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.