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Unit 1: Design Basics

WEEK 1 - 3

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Students will demonstrate the difference between denotative and connotative.
  • Students will design a resume based on the four principles of design: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity.
  • Students will create a blog that has a visual connection with their resume, business card, and stationery.
  • Students will prepare a presentation and summarize one of Nemett’s elements or principles of visual expression: Line, Shape and Volumetric Form, Texture and Pattern, Color and Light, Structure, Space, Rhythm.
  • Students will design a business card and stationery based on the four principles of design: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity and the importance of color.
  • Students will analyze an advertisement based on the elements of design (from Nemett’s and Non-Designer’s Design Book).

Assignments

  1. Business Card
  2. Resume
  3. Stationery
  4. Web Blog
  5. Presentation based on Images, Objects, and Ideas: Viewing the Visual Arts by Barry Nemett
  6. Critical Analysis of an Advertisement

Students post all their assignments on their individual blog sites.

Student Work Examples

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