Up to date...9/11

Please forgive my lack of posting within the last few weeks.  There have been many schedule changes which means a lot of catching up with many students.  If there is something you have missed before this time, please speak with me directly and I will catch you up with what you need to know.  As for now...lets move forward! 

On Wednesday, September 11th students began a new unit: Typography.  We discussed typography as a class while going through the Typography PowerPoint that is located on Cole 3.0.  We discussed: appropriate typefaces (fonts) for different scenarios, ALL CAPS vs. lowercase, as well as sizes and colors.  We also talked about how different typefaces give different emotional connections to the viewer. 

After a few small class activities, we began creating a simple contour word design.  We created an arrow and using the word arrow and the letters in a-r-r-o-w to arrange them inside of an actual arrow.  The point of this is when you remove the background (starting) picture, you should still see the shape even though we have taken away the original picture.  See example below.

Next class we will finish our arrow designs and students will begin working with a more complex picture of their own. Similar to....

Also I have attached all the artifacts up to this point!