PART 1

Part I:

Create different rectangles of color and proportion out of cut colored paper to create a grid on an 18 x 24 piece of paper. Use the initials of your name, alter them, distort them, change color in several different ways from cut paper on the grid rectangles of different colors and proportions. Use colors (value, intensity, complements, etc), shapes, cropping and distortion of initials to make a dynamic design. Organize to control the viewer’s exploration of the design. You should have at least 12 separate rectangles of color on the grid. You can have more. Think Balance. Focus on an area division, freed from strict rectangulation, exploiting the maximum dynamic by using fragmented components. See examples.

Hint: Do not glue down the grid until you are sure of your layout. Move them around to balance colors and shapes until you are satisfied. Then do the same with the initials. Do not glue them down until you lay out the entire design and you are satisfied with the balance of colors, shapes and values.

Part II:

Write a critique of at least 2 other posts within 24 hours of the due date.

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PART 2

Part I:

Type should be considered a shape in your design. Whether it is a text block considered as the whole block in relation to the design or a heading or title that stretches across or is in your design. The color, line, shape and value even texture of the text will effect your design.

This assignment is intended to be playful.

Think of a word that you can illustrate with the text itself. So the type letters become part of the image you are stating. Look at the samples here. Then create your own illustrated word. You can use any media to create this. Size about 9 x 12″. It can be longer if needed for your word.

Part II:

Critique at least 2 other students work within 24 hours of the due date. Be sure to write about it in terms of the elements and principles of design.

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PART 3

Make preliminary sketches of your ideas to Design a commemorative postage stamp, using any one of the principles and elements previously covered. Use text and a border. Including text means make it look professional and purposeful so it works with the design. You can trace a font if needed. Make a light pencil top and bottom line to keep the letters even. Black and white or color. 9 x 12″ – 18 x 24″ Be sure to consider design as it will be shrunk down to a postage stamp size. Will things get lost? Emphasize shapes too. See samples below and also you can google stamp designs (don’t copy one though).

PART 4

RectangleTool in a Rectangle

Divide a rectangle into five areas, no two of which are alike. Use white paper, 18 x 24″. White areas are the white paper showing through. Use gray and black construction paper. Use horizontal and perpendicular (vertical) lines only – no triangles or curves are allowed. Distribute the black, white and gray so that no two rectangles of the same value are juxtaposed. Use cut construction paper and paste. Make small sketches of your design on newsprint first, then decide what their dimensions will have to be in inches.

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Make some sketches of the tool you chose, simplifying it to a 2 dimensional silhouette of its form to scale to fit one of the spaces in your black, white and gray composition that best fits the tool in its natural proportions. It doesn’t have to be tight in the box. Outline the dimensions of your rectangle on scratch paper and play with distortions of your tool within the other 4 rectangles. Think of the tool as made from rubber – stretch it, twist it, and mash it. Remember positive and negative spaces of the tool. When satisfied cut them out of construction paper and paste. Choose values that contrast value of the tool to the value of assigned rectangle. Consider overall design in placement. Remember eye always goes first to highest contrast ( black and white). You are looking for harmony between forms.

Design the grid, then design the shapes of the tool in the grid. Design each version of the tool in each rectangle AND overall the whole design. NO unintended tangents!

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