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MGD1011 & MGD1012 Agenda
Any revised work or extra credit is due 12/13
Monday 12/16
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Make sure you are zooming in and checking small details. You will need to complete your rubric self-evaluation before turning these in at the end of class as well.
Friday 12/13
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
You are in the revise and finalize stage now. Continue to move forward with your designs thinking about how to revise and improve your design from the feedback you have gotten.
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 12/11
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Critique Stage
You will complete a critique today and then will continue to revise and finalize your designs. Projects are due in two classes.
Monday 12/9
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Critique Stage
Review your partner’s feedback before the end of class. This will help you start to revise and finalize your design. You will be submitting your work at the end of class for 50% feedback and grade. You will have a formal critique next class.
Exit Ticket
1. After reviewing your partner's comments, what are your next steps? Complete the form to explain.
2. Optional 50% Progress Grade & Feedback
Friday 12/6
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Design Stage
If you are struggling to blend images, review the demo below. You will be getting peer feedback at the project wall next class so you will need to submit a JPG at the end of class today.
Project Help
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 12/4
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Design Stage
You do not need to complete the glow demo below, but open it up so you have an idea of how you could apply this effect. Use the help below as well.
Project Demos
Project Help
Exit Ticket
Monday 12/2
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Design Stage
You will complete a quick demo after we review the rubric. Just do enough of the demo to understand what puppet warp can do.
Project Demos
Exit Ticket
Friday 11/22
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Design Stage
You will start with a group brainstorming session at the project wall and then you will start your design. If you need your photo taken, use a white wall as a background to make removing your image easier. What tool are you going to use to remove your image from the background? Consider what the most accurate tool will be.
Agenda
1. Project Wall group brainstorming
- Write questions you have about your design concept on your sticky note and place it on your brainstorming.
- Groups of three will gather at the Project Wall and discuss each design.
- Designers will write their next steps on the sticky.
2. Start Designing
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 11/20
Fall Final: Symbolism Self-Portrait ~ Brainstorming Stage
You will start brainstorming for your final project after we review the project. Brainstorming is due today and group brainstorming will be next class. Complete the Schoology checklist for the Travel poster before starting.
Exit Ticket
Complete the End Of Project Reflection in Schoology for the Travel Poster.
Monday 11/18
Travel Poster ~ Revision & Finalize Stage
1. Complete and turn your projects in today. Make sure to complete the grading and self-evaluation on your rubrics and submit the checklist in Schoology.
2. Revise your portfolios if you have time.
3. Star the Photo Cutout Extra Credit. You will have until 12/13 to get these turned in.
Friday 11/15
Travel Poster ~ Revision & Finalize Stage
Begin to revise and finalize your projects. Consider the feedback you have gotten from Mr. Wiant and your fellow designers. Projects are due next class.
Wednesday 11/13
Travel Poster ~ Critique Stage
You will complete a critique today and then will continue to revise and finalize your designs. Projects are due in two classes.
Monday 11/11
Travel Poster ~ 50% Progress Due
Next class we will be having a critique for our projects and at the end of class today your 50% projects are due.
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 11/6
Travel Poster ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs while thinking and applying what you wrote in your Do-Now. You will be submitting your 50% project for a progress check and feedback next class.
Exit Ticket
Monday 11/4
Travel Poster ~ Design Stage
Continue to move forward with your design. 50% will be due in two more classes.
Exit Ticket
1. Write your Personal Project Objective
Friday 11/1
Travel Poster ~ Brainstorm & Design Stage
You will start by participating in a group brainstorming session. This will help you to finalize your design concept and to get started today.
Agenda
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Group Brainstorming (35 mins)
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Complete Last Step of Brainstorming (5 mins)
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Start Design
Wednesday 10/30
Travel Poster ~ Brainstorm Stage
We are going to take notes on visual identity today so you are prepared to complete brainstorming. Group brainstorming sessions will happen next class.
Agenda
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Visual Identity Slides (15 mins)
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Brainstorming Due
Monday 10/28
Portfolio Website ~ Design Stage
Today is the last day in class you will be working on your designs. Once you are ready to turn these in, submit your URL on the form below. Make sure you paste the URL on your rubric as well. We will go over how to do this together.
