Terms to know:
Social Issue
Imagery
Illustration
Social Issue
Imagery
Illustration
Instructions:
This design should relay a message to the viewer with or without text. The design will be drawn in Illustrator or fresco, however, you may use Photoshop in addition for any special effects you may want to add. Your final design should be on a 13 by 19 inch document (either horizontal or vertical) or smaller. You may need to design certain aspects of the project separately and then add them together at the end! Think about your planning process as you design your sketches to be approved.
This design should relay a message to the viewer with or without text. The design will be drawn in Illustrator or fresco, however, you may use Photoshop in addition for any special effects you may want to add. Your final design should be on a 13 by 19 inch document (either horizontal or vertical) or smaller. You may need to design certain aspects of the project separately and then add them together at the end! Think about your planning process as you design your sketches to be approved.
Project Plan- use digital sketchbook
1. Brainstorm (see topic ideas further down page!)
2. Style (3)
3. Layout (3)
4. Sketch
2. Style (3)
3. Layout (3)
4. Sketch
As always, no images off google. Make sure you use unsplash or take them yourself!
What will you actually make?
- Company brand identity (logos, typography, and color palettes)
- User interfaces on apps and websites
- Books, magazines, newspapers, and other publications
- Product packaging design/ad
- Advertisements in general
- Signage for stores, transportation, stadiums, and event spaces
- Video games/ covers/ graphics
- Posters for events
- Flyers
- Brochures
- Illustrations for publications
- Covers for movies, soundtracks and records
- Art for Art Sake
What will your topic be ... your "words" of the design?
1.Common Sayings
Man versus nature:
Illustration examples:
Product design examples:
Cover design examples/ poster examples:
A Chip on Your Shoulder
Raining Cats and Dogs
Being angry about something that happened in the past; a grudge.
A Dime a Dozen
When something is extremely common and simple to acquire.
A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted
Someone acting foolish can easily lose his or her money due to carelessness.
A Piece of Cake
A task that is simple to complete; similar to the common phrase "as easy as pie."
All Greek To Me
When something is incomprehensible due to complexity.
An Arm and a Leg
Something that's very expensive; an idiom meaning the price paid was costly.
2. Part of song lyrics
3. Part of or an entire Famous Quote
3. Idioms
Back to Square One
Going back to the beginning; a popular saying that means a person has to start over.
Back To the Drawing Board
Similar to the phrase above, it means starting over again.
Barking Up The Wrong Tree
To make a wrong assumption about someone or something.
Beating Around the Bush
A common phrase meaning a person is avoiding the main point
Beating a Dead Horse
Something that is seen as futile.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Being faced with two difficult choices; a popular saying used to describe a dilemma.
Break The Ice
Breaking down a social stiffness or awkardness.
Burst Your Bubble
To ruin someone's happy moment or mood, usually by telling them disappointing news or information.
5. Part of a Reading/Book Illustrated Message/Meaning
- ULYSSES by James Joyce
- THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
- LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
- BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
- THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
- CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
- DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
- SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
- THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
- UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
- THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
- 1984 by George Orwell
- I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
- AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
- INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
- NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
6. Part of a Poem/Short Story
1Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou
2Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
3If You Forget Me Pablo Neruda
4I carry your heart with me E. E. Cummings
5The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
6A Dream Within A Dream Edgar Allan Poe
7There is another sky Emily Dickinson
8Life Is Fine Langston Hughes
9A Girl Ezra Pound
10Messy Room Shel Silverstein
11To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems Oscar Wilde
12Still I Rise Maya Angelou
13Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes
14To You Walt Whitman
15Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
16I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
17The New Poetry Handbook Mark Strand
18Funeral Blues W. H. Auden
19Touched by An Angel Maya Angelou
20The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
7. Illustrate a Oxymoron
- absent presence
- alone together
- awful good
- beggarly riches
- bittersweet
- "brisk vacancy"
- cheerful pessimist
- civil war
- clearly misunderstood
- comfortable misery)
- conspicuous absence
- cool passion
- crash landing
- cruel kindness
- darkness visible
- deafening silence
- deceptively honest
- definite maybe
- deliberate speed
- devout atheist
- dull roar
- eloquent silence
- even odds
- exact estimate
- extinct life
- falsely true
- festive tranquility
- found missing
- freezer burn
- friendly takeover
- genuine imitation
- good grief
- growing smaller
- guest host
- historical present
- humane slaughter
- icy hot
- idiot savant
- ill health
- impossible solution
- intense apathy
- joyful sadness
- jumbo shrimp
- larger half
- lascivious grace
- lead balloon
- liquid marble
- living dead
- living end
- living sacrifices
- loosely sealed
- loud whisper
- loyal opposition
- magic realism
- melancholy merriment
- militant pacifist
- minor miracle
- negative growth
- negative income
- old news
- one-man band
- only choice
- openly deceptive
- open secret
- original copy
8. Social Issues
- Food Safety
- Tax Reform
- Church-State Separation
- Global Warming
- Birth Control
- Abortion
- Capital Punishment
- Misuse of social networking
- Animal and environment abuse
- Poverty
- Women's Rights
- Religion-based Discrimination
- World population
- Organ & body donation
- Human Rights Violations
- Environmental Pollution
- Children's Rights
- Corporate Downsizing
- Defense Spending and Preparedness
- Euthanasia & assisted suicide
- Eating Disorders
- Unemployment
- Homelessness
- Racial profiling
- Welfare
- Recycling and Conservation
- HIV/AIDS
- Civil Rights
- Genetic Engineering
- Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy
- Obesity
- Terrorism
- Judicial Reform
- Censorship
- Violence
- Academic Freedom
- Gender issues
- Environmental issues
- Single Parenting
- Child Labor
- Immigration
- Nuclear Proliferation
- Ageism
- Stress
- Cancer
- Education
- Health Care Reform
- Embryonic Stem Cell Research
- Affirmative Action