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Graphic Design 1 & MGD1001 Agenda
Any revised work or extra credit is due 12/13
Finals Week
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Today you need to check your details and wrap your project up. Make sure you upload your PSD and JPG and into your Historical Poster folder correctly and submit your checklist in Schoology.
Friday 12/13
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Start to revise and finalize your designs using the feedback you got from your peers and Mr. Wiant. Projects will be wrapped up and turned in next class.
Wednesday 12/11 & Thursday 12/12
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Critique Stage
Review the 50% feedback from Mr. Wiant if you haven’t already. You can find that on the creative brief under the 50% project rubric. We will be completing our critique.
Monday 12/9 & Tuesday 12/10
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Design Stage
Review the feedback that Mr. Wiant gave you and start to think about how you can revise and strengthen your designs. Critiques will be in the next class.
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Friday 12/6
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ 50% Project Due
You will be submitting your designs for your 50% feedback and grade at the end of class. Remember that your Invention competency is partly based of how you are using class time to revise and explore with your projects.
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Upload your PSD to the 50% Progress Check Form
Wednesday 12/4 & Thursday 12/5
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Design Stage
Continue working on your project focused on how you will push yourself to grow your design principle skills. We will first go over slides about new design principles that need to be applied to your design. 50% progress is due in two more classes.
Agenda
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Design Principle Slides & Notes - Open your design principle notes in your Misc folder.
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Design
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Monday 12/2 & Tuesday 12/3
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Design Stage
Update the competency tracker for the last project if you haven't already. Continue working on your project focused on how you will reach your objective. 50% progress is due in two more classes.
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Friday 11/22
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Design Stage
Everyone needs to be designing today in order to be on track with your final due date. Make sure your brainstorming is complete first.
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Complete Personal Project Objective on your Creative Brief
Wednesday 11/20 & Thursday 11/21
Fall Final: Historical Poster ~ Brainstorming Stage
You will be completing your brainstorming in this class. You will start your project next class in order to be on track with your final.
Monday 11/18 & Tuesday 11/19
Surrealism ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Continue to either revise past projects or work on the Zoo Portrait extra credit. Don't rush these. You have until 12/18 to turn in any extra credit. Search for Photoshop Mask Fur tutorials to help you create a clean and professional lookin design so you can potentially earn 40 extra credit points.
Friday 11/15
Raise Your Grades Day
You have several options to raise your grade for today before we start our final next week.
Steps
1. Review your grades in Schoology to see if there is a project that you can revise to raise your grade. If you are revising work, you need to save it with the word revision in the title so Mr. Wiant can compare the revision to the original project.
2. If you are happy with project grades, you will start to work on the Zoo Portrait extra credit. Don't rush these. You have until 12/18 to turn in any extra credit.
Wednesday 11/13 & Thursday 11/14
Surrealism ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
As you are finalizing designs today, make sure to zoom in and check details. Ensure you have blended your objects successfully using your photo editing skills. Follow the turn in directions on the Project page and submit your checklist in Schoology once this is completed.
Monday 11/11 & Tuesday 11/12
Surrealism ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Take the feedback you have gotten and start to revise and finalize your work. Projects are due next class.
Wednesday 11/6 & Thursday 11/7
Surrealism ~ Critique Stage
You will complete a critique today and then will continue to revise and finalize your designs. Projects are due in two classes.
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Complete this quick college survey.
Monday 11/4 & Tuesday 11/5
Critique Practice & Surrealism ~ Design Stage
Today we are going to practice giving critiques in order to give better verbal and written critiques. This will allow you to give better feedback to each other, which you will be graded on. After that you will continue to work on your designs. Critiques will be next class.
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Friday 11/1
Surrealism ~ 50% Progress Due
At the end of class you will be submitting your design for your 50% progress feedback. Critiques will be in two classes. If you aren't prepared for them you will need to make that grade up after the project.
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Wednesday 10/30 & Thursday 10/31
Surrealism ~ Design Stage
50% progress is due at the end of next class. Review the lighting tutorials below to see if it is something you can apply to your own design.
Agenda
1. Personal Objective Writing on Creative Brief
2. Review Demos - you don't need to complete these
3. Design
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Monday 10/28 & Tuesday 10/29
Surrealism ~ Design Stage
Continue working on your designs. 50% projects are due in two more class periods.
Agenda
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Review 50% Rubric
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Photo Editing Demo - Continue to design if you completed these.
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Design
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Write Personal Project Objective
Friday 10/25
Surrealism ~ Design Stage
You will start to work on your design using your sketch, which means you need to have your sketch out to use it as a reference. Use your brainstorming directly to create your design.
