Self-portrait Collage
This project requires students to create a self-portrait collage that expresses unique and personal qualities of themselves. This can be accomplished by following the thinking, looking, and doing process of design outlined in the text.
Skills: Design process • Composition • Color
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Carl Youngkrantz
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Karlie McEntee
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Mariah Clarin
Lines and Emotions
This project requires students to express a certain emotional word through lines of different types and qualities in abstract ways.
Skills: Design elements and principles
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Allison Ellingson
Emotion: Energetic
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Carli Lager
Emotion: Fatiqued
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Allison Ellingson
Emotion: Hopeless
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Carli Lager
Emotion: Hopeless
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Carl Youngkrantz
Emotion: Sedated
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Hannah Harrison
Emotion: Drowsy
Typographic Expressions
In this project, students were required to express a word or a word pair more interestingly through a typographic exploration and application of design principles like scale, contrast, repetition, etc.
Skills: Design principles • Typography
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Brock Suarez
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Danya Johnson
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Chelsey Bertelson
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Julie Ness
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Cortney Norell
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Julie Ness
Design Principles in 3D
This project requires students to explore a 2D composition in a 3D space. Specifically, students first created a 2D composition (left) with lines and shapes and applications of design principles (balance, focal point, symmetry, color, etc.). Then, they created a 3D composition (right) based on the 2D composition and experimented with 3D forms in various dimensions.
Skills: Design principles and elements
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Cortney Norell
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Mariah Clarin
Class: Art121 Design I
Student: Grace Berckes
Redesign An Interactive Sequence
This project requires students to first identify some interactive sequences on a website that have problems, and then use a user-centered design process to redesign those sequences to solve the problems. Interactive sequences refer to a multi-step sequence of web pages a web user moves through to accomplish a task.
Skills: UX/UI • HTML5 • CSS3
Class: Art452 Design Media II
Student: Michael Mazourek
Class: Art452 Design Media II
Student: Dave Asuigui
Design An Illustrative Travel Poster
This project requires students to design an illustrative travel poster using Adobe Illustrator CS6 or CC. Students need to first work on sketches of layout of the poster based on reference images they collected from their initial researches on theme, graphic styles, color schemes of existing travel posters. Then they will scan their sketches into computer and use illustrator for final rendering.
Skills: Digital illustration • Typography
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Grey Waletich
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: George Ruiz
Class: Art202 Computer Graphics I
Student: Zachary Ruiz
Class: Art202 Computer Graphics I
Student: Chantell Nelson
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Justin Bull
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Megan Lemme
Class: Art202 Computer Graphics I
Student: Victoria Ruppert
Class: Art202 Computer Graphics I
Student: Christopher Owusu
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Alex Berry
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Brynn Busher
Technical Illustration
The objective of this project is to use Illustrator gradient and mesh tools, together with other necessary tools to create photorealistic illustrations for electronic devices of daily access. Students are required to first make perspective sketches of the electronic devices of their choice to examine form and details of an object, and then develop their computer rendering of the devices using Illustrator.
Skills: Digital illustration
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Grey Waletich
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Nicholas Olafson
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Levi James
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Kayla McEldowney
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Chloe Spillane
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Mary-Louise Wang
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Kelsey Noel
Class: Art2575 Intro to Graphic Design I
Student: Mary-Louise Wang
Creative Photoshop Compositing
In this project, students use advanced Photoshop techniques like selection, masking, and color toning to create interesting composites from both self-generated photos and stock images.
Skills: Photoshop compositing, photography, lighting
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Grey Waletich
Class: Art302 Computer Graphics II
Student: Levi James
Class: Art202 Computer Graphics I
Student: Taylor Kraai
Class: Art202 Computer Graphics I
Student: Spencer Gladis
The Crafted
This project aims to hone students’ design skills through the application of design principles and an understanding of type anatomy. The students will use Photoshop to illustrate the word “CRAFT” in three typefaces, Rockwell, Garamond, and Futura. Each letter of this word will be formed by deconstructing and seamlessly reconstructing assigned object or “thing” in an interesting and logical way to honor the anatomy of the letters.
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Skills: Photoshop image manipulation
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The Crafted
Extension Project: App UX Design and Prototyping
This extension project aims to introduce new design students basic concepts of interaction design and user experience design (UX) at a very early stage. Student are required to create a mobile app that has some basic functionalities:
+ Introduces people the history of the typefaces:
Rockwell, Garamond, and Futura.
+ Allows people to select a typeface and an image gallery
to generate an image of Craft.
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Skills: UX and Interaction Design
Class: Art1614 Principles of Visual Communication Design
Student: Nerissa Baroni
Class: Art1614 Principles of Visual Communication Design
Student: Kelly Wiegand
Class: Art1614 Principles of Visual Communication Design
Student: Kensley Bullins
Class: Art1614 Principles of Visual Communication Design
Student: Elise Moya
Cohesive Icon Set Design
This project aims to develop students’ skills in designing a series of icons with consistency in style, color, and form. Students need to learn how to achieve a balance between reduction of an object’s details and maintaining its distinctive features.
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Skills: Illustrator
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