Class of 12-1-11

Finish your portraits and when I get to class we will begin this tutorial.

http://www.saffronstroke.com/2010/09/03/glossy-buttons-adobe-ilhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giflustrator-cs5/

you can start the tutorial early if you are finished with your portrait.

Self Portrait assignment

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Create a self portrait in one of the following manners:

1. A traced image self portrait
2. A simplified logo freehand drawn from a photo
3. A stylized face (geometric, organic etc...) either traced or freehanded.

Assignment will be incorporated into another vector work upon completion.

Finished Portraits are due by March 27th


Here are some other examples

Pepper mesh.

Go to this woman's website:

Life In Vector

and be amazed.

Then go to the downloads page on her site and click on her "Gradient Mesh" tutorial.

if you click on it you can get written instructions as well as a look at her source and .ai file.

You will try this with an orange bell pepper... like this one:



This video is also good to see but the music will need to be turned down...

Make sure your Rock Off design is finished and turned in today as well...

POSTER DESIGN INSPIRATION

http://www.ghost-town.net/

http://gigposters.com

Best Design

Art Chanrty at Gig Posters

Lindsey Kuhn

Derek Hess (Cleveland area)

Rock Off Contest info

Art guidelines..

http://www.kisscleveland.com/pages/content/2012_rockoff/art.html

infographics


journalism.org studieshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Logo design sites

Here are a few more site for tips on designing logos:

LogoDesignerBlog

Valencia Web Studio

Just Creative Design

Here are a few looks at the evolution of some famous logos:

BestAd.blogspot.com

Hongkiat.com

Brand New

And finally a fun use of logos rebranding a famous scientist...

Monsters Of Grok

Types of Logos

http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/logo-design-the-five-type-of-marks/
http://www.logodesignsource.com/types.html

Thursday Sept. 8th

Try to complete this tutorial today...


http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/create-an-attractive-arctic-landscape-environment-in-illustrator/

first day HW