Agenda
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Copyright Slides (5 mins)
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Design
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Wednesday 10/23 & Thursday 10/24
Surrealism ~ Brainstorming Stage
We will start today by learning what surrealism is and then you will start to brainstorm, which will be due today.
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Updating the Competency Tracker and Choice Design Feedback
Monday 10/21 & Tuesday 10/22
Choice Design ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Today you will be making any revisions and wrapping up your designs. At the end of class you will need to turn your project in according to the directions on the Project page. Think about the feedback you got from the critique while making your revisions and strengthening your designs.
Agenda
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Review Critique grades & Feedback if you haven’t yet
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Revise & Finalize Design
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Turn Design In
Required Demos
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Check with Mr. Wiant first
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Complete these photo editing demos so you are prepared for the next project. You will need to complete these before starting the next project.
Monday 10/15
Choice Design ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
You are given one extra day to complete the project. Projects are now due next class, which will be next week.
Wednesday 10/9
Choice Design ~ Critique Stage
We will be completing a critique today and then you will work to revise and finalize your designs. Project due dates have been pushed back a day. You will have two full classes to revise and finalize your designs from here.
Critique Tips
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Try to answer your partner’s question as best as you can.
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If you can’t, give other feedback about what could be improved.
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Explain how if you can.
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You can also pose a question. For example, “What if you moved the main person to the right and made him larger? Would this help the hierarchy more?”
Monday 10/7 & Tuesday 10/8
Choice Design ~ Design Stage
Continue working on your designs considering how you can strengthen your design principles. 50% projects are due at the end of class and you will have a critique next class.
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50% Project Turn In and Feedback
Friday 10/4
Choice Design ~ Design Stage
Keep searching online for inspiration if you need help with your designs or feel stuck. At the end of next class you will be turning in your 50% project for feedback.
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Wednesday 10/2 & Thursday 10/3
Choice Design ~ Design Stage
You need to be moving forward with your design. In three classes you need to have at least 50% of your project completed. Last day to turn in brainstorming late is today. If you are looking at ways to grow your skills, review the project help tutorials on the project page.
Agenda
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Project Examples - Download & Review 50% Progress Rubric
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Design Principle Notes
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Design
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Review Extra Credit
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Monday 9/30 & Tuesday 10/1
Choice Design ~ Brainstorm Stage
Brainstorming needs to be completed today if you haven’t completed it already. It will be late if it is not turned in during the first half of class. Everyone will move forward with their designs today.
Agenda
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Masking Slides - Mask vs. Clipping Paths (Spanish)
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Complete the End of Project Reflection in your P1 - Pop Art folder if you didn’t last class.\
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Review Project Rubric & Setup
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Start Designing or Complete Brainstorming if you haven’t (20 mins to complete)
Wednesday 9/25 & Thursday 9/26
Choice Design ~ Brainstorm Stage
We will go through some slides today in order to understand design concepts of books and posters better. Then you will start your brainstorming which is due today and is graded.
Agenda
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Slides (15 mins) - Book & Poster Spanish Slides
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Review Project Rubric & Brainstorming
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Step 1: Topic (10 mins)
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Step 2: Inspiration Pieces (20 mins)
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Step 3: Sketch (30 mins)
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Pop Art Reflection (15 mins)
Monday 9/23 & Tuesday 9/24
Pop Art Design ~ Critique & Finalize Stage
We are going to do our first critique today. After the critique, you will continue to revise and improve your designs. We will go over how to turn your work in correctly towards the end of class.
Purposes of a Critique
1. To give very specific and critical feedback on a project.
2. To take very specific and critical feedback to revise and strengthen a project.
Agenda
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Critique
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Revise and Finalize Designs
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Extension Work - Check with Mr. Wiant First
Extension Directions:
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Review the extension tutorial.
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Save a new version of your design, File>Save As and name your design as LastName_PopArt2.psd.
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Apply what you learn in the tutorial to create a second version of your design.
Friday 9/20
Pop Art ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs. Projects are due in two more classes. If you feel you are done with this design, start a second design with a different topic to grow your creativity.
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Wednesday 9/18 & Thursday 9/19
Pop Art ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs by zooming in to check the details carefully. You also need to keep the original image on its own layer. Do not delete it!
Lastly, make sure to consider how you are using colors and do not use the same colors in multiple squares.
Project Help
Agenda
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Do-Now
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Design
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Monday 9/16 & Tuesday 9/17
Pop Art ~ Brainstorming & Design Stage
We will start by learning about Pop Art and take some notes. After that we will get started with your project.
Agenda
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Pop Art Slides (10 mins)
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Review Project (5 mins)
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Start Project
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Review Rubric
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Friday 9/13
Pen Tool Spaceship Exercise
We will do some more pen tool practice and then you will put your skills to use during a Photoshop exercise before we start our project next class.
