3MG Anti-Smoking Poster

Go to the pick-up folder in the LCI folder on your desktop and view the powerpoint on Visual Advocacy and Graphic Design.

Your assignment:

• Design a persuasive anti-smoking poster using original graphics, photography and text. You can use found photography as long as it is manipulated and the file size is large enopugh to be printed. Your final poster size will be 10"x16" @ 300 p.p.i. Keep this in mind when you are looking for photographs.
• Design 2 other forms of getting your message out with one traditional and one non-traditional format.
• You must have all 3 pieces work together and have the same elements (colour scheme, typestyle, slogan etc.)
• Traditional forms of advertising are television spots (30 - 60seconds; you can design the storyboard, you don't have to actually film it), billboards, bus shelter ads or subway posters, websites etc.)
• Non-traditional forms of advertising are anything from sidewalk spraypainting, dropping banners from buildings, giving away free t-shirts or hats, hosting events like parties or music fests where bands that play support your message, stickers, you tube...)

Keeping it simple will help your design. Come up with a simple slogan and graphic that is persuasive and visually dynamic that makes people think about why they shouldn't smoke.

Step 1: Research
Look at http://www.adbusters.org/gallery/spoofads to get inspired by Adbusters magazine.
Read through tabacco and smoking information sites to get facts and information such as:
http://www.notobacco.org/
http://www.thetruth.com/
http://www.quit4life.com/index_e.asp
http://stupid.ca/index.asp

Step 2: Brainstorm ideas for images and text
Step 3: Thumbnail sketches!!!
Step 4: Choose your best thumbnails and create a rough full-size mock-up of your 3 pieces - on the computer.
Step 5: Full-colour comprehensive
Step 6: Finalize

You must finish step 4 by Friday April 3, 2009 and post them to your blog with a brief explanation of your concept.

Your full-colour comprehensive will be due the following Thursday April 9, 2009

3MG Tech Skills Challenge T-shirts

Your assignment is a real design challenge that is required by your school. Each year, LCI sponsors a tech skills challenge for grade 7 students from our feeder schools. They come to Lakeshore for the day and 1 or 2 students from each school participate in a variety of tech challenges from food service, cosmetology, graphic design and photography, construction, automotive and electricity. Each participant receives a t-shirt to remember the event and each Lakeshore student ambassador also receives a t-shirt. These t-shirts need to be re-designed this year with a new logo and design.

The final selected design will be used on the actual T-shirts and printed for that challenge. The design of the t-shirt will be able to use this design in a portfolio and also be able to put it in a resume.

Your challenge:

Design a logo for the LCI tech skills challenge that is a pictorial or abstract visual (symbol or illustration) in one colour. The text must be present somewhere on the shirt - with the logo or surrounding it. The logo should be a visual symbol of technology - think of words like innovation, creativity, ideas, problem solving, experiential or hands on etc.

• The logo must be one solid colour (one for a black shirt, white shirt and blue shirt).


• You must design it in terms of size and placement.


• You must create it using Illustrator and save it both as an illustrator file and as a jpg.


• You must post your finished logo to the blog with a written paragraph explaining your design choices and how they express the theme of technology skills challenge.


• The logo should be graphic and dynamic, memorable and the text and image must be clear and legible.

Due: Tuesday March 31st

2O1 - CD Cover steps 2 and 3

TGJ 2O1
Project:
CD cover and booklet design

A musician or band is producing their first CD. They have requested your expertise and creative design skills to help them design their CD.
Using the list provided, choose a name for your band and a title for the CD.

See the last posting on the blog for the first part of this project which includes choosing your name, style and personality, researching other bands and beginning some thumbnail sketches.

Step 2 – Brainstorming – Visual Collage
Define the target market. Who do you think will buy this CD?
Think about an age range, sex (if you think it matters), geographic location (urban, rural) and interests.
Make a list of 5 adjectives that describes not only the music, but also the image and personality of the group/artist. From here you can brainstorm any other words that come to mind. Fill a page with related words – anything that pops into your head!
Create a collage on a blank 8 ½” x 11” page on the computer.
Find images, illustrations, textures, colours, and type styles (for the words and the font)
Fill the page with these images and use this as your visual file to begin your CD design.
You will need to hand this in with your written paragraph defining the style of the music and the list of adjectives.

Step 3 - Thumbnail Sketches
You may have found it helpful to create a visual collage, or idea page to help generate some thoughts of how to best communicate the band’s image in a visual way.
Create some thumbnail sketches – a minimum of 10 of the front cover that plays with images, text and layout. Once you have decided on your image for the front cover, you should go out do the necessary photography. You must include at least one original photograph on your front cover. You can include more, but one is the minimum.
Think about a colour scheme and always keep UNITY in mind when creating your design.

DUE: Please post this collage and hand in your brainstorming page and thumbnail sketches by the end of class on Wednesday March 25, 2009. Thursday and Friday will be reserved for shooting – unless you hand in your thumbnail sketches earlier!

TGJ4MG Mainstage Production Promotional Materials

Every year, the grade 12 Graphic Design class is responsible for "in-house" promotional materials and design requests for LCI.
This year, we are responsible for designing the poster, banner and t-shirts for the drama mainstage production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

The poster must be 8 1/2" x 11" @ 300 p.p.i. and must incorporate a photograph of the actor playing the main character.
The banner must be 16' x 4' (that's feet, not inches!), so should be done in Illustrator for the infinitely stretchable quality of vector-based illustration.
The t-shirts should be a strong graphic that works well with one colour.

