CREATIVE. EXPERIENCED. INNOVATIVE
Students develop landscapes where they are the little subjects in a large environment. Student work in the photo studio to take pictures in poses for their landscape and learn to create crisp silhouettes and shadow effects within a photographed environment.
This project utilizes Photoshop where students create a unique color wheel and explore color.
This was a new project that I created for students to think about graphic as applied to book design. Students were to create hand cut mockups and also a photo-rendered mock up.
A challenging project for students in Graphic Design 2 is to create a poster series about Virtue. Students can choose virtue, vice or contrast them in the series. They can choose the style, fonts, and messages. These are printed professionally.
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by Alyssa Bleiler
by Ella Zehr
by Emily Oud
by Jameson Hoffman
by Moriah Wolfe
by Rebekah Sanchez
by Rachel Lindke
by Emma Rowlands
by Stephanie Piper
by Dana Miller
One of the first projects I have my typography students create is a poster series to creatively explore the anatomy of typography and to develop a cohesive design set. These posters are printed professionally so students begin to learn how to prep files for commercial printing.
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by Ella Zehr
by Stephanie Terwilliger
by Rachel Lindke
by Alicia Salerno
This is a collection of work by students who have explored graphic design in more depth based upon their particular interests in various topics.
Shannon wanted to create a typeface that would be helpful for people with dyslexia. The result of her work was put into this booklet to document the font she designed.
by Shannon Sweeney
Packaging Design by Jamison Hoffman
Students were challenged to use dialog, a poem, or writing and utilize typography and graphics that reflected the style of the text along with adding the spoken word into the final projects. This was an early on project where students are first exploring moving text and synchronizing the voice over to the graphics on the screen.
by Liz Skowron
by Stephanie Piper
by Shannon Sweeney
The following videos show collaborative work in my Typography classes. Student used Adobe Animate to create letterform animations. The alphabet was divided up by the number of students in the class. Font style, font height and color scheme was specified for the project.
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This project required the students to create a motion graphics piece around the theme of ABC’s where student selected their subject matter. The short was only illustrating the letters A thru F. Students were asked to incorporate techniques learned in several tutorials.
by Rachel Lindke
by Stephanie Piper
The goal of this assignment was to choose one item or product and create 3 different advertisements: one positive, one negative and one metaphorical. The student was also required to put a “call to action” somewhere on the ad.
by Emily Oud
by Alice Swarthout
by Alyssa Bleiler
