Intro to Design - Go here for today's reading...

Typography primer

Read this page as you will be quizzed on it's information.

kerning game

letterform game

Story about designing a font. (Complete the questions on the hand out)

Clipping text into line art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSdt8XYzlEU


a fairly quick and easy way to enter some densely packed text into a black graphic.

Screen Print Assignment Options

One of these projects uses an Element (or Elements) of Art effectively to create Emphasis. In turn that Emphasis is what makes this work of Art interesting and a more complete and fully realized as a work of art.

Write a statement about the effectiveness of the piece that you feel is the most successful and a statement about the piece that you feel is not as successful.

In that statement you should concentrate on the word "Effective"



1. Identify the Element (or Elements) of Art that are used. (Line, Shape, Color, Value, Texture, Space) Speak to how that element is used EFFECTIVELY. - meaning , state how you see it being used and what that does to make the work more interesting. Giving an opinion as to how the use of an Element can lead you to an individual interpretation is a good way to show how you can judge the artists use of that element. Here is an example....

"It’s a joyful expression as the colors indicate, with berry-colored swishes, orange and fluorescent yellow drips and patches. Two large, dark blue shapes sprinkled with glitter push to the foreground driven by the powers unleashed in the brushwork."

Repeat this statement for the other piece of sculpture that you feel is less EFFECTIVE.

2. (IN regards to the BETTER piece) How is that effective use of Elements directly resulting in the completeness or success of the finished piece. Here, offereing opinions of the most interesting or eye catching aspect of the piece is appropriate. Giving suggestions as to how the artist's decisions make this piece better than the other piece is also appropriate. What makes the better piece overall the more EFFECTIVE work of art.

Leave your THREE PARAGRAPH statement in the comments section of this post.

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