The following information must be included in the poster:
The Lakeshore Drama Club Presents...
Cyrano de Bergerac
By Edmund Rostand
"So soon, so fast, the knife can pierce our hearts."
May 27, 28 & 29
7:00 p.m.
Lakeshore Auditorium
350 Kipling Avenue
Tickets: Adults $10
Students & Seniors $8

The following information must be included on the banner:
Graphic of some kind
The Lakeshore Drama Club Presents...
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmund Rostand
"So soon, so fast, the knife can pierce our hearts."
May 27, 28 & 29
7:00 p.m.
Lakeshore Auditorium

The following information must be on the t-shirts:
On the front:
Graphic of some kind which should include the title (Cyrano de Bergerac)

On the back:
The Lakeshore Drama Club Presents...
Cyrano de Bergerac
By Edmund Rostand
"So soon, so fast, the knife can pierce our hearts."
May 27, 28 & 29
2009

In your design teams, you must come up with a design plan that incorporates all three products. The poster will have a photograph, while the other two will be more graphic, however, they should compliment each other and they must be unified in their designs. They should look like they are part of the same promotional campaign. Keep this in mind when you are choosing typestyles, layout and the graphic representation of the poster imagery.

Please do your research! Watch the film over the holidays if you can. Read any information you can. Find past posters for this play and film and look at other movie and theatre posters both vintage and contemporary.
All three pieces need to be finished by April 1st. You will be presenting your work to the class - concept, sketches and mock-ups of final products on Friday March 27. Keep in mind that you will need to photograph the actor - please "hire" a photographer from the grade 12 class to do this. You will want to show them a sketch of your idea first and discuss it with them.

Have fun!

TGJ 2O1 CD Booklet Assignment

Your major assignment for the Graphic Design Unit in this class will be to create a full CD package, which includes the front cover and 4 panel booklet, the back cover and the CD itself. I will provide a template for you to use after the March Break.

Part 1 - Due by Friday before the break (March 13th) Posted to your blog
1. Choose your band and CD title: From the list below (chosen with random wikipedia searches and random quotations), choose a name for your band or artist and a title for your CD. Or, if you like, perform your own random search.

2. Based on the name of your band and the title of the CD, make a decision about the style of music and personality of this band.

3. Research this style of music and find 3 CD covers from bands of this genre.

4. Post your results to your blog in the following format:

• Name of the band
• Title of the CD
• Style of music and personality of the band/musician
• Samples of 3 CD Covers from bands of this genre with a brief sentence or two describing the band/musician and their music.

5. Do some thumbnail sketches of design ideas for the front cover of the CD which include images and text layout. You should have a variety (between 15 and 20) of thumbnail sketches. You must a minimum of one of your own original photographs in your design, which you are free to manipulate in Photoshop as much or as little as you like.

Hand in your thumbnail sketches to Ms. Silverman by the end of the period on Friday.

Have a wonderful March Break!

The LIST:

Possible Band Names

Vaccine Revolt, Venice Island, Lucci, Diocese of MySore, Corporate Bond, Disinvestment, Belsand, Estadio da Ressacanda, Cosmosomas, 6384 Kelvin, Chan Sau Chung, Patent Application

Possible Album Titles (You can choose to shorten these if you like)

"when you're winning", "the mysteries that challenge you", "because he can't help himself", "if the line is good", "our snap judgments", "your greatest source of learning", "teach it to others", "nothing is too big to attempt", "gives a bountiful crop", "next door's imaginary friend", "without being good at", "fought with sticks and stones".

Examples of random album covers

The name of this first band is KOMA. The wikipedia site I landed on was actually for Koma, Burkina Faso (a city inBurkina Faso, Africa), but I used the name KOMA on its own. For me it became a play on spelling the word Comawith a “K” which seemed like an appropriate name and spelling for a hard, edgy rock band, similar to Motley Crueor Krokus (note the K spelling). The title is “Unless there are three other people” which is c ompletely random and the image is a crocheted sad looking apple with a scar and a worm digging into it, which somehow seemed perfectand suggested cute and wholesome (crochet/embroidery, a wholesome craft) gone awry.
I chose an edgy font with a crackly look to identify the badn as hard, edgy and slightly angry, and the bold red colour because it implies aggression, passion and blood. I chose all capitals for the band name and skewed it slightly to make it look like it was stamped on a package and also so that it would stand out.

The name of this band is Lift Upgrading Programme and the title of the CD is “The present becomes the past”. The name just seemed like an obscure techno/electonica band that possibly has roots in Germany or Sweden. The title fits right in with the obscurity of the band, sort of abstract and full of meaning yet meaningless at the same time, like the poppy melodic electronic melodies of the music. I chose a very neutral colour to help accentuate the spider and not block out the web (also a great metaphor for the music) and I chose a very modern techno styl font that I thought helped identify the band well as a modern electronic band.

Random Album Cover Assignment - TGJ 3MG and TGJ 2O1

This assignment forces you to get creative with a random band name, album title and image. You must decide, based on the name of the band you are given, what the style of music and personality of the band is. Then, based on your decision, create the album cover by choosing an appropriate typestyle and layout. The only things you can use are the image you are given, the name you are given and the title. Have fun! When you are finished, write a brief paragraph justifying your choices – see the examples in the .pdf in the drop folder.

Instructions:

1. Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to "Random quotations"or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 . Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use Photoshop or Illustrator to put it all together.

5. Repeat this activity twice! Make two completely different album covers.

6. Post the results to your blog with your written statements.