Business Card>Public Transit Ad & Clothing Item

You may have noticed many different adaptations of a similar design during the Vancouver Olympics 2010. I want you to 1st explore and research how the designers tranfered the design concepts through out the various venues. Collect 5+ different Olympic design variations.
Next, I want you to re-visit your business card design and tranfer that idea to different formats. For this design project, adapt your favourite business card design to fit 2 other promotional spaces- Public Transit Ad and T-shirt.

1. The Public Transit Ad
2. Clothing Item (t-shirt, hat, hoodie...)

List of Projects for Term1

1. Elements of Design found examples
2. 9 Found Fonts descriptions
3. Abstract Letter
4. Redraw a Symbol
5. Personal Logo
6. Masterpiece
7. 10 Business Cards
8. Best Business Card

The Servant of Two Masters Poster Design

Hey Designers-
We have been given a job! The poster for the drama production of The Servants of Two Masters. I underestimated our time though. I was trying to allow you to complete your business cards and then start the poster, but we are taking too long. So we must interrupt the business cards and design the poster and we only have three days. It is from the 20s era, so we have to look into " art deco" designs

So I want to break up the design into 4 or 5 parts 2 to 3 students working on each part:

1. Border- Seomi, Susie
2. Flapper-girl in caricature- KyuRi
3. Silhouettes of men in top hats behind girl- Maria, YeJi
4. Title- Marissa, Jill, Erin
5. Supporting text- Ann, DaHae
6. Art Deco-rative Graphics- JiYoung, Tyler

Consider art deco style text, illustrations, and graphics. It is a very distinct era.

Flappers

Alphonse Mucha

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Designs

Which part(s) do you want to do?

Work Period Today

Your 10 business card design variations are due tomorrow at the end of class.

Creating a Template in Illustrator

I am going to show you how you can assemble your 10 business card designs together on one page.

1. Using Adobe Illustrator, you should open a letter sized print document 8.5 x 11.
2. Then select "Show Rulers" under the "View" menu.
3. Find centre of the document. Create guide lines by clicking inside of the rulers and then dragging a grid line onto your document (these are only imaginary lines, they will not print out). First create a vertical centre line pull the line to 4.25 inches and then a horizontal centre line pull the line to 5.5 inches so you should have the lines crossing in the very centre of your document.
4. Draw a top guide line and a bottom guide line on your template 0.5 inch from the top and 0.5 inch from the bottom.
5. Create the side guides 0.75 of an inch in from both vertical sides of the document.
6. Open your business card files and select all- Control+A or "Select" menu and "Select All". then group all of the parts Control+G or "Object" menu and "Group". (You may want to draw a temporary 2" x 3.5" border around your business card so you can place each card correctly on the template).
7. Copy your card design and then Paste into the template
8. Repeat steps six and seven ten times to fill the template.
9. "Save As" the document "10business cards.ai".
10. Convert the file to a "jpg" to add to your blog. "File">"Export">"10business cards.jpg"
11. Then select your best design out of the ten different ideas and assemble 10 on one page to print them out.
12. "Select All" then "Delete" the 10 different card designs from the template.
13. Repeat steps six and seven, but this time paste the same design onto the template 10 times.
14. "File">"Save As" your document so you create a new file.
15. Print your 10 same designs onto business card paper using the Epson printer.

Business Card Work Period 3

Business Card Work Period 3

Business Card Work Period

I will help you work on your ideas today. Ask if you want help.