Hello –
DUE: digital version of your final file (you DO NOT need to print for this week).
If I did not see a print of your final draft last week – then please bring one with you next week: cheep paper is fine, printed in color OR in black and white 11×17″
In-Class
In-class Critique: we will take a look at all the final posters. You will make any necessary FINAL edits in class. Once approved go to print -> DUE next week.
-> Title: Vote 2012 (your can tweak this to your poster needs)
-> Tagline: Should relate to your concept and be integrated into the poster design
-> Registration deadline: Voting registration deadline for New York State must be postmarked 25 days before the election (this can appear as fine print [10/11 point font] – at the bottom of your poster.
Presentations: Saul Bass, James Victore, & Steve Brodner
Lesson
-> Review week 7 lesson
-> Smart Objects – Illustrator into Photoshop (Photoshop)
-> Working with scanned sketch work in Photoshop -> painting.
-> Unlimited access to lynda.com for you until January. Lynda.com provides online tutorials for the software covered in these and other classes. Please check your CityTech email account for more information.
Labtime
Time to work on poster – final draft due next week – printed in color.
-> I will continue to meet with you individually.
Printers
I recommend The Village Copier: www.villagecopier.com
Note: For printing – please be aware there is an open printing lab in Vorhees 1100 on Friday afternoons. – Just bring your own paper.
Homework
DUE: FINAL PRINT – Monday, NOVEMBER 19th Printed on:
-> Paper: Card Stock
-> Size: 12 x 18″
-> With crop marks
Project 2: Book Cover Design
Please review the following list of books. I would like you to select a source book for which you will develop a cover design. All selected books are public domain titles and have text readily available on-line through multiple sources. I recommend checking Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org) for full-text downloads on these titles.
Project Specs:
Cover designs MUST include the book title and author’s name; you are not required to feature any additional text.
Dimensions: 6 x 9”
Bleed: .125”
400dpi format
RGB
Photoshop or Illustrator
Book Recommendations
01. Jane Austen – Pride & Prejudice
02. J.M. Barrie – Peter Pan
03. L. Frank Baum – The Wizard of Oz
04. Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
05. Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
06. Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass
07. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
08. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
09. Homer – The Odyssey and The Iliad
10. Victor Hugo – Les Miserables
11. Franz Kafka – Metamorphosis
12. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book
13. Herman Melville – Moby Dick, or, the Whale
14. Robert Louis Stevenson – Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
15. Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
16. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley – Frankenstein
17. Bram Stoker – Dracula
18. H.G. Wells – The War of the Worlds
19. H.G. Wells – The Time Machine
20. Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
