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1. Draw a curved line with the Curvature tool

2. Select the Type on the Path tool

3. Where you click the line is where the text will begin. It will default to flush left.

4. Click near the middle of the line to place a line of text

5. Type in a short QUOTE - include the author

6. Move the beginning of the line of text to the left side of the line using the white arrow

7. Change the line of text to Centered

8. Use the white arrow to flip the middle blue positioning line to the bottom of your line.

9. Make your quote a fun typestyle

10. Make your quote larger to fill the curved line.

11. Add a Freeform Gradient shape behind your quote

12. Take a screen shot of your curved, upside down quote.

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I recommend pngtree to anyone who...

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Use the EPS for line art or JPG for images. Open the EPS document separately and copy/paste to your design for line art.

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Both the object and text need to be selected. Whatever is on top will be what gets filled. Clipping masks can contain a photo OR a vectored image.

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Adding a distorted mesh to a clipping mask - review bellwork

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Adding a distorted mesh to a clipping mask - review bellwork

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Create an OP Art line pattern using Object/Envelope Distort and then use that design in a clipping mask with your initials.

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Demo: Adding a distorted mesh to a clipping mask

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Demo: Adding a distorted mesh to a clipping mask

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Editable clipping mask - review bellwork

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Editable clipping mask - review bellwork

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Editable clipping mask:

Clipping masks can be used with photos, but can also be used with other shapes created in Illustrator

The nice thing about this manipulated text is the lettering can be changed as the word does not need to be converted to a shape first

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Blending is done in the Blend options in the toolbar. The number of steps can be selected. The larger the number, the smoother the blend will be.

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Fill your page with at LEAST 10 shapes of different colors & sizes. Using the Blend tool click on each shape one at a time to blend one shape to the next, until all of your shapes are blended together.

Take a screenshot of your blended shapes and post under your name in the Turn In tab. Label it Day 28

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Draw 5 squares with different colors

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Click on the shapes one at a time and the blend tool will automatically blend them together.

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Double clicking on the blend button with bring up the options menu where you can choose from 3 options: Smooth Color, Specified Steps or Specified Distance. Change the spacing to Specified Steps - 5 steps. What happens?

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To change the direction of the blend you can reverse spine to make the last thing selected come to the front. Object/Blend/Reverse Spine

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1. Draw a curving line with the curvature tool.

2. Select the blend of your 5 squares and also the curved line that you drew

3. Go to: Object/Blend/Replace Spine the blend now follows the drawn curved line as it's new "spine"

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Blending on a circle with an outlined shape - review bellwork

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Blending on a circle with an outlined shape - review bellwork

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Blending on a Circle
Make 2 white hexagons each with a 1 point line and then Blend them to 8 steps. Add the blend to a circle and then change the Blend option to Specified Distance.
Using these same steps, do 2 additional blends with stars with different numbers of points and colors.

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Practice: Blending on a spiral - no outline

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Practice: Blending on a spiral - no outline

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Use blend and the spiral shape with a gradient to create a great background effect.

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Now that you know how to add blended shapes to a spine, draw a letter using the pen tool and make your letter the spine of your new blend.

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Assignment 4: Blending effect with words

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Assignment 4: Blending effect with words

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1. Create a 5 letter word

2. Use Create Outlines to break word apart

3. Add outline to top word and fill with white

4. Duplicate the word and move down

5. Switch outline to colored fill and remove outline

6. Blend the 2 words

7. Add a new drawn spine to add a curve

8. Add a freeform gradient background to complement the blended word

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Warping text allows us to alter text and shapes to fit into a specific form. Found in the Object dropdown menu.

There are 3 types of Envelope Distort:

1. Make with Warp

2. Make with Mesh

3. Make with Top Object

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Create a T-Shirt design - 2 color versions - One design to go on a white t-shirt, modify your design so it also works on a black t-shirt - for one of our NORTHWEST sports teams that include a text effect that has been covered in this unit. Lettering & a NW logo both need to be on your t-shirt.

Items needed on the design:

1. 2026

2. Husky image

Husky logo

Paw Print

Any image themed for the chosen sport

1. Lettering choice to use:

Northwest 'SPORT'

Husky 'SPORT'

To turn in: Upload an Illustrator file of your design and also a screen shot of your design on the t-shirt to show for mock-up.

+++If your t-shirt design is awesome, we can show it to our sports director and include it in our t-shirt offerings for next year.

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Download this blank T-shirt and paste your finished design onto it. Turn in your assignment showing what it would look like on this T-shirt.

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Download this blank T-shirt and paste your finished design onto it. Turn in your assignment showing what it would look like on this T-shirt.

