01 Course introduction –
DL03_graphic syllabus
Class Slide
Required Material:
- A laptop with Adobe Illustrator (Even better with Rhino)
- A large sketchbook
- Drawing materials
- Access to a printer
- X-acto
Google Drive
Please upload all of your weekly assignments on Google Drive. Please create your own folder with your name. The naming convention needs to be consistent.
Google Drive Link
File name example
DL03_2020SM_Week_Assignment_YourName.pdf
DL03_2020SM_w01_2_MarkGee.pdf
04 Self – Introduction
Student Presentations
- OMA / CCTV
- OMA / Seattle Library
- OMA / Casa da Musica
- OMA / PRADA LA
- OMA / Prada NY
- OMA / Dee + Wyly Theatre
- Delugan Meissl / EYE Film Institute
- BIG / Air+port
- BIG / ST7
- BIG / DRY LINE
- BIG / PHO
- BIG / ZOO
- BIG / NYPD
Pictograms
Lecture on pictogram graphics
Download Slides from here.
Category discussion
Discussion on appropriate iconography subjects. Find a family of things that can be translated to iconographic graphics.
- Airport Signage
- Olympic Sports
- Cities in a country
- Product range of Apple
- Your Friends
Sketchbook Exercise
Based on your theme, start drawing parent icon and 10+ child icons.
Assignment 1.0
Based on your in-class sketch, create 1 parent icon and 10+ child icons, using Adobe Illustrator. Lay them out using the Web-Large Illustrator template (1920×1080 pixels). Save your completed work as a PDF using the filenaming described above, and upload it to the Week 2 class folder. Do not add any text to the layout.
Important things to consider are:
- Simplicity
- Clarity of meaning
- Consistency among family
Assignment 1.2
A diagram of you.
Create 1 diagram of who you are. Use the Web-Large Illustrator template (1920×1080 pixels). You can choose to combine following criteria:
- Friends / Social circle
- Places you have lived / visited
- Musical / Filmic preferances
- Your hobbies
- Favorite designers
- Timeline of your life
- Transitions of your hairstyle
Save your completed work as a PDF using the filenaming described above, and upload it to the Week 2 class folder.