Agenda
Wednesday 9/11 & Thursday 9/12
Pen Tool & Clipping Paths
We will start with quick 1 min About Me presentations so we can share our work and learn about each other so we can be a stronger, collaborative class.
After, you will learn all about the pen tool in Photoshop. This tool can be an extremely frustrating tool to learn, but it is one of the most useful tools you will learn in Photoshop. It is very important you watch Mr. Wiant’s tutorial BEFORE you try to use the tool yourself so you don’t get lost while learning this tool.
1 min Presentation Expectations
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Speak loudly and clearly so we can hear you.
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Start by sharing your name.
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Describe your design and the elements you used.
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Optional - share what tools you used in the design.
Agenda
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Presentations
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Pen Tool Tutorial File (50 mins)
Monday 9/9 & Tuesday 9/10
About Me Poster ~ Design & Finalize Stage
Projects need to be wrapped up today. Check details and think about how you can push your creativity and Invention competency even more. We will go through the process to turn these with about 15mins left in class. 1 min presentations will be next class.
Thursday 9/5 & Friday 9/6
About Me ~ Design Stage
Today you will continue with your designs. Next class these are due. Make sure you get the required elements on your design and then you can push your creativity from there. This will help you meet the deadline.
Help
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Google “collage poster designs” to get inspiration
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Use Spell Check → Edit>Check Spelling
Tuesday 9/3 & Wednesday 9/4
About Me ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs today. Continue to explore more tools to elevate your designs. Everyone needs to be taking all of the design class time to work on their designs or points will be lost on the final assignment under the Invention competency. Assignments are due in two classes and you will present these in the following class.
Agenda
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Design
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Gallery Walk
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Friday 8/30
About Me ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs. Assignments are due in three more periods.
Agenda
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How to Save Google Images - Class Demo
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Start Photoshop design
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Wednesday 8/27 & Thursday 8/28
About Me ~ Design Stage
Today you will work on your first Photoshop assignment to show what you have learned throughout these past tutorials.
Agenda
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Review Assignment
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Select Object, Remove Background & Layer Mask Video - Download Images - Complete if you didn’t last class since these skills are required for this project.
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Complete Brainstorming
Monday 8/26 & Tuesday 8/27
Photoshop Tutorials Due
Tutorial 3 is due today. You will then continue to work on the extensions to grow your knowledge of Photoshop more. This will better prepare you for your first assignment next class.
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Tutorials
Tutorial 1 - Get to Know Photoshop (15 mins Mr. Wiant will walk you through this)
Tutorial 2 - Basic Photoshop Tools (45-60 mins)
Quiz 1 (Once you complete the quiz, place your score on the tracker.)
Tutorial 4 - Select Object, Remove Background & Layer Mask Video - Download Images
(Needs to be completed before you start your first project)
Extension Assignment
Once you have completed the tutorials and quiz, start the extension assignments below. Complete these in order.
Friday 8/23
Photoshop Tutorial
You need to complete Tutorial 2, move onto the quiz and then Tutorial 3. Tutorial 3 is due next class. Tutorial 3 has a lot of very important tools for Photoshop that you will use over and over again. Pay attention to what you are learning.
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Tutorials
Tutorial 1 - Get to Know Photoshop (15 mins Mr. Wiant will walk you through this)
Tutorial 2 - Basic Photoshop Tools (45-60 mins)
Quiz 1 (Once you complete the quiz, place your score on the tracker.)
Extension Assignment
Once you have completed the tutorials and quiz, start the extension assignments below. Complete these in order.
Wednesday 8/21-Thursday 8/22
Class Syllabus & Photoshop Tutorials
We are going to take a look at our class expectations and syllabus. You will have a quiz after we review the syllabus. You will be starting a series of Photoshop tutorials today. These tutorials are very important for you to learn the basics of Photoshop and prepare you to move on to our first project. These need to be completed in order and you must track your completion on the tracker.
Agenda
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Class Syllabus & Quiz (40 mins)
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Start Photoshop Tutorials
Tuesday 8/20
Welcome to Graphic Design
Today we will go through some information about Mr. Wiant and what to expect in the pathway.
Agenda
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Welcome Slides
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Sign Into Adobe
Monday 8/19
Welcome to Graphic Design
Explore Photoshop projects by searching online to get a better idea of what you can do in Photoshop. Then you will complete the interest form.
Agenda
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Research Photoshop and complete form (8 mins)
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Sign Into Computers and Adobe
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Review Intro Tutorials and start
Tutorials
Tutorial 1 - Get to Know Photoshop (15 mins Mr. Wiant will walk you through this)