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1. Create a shape

2. Add some lyrics of a song to the shape

3. Change the look of the lettering with the top dropdown menu Type/Type on a Path section - choose one of the 5 options

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1. Add 2 layers

2. Draw a circle and align it to the center

3. On the circle that is showing select the Type on a Path

4. Set your text to Paragraph Center and choose a font, make sure paragraph is centered

5. Have your Caps Lock ON

6. Click on the BOTTOM of the circle

7. Type your First Name

8. Type/Type on a Path/Options

9. Change settings to: Align to Path: Center

10. Resize it so it covers most of the top

11. Duplicate that layer

12. Hide the first layer

13. Type your last name on the new layer

14. Type/Type on a Path/Options

15. Change settings: Check the flip box and select OK

16. Your last name will need to be rotated 180 degrees

17. Your spacing between letters will need to be adjusted

Choose the typestyle you want to use.

Add your first name in ALL CAPS to the top of a circle using the Type on a Path Tool and your last name in ALL CAPS to the bottom of the circle. Put a circular logo design from the internet in the middle of the circle.

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Change your workspace to ESSENTIALS CLASSIC if you are not using this workspace already.
Window/Workspace/Essentials Classic.
This is a slightly more complex workspace that allows us to do more things with Text. You will also see that the Properties and the Tools area will have more things available as well.

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View and edit this palette on Coolors.co or create your own color schemes.

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Changing your workspace to ESSENTIALS CLASSIC

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1. Download the shapes and watch the first Demo - Text inside of shapes. Each shape will need a different typestyle with a change of color. Fit the text to the shape and make sure your shape is filled.

2. Watch the 2nd demo - Text inside of letters this shows how to fill larger letters with type. Add 2 letters, an O and an M in Gill Sans Ultra Bold, underneath the 4 shapes you just made. Turn the 2 letters into shapes.  Using the Knife tool cut one side of the O. Watch the 3rd demo on using the Knife tool.  This will allow the text to fit into the O. Fill both the letters with fill text. Make them different typestyles and colors.

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Practice: George Washington's Farewell Address

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Practice: George Washington's Farewell Address

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Go to this website and copy 5 paragraphs of text

Select the text tool

Select Myriad Pro with the size of 12 point

Using the text tool make a textbox that fits your page and then paste the text of George Washington's Farewell Address

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Document Excerpt

Friends and Citizens:

The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

I beg you, at the same time, to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country; and that in withdrawing the tender of service, which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both.

The acceptance of, and continuance hitherto in, the office to which your suffrages have twice called me have been a uniform sacrifice of inclination to the opinion of duty and to a deference for what appeared to be your desire. I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard, to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn. . . .

The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.

For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. . . .

In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. . . .

To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliance, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another. . . .

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. . . .

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Reduce the size of the textbox. You can see that there is a red plus in the bottom right corner of the textbox.

Click on the red plus

Move your mouse down and click/hold/drag to create a new text box.

You will notice a bold blue line that connects the 2 text boxes now that shows they are linked.

Repeat making more linked text boxes until there are no more red pluses.

This shows all of the words are visible.

You can highlight all of the wording to make all of the words active and you can adjust the character information all together.

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Draw 4 different shapes

To link text into a shape, the Area Type tool needs to select the first shape, then the text can be pasted in.

To link the shapes the red + needs to be selected with the black selection arrow.

You will then see what looks like a loaded cursor and you select the next shape.

Repeat this step until all 4 shapes are filled.

Change the Paragraph alignment to JUSTIFY

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When working with multiple linked text boxes, make sure your text is highlighted when changing your text settings.

1. Text inside of letters this shows how to fill larger letters with type. Add 2 letters, an O and an M in Gill Sans Ultra Bold, underneath the 4 shapes you just made. Turn the 2 letters into shapes.  Using the Knife tool cut one side of the O. Watch the 3rd demo on using the Knife tool.  This will allow the text to fit into the O. Fill both the letters with fill text. Make them different typestyles and colors.

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Text inside a shape

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Make sure that the knife tool only cuts through 1 SIDE of the O.

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Size: 11" wide x 8" tall

1. Choose a song that you like and copy and paste the lyrics into Illustrator. If it is a short song, add additional copies to the end of of the song to repeat a few times to make it fill the letters of the large word.

2. With the Text tool active, type in all CAPS one of the important words of the lyrics. Example - Hello darkness my old friend, I used HELLO

3. Make the word as large as the paper

4. In the TYPE dropdown select Create Outlines - to make the word a shape

5. Slice - any letter that has an inside shape. B,D,O,P,Q, R

6. Object/Compound Path/Release - to make the shape fillable with text

7. Use Type Area Tool - to place text of the song inside of the shapes

8. Link text from first letter to the second letter, then the 3rd and so on.

9. Adjust the filled lyrics so they fit inside of the first word

10. Use the Font size, Leading, Kerning and Tracking to keep the larger white spaces to a minimum

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Using Object/Text Wrap make the text flow around an oval & a star shape.

