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

List of Projects for Term 2

Make sure you bring a flash drive to save all of your work June 25th.

Term 2 Projects- make sure you upload all projects to your blog, but save the html to the Shared- 00Design- Final Web Sites file put a file with your name in there so I can see your work.

• InDesign Promo- Clothing
• InDesign Promo- Bus Stop/Transportation ad
• Photoshop- Portrait aka Andy Warhol
• Html - 1st Web Page
• Html- Checkerboard Table
• Html- Link Site
• Flash- Mini Animation
• Flash- Button
• Flash- Intro Splash to web site with link to web site

We will have a class sharing at 10am.

Flash Web Site

For your Flash Website title page, you will need the following:

• Title/heading
• Short animation to suit your business
• Button to link to your other websites
• Colours match design concept
• Layout resembles business design

Bee Animation

Mini Animation

Create a super short animation using the following Flash techniques:

1. Create Symbol- Main subject.
2. 2 + Layers (include a background layer).
3. Motion Tween.
4. Shape Tween
5. Motion Guide.
6. Ease of the Motion.
7. Tween Alpha or Colours.
8. Short story with main character with conflict and resolution.

Flash Button Tutorial

Here is the Flash 3.0 button tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUJkqzCM3L4
it's 20 minutes long.