Fonts

Fonts are a complete assortment of type of one style and size. Fonts are expressive, they have personality and are a powerful communication tool. Letter styles are very important in design. They are an identifier of a company, an organization, an event, a band, style of clothing, or tv show... Font styles are so powerful, they can control the way we think and perceive about something.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning).

We are going to explore the power of font choice and various applications of typography in design.

Logos

Watch these You Tube Videos: Typolution
Helvetica


* Research logos that use only letters to represent companies.
Find 5-10 logos that incorperate text into the design.
* Design the LFAS logo
* Select a font that suits the personality of LFAS.
* Type the initals and full name.
* Try to abstract the initials.
* You can Stretch, Bold, Italic... your letters.
* You can select a colour other than black.
* Try 5 different variations.
* You can add a simple symbol that represents LFAS.
* Select your best style and post it on your blog.

Happy Birthday Google

Let's create a Google Logo!

LFAS Logo & Blue Dog Press Banner

LFAS Logo-

Let's start to update the LFAS logo... Consider who we are and how to best represent LFAS symbolically  and select a new font for it. We are updating this for the new web site. Then begin to redraw the logo in Illustrator and cosider how we can update.

Blue Dog Press-
Also the writers are working on a school digital newspaper and have asked us to design a logo and a banner for them. Here are some images that Knittel found to start us off:

9 Fonts

When you finish you are to collect 9 different fonts 3 Serif, 3 Sans Serif, and 3 Decorative. Type the style of font as the title of the font and then explain where the font cou;d be used and why. You can also do this in Illustrator. Post to your blog.
But first, watch these:
Trajan, the Movie Font
Font Conference
Font Fight

Letter Design

First we are going to size and copy paste the letter on the letter sized file. Then we are going invert the abstracted letter so that the letter will be reversed and flipped using the "REFLECT" tool on the tool bar. Once we have sized and inverted the design, then we are going to multiply the letter 9 times 3 rows, 3 columns. Afterwards we are going to print out your letter design and post onto the board outside. Post to your blog. Like this...

Pathfinder in Illustrator

How to use the pathfinder

LFAS website citique

Design students... please view the new format of the LFAS web site and let me know what you think. critique, make suggestions, recommendations etc.
http://www.langleyfinearts.com/temp/

Apple of My Eye

Today we are going to share the Apple drawing projects. To prepare your apple you must FILE>EXPORT

select file type "JPG". When the JPEG Opitons window opens, change "CMYK" to RGB. Make the QUALITY high, FORMAT stays the same, keep RESOLUTION to SCREEN. Then upload your apple image to your blog to share.

More Illustrator Techniques- Swirls

Swirl Tutorial
Badge
Different Tutorial for the Gradient Mesh Technique

Illustrator- Creating a Symbol

Make sure you finish the drawing tutorial from yesterday. It will be essential for you to get the basics of the pen tool figured out for many Illustrator assignments that you will be doing this term.

We are going to practice our pen technique by tracing a pre-made symbol from the Illustrator symbol library. Open the Symbol menu, Window>Symbols. There are many to choose from, but keep it simple for starters. Drag your desired symbol to the page. Create a new layer Window> Layer> select "New Layer" in the pop down menu. Make sure the new layer is selected when are drawing. Using the pen tool, draw an outline of the symbol. You can try to colour and fill in colour (you may change the colour). Cover 100% of the symbol as close to the original as possible.

Afterwards, we are going to make our own symbol and add it to our symbol library. Here is a tutorial to show how to create a simple starburst and save it to your symbol library.
http://youtu.be/cnuG76a9Zdw

Intro to Illustrator

First you will have a brief introduction to Adobe Illustrator. We are going to try a few drawing tutorials. It is a massive program, so we are going to start small. Here are a few tutorials to look into on http://www.lynda.com/.

Class Blog

We are going to brainstorm and keep track of ideas through a blog. Here are the steps to start your own blog.

1. Sign-up for a Gmail account. (let me know if you would rather use a different blog tool).
2. Go to Google and sign in.
3. Go to Blogger.
4. Follow the steps to naming and set up your style ie Billy's Blog, or Mary's Designs.
5. Start your first entry to your blog: Elements of Design list the five elements and add your found examples, could be the ones from yesterday, or new ones.
6. Elements of design are: Line, Shape, Texture, Colour, Form.
7. Then email your blog address to me to dusher@sd35.bc.ca

Ask if you need help. Good luck and happy blogging!

Welcome to Digital Design

Welcome to Digital Design. This course will expose and highlight the presence of design in our everyday surroundings, providing a basis for understanding the work and the importance of designers. The disciplines of 2-D graphic design will be exemplified and examined, but we will also explore fashion, architecture, industrial, and interior design. Students will learn how to use Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash and will be challenged to produce solutions using design and creative problem solving.

Today we are going to explore the Elements of Design