Graphic Design Portfolio | Kolos Schumy | 2024 Fall

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Our final assignment is a two weeks long project, a twelve page long Magazine Design. The theme of it is up to you, please be creative and keep in mind it is going to be a part of your

Objectives:

• parent pages

• page numbers

• character/paragraph/object styles

• swatches

• advanced typography

portfolio. You do not need to write content, you can copy or use offered articles (see later). You can prepare logo and illustrations in Illustrator, also use photos after they edited in Photoshop.

Submit

• indesign (.indd) file

• PDF export from Indesign

• 50 words in the comments field explaining the process you did from A-Z.

• screenshot (styles and parents)

Schumy | 2024 Fall

Kolos

Fort La u d eladre

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MCreate a trifold flyer advertisement for your favorite local store is selling a special product or service for a limited time. (you can make up one). Photos has to be edited in Photoshop first: Collect quality images on Google Optional: Use your phone or digital camera for photos. Design or create logo and graphic elements in i lustrator. Put all of it together and design typography in InDesign.

Objectives:

• pages window

• type tool and boxes

• advanced typography tools

• place images and vectors

• fill/stroke/type colors

• wrap text Submit

• For full grade you need to submit all the below explained elements:

• Adobe Indesign format: .indd

• so I can see the details and techniques you learned

• File/Export PDF

Preset/Press Quality

PDF:

• Add Marks: All Printer Marks and Bleed Settings

• see screenshot with proper settings:

• Export PDF Settings. pngDownload Export PDF Settings.png

• Screenshot

• it should include the artwork and an extended layer window with all content

• tools or menu not necessary to be

• it is just one an other way for quick review but we still can see the detailed learning experience

FionaPettingZ oo

Fort La u d erdale

The nature of this assignment is very close to Adobe Illustrator but still something you must learn and use in Photoshop. We already learned about layer masking, now we experiencing a very different way for masking using vector lines and shapes.

Objectives:

• paths window

• pen tool

• path selection tool

• vector shapes/polygon tool

• path operations

• vector masking

• direct selection tool Submit

• For full grade you need to submit all the below explained elements:

• the layered photoshop file: PSD

• so I can see the details and techniques you learned

• Save a Copy: JPG high resolution

• this is for quick review

• Screenshot

• it should include the artwork and an extended layer window with all content

• tools or menu not necessary to be visible

• it is just one an other way for quick review but we still can see the detailed learning experience

• Fifty words in the comments field explaining the process you did from A-Z.

• it helps you to memorize the tools and techniques

S c H o O l Leave It On The Flo S h u f f l e

S ch o lo Leave It On The Floor S h u f f l e

S ch o lo Leave It On The Floor

• Design a logo for a business

• submit 3 different (but similar) versions

• after you finished with the first logo you can multiply it and change fonts, colors and other elements for variations

• It has to include

• typography for the title

• at least 3 words, each word can have different fonts and styles

• a symbol

Objectives:

• type tool

• character window

• fonts and installation

• adobeLinks to an external site.

• dafontLinks to an external site.

• fontspaceLinks to an external site.

• type on path

• type/create outlines

• shapes

• pathfinder

• stroke effects and color

• variable width profile

• compound path

• clipping mask

• Isolation mode Submit

• Adobe Illustrator format: Ai

• so I can see the details and techniques you learned

• File/Export/Export as: JPG high resolution

• this is for quick review

• colors

• slogan: a long sentence is matching to the business

• experience (optional):

• tools listed in objectives below

• convert letters to curves and them fill up with images or shapes (clipping mask)

• go for aesthetic trendy look

• do research before work

Design a movie poster for your favorite movie. Not a remake of an existing poster, I need you to design something creative from scratch. Even take photos with your phone or digital camera to use if necessary.

Objectives:

• InDesign basics

• user interface

• pages

• type tool and boxes

• basic typography tools

• place images

• fill/stroke/type colors

Submit

• indesign (.indd) file

• PDF export from Indesign

• 50 words in the comments field explaining the process you did from A-Z.

• screenshot (styles and parents)

Steve Martin
Based on Bedtime Story by
Produced by
Michael Caine

fla l ’ nfor us! fla l ’ nfor us!

Your (imagined) client is opening up a restaurant, task is to design an advertisement campaign for multiple platforms. A magazine ad is priority it has to be finished and approved first then all the other social and online ads are measured to it as mutations. You need to decide how much information should be transferred from the magazine ad to the smaller social media ads. Not everything has to be added to a facebook ad you have on a full page magazine ad, correct? You need to think logically and cut and modify properly. You may need top open the finish social media ads on your phone and check content and legibility.

Key takeaway of your reading from textbook is the legibility, value, color and contrast that text in frames can create. Large sum of text builds up blocks of solid shapes on your page which lets you to generate compositional effects. You will fill up text boxes with the lyrics of your favorite songs.

• Fill up each box with different lyrics of your favorite songs (copy paste from websites)

• if too long just cut it short

• use different fonts for each song

• add headline (title) and sub-headline for each with author or band name or other information

• headline size 14-30 points limit

• sub-headline 12-14 points limit

• body text should be small, 8-12 points max

• you can highlight or emphasize (make large or use different fonts) numbers or special characters and embed them into the body text

• every lyrics and it’s belongings has to have a perfect typographic design.

Objectives:

• history of typography

• evolution of type faces

• basic anatomy of fonts

• Adobe illustrator:

• advanced editing

Submit

• For full grade you need to submit all the below explained elements:

• Adobe illustrator Ai or EPS format

• so I can see the details and techniques you learned

• File/Export for screens: JPG high resolution

• this is for quick review

• Screenshot of your Workspace in Illustrator

• shift+command+4, it gives you a selection tool to pick part of the screen, the image goes to your desktop

• it should include the artwork and an extended layer window with all content

• tools or menu not necessary to be visible

• it is just one an other way for quick review but we still can see the detailed learning experience

• Fifty words in the comments field explaining the process and concept you did from A-Z.

• it helps you to memorize the tools and techniques

Jenson

Typography

Humanism

Italian Renaissance

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Renaissance Typography and Printing

Explore the world through the history of typography and create an aesthetic and engaging infographic page layout. Your weekly assignment is based on your reading from textbook, please be sure your homework paper is already submitted. Design will include summary of your learning of history, hand crafted typography and creative artistic artwork.

General Description

• Format: Portrait oriented US letter document. Please only use black and white colors and grayscale tones. No coloring, we need to keep focus on shapes and forms.

• Composition: Each page layout should have different style, do not use the same structure more than once. You can start laying out on paper or use Photoshop.

• Select thee and typeface and study the time period for style.

• Pick the word you will trace.

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