Can you redesign John's Awful Business Card?

Objective
To evidence an understanding of combining typefaces using the typographic rules of Concord, Conflict and Contrast.

Task
• Download John's awful business card HERE.
• Redesign using the three C's (concord, conflict and contrast).

• Research & download typefaces at 1001 fonts  Dafont  Fontspace   FontFabric

Presentation
• Final design exported as a Jpeg and placed on your presentation.

• Screenshot with overlayed annotation/explanation.

Checklist for assessment

Brave contrasts of type size •  further contrast of weight, contrast, modification  •  purposeful proximity  •  repetition  •  single alignment

Type Dynamics

Badge Task - Brainstorming Drafting ideas

Objective
To build up Photoshop and drawing skills

Tasks

• Create a pinboard and fill it with badges from around the web.
• Brainstorm potential ideas using a spidergram, list or mind map.
• Draft ideas for a set of badges on a theme of your choosing.
• Presentation
• Screenshot your pinboard and present (GSlides or Sketchbook)

Presentation
Screenshot your pinboard and post to blog.
Photograph sketchbook/notebook pages and post to blog.
Checklist for assessment

Pages of your book filled with exciting ideas - not too neat - just get the ideas flowing. At this point you should be throwing ideas around the page and making interesting connections. SOme of these may be used, most will be discarded. The important thing is not to be judgmental at this point in the creative process. Do not let the Critical Faculty get on the way of your genius!

Time needed
2 hrs

Deadline
14 th of Sept

Templates!
Badges HERE
Title Card Thingy HERE
Backboard HERE

Download them all and save them into your network folder.



Your sketchbook pages will look something like this...

Personalising Sketchbooks

We are going to have some enforced fun covering our sketchbooks!!

Woohoo!! You will smile.

N.B. If you haven't already bought a sketchbook, then you can pick one up from me for a fiver. Hardback, nice paper, chunky and a handy compact-ish format.

Lookey HERE for a link to a pinboard full of sketchbook cover examples... but you could really look anywhere for inspiration.

Your task starts now. Look around you and collect stuff to stick on the front and back. Think about collecting example of type, texture, labels, patterns etc etc. Other than that, you could draw separate things and overlap them in a sticker-ish manner. When you cover your book, you be required to not leave and black exposed, other than considered design choices.

Initial presentation