Graphic Design Principles 1 (Fall 2018)

Fall 2018 | COMD1100_D108 | Prof. Spevack

Tag: Project #5

Class 27 | Free Study

December 6, 2018

What’s DUE:

  • Steps 1-3 of Project #5 : Phase 3 Guidelines
    • 10+ thumbnails and documented research to show idea development and critical thinking.
    • Fully developed preparatory drawings showing your and your partner’s silhouette icon.
    • Color mockup to clearly communicate color personalities and interactions.

Critique

Here is a great example of one student’s documentation of his  Design Process for this project.

Present your Paired Color Identities Free-Study (in-progress) with your partner.

  • 10+ thumbnails and documented research to show idea development and critical thinking.
  • Fully developed preparatory drawings showing your and your partner’s silhouette icon.
  • Color mockup to clearly communicate color personalities and interactions.

LAB: Free-Study Work

Step 4: ICON MOCKUP

  • Refine your chosen icon sketch and trace onto tracing paper. Next ink your traced icon using black ink and scan.
  • Or you may choose to assemble your icon using digital images.
  • We will use illustrator to create your icon and then add it the template file.
  • Similar to the last project, each member of the your team will create your own images to turn in, but your concept and color scheme will be planned out together.
  • Continue work on your Free-Study in class. Practice good time management.

Step 5: FINAL EXECUTION / PRESENTATION

  • Make sure you are communicating with your partner. Are you working with the same colors and concept?
  • Work independently on your digital files.
    • Make sure your artboard is set to Tabloid (17″x11″ Landscape)
    • Save a copy of your final freestudy as a PDF (Illustrator Default) for print.
    • Export a copy as a PNG (Screen 72ppi, Use artboard) to post to the class blog.
  • The FINAL compositions should be printed on card stock (or mounted on bristol).
    • Bring or send your files to a printer (Staples, Kinkos, Remsen Graphics, SaveMor)
    • Call or stop by the shop to find out how to prepare your files for print. Or read the directions very carefully.
    • Plan ahead! You may need to make a few test prints to make sure what you see on the screen is the same as in print. The interactions must be visible in print!
  • As with previous projects, research, thumbnails, evidence of multiple drafts, consideration of overall compositional balance between figure and ground, unity, and communication of a clear concept is important!
  • You will present your final work next class. Make this one count!

Homework

ALL PARTS OF Project #5 ARE DUE!

  • Review the guidelines to be sure you have completed everything including posts and comments to the class blog.

BRING YOUR GLOSSUMENTS TO THE NEXT CLASS!

Class 26 | Color Interaction Free-Study

December 3rd, 2018

DUE:

Critique

Present your Project #4 : Freestudy with  your team. (this was due last class)

LAB

Free-Study – Paired Color Identities with Simultaneous Contrast

Color Interaction Freestudy

Color Interaction Freestudy

OVERVIEW:

Create Paired Color Identities that demonstrate Simultaneous Contrast and an exploration of Color Meaning. Use color and image to represent yours and your partner’s personality. The final work should demonstrate how one hue can have two different identities depending on what hue it is surrounded by. Do this by exploring shifts in value, hue, saturation, and temperature. 

Follow the Project #5 : Phase 3 Guidelines

BY THE END OF CLASS:

  • You and your partner should have completed Steps 1-4 of the Project #5 : Phase 3 Guidelines and should be prepared to start working independently at home.
  • Create a work schedule. You will have two classes to complete this Freestudy. Do not rush, but do not procrastinate. Use this project to demonstrate what you have learned in this course thus far.
  • Come to an agreement about your respective color choices and shared contrasting color.
  • Experiment with color palettes to demonstrate your color interactions and relationships.
  • Decide on the layout of your compositions. ie: How will the figure and ground relate? How will the layouts of the paired compositions relate?
  • Here is a great example of one student’s documentation of his  Design Process for this project.

Student Examples:

Homework

Free