Illustrator Summation & Review
Posted on October 17th, 2008
- Photoshop to Illustrator
- Illustrator Layers
- Gradients & Gradient Mesh
- Patterns
- Brushes
- Color Palettes
- Effects
You’ll use four programs to complete the set of four greeting cards.
We will discuss the specifications in class, and this post will be update with more complete information.
Let’s review what you are supposed to do for your menu assignment.
The exercise involves recreating the text for the appetizer section of the Melrose Cafe menu, plus any other section of your choice.
Format the text using InDesign’s paragraph styles. Make sure to:
Due Wednesday, Oct. 8th
An extension of the menu assignment is to pick up a menu from another restaurant, preferrably one that is mediocre or poorly designed, and using what you have learned about paragraph and character styles, redesign the menu.
This part of the assignment is due Wednesday, Oct. 15th.
Heirarchy
Graphic Design The New Basics, Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips, pp. 114-125
Publication Design Workbook, Timothy Samara, pp. 54-59
Page Architecture & The Grid
Publication Design Workbook, Timothy Samara, pp. 60-87
Making and Breaking the Grid, Timothy Samara, pp. 22-32
Seal Exercise
OBJECTIVES – The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize you with the following:
• Shape drawing tools
• Palette principles
• Offset paths
• Add anchor points
• Type Tool
• Text Formatting
• Layers
• Export to Photoshop
• Filters
The purpose of this exercise is to update an old logo and recreate it in an Illustrator digital format. The original card was printed on textured paper in two-color thermography. The updated logo will be printed in 4-color process on 15pt. card stock with a UV coat. Download PDF.
In this exercise, we will re-create sections of the Melrose Café Menu as instructed in class. Appetizers, gourmet salads, chicken, pasta, etc.. Include the pizza section and the catering menu. The section headers contain inline graphics. The graphics you use may differ from those in the Melrose Cafe menu. Try to match type as closely as possible.
Objectives:
Use the links here, or in the Illustrator Links to access the three templates you will use for the pen tool practice exercises.
By successfully repeating and completing these three exercises, you will become familiar with the variety of behaviors associated with the pen tool and its editing features.
Due at the end of class, Oct. 9
Please use this time period, Wed. Sept. 24, 1-3:30 pm, to work on your magazine layouts.
The due date for the magazine layout has been postponed until Wed. Oct. 1
Objective can be found in the post dated Sept. 9, 2008.
The page layout and the typography should match the original as closely as possible. That means that you’ll need to key-in the type, if you haven’t already done so, in order to match the type size, leading, line lengths, etc.
Make sure to keep everything pertaining to the job/assignment in your folder, including a job sheet listing the objectives and specs of the job, a printed xerox copy of the original, or the original layout. Each working copy that you print should be included in the folder, along with any notes you make to yourself about changes that need to be made along the way. Also, include your final printed layout. When you turn in your job/assignment, your folder must come with it. The ability to check your folders each week, gives me the greatest opportunity to analyze the progression of your work and plus, it gives me a tangible way to give you feedback.
