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Black History Month Poster:100 PointsTentative Due Date: Friday March 1, 2013
February is Black History Month and is a time to recognize the accomplishments of black Americans. If you would like to know more about reasons for recognizing and celebrating Black History Month you should read this article. It will help you to understand the significance of Black History Month. You will choose a notable black American to recognize and depict. After you select a person to recognize you will fill out a research page. This will provide you with some background information on your person and will help develop some areas you would like to emphasize in your poster. You will create a unique poster so there are not multiple posters about the same person. For this project you can select one of two different options. Option A is to learn about the artist Shepard Fairey and design a poster similar to his Obama: Hope poster. There is an extensive tutorial to guide you through this process. An alternative option is to choose one or more of the different tools or functions you learned about through the CS6 tutorial project and create a poster that allows you to use these new tools or functions to learn how to use them better. You can select any of the tools that were reviewed by your classmates. You do not need to use only the tool that you reviewed. |
Option A: Create a Shepard Fairey Style PosterYour assignment is to design a poster in the style of Shepard Fairey’s poster of Barrack Obama. Shepard Fairey created screen print posters for the 2008 campaign which became an icon which voters everywhere would come to recognize. Fairey's background is in graphic design and illustration and eventually into the taboo medium of street art. It is interesting to learn how a famed street artist could eventually become the artist who would aid in a presidential election. At the bottom of your poster you will choose a positive and inspirational word which exemplifies the accomplishments of the person you choose.
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Option B: Use the NEW TOOLS or FUNCTIONS from CS6 Photoshop or IllustratorIf you are not interested in making a poster modeled after Shepard Fairey you can create a poster of your own choice. You will put some of the new tools you have recently learned about with CS6 into practice.
Before you begin you will want to select which tools you would like to use and determine how you will incorporate it into your project. For this project you will incorporate a quote or statement into this poster as well as the person's name. |
Objectives:
-To create a body of work with your classmates which will be unified in style, color and font.
-To learn about a notable black person and recognize that persons accomplishments.
-Learn to create a project using the graphic design process
-Learn to use some new functions or tools with Adobe CS6 that interest you
Requirements:
-Use the Graphic Design Process to develop your project in your sketchbook:
-Create one page of research notes, lists and mind maps to develop your idea
-Create a page of 4-6 thumbnail drawings of your ideas
-Create 2 rough drawings of your best solutions
-Create a final comp in your sketchbook. This will be drawn much larger than the others and close to scale size of your final project.
-Fill out the Black History Research page about the person you chose. This will help you to understand your person better and will help you to determine what to write on your poster.
-Create a poster honoring a notable black person in a positive way.
-Export a print resolution .jpeg for printing, submit a file titled Lastname.blackhistory.jpg on the server
-the .jpeg file must be 11x14 inches
-the .jpeg file must be 300 ppi.
The Graphic Design Process (incase you forgot)
1. Research and Brainstorm (this happens in your sketchbook:
Look at the competition for some ideas and to generate your own ideas. Look at the resources below for a start.
Begin to make some brainstorm ideas, make a mind map with you at the center, from there branch out to all things about the person you have chosen.
2. Sketch Thumbnails: Create several small drawings of your initial ideas based on your research and brainstorming. This also happens in your sketchbook.
3. Sketch a Rough: Draw larger thumbnails of your best ideas. Take the aspects you like about each thumbnail and incorporate them into your rough sketch in your sketchbook.
4. Create a final composition: Draw your project out in finer detail. This is drawn to scale, it shows how your portrait will be framed in the space, you work out the border decisions, incorporate the background into your design.
5. Execute: After you complete your sketchbook work you will then begin working with the comptuer.
Photograph: Import your photograph into your workstation.
Photoshop: Prepare your photo. You can cut out the background, adjust the contrast, levels, posterize or other adjustments.
Illustrator: Create a new print document and choose one of the specified sizes.
Resources:
Inspiration and background information:
About Shepard Fairey:
Article: Obey Street Artist turns out Hope for Obama
Shepard Fairey's Artwork for Sale
Wikipedia: Shepard Fairey
About Black History Month:
Biography.com: Black History Month
History.com: Black History Timeline
Tutorials:
Inspirational Vector Poster Tutorial
Rapid Vector Portrait from a Photo
Create a Print Resolution .jpeg (Your image size for this project is 11x14”)
Some notable Black People:
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du Bois
Malcom X
Spike Lee Jones
Jimi Hendrix
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Rosa Parks
More Names Here
Deliverables:
To the server:
-.Jpeg file (Yourname.blackhistory.print.jpg)- 300dpi and 11x14
to: ghsxserve/graphic/graphic2/DropBox/BlackHistory/JPEG
-.ai file (lastname.blackhistory.ai)- to:
ghsxserve/graphic/graphic2/DropBox/BlackHistory/AI.
