Week 9 - Project 08: Handletters Book pages, Project 09: Handletters Book statement

o8: Work in class to scan your best sketchbook pages and projects. Files labeled title_FirstNameInitial_lastName.tiff. Burn them to a CD. Compose or crop your images to 8x10 vertical pages and add a 1/8" bleed if image goes to the edge. (your images can float on white space as long as the page is 8x10)

Size: Our book will be 8x10" paperback in color using blurb.com
Medium: Color or b/w art as CMYK .tff files at 300dpi. Don not enlarge small files up they will look pixilated. Place your .tiff files in the .tiff folder inside a folder with your name on it.
Essential Qualities: All of your work up to this point and your weekly sketchbook alphabets.
Final: All files due Ap 20 in folder and as one pdf file

09: Create a one page statement that expresses your thoughts about handlettering using handlettering. Your can write from the perspective of what you've learned, people that influence you, or your thoughts on specific assignments.

HOMEWORK: Make adjustments and finish everything that you haven't done yet! remember we'll be breaking up into groups to start working on the book next week!

and here is this weeks videos!

Week 9- Project 7: Wallpaper

Use your best piece from the Test Pattern project, develop it more and pattern it out.

Let us see your pattern at work.

Size: 22x35"
Medium: Color or B&W as appropriate, digital output. Make the presentation look good by trimming out the poster.
Essential Qualities: A working repeat. A pattern that is evocative [dynamic, ethereal, delicate, bold, etc]

See this site to create a repeat.

See this site for inspiration.

Final: due April 6.
Homework: Finals for P07 and bring in sketchbook and external drive.

remember to also bring in the original letterform used to make your pattern and the 5 patterns from last week, as well as the digital file you used to print.

Week 8: Project 6

Use elements/details of previous assignments/sketches, recombining/overlapping/editing into 5 interesting patters on 6x6 squares.

use tracing paper and/or digital manipulation. Use color with meaning.

Work-in-class this week to develop lots of ideas. Bring in your 5 best ideas next week on 6x6" squares.

Patterning workshop in class next week

Size: 6x6"
Medium: Color of B&W as appropiate. Make the presentation look good by trimming out squares to size.
Essential Qualities: Visual interest. Creative use of your raw material.
Finals: due March 30

Week 7: Project 5 cont.

MIDTERM CRITS:

For your midterms critiques next week, please bring in all your work to date in chronological order! Don't forget your sketchbooks with all your weekly alphabets.

Also, bring a piece of lineart (preferably a letterform) for the illustrator demo next week.

Furthermore, bring your final coffee labels in ASAP so we can photograph them.

ps: thanks for bringing in awesome work for the nature alphabets/posters/books/other things

and here are the videos from this week!