Tuesday, February 17, 2015



Week 6 - Practical Design Projects

This unit, we'll examine a few elements and principles of design to apply some of our newly acquired skills with Adobe Illustrator's Pen tool (P), and pick up a few tricks for drawing simple shapes with high precision to depict common sights in the world.

There are FOUR parts to the assignment for this week.
Students in period 6, skip down to the Additional Resources.

(1) TASK 1 Design Terminology - Define the following design terms and locate at least two example images from the Internet that illustrate the term.  Please properly site and attribute the url source in the caption of each photo.

- Contrast : (Size contrast, shape contrast, texture/color contrast)
the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association.


Emphasis : special importance, value, or prominence given to something. 

- Balance : (informal balance, and formal balance)
an even distribution of weight enabling someone or something to remain upright and steady.



Proportion : a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.








Perspective : the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. 















































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