PACT LEARNING SEGUMENT / LESSON PLAN

Instructor:  John Sappington - john@basearts.com

Resources

Lecture:

Composition Guidlines - File->New->Letter *8.5x11/300ppi
File Types- PSD for all composition work

Reading:
Scanning Procedures - Flat Art


Artist:

Moholy-Nagy

Search Sites:
Deviant Art
http://www.deviantart.com

Lecture:

Composition Guidlines - File->New->Letter *8.5x11/300ppi
File Types- PSD for all composition work

Photoshop:
Best Practices
Vector / Raster Graphics

Lab:

Use of the scanner, demonstration, first scans.

Sketchbook:

Project/Assignment:

2-5 Compositions - (Photograms):
8.5x11 - 300 ppi
2 - Layers Min.

Vocabulary:
Aesthetics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

Presentations:

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Lab:
Continuing work with vector based graphics

Sketchbook:


Project/Assignment:
3-5 Comps / standard size / .psd
- must include 2 vector shapes, a text element and a bitmapped image.

One vector shofuld be a symbol - begin by researching Renaissance symbolism.

All images on individual layers.

Vocabulary:
Vector Graphics

Presentations:
1st Year Pair Presentations (PP)- Project Descriptions

Try to consider alternative/creative approaches to the presentation methods.

1) Descriptions 250 words / brief project overview
2) Roles - describe what each of you will be responsible for ie. graphics, text, video, script
3) Web Resources - *email me any urls/web sites that need iBoss filters opened for the presentation
4) Technical requirements - any technology resources that are required.

Lecture:

Text and Vectors - manipulations

Graphic Design Resources

Sample Styles

• Illuminated Manuscipts
  
• Early Printing- Block Prints
  
• German Illustrated
  
• Renaissance
  
• Neoclassical
  
• Industrial
  
• Victorian
  
• Arts and Crafts
  
• Art Nouveau
• Mid - Late Modernism
• Post-Modern

Artists:

Paul Rand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand#Early_career

Philip Meggs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_B._Meggs

Marshall McLuhan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan

Search Sites:

Gingko Press
http://www.gingkopress.com

Bauhaus Archive of Design
http://www.bauhaus.de/english/index.htm

Lecture:

GRAPHIC DESIGN



Johannes Itten, Bauhaus - Possibilities of Contrast

Lao-Tse
Thiry spokes meet in the hub but the empty spaces between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay but the empty space withini it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the house.
the principle,
Matter represents the usefulness
Non-matter the essence of things.

Lab:
Pen and Path Tools continued...

Sketchbook:

<elements and principles of design>
COLLABORATIVE WITH 1 ELEMENT MODIFIED

Sketchbook Covers - modify

Project/Assignment:

Collaborative Compositions + Critique

Elemental Compositions Due Monday

Vocabulary:
Gestalt

Presentations:
1st Drafts / Presentation Pairs, Scheduling begins

Reading:

Rhizome: INSERT DISC: a digital flaneur’s guide

blog.basearts.com - The Keyboard Trumps the Brush - Wade Guyton, The Keyboard Trumps the Brush
http://www.petzel.com/artists/wade-guyton/

God Spotted on the Streets of New York
http://www.visualnews.com/2012/02/21/god-spotted-on-the-streets-of-new-york/
- compliments of Zooey

Artists:

Typography

Lab:

Sketchbook:

• 10 Examples of Type / Text from the world - identify principles or elements of design.
• Elemental Comps - 3 Elements / 3 Principles
  

Project/Assignment:

• 4 Thumbnails - Unique Letter Forms - 2-3 letters *see illustration
• Typeset - layout Zao-Tse Quote - 4 Thumbnails / Variations

Vocabulary:

Kerning


Presentations:

Artists:
Matthew Carter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter
Typefaces include :

Jan Tschichold - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Tschichold
Typefaces include:

• Transit (1931)
• Saskia (1931/1932)
• Zeus (1931)
• Sabon (1966/1967) - [1], named after Jacques Sabon.

Guillaume Appollinaire - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligrammes

Reading:

Typography Resources

Working with type - additional - work up a font face of your own design - functionality is not required.
- Parts of the Letter

- Typography History Sampler - http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/typohist/
- Misc. http://www.basearts.com/curriculum/typoGraphyGraphics/

Johannes Gutenberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg

Lecture:

Typography continues...

Max Naylor

Lab:

Sketchbook:

Project/Assignment:
2nd round revisions - unique letterforms- Thumbnails - Lao Tse panagrams

Vocabulary:

panagram

Presentations:

Artisits:

Reading:

Panagram - Texts used to demonstrate typefaces

A sentence that uses all of the alphabet (a pangram), such as "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", is often used as a design aesthetic tool to demonstrate the personality of a typeface's characters in a setting (because it displays all the letters of the alphabet). For extended settings of typefaces graphic designers often use nonsense text (commonly referred to as greeking), such as lorem ipsum or Latin text such as the beginning of Cicero's In Catilinam. Greeking is used in typography to determine a typeface's colour, or weight and style, and to demonstrate an overall typographic aesthetic prior to actual type setting. - wikipedia

Inside the Prosthetic Imaginary: An Interview with Sara Hendren
http://rhizome.org/editorial/2012/oct/4/inside-prosthetic-imaginary-interview-sara-hendren/

Search Sites:


The Golden Ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRatio.html

Font characteristics

Character height =

Weight
Stroke width, called weight - roman, regular, bold, thin, italic/oblique thickness of the character outlines relative to height

• Hairline
  
• Thin
  
• Ultra-light
  
• Extra-light
  
• Light
  
• Book
  
• Normal / regular / roman / plain
  
• Medium
  
• Demi-bold / semi-bold
  
• Bold
  
• Extra-bold / extra
  
• Heavy
  
• Black
  
• Extra-black
  
• Ultra-black / ultra
  
• (normal, regular and plain)

Slope - Style, Angle - normal, roman or upright

Width - Character Width - compressed, condensed or narrow. proportional or monospaced(fixed-width), (tabular) digits,

Optimal size
Poster - larger than 72 point
Display - 19–72 point
Subhead - 14–18 point
(Regular) - 10–13 point
Small Text (SmText) - 8–10 point
Caption - 6–8 point

Metrics
Font metrics refers to metadata consisting of numeric values relating to size and space in the font overall, or in its individual glyphs. Font-wide metrics include cap height, x-height, ascender height, descender depth, and the font bounding box.

Serifs

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