Agenda
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Finalize Designs
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Use the check boxes on the rubric to check your work
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Submit URL to Portfolio Submission Form
Friday 10/25
Personal Impact Poster Presentation & Portfolios
You will give a brief presentation explaining your design concept and skills you used. The rest of the class will be used to complete portfolios.
Wednesday 10/23
Personal Impact Poster ~ Revision & Finalize Stage
Revise and finalize your designs today. You will need to complete the grading, competency self-evaluation and submit the checklist in Schoology at the end of class. If you feel ready to submit your work before the end of class, check with Mr. Wiant and then continue working on your website portfolios.
Monday 10/21
Personal Impact Poster ~ Critique Stage
You will be getting and giving peer feedback to help revise your designs to make them more impactful. After the feedback, you will write a reflection and then begin to revise your designs to strengthen them. These are due next class.
Exit Ticket
Career Visit Interest Form
Wednesday 10/16
Portfolio Website ~ Design Stage
We will start today by finding a template that you want to use for your portfolio and then you will start to play around with the overall look of your design. We will go over how to set up the navigation of our website today too.
Objective
A portfolio is very important for a designer to have to properly showcase their work and to have a place to display their work online. Wix is a free website building tool that will allow you to create a portfolio site that is unique to you. You will need to use trial and error while building this website and you may get frustrated, but you need to push on to complete the website.
Portfolio Steps
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Creating a Wix Account → we will do this together
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Wix Sign Up Page (Click on Sign Up once you are on the webpage.)
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Use whatever email address that you use the most often. It does not need to be your school email.
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Select a website template
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Create Navigation for Pages - Video Tutorial
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Create an interesting Homepage to catch a person’s attention
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Build a gallery to showcase design work
Portfolio Requirements
1. Home Page
- This page needs to catch the viewer’s attention. You can use one of your strong designs, a quote, or whatever else you think will do this. Look online at examples for inspiration.
2. Portfolio Gallery
- At least 4 GD1 projects
- At least 2 GD2 projects
- Each piece needs to include a title that is different from your file name.
- Descriptions are optional if you want to explain your work in a few sentences. This will up the quality of your site.
3. Significant effort was shown and creativity.
4. Unneeded elements are removed
Portfolio Help
Use the Wix resources below to allow you to build a stronger and more engaging website portfolio.
How to Build a Wix Website Video Tutorial
Student Example Sites
Mr. Wiant's Design Cycle Sample Site
Wednesday 10/9
Personal Impact Poster ~ 50% Progress Due
Next class we will be having a critique for our projects and at the end of class today your 50% project will be due.
Exit Ticket
50% Progress Feedback Survey
Monday 10/7
Personal Impact Poster ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs while thinking and applying what you wrote in your Do-Now. You will be submitting your 50% project for a progress check and feedback next class. Review the project help section on the project page for demos about Depth of Field and Layer Masks with color.
Exit Ticket
Friday 10/4
Personal Impact Poster ~ Design Stage
Continue to move forward with your design. 50% will be due in two more classes.
Agenda
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Finish Brainstorming
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Design
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 10/2
Personal Impact Poster ~ Brainstorm Stage
You will start by participating in a group brainstorming session. This will help you to finalize your design concept as you get started today.
Agenda
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Start Designing
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Group Brainstorming (35 mins)
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Continue to Design
Monday 9/30
Personal Impact Poster ~ Brainstorm Stage
We are going to start with a presentation before you begin to brainstorm your ideas for this project.
Agenda
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9/11 Presentation (30 mins)
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Brainstorming
Wednesday 9/25
Western Contest ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Today you will finalize your designs and get them turned in. You need to make sure you follow the directions on the Project page on how to turn in your JPG and PSD files. You will also need to complete the Self-Evaluation on your rubric at the end of class.
Monday 9/23
Western Contest ~ Revise & Finalize Stage
Consider the feedback you have gotten and what you need to do to revise and strengthen your design. A big area of feedback from Mr. Wiant is if you took the quick path of removing objects from the background, you may still have a lot of cleanup to do around the objects. Projects are due next class.
