Final assignment and notes

The final assignment is about context and story telling in design.

Final Assignment: is to produce a trio of 8″ x 8″ images that use the live trace, live paint or are personal illustrations executed in Illustrator of a favorite personal object in several contexts:

• A. The personal object illustration in front of a background that helps tell it’s story.

A pixel based image was the suggested background for this. You can always step outside that parameter.

Do as much work in Photoshop, cropping down and altering images - that way you don’t have to use Illustrators clumsy cropping option using clipping masks.

Workflow tip - Cut and paste between applications. Remember since our outcome is a digital file you can work in Photoshop by copying and pasting your Illustrator file into photoshop.

• B. The personal object illustration in front a background where it is completely out of context.

Or presents a very opposite idea, context, setting or feeling.

Yet another aspect of contrast is; color, shape, size, composition.

Again a pixel based image was the suggested solution but if you have a good idea go for it.

A strong answer is a background that transforms the object into something else.

• C. Third image was on a background also generated in illustrator, this could be completely abstract.

This could achieve in even the simplest of ways by using patterns in a step and repeat process.

Or a gradient gone wild.

Don’t forget about the symbol sprayer and distort effect and other options in the effects menu.

Think about the tone - Loud and obnoxious or quiet and delicate, set a tone.

All 3 are to be submitted matted, also adding that I’d like to get these posted with your time line projects.

Each of the designer pages are up
Yeah, the designers pages are finally up — took me a while to see the darn code problem with the pages — long pause. This also helped remind me that we had till last class to make any changes to the time line campaign.

Last class this Saturday — Will be short and sweet but will give us a chance to go over territory I’d hoped to cover earlier working in Wordpress as a digital publishing platform and getting your own work into a format you can add to a web page.

Use this last lesson to then create images that can posted. I will be leaving this up for probably a long time and had thought looking at these it would be nice to post your last assignments.

You all have done great work. Adobe illustrator has probably the highest learning curve of any of the Adobe CS software. Vectors alone are a whole different animal - we’ve now scratched the surface enough that you should find lots of good reasons to keep up you chops in this tool. I find it to be one of the most versatile tools I use.