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Create a landscape page with 2 columns of text.
Find an image of an animal or person running. Cut out the background of the image using the Object/Clipping Mask.

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Think of an at least 2 word name of a SPORTS business OR Team to add to a round word logo. This can be a company that is already in business or you can create your own. Make a logo placing the business name on a circle - the first word on top and the second word on the bottom with an additional circle inside and outside of your words. Use the images below to do an image trace for the logo. You can also use lines, shapes or other decorative symbols to fill in any empty areas.

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Use one of these images for the center of your logo

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Use one of these images for the center of your logo

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Do a black and white image trace and pick out the sports activity that you want to use.

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Set warped shapes that words and drawn shapes can be warped into.

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A grid in magazine layouts is a non-printed system of horizontal and vertical lines that provides structure and consistency to the page, defining columns, margins, and gutters to guide text, images, and other design elements.

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Use the grid in the next section to set up a 2 page magazine layout for a sports article. Your design layout must include:

The 5 Key Elements listed in window below

4 columns of demo text - Justified for aligned columns

Wrapped demo text around 1 image found from a Google search, "model -sports activity- white background"

Include your black and white sports logo from Assignment 2.

At least 1 photo of the sport that bleeds off of the page

1 photo of your sport that fills 2 columns

Spacer design for the end of the layout to show the end of the article

Page numbers - even number on the left, odd number on the right

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1. Size: 17"wide x 11" tall

2. Download this file and place on your first layer to create a grid in Illustrator.

3. Lock this layer

4. Create a second layer and add your information to this layer for a 2 page magazine spread.

5. Used linked paragraphs to keep the layout flowing

6. HIDE this layer when you are finished and ready to do a screen shot

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Requirements:

1. Purpose for Flyer - Based off of the business from "Text on a Path".

2. Headline - Create a slogan for the headline using the business from Assignment 2 - "Text on a path" in the second column.

3. Message - Is not neccesary as we will be using demo text

4. Graphics - Logo and associated images, other graphic shapes to be included as well for your design - Do an image search for GRAPHIC SPACERS

5. Additional information - Page numbers

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If you want to design a flyer that is effective, try approaching it like a recipe. Design, like any recipe, has key ingredients that must be used and used correctly for the end product to be pleasing.

5 Elements You Must Include In Your Next Flyer Design

To design a flyer that is effective and presents your business well, there are key elements you should always include and use correctly.

There is no "perfect recipe" you have to use in order to make a flyer that is effective. But, these flyer design tips will help you out with your next flyer.

1) A clear, concise goal or purpose

What's your purpose in designing a flyer? Try focusing on one aspect you want to promote whether it's to sell a certain product, invite customers to an event, or use a service.

Think about this example. In order to make room for the new product coming in soon, you're goal is to design a flyer promoting a special BOGO sale to clear out the older product from the shelves. Would you necessarily also debut the newest product about to hit the shelves on the same flyer? No, because your purpose is FIRST to clear the shelves (unless you want to be stuck with the older product).

Don't you think a savvy shopper would just wait for the new and improved product that is yet to come? That is why it's best for you to create flyers with one goal in mind. The reader will hone in on the most important message at that moment. The exception to the rule: Only put two things on a flyer at once if they are related to the same goal.

2) A Popping Headline

Now that you have established your purpose for the flyer, you will need to create a popping headline. Why? Because it's what will most likely be the first thing read on your flyer, so make it interesting.

3) An Overall Motivating Message

This is your call to action line. A call to action is a message that makes the reader want to act; otherwise, the flyer will be useless to the reader. Call to action words like buy now, call today, contact us, come in, and enter to win, lets the reader know how to act on what they read.

4) Graphics or Pictures

Design a flyer with vivid images relative to the concept of the flyer and ones that are eye catching. Your logo is an important visual to place on the flyer as well.

5) Your Contact Information

DO NOT forget to add this to your flyer. How else will anyone contact you if they don't have a phone number or address? You may also want to consider adding info like your name, website, e-mail address, Facebook business page, or Twitter profile.

Your flyer will be effective only if all these elements are clearly thought out and used together well. It is important that you also consider the pages on graphic design basics and color basics when you design a flyer or any other print material.

Put Your Design to the Test!

Does your flyer provide the essentials: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?

At a quick glance, can readers understand your flyer's message?

Have you avoided unnecessary clutter involving words, graphics, and other design elements?

