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Project: TIMELINE: Organizing Information
Establishing order: Graphic design often relies on typography to commuicate order, information, and sytems. The goal of this project is to make things easy to read, navigate and understand. As you learned in typography one, the foundation for creating an clear informational structure is a a strong typographic hiearchy. Type size, wieght, and color are the the first steps. Graphic elements (lines, arrows, grids) and page structure are often used to aid in establishing a clear hierarchy.
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You will need to choose from one of the folllowing timeline choices...
TIMELINE CHOICES:
_ History of the Bathing Suit
_ History of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
_ History of Photography
_ Prehistoric Timeline
_ 100 years of Flight
CONTENT
_ timeline must have a range of dates
_ intro text
_ each point in time must have a date
_ and each point of time must have at least one sentance
_ images, icons, graphic elements are optional
Use the content from the website, you may use any additional resources for more information, images, etc. You may work in groups on collecting content.
CHALLENGE
How can you visualize the content? How can the audience get a quick understading about the topic? How are the pulled into the content to find out more?
TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS
Format: poster or accordian folded book
Size: You determine the final size, poster min. size is 13 x 19 tall or wide
Color: Unlimited color palette
Typography: 2 typefaces, 3 type styles, and no more than 4 sizes of type.
Grid: proportional or ratio modular grid
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PROCESS *you will not be producing a process book for this project. For this project you will post ALL process, refinements and final on your blog. Along with a project brief and project overview. You can post your process along the way if you want BUT you would need to repost as ONE posting at the end of the project.
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Wed Feb 17 / Thursday Feb 18
HOMEWORK
Think and sketch. Brainstorm. Look and feel studies 24 different thumbnails/ideas you could visualize your poster. 24 is a lot keep thinking, keep working through. What to see HOW can this look. How can you show time? Is time linear? Does time overlap? How do you show more years happened between some events than others? Format is it a large wall graphic, a poster, a spread or an accordian book? Look through your ideas and sketch 3 of them into a rough comp. Save all as jpg.
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Mon Feb 22 / Tues Feb 23
INCLASS
_ Be prepared to discuss your 24 ideas and present 4 rough comps.
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Please have your comps in a form that can be seen and understood by the class during a crit.
_ introduce Journal no. 5
HOMEWORK
Select best idea and put it into the computer. Explore 3 design variations, work full size/ color.
Print out 1 full-size and in color, the other 3 smaller and in b/w.
Save all as jpg.
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Wed Feb 24 / Thurs Feb 25
INCLASS
_ small groups: discuss your design exploration. you need to have things printed out for crit
HOMEWORK
Continue design exploration. Print out full-size, black and white. Bring digital files to class.
Save all as jpg.
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Mon March 1/ Tues March 2
INCLASS
_ working in class, bring files digitally and printed out black and white.
_ introduce Journal no. 6
_ introduce project 3: workbook
HOMEWORK
Refine final design. Print out full-size, black and white. Bring digital files to class.
Save all as jpg.
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Wed March 3/ Thurs March 4
INCLASS
_ working in lab. Have full-size black and white with you.
HOMEWORK
_ Print, trim and mount on bristol board, no boarder
_ put a pdf of your final timeline on server
_ post entire process on your blog, end with the final. along with the final post write and include a project brief and overview. (will count as your process book)
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Mon March 8/ Tues March 9
Project DUE
_ Printed Timeline
_ pdf on the server
_ project posted as process book on your blog
_ introduce Journal no. 7
HOMEWORK
start workbook
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Wed March 10 / Thurs March 11
_ working in class on your Workbook
HOMEWORK
workbook
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Mon March 15 - 19
SPRING BREAK! sleep eat relax and work on your workbook!
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