Agenda
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Review Design Cycle slides
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Revise Designs
Friday 9/20
Western Contest ~ Critique Stage
We will be doing a critique today so you are prepared to revise and finalize your designs.
Agenda
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Review Design Cycle slides
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Review Critique Process - Austin’s Butterfly
Wednesday 9/11
Western Stock Show Contest ~ Design Stage
At the end of class you will be submitting your PSD file for the 50% progress check grade. Make sure you have saved the rubric to your Western folder too. Next class will be the critique.
Exit Ticket
Monday 9/16
Western Stock Show Contest ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs. Next class you will be submitting your design for the 50% progress check and grade.
Agenda
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Design
Friday 9/13
Western Stock Show Contest ~ Design Stage
Move forward with your designs. Focus on those attention to details and use your sketch directly to create your designs.
Agenda
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Review Design Cycle slides
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Tracker
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Design
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 9/11
Western Stock Show Contest ~ Group Brainstorming & Design Stage
You will start by participating in a group brainstorming session. This will help you to finalize your design concept. We will watch a quick brainstorming video to help show the protocol better. After you will start your designs.
Agenda
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Group Brainstorming Demo (5 mins)
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Group Brainstorming (35 mins)
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Review Project & 50% Progress Rubric
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Design
Exit Ticket
Write your Personal Objective on your Creative Brief.
Monday 9/9
Western Stock Show Contest ~ Brainstorm Stage
Your brainstorming is due today. We will review the Design Cycle, the project and then you will get started with your brainstorming. Next class will be a group brainstorming session.
Agenda
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Review Design Cycle slides
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Review Project & Creative Brief
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Complete Brainstorming
Friday 9/6
Free Design Poster ~ Finalize & Presentation Stage
You will have the first 50mins to revise, finalize and turn in your designs. Then you will be giving a quick presentation of your work. The presentations will be part of your professionalism grade for your project. We will then complete our self-evaluations on our rubrics.
Presentations grades will be based on:
1. Do you speak loudly and clearly to The Design Studio?
2. Do you make eye contact as you present?
3. Are you able to clearly explain your design concept, skills or tools you used by using correct academic vocabulary?
Wednesday 9/4
Personal Design ~ Critique Stage
Finalize and turn your designs in by the end of class. We will review the turn in directions together towards the end of class.
Peer Feedback
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We will get into small groups.
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Designer shares design concepts and areas of feedback they need (1 min)
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Collaborators problem solve to help to find solutions to the areas of feedback needed (2 mins)
Exit Ticket
Complete the future plans survey.
Friday 8/30
Personal Design ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs. If you want to learn more about adjustment layers and color correction, you can find it on the Resources page. Next class you will be having a quick peer feedback session.
Exit Ticket
Wednesday 8/28
Personal Design ~ Design Stage
Continue to work on your designs while thinking and applying what you wrote in your Do-Now. You will have three more classes to complete the project.
Exit Ticket
Monday 8/26
Personal Design ~ Design Stage
Be moving forward with your designs and think how you can push your skills on this project. We will review a few demos first.
Agenda
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Design
Exit Ticket
Friday 8/23
Personal Design ~ Design Stage
Everyone should be wrapped up with their brainstorming and starting on their projects today. We will first review the rubric and a few demos.
Agenda
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Rubric
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Design
Wednesday 8/21
Personal Design ~ Brainstorm Stage
You will get started on your first project today by completing brainstorming and creating a sketch to generate ideas for this first Photoshop project.
Agenda
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Review 3 Design Principles
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Setup Drive
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Create a new folder titled- Period3_lastName, FirstName
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Share the folder by searching for Steve Wiant or steve_wiant@dpsk12.net.
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Create two subfolders: Misc., Final
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Brainstorm (50 mins)
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Start your design
Tuesday 8/20
Syllabus & Photoshop Refresher
We will start by going through our syllabus and then you will get into Photoshop to start refreshing your skills. Next class you will work on brainstorming for your first project.
Agenda
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Photoshop Refresher
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Review Project
Photoshop Refresher
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Once you are done add text and additional images to build on the demo.