Is your message in as fewest words as possible so that it is clear, concise, and to the point?

Once it passes through you and the questionnaire, the next test is how others react to your flyer. If this is your first try at a new design, it is best to print a few flyers about 50-250 (not 1000, unless your confident) just to get a reaction first.

That way, if you see you're not getting the desired response, you won't have to toss the other 900 copies away and waste your money.

In conclusion, you have learned what elements go into a design and why. So now where do you go from there? Because design is not an exact science or recipe but rather a skill, it may take some trial and error to design a flyer that works for your business.

Don't give up though! Because at the end of it all, you learn how to better market your business and ultimately apply what you learned to the rest of your marketing tools online and off.

Think You Could Use Some Help?

Along with offering FREE design tips to small business owners on how to create their own marketing materials, I also provide design resources if you are trying to do it yourself.

Why not use a flyer template!

Using a flyer template comes with its benefits such as:

Time saved by not having to start from scratch. (Your Time = Money)

Not having to spend more on the tools and programs needed to design promotional items

Check out my page on 11 Beautiful Flyer Design Ideas for Inspiration or visit StockLayouts for a nice selection of customizable flyer templates.

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Design A Flyer Using These Five Elements

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If you want to design a flyer that is effective, try approaching it like a recipe. Design, like any recipe, has key ingredients that must be used and used correctly for the end product to be pleasing. To design a flyer that is effective and presents your business well, there are key elements you should always include and use correctly.

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Adding Effects to a letter - review bellwork

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Adding Effects to a letter - review bellwork

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1. Using Eras Bold ITC Choose a letter

2. Type/Create outlines to change to a shape

3. Use the white arrow direct selection tool to stretch out the anchor points of the left side of the letter

4. Add a 3 color gradient with a small tilt to the right

5. Go to Effects/Pixelate/Mezzotint/Long lines to create the effect

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Adding intertwined effect - review bellwork

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Adding intertwined effect - review bellwork

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1. Choose a letter

2. Draw a curving line on top of the letter making sure the line is outside of both sides of the letter

3. Select - Object/Intertwining/Make

4. Click or circle with the lasso tool every other section that passes on top of the letter

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Adding a glow to your word - review bellwork

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Adding a glow to your word - review bellwork

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Create a glowing neon word

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NOTE - If your it has "IN" (inches) in the Path/Offset Path area, the number you type should be more in the .2" to .05" range depending on the thickness of your letters.

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Adding a rippled effect to a word - review bellwork

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Adding a rippled effect to a word - review bellwork

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Using Adobe Illustrator, create a rippled water effect with text using the Knife and Wrinkle tool.

Change text to a shape

Use the Knife to cut word in half

Check the direction of the Wrinkle tool to make sure the direction is horizontal

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Using a word that means something to you, create a design of that word that has white fill in the letters, a black outline and a blended 2 color drop shadow.

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This is a more complex demo, listening to the instructions is also important with this one.

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To raise money for our scholarship... our senior class at Northwest might purchase from us a senior t-shirt if we give them some awesome design options.

We will be choosing at least 5 of our t-shirt designs to make available to print.

Items needed on the design:

1. Class of 2026

2. Husky image

3. Imagery to use:

Northwest Huskies

Huskies

Paw print

Anything senior or graduation themed

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Warping with a mesh grid allows for more flexibility of the shape. This can be the most difficult to control depending on what shape is used.

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This option allows the text to fill a shape that is above the word.

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Fitting a word inside of the shape with Envelope Distort.

1. Type an ALL CAPS 2 words that have at LEAST 4 letters each.

2. Create 2 shapes.

3. Select one of the words and one of the shapes.

4. Make sure the shape is in front of the word and do an Object/Envelope Distort/Make with Top Object, to fit the word inside of the selected shape.

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The liquify tools can further distort shapes. The lettering has to be converted to Type/Create Outline for the liquify tools to work.

The higher the intensity percentage of your tool - the more it will affect the shape.

The larger the brush size - more of the shape will be affected

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Manipulate the bottom of a word to add an effect that looks like drops of water

1. Type an all uppercase word that has to do with water

2. Convert Type/Create Oulines

3. On the bottom corner of the letters drag down edges - check size & settings in the demo video

4. Use Bloat tool to create the drop - check size & settings in the demo video

5. Make your word a compound path

6. Add a gradient color to add visual interest

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Create a word animal with warped and manipulated text

Find a simple silhouette of an animal.

Use Image Trace to vectorize the image

Use the knife to cut off the head, tail or other parts of the animal that you do not want the letters to fill

Use Make with Top Object to fill body of the animal with the name of the animal

Further manipulate the lettering with the Liquify tools