Exercise 11 : Architecture competition!

Exercise 11
100 Points

An Architect Firm has hired you to choose 1 project below  and give a proposal.

1.  A New Zoo for Reid Park
2.  A museum for modern sculpture near UofA
3.  A modern convent for a group of Dominican nuns in downtown Tucson.
4.  An interpretive museum and performance center for the Tohono O'dham located at the base of A Mountain.
5.  Your own proposal.

The Project Must Include:
multiple buildings, the site from a map tool (Geo Location), a couple items from the 3d Warehouse and some texture to your buildings.

Download the Step-by-Step Instructions Here

Save this design as period#_lastname_firstname_11x

Winning designs will be placed in the upcoming Gallery.

Exercise 10 - Use Sketchup to Design your own park, home or skate park

Due September 26

100 Points

Class,

We will now begin using Sketchup.  

Sketchup is a 3D modeling program that can be used to create your own building, theme park, mechanical part or even dog house.  Yes...a dog house.

You will find Sketchup in your Applications.

Directions.

1.  Follow the step by step instructions on how to get familiar with the tool at the below link:

Step by Step instructions.

2.  Once you finish the step by step, you should be more familiar with the program to just start making shapes.  Start a new file and try to design your own park, home or skate park.  Incorporate shapes like squares, rectangles, cones and domes.

3.  The finished product will be graded on how you can manipulate shapes.

Save your file as period#_lastname_firstname_10x

Exercise 9 - Principles of Design & Graphic Design / Architect Intern salary seek & find

Class:
Due by end of class.

Directions:
1.  Read the "Principles of Design" and take the quiz.  You are welcome to help each other, use the internet for answers.

• Think About:  You have already started to use some of the "principles".  When you designed a logo, when you were hand drawing and even in your portrait (your portrait probably followed a "rule of thirds").  You are on your way to being a designer!  Well, maybe or maybe not.  You cannot simply follow these "principles" and be guaranteed success but the terms and concepts seem to appear over and over in all sorts of creative fields.  You can start to "break the rules" after you start to develop basic skills.

The quiz is worth 50 points.

2.  Take the Salary "Quiz" found at the link below.  Use the internet and various sites to look up salary data for Graphic Designers both here in Tucson and Los Angeles.

Graphic Design Salary Quiz.

• Think About:  Do you want a family with children, adequate medical insurance, a nice second home in the mountains, swimming pool, etc?  Are you ready for the management demands you will need to earn that sort of salary?  Are you content living more modestly and earning less?  Having more free time to enjoy with family may mean less salary but a better quality of life, or will it?  Would you rather work in a big city like Phoenix, Los Angeles or NYC and earn more/pay more to live?  Would you rather work in Pinetop/Lakeside, AZ and go fishing nearly every day after work (but make much less let alone even be fortunate to have a job at all!)

The survey is worth 50 points.

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For more information on career research in the field of graphics/web design (or other fields) visit:

www.salary.com
    Try this link too: http://swz.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Graphic-Design-Specialist-Job-Description.aspx
    Click on the "Free Salary Data" button to see money money money.
www.careerbuilder.com
www.freelancer.com
http://www.indeed.com/q-Graphic-Design-jobs.html

Exercise 8 - T Shirt Design for Tucson High School

100 Points
Due Friday 9/19

Class,

For the next assignment (2nd from the last for the quarter), I want you to design a T - Shirt for Tucson High School.

Download the T-Shirt Template

Use Adobe Illustrator to draw THMS logo or badger or paw print or whatever you want somewhere on the shirt.

Requirements:
1.  Must have the THS logo
2.  Must be drawn by you.
3.  Something NEW

Save the file as period#_lastname_firstname_8x and turn into the dropbox.

THMS T-Shirt Designs by fellow students
www.customink.com (a paid site you can create/print shirts)

Exercise 7 - Package Design

Due September 17

100 Points

Class,
Today you will begin to do package design.  Use Adobe Illustrator (and Photoshop if needed) to design a package using the logo you created in the last exercise.

You will learn about Text Wrapping around an object and typing in a shape.

Requirements:
1.  Use one of the following 4 templates.
       template 1
       template 2
       template 3
       template 4
2.  Use Adobe Illustrator and design a package for your company.
3.  Use the logo you made for Exercise 6.
Package must use creatve color, fonts and information to be able to tell what it is.
5.  Save file as period#_lastname_firstname_7x.ai to the Mr. Komar Drop Box.
6.  Due September 17

See more package design awards at http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2012/6/25/the-dieline-awards-2012-winners.html

Exercise 6 - Design a Logo

Due September 16
100 Points

Today a client has called in to ask you to design a logo for their business.

You need to design a logo, a business card and letter head.

1.  You will review a presentation on the overview of logos and logo design, which is found in the Mr. Komar Shared folder.

2.  Pick a business from below or think of your own (you could even do one for yourself as a graphic design company).

3.  Download the Adobe Illustrator template to put your logo, business card and a letter head.

You must draw everything.  If you use a photo you need to trace over it.

4.  Turn in the file as period#_lastname_firstname_6x

You are being graded on creativity, attention to detail and originality.

Potential Client List:  Choose one of the below companies, or come up with your own.

1.  Maine Spray Paint Company:  A company making specialty spray paints that are geared for the urban market (for self proclaimed street artists).

2.  Im Board:  A surf board company out of Hermosa Beach, California.  They were started by a girl surfer who wants to make surf boards and equipment for the female market.

3.  Oro's Gym:  A gym that has a reclaimed building from the barrio in South Tucson and wants a logo they can use to grow the company.

4.  Badger Coffe House:  An alumni group wants to set up a professional coffee house just down the street from Tucson High School and want to use THS mascot for their shop.

5.  Tohono O'Odham Solar:  A start up company that wants to put solar panels on the tops of the big stores and malls in Tucson to help offset power usage, and save those companies money.

Exercise 5 - Self Portrait

100 Points

Due 9/7

Introduction

Today we begin to use Adobe Illustrator to create a SELF PORTRAIT.

Assignment

1.  Download Presentation 3 - Self Portrait to start to familiarize yourself with the project.  Do not start drawing until you get a sense for a few of the new tools you will use.

2.  Download Presentation 4 - How to Start Self Portrait to get started...

         New tools include:  gradient, opacity, layers and placing a photo to trace as a template.

Save the file as:

period#_lastname_firstname_5x