitizing your strongest logo using Illustrator

Day 2: Column 5: Project 4

Applying the designed font to a business card layout, front & back.

Day 3: Column 5: Project 4

Finish Business card layout

LG: We are applying our newly created typestyle to a design.

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Bellwork - Day 20 & 21

Day 1: Unit 3: Text in Illustrator Column 1

Text inside shapes - Exercise 1a

Linking text - Exercise 1B

Text in letters - Exercise 1C

Day 2:

Start Assignment 1 - Text inside of a word

LG: We are learning how text can be placed inside of shapes.

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Bellwork - Day 22 & 23

Day 1:

Finish Assignment 1 - Text inside of a word

Day 2: Column 2 - Text on a path

Text on a curved line - Exercise 2a

Text on a shape - 2b

Text on 2 parts of a circle - 3b

LG: We are learning how the baseline path can affect the direction and readability of text.

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Bellwork - Day 24 & 25

Day 1:

Text on a curved line - Exercise 2a

Text on a shape - 2b

Day 2:

Text on 2 parts of a circle - 3b

Day 3:

Start Assignment 2: Design a sports business logo using a circle and curved text

LG: We are learning how text can flow through multiple text boxes and how to control it.

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Bellwork - Day 26 & 27

Day 1: Column 4: Manipulating text

Assignment 2: Finish designing a sports business logo

Day 2

Begin Assignment 3: Sports magazine spread

LG: We are learning how text can be altered with blending and different types of distortion.

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Bellwork - Day 28 & 29

Day 1:

Finish Assignment 3: Sports magazine spread

Review Blending bellwork

Assignment 4: Blended effect with words

Day 2

Review bellwork: Envelope Distort, Liquify for rippled effect, Warp & Bloat

Exercise 5: Envelope distort

Day 3:

Assignment 5: Creating a word animal with warped and manipulated text

LG: We are learning how text can be stylized using effects and images that can be added to the letters.

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Bellwork - Day 30 & 31

Day 1:

Review bellwork: Clipping masks, Editable clipping mask, Adding Effects to a letter, Intertwining effect, Glow effect

Do Exercise 6: Outline and drop shadow

Introduce Summative final project

Day 2:

Continue Summative final project

LG: We are beginning our final project using the techniques we have learned with lettering to make a t-shirt design

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No Bellwork

Day 1:

Finish Final summative

Day 2:

Make-up day for Final

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Bellwork Days 1 & 2

Day 1: Unit 1 - column 1

WELCOME BACK!

Procedures & Routines - Cafeteria

Introduce Unit 4: Company Branding

Column 1: Developing your company

Activities 1-3

Day 2: Unit 1 - column 2

Review why Brand personality is important.

Column 2: Brand Personality

Activities 4-6

LG: We are researching how companies are developed and what steps they take to develop their outward facing persona.

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Bellwork Days 3 & 4

Day 1: Unit 4 - column 2: Brand Personality

Activities 4-6

Day 2: Unit 4 - Column 3: Visual language

Activities 7-9

Day 3: Unit 4 - Column 4: Designing

Activity 10 - 4 thumbnail sketches of your companies logo

LG: We are learning the steps of how companies develop a brand personality and visual language to project an image to customers.

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Bellwork Days 5 & 6

Day 1: Unit 4 - Column 4: Designing

Summative - designing a logo for your company

Day 2: Unit 4 - Column 5: Mood board

Cold day

LG: We are learning how to transfer a thumbnail sketch into a finished logo design.

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Bellwork Days 7 & 8

Day 1: Unit 4 - Column 4: Designing

Summative - work on logo design

Day 2: Unit 4 - Column 5: Mood board

Summative - work on logo design

LG: We are learning how using a grid can affect a logo design.

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Bellwork Days 9 & 10

Day 1: Unit 4 - Column 5: Mood board

Summative - finish logo design

Day 2: Unit 4 - Column 4: Designing

Activity 11 - 4 thumbnail sketches for combination mark

Summative - choose best thumbnail to use for the combination mark logo

Day 3: Unit 4 - Column 3: Designing

Summative - Digitize the combination mark logo

LG: We are learning how to incorporate lettering and a logo to create a combination mark.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7oxtRVXwxA

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How to Create Custom Shapes in Adobe Photoshop

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Bellwork: Days 11 & 12

Day 1: Unit 4 - Column 5: Mood board

Summative - Begin creating a mood board

Day 2: Unit 4 - Column 5: Mood board

Summative - Work on the mood board

LG: We are learning how companies use a mood board and how to create one.

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Bellwork: 13 & 14

Day 1: Unit 4 - Column 5: Mood board

Summative - Work on creating a mood board

Day 2:

Snow day

LG: We are learning how to create a consistent look to company branded materials.

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Bellwork: 15 & 16

Day 1: Column 5: Mood board

Summative - Work on mood board

Day 2: Column 5: Mood board

Summative - Finish mood board

LG: We are learning how to create a consistent look to corporate communication materials.

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Bellwork: Days 17 & 18

Day 1: Column 6: Company branding

Company branding: Stationary

Day 2: Column 6: Company branding

Company branding: Envelope

Day 3: Column 6: Company branding

Company branding: Business card

LG: We are learning how to use a Bento grid to present a finished design theme.

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Bellwork: Day 19

Day 1:

Work on Company branding

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Bellwork: Days 21 & 22

Day 1: Unit 5, Column 1

Exercise 7: Adding to a Clipping Mask

Exercise 8: Vectorized texture with transparency mask

Day 2: Column 1

Exercise 9: Transparency with a gradient

Day 3: Column 2

Exercise 10: Making an Art Brush

Exercise 11: Making a Pattern Brush

LG: We are learning how to use Masking and Stylizing to add detail to a design.

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Bellwork: Days 23 & 24

Day 1:Column 2

Exercise 12: Scatter brush

Day 2: Column 3: Textures

Exercise 13: Distort/Transform

Exercise 14: Textures with Transparency mask

LG: We are learning how to edit a scatter brush to create random appearing objects .

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Bellwork: Days 25 & 26

Day 1: Begin Summative project

Introduce Final project

Begin Sketching ideas on iPad or paper

Day 2:

Finish sketching ideas and turn in sketches - formative sketch grade

Day 3:

Begin Illustrating the King card

LG: We are learning how to apply the techniques using texture to the final card design project.

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Bellwork: Days 27 & 28

Day 1:

Finish Illustrating the King - rotate the King

Day 2:

Add the King's background

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Bellwork: Days 29 & 30

Day 1:

Start Illustrating the Queen

Day 2:

Finish Illustrating the Queen & rotate

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Bellwork: no bellwork

Day 1:

Add the background to the Queen card

Day 2:

Begin Illustrating the Jack card

LG: We are using the tools and techniques we have learned during Unit 1 & Unit 2 in Illustrator to create designs of playing cards.

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Bellwork: no bellwork

Day 1:

Illustrate & rotate the Jack

Day 2:

Add the Jack's background

Day 3:

Finish & submit Summative project

Email any work that you want to keep, delete your files and personal folder

Wrap up designs

Email work to yourself

Delete designs from computer