Digital Design Outline

LFAS Digital Design is designed for students who have interests in developing computer skills  for creating graphic designs and improving visual communication.

Project Outline
Blog Design
Personalize your blog, give it some flair. 


Photoshop Banner
Learn how to use text fonts to convey aspects of you, layering, duplicating, and adding effects to create a textured graphic. 

Typography
Learn the basics about type. Explore the world of fonts, styles, and their usage.

Elements of Design- 
Principals of Design- 

Shape- Typography- Illustrator
Abstracting text 

Illustrator- Basics
Learn how to use basic tools and begin to create graphics using Adobe Illustrator

Font Design
Explore the personalities of fonts and how they can represent you.And then design a font that reflects something about you.

Logo Design- Illustrator
Design a simple logo that expresses who you are. Then re-design the Butterfly Effect Logo…

InDesign- Basics

Photoshop- Basics
Learn basic image editing skills and more complex ones. Vector vs. pixels.
 
Button Design- Photoshop/InDesign

Adobe Photoshop- Intermediate
We will explore image correcting, layer masks and filters.

Concert Promotion
Poster, Ad , T-Shirt Design, Bumper sticker,

Dreamweaver- HTML/CSS
Learn basic html to design a web site.

Self-Directed Final Project ?
Challenge yourself to something you are interested in that you want to explore more.


Evaluation will be based on the following:
Written Assignments, Written Reflections, Self-Evaluations (knowledge): 10%
Blog (display knowledge of concepts, gather ideas): 20%
Projects (skill): 70%

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