Grading Rubric
Grade- Description
A- You gave it your all and it shows! You have earned an A. You did all the requirements for the assignment. You put in a second, third, or fourth effort and it is your best work. Nothing needs to be changed. Clearly evident you took full advantage of all learning materials offered. Your project was initiated in your sketchbook and shows a series of drawings that develop your ideas before you started on the computer.
B- Great, but...: You did the work and used instructions from lectures, websites and/or video tutorials. The project is not perfect yet but can be corrected. You are satisfied design flaws in your final project. You used your sketchbook for a few drawings.
C-Average work: You did the assignment but did not use instruction provided by the website or tutorials. No second effort, the first attempt is final product. You did not use your sketchbook prior to beginning this project.
D- Bare Minimum: You just barely completed this assignment. Very little effort displayed, spent time off task, did not follow directions or tutorials provided.
F- No attendance or no project submitted at the time of grading.
X- You need to submit or resubmit a project. If you do not understand why it needs to be resubmitted ask Mr. Hanson.
-To create a body of work with your classmates which will be unified in style, color and font.
-To learn about a notable black person and recognize that persons accomplishments.
-Learn to create a project using the graphic design process
-Learn to use some new functions or tools with Adobe CS6 that interest you
Requirements:
-Use the Graphic Design Process to develop your project in your sketchbook:
-Create one page of research notes, lists and mind maps to develop your idea
-Create a page of 4-6 thumbnail drawings of your ideas
-Create 2 rough drawings of your best solutions
-Create a final comp in your sketchbook. This will be drawn much larger than the others and close to scale size of your final project.
-Fill out the Black History Research page about the person you chose. This will help you to understand your person better and will help you to determine what to write on your poster.
-Create a poster honoring a notable black person in a positive way.
-Export a print resolution .jpeg for printing, submit a file titled Lastname.blackhistory.jpg on the server
-the .jpeg file must be 11x14 inches
-the .jpeg file must be 300 ppi.
The Graphic Design Process (incase you forgot)
1. Research and Brainstorm (this happens in your sketchbook:
Look at the competition for some ideas and to generate your own ideas. Look at the resources below for a start.
Begin to make some brainstorm ideas, make a mind map with you at the center, from there branch out to all things about the person you have chosen.
2. Sketch Thumbnails: Create several small drawings of your initial ideas based on your research and brainstorming. This also happens in your sketchbook.
3. Sketch a Rough: Draw larger thumbnails of your best ideas. Take the aspects you like about each thumbnail and incorporate them into your rough sketch in your sketchbook.
4. Create a final composition: Draw your project out in finer detail. This is drawn to scale, it shows how your portrait will be framed in the space, you work out the border decisions, incorporate the background into your design.
5. Execute: After you complete your sketchbook work you will then begin working with the comptuer.
Photograph: Import your photograph into your workstation.
Photoshop: Prepare your photo. You can cut out the background, adjust the contrast, levels, posterize or other adjustments.
Illustrator: Create a new print document and choose one of the specified sizes.
Resources:
Inspiration and background information:
About Shepard Fairey:
Article: Obey Street Artist turns out Hope for Obama
Shepard Fairey's Artwork for Sale
Wikipedia: Shepard Fairey
About Black History Month:
Biography.com: Black History Month
History.com: Black History Timeline
Tutorials:
Inspirational Vector Poster Tutorial
Rapid Vector Portrait from a Photo
Create a Print Resolution .jpeg (Your image size for this project is 11x14”)
Some notable Black People:
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du Bois
Malcom X
Spike Lee Jones
Jimi Hendrix
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Rosa Parks
More Names Here
Deliverables:
To the server:
-.Jpeg file (Yourname.blackhistory.print.jpg)- 300dpi and 11x14
to: ghsxserve/graphic/graphic2/DropBox/BlackHistory/JPEG
-.ai file (lastname.blackhistory.ai)- to:
ghsxserve/graphic/graphic2/DropBox/BlackHistory/AI.
Grading Rubric
Grade- Description
A- You gave it your all and it shows! You have earned an A. You did all the requirements for the assignment. You put in a second, third, or fourth effort and it is your best work. Nothing needs to be changed. Clearly evident you took full advantage of all learning materials offered. Your project was initiated in your sketchbook and shows a series of drawings that develop your ideas before you started on the computer.
B- Great, but...: You did the work and used instructions from lectures, websites and/or video tutorials. The project is not perfect yet but can be corrected. You are satisfied design flaws in your final project. You used your sketchbook for a few drawings.
C-Average work: You did the assignment but did not use instruction provided by the website or tutorials. No second effort, the first attempt is final product. You did not use your sketchbook prior to beginning this project.
D- Bare Minimum: You just barely completed this assignment. Very little effort displayed, spent time off task, did not follow directions or tutorials provided.
F- No attendance or no project submitted at the time of grading.
X- You need to submit or resubmit a project. If you do not understand why it needs to be resubmitted ask Mr. Hanson.
