Week 1 mood board and thumbnails
- 2. If you remember last term, we started our first Graphics brief, focussing on the ‘Typography’. Remember, good ‘typography’ is an essential part of what we do as Graphic Designers, and is key to our role as ‘communicators. You have already complete 4 great pieces of Typography coursework, which are now safely in your Portfolio’s, and so this next stage of your journey gives you the opportunity to be really creative, and get stuck into your job as a designer.
- 3. ‘calligram’ • noun • plural noun: calligrams • a word or piece of text in which the design and layout of the letters creates a visual image related to the meaning of the words themselves. Basically, this means representing a word ‘visually’ as an image or picture.
- 5. Teacher Date/Time Room Task Miss Emin Monday Period 5 D8/ D7 Calligram Mood Board Miss May Tuesday Period 7 D8 Choose Word, and start thumbnail designs, using the design sheet. Miss Findlay Thursday Period 2 D8 1. Hand in and Summer work 2. Stick down Mood Boards 3. Continue Thumbnail Designs. Home Learning: Complete your Thumbnail designs
- 6. Using a PowerPoint document create a Callagram Mood Board, tat you will be printing A3 in size. Set up your document so that it is A3 in size as it will be going on half of an A2 presentation board. You will need to go into the ‘Page Set Up’ area and change it from ‘on screen settings’ to A3. When uyou have finished ‘SAVE’ and PRINT your work out. Remember when you print, you will need to ‘tell the printer that you want to print onto A3, so you wil need to change the PRINT SETTINGS TO A3!
- 7. Today, you have TWO tasks to complete: 1. Select your word. You can choose from the list on the following slide, OR, you can choose your own word. 2. Start designing possible ideas for what will lead to a final design. These are called ‘thumbnail’ design’ and are little ideas leading towards the one that you will eventually choose.
- 8. Choose from the following words, or if you discuss it with your teacher, you can choose your own: • Spaghetti • String • Fade • Explosion • Chameleon • Effervescence • Ice Cube • Music • Burned • Graffiti • Giraffe • Pineapple • Avocado • Fire
- 9. These are examples of what your boards will look like once you have printed your Mood Board and added your Thumbnail Design sheet.
- 10. Today, I would like you to complete the Following: 1. Hand in any outstanding Summer work. Remember, I gave you a sheet in July to complete your Year 9 Large Letters and Hand Drawn Alphabets. This counts towards your GCSE, and should be added to your Portfolio’s for Assessment. 2. PRINT and STICK down your Calligram Mood Board onto a Board. 3. Complete your Calligram Thumbnail Design. That you started with Miss May. Monday 13th September to Miss Emin