Pia Trautwein || Intro to 2D || FL20
Intro to 2D is an intensive exploration of the fundamental principles of graphic design making methods and software through a series of weekly studio assignments supplemented by short readings, class discussions and lectures. The class focuses on developing the ability to skillfully manipulate and combine core design elements such as shape and image, to transmit meaning and values. Students will investigate the use of communicative tools such as composition, hierarchy, scale.
In the style of Ikko Tanaka and/or Na Kim, create a self-portrait using only shapes, line, and color.
Inspired by Sol Lewitt’s line drawings, create a composition that encourages the movement of the eye around the page using 50 lines. Only lines, no shapes. Use only black, red, yellow, and blue from default CMYK swatches.
Inspired by the works of William Morris and Marian Bantjes, create a pattern using all three of the following elements of visual weight: background, foreground (mass), detail.
Considering how color can alter and elicit emotional responses, create a composition in which the mood changes based on changes to the color palette. Create 10 artboards in Illustrator, including your original composition. Each artboard should contain your composition, but with a new color palette for each board representing a different mood of your choice. Each should be labeled with its mood (ex. exciting, lonely, comforting, etc.) and have the color palette represented to the right of the composition in five uniform rectangles.
You’ll utilize typography and the elements of Scale, Rotation, and Distortion to visually reinforce a word’s meaning. In a font of your choosing (e.g. Pitch Sans Bold), typeset that word on each composition. You word must come from your own study and must not already exist in “Watching Words Move”. On each composition, utilize the scale tool, the rotation tool, and various distortion tools to reinforce the meaning of your word (think Robert Brownjohn). Black and White only.
Make your own movie title screen! Choose a genre (e.g. sci-fi, rom com) and invent a title for your movie. Next, create an engaging movie title screen using only typography, shape, color, and the “Map to Object” or the “3D” effects. Your final work must contain: Title of Movie, “In theaters [date, year]”, and “Starring [lead actor/ess]”. No photography. You will challenge yourself to create an engaging title screen with only typography, shape, and color.
In this assignment, you’ll be honing your selection and mask skills by creating a fictitious landscape. First, source 3 images — no more, no less — from one of the available stock photo sites. Use the selection and mask methods we learned in class to isolate different segments of the landscape. One image will act as your foreground, one as middle-ground, and one as background. Do not manipulate, colorize, or otherwise distort any of your imagery. Use only selection and masking processes.
Using the Hue Saturation and/or Selective Color adjustment layers, create a color Action. Once you’ve created your Action, open five of your previous homework assignments in Photoshop and apply this Action.
Self-portrait. Round 2. The Halloween Edit. Take a photo of yourself or source a selfie you’ve taken previously. Using your knowledge of selection and masks, as well as your new-found knowledge of Blending Modes and the Liquify tool, create a collaged self portrait of yourself in a costume of your choosing.
Source three photos from Unsplash or from your preferred stock photo website. Use the retouching techniques you learned in class to alter your photos. Each photo should make use of a different retouching technique. You may use multiple techniques in a single photo, if you wish.
Using the Distortion and Manipulation tools you learned in class and all the Photoshop knowledge you’ve learned thus far, create an album cover for a fictitious band. Parameters: Imagery -Your album cover must use only one source image. How can you transform this image into something else entirely?Content- The band and album name must be invented by you. The band may be any genre of music. The only text allowed on the album cover should be the band name and the album name. No typeface restrictions.
You will be creating your own logotype for your future design studio. But your studio isn’t just an online business, no, you will either have: a brick-and-mortar building OR a physical product that you produce! First, develop a name for your studio. Then, design a logotype! Once you’ve created your logotype, you will mock it up on a building or product using the methods we learned in class.