Week 2 - September 14

Avant Garde
Futurism – Italy
Constructivism – Russia
New Typography – Germany
New Typography – Eastern Europe
De Stilj - Netherlands
New Typography – England

Elements of Design :
-the basic visual material with which to make art.
LINE
SHAPE
DIRECTION
SIZE
TEXTURE
COLOR/VALUE

Principles of Design :
-as ways to work with and arrange the elements
CONSTRAST
BALANCE
- symmetrically
- asymmetrically
SCALE/PROPORTION
REPETITON/RHYTHM
EMPHASIS/DOMINANCE
UNITY

Photoshop:
Saving, Print
Set Up Project
Transform
Pen Tool
Canvas/image size
Mode, and opacity in layers
Variation, brightness contrast

In class project:
Photoshop Class Project

Project :
Avant Garde Poster
Due: September 21st
Replicate a design
Based on the principles of Avant Garde movement students will select one of the topics and design 11x17 poster. (Education, Equality, Poverty, Racism, Voting)

Homework :
Work on your Advant Garde Poster, it's due next week
Read pg 121-131 from Thinking with Type