Art 141 May 27

Today we saw PBS specials on Layla Ali, Margaret Kilagllen and Barry Mcgee.

We then went over our designs for our finals.

Web site design 

create a home page 

create a linked page

1040 px (w) X 800 px (h)

four links with 3 sub links each

She suggested going to www.comarts.com/webpicks to find great examples of web sites.

Art 141 May 20

Today our LA Weekly ads were due and we all got together and critiqued them.  Here were my final versions.

Jocelyn also went over how to design for web.  Some things to remember, web designs are only viewed on a small screen.  Taking this into account you need to make decisions as to what elements you will include in a design.

Creativehotlist.com - portfolios of web designers

We went over the 14px X 14px favicons

We went to http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ 

and www.favicon.cc

She also briefly showed us Dreamweaver and how to put the favicon we made into a web page.

Then she went over what things are necessary to host a web page:domain name, web host

www.networksolutions.com is a good place to find a domain name.  Also godaddy.com

Next class is design architecture.

Homework is who is the client for the web site.

Art 141 99designs.com asst

I forgot to post my designs for 99designs.com.

Art 141 May 13

Jocelyn went over an extra credit assignment.  

18"x36" time motion piece

printed

something depicting motion

300 dpi

This will add 5 points to one of the previous assignment.

If you found 18 blackboards in the printer room please let Jocelyn know cuz we think someone swiped them.

Pretty much a work day today as we fixed up our 3 comps for our client.

My client was not here today.  But here were my comps.

Art 141 May 11

More work day today...

Jocelyn went over the following today:

Illustrator

3d vector graphics in Illustrator

effect -> 3d

Art 141 May 6

Mostly a work day today.

Jocelyn went over the following:

Illustrator

grids

draw a rectangle

select the grid -> Object -> path -> split into grid

guides

View -> show rulers

click on ruler and drag onto canvas

alignment

Window -> Align

 linked text boxes

If the text within a text box exceeds the bounds of the text box a red plus symbol appear near the bottom left of the text box

To continue the text in a duplicate text box...

click on red plus sign -> click on any place on the canvas

To continue the text in an existing text box

click on red plus sign -> move cursor to existing text box -> wait for the cursor to changes shape to a link symbol -> click

clipping mask

place an image on the canvas

create a new path

make sure path is above the image

select both image and path

click Object -> clipping mask -> make

Art 141 May 4 pt 2

We got another assignment...

Pair up with another classmate and design 2 ads. Each ad to the client's specs + 2 alternates

Next week we gotta have all 3 large comps.

Large ad:

12 1/4" X 4 7/8"

Small ad:

2 7/8" X 4 7/8"

Here is my client's original ad:

art 141 May 4

I was supposed to do this a while ago but...Here are my playing cards.

Here are also my logos for 99designs...