Exercise 4 - A Tri Fold Brochure

Due: 1/15

100 Points

The Eagle Creek Animal Clinic needs a new brochure. In this exercise, you will begin creating it for them by setting up the document, including guides, margins, columns, and layers. You'll create a shaded background on part of the brochure, and import content from provided folder.

HERE IS THE FINISHED BROCHURE:

page 1

page 2

You will find the supporting documents in the Mr. Komar Shared folder under Exercise 04 - Brochure.

REMEMBER!  YOU MUST TURN IN A PDF -- Not the Adobe InDesign file.  Go to File > Export and choose Adobe PDF (print version) in the "file type" box.

Save the file as period#_lastname_firstname_4x.pdf to the dropbox.

Exercise 3 -- InDesign: A Flyer

Due: 1/13
100 Points

Harbor Reality needs a new flyer. In this exercise, you will begin creating it for them by setting up the document, including guides, margins, columns, and organized in appropriate layers. You'll learn about the Paragraph Formatting Control palette and create a Drop Shadow, and center text.

Your project content and directions can be found in the Mr. Komar Shared folder under Exercise 3 - Flyer.  

When you are done, save the file as period#_lastname_firstname_3x.indd and put into Mr. Komar Dropbox.

Welcome to Semester 2 -- Desktop Publishing with Adobe InDesign

Welcome back class...

Thank you for returning and I hope we have a creative and productive semester together!

We are going to learn how to do Desktop Publishing with a tool called InDesign.  You will need to go into applications and look for this icon.

1.  Introduction video about InDesign.  Click here to watch as well.

2.  Go look for a logo of a company you want to work for (even if pretend).  Have the logo up on your screen for everyone to see.  Hold Control and click on the icon to save to your Download folder.

3.  Let Mr. Komar take over to show you some important terms and definitions for using Adobe InDesign.

4. Make a Letterhead.  Go to the Shared Folder and open the folder 01 Indesign Letterhead.   You will find the instructions and parts you need to begin.  

5.Save the file as 
period#_lastname_firstname_1x.indd

Letterhead Project: 50 Points
Due: 1/7/2015

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AFTER 45 MINUTES ON LESSON 1 - BEGIN LESSON 2

Due 1/7 : Exercise 2 - A Music Concert Poster

100 Points

The "poster" has been a graphic form to announce, inform, advertise, entice and generally set a tone for an event.  You are going to follow the instructions in the Mr. Komar shared folder to make a poster like the one above.  

You will have a chance to be creative by choosing what bands you want to appear at this "concert".  

However, you will make it look just like the one above.

Later we will be more creative and open up the design but this exercise is to learn more about InDesign.

You will learn:

1.  How to use the ruler

2.  How to use guides

3.  Polygon shapes

4.  Centering text

5.  Changing font type

6.  Coloring shapes

Save the file as 

period#_lastname_firstname_2x.indd

Please complete this anonymous survey

Class:

For the final project of the semester, please go to the following link and complete the JTED/CTE survey.

TAKE THE SURVEY





The survey is anonymous and I value your opinion! 

Thank you.

Mr. Komar

Exercise 19 - Creating your own Website (Jimdo vs. Wix)

Due December 12
100 Points

Jimdo

Wix

Instructions

You will now begin to create a website for yourself using the free service, www.jimdo.com or www.wix.com

Follow this presentation on how to get started in Jimdo.
Follow this presentation on how to get started in Wix.

Which one should you choose?
Jimdo is easier to get started, you get a cool address like thmsgraphicdesign.jimdo.com, and it will get the job done fine.

Wix is a bit more complex, your address will be like what I set up: paulkomar.wix.com/thmsgraphicdesign, but you get way more choices for functionality, apps and other add ons for the free service.

You decide...

Requirements

1. Your site must have an area to link to your resume and contact information (although you do not provide that contact information).  You are to just provide a placeholder and put in a fake address/phone number.  
2. You must have an area "about" you as a designer (not as just a student), and your "portfolio".  You might want to have separate pages for your content, like "photos", "drawings", "designs".
3. You must show at least 4 exercises that we have completed in this class.  That means if you will need to make Web compliant graphic for Adobe Illustrator drawings and Photoshop Documents.  See last exercise about converting your images into JPEG, GIF or PNG files.

Make a screen print (command+shift+3), rename the screen print as period#_lastname_firstname_19x and turn in to Mr. Komar Dropbox.

PREPARE FOR WEB DAY - File clean up and preparation.

Today you will want to spend time preparing your files for the Web Portfolio.

You need to have all your work in file formats that can be displayed in a browser - JPG, PNG or GIF. (Remember the animation?  Remember we had to save as a GIF format?)

As a review, JPEG, PNG and GIF are file formats that compress the original image and put it into a format that can be displayed by browsers from multiple companies.  In other words, you do not need special software to view the file.  JPEG will compress your file but it will also reduce the file size, nice for sending files over communication lines but not nice if you want to preserve the quality of your photos.  PNG has become popular in the last few years because it is "lossless".  Supposedly you will not lose quality.

STEPS:
1.  Open Finder,

and start to organize your files on your computer.

Place all of your content in various folders into your DOCUMENTS folder.

Place all your content into smaller folders for each exercise, like 5_last_first_15x

2.  Open Adobe Illustrator,
3.  Open all of your Illustrator work from the first semester and go to File > Save for Web..

4.  If you have multiple pieces of art in a file, or you want to break up an Illustration, you need to make or edit your art boards.  Click the Artboard icon.

The 3rd art board in my file will be saved because it is "selected".  If you click on the other art boards, you can then go to File > Save for Web... and those art boards will be saved as JPEG or what ever format you select.

5.  You need to try to get your images to a size roughly 1000px x whatever.  In other words, make your images that are super big (over 1000px wide) smaller and the smaller ones you can decide to make them bigger or not.  A smaller image may be better to leave small.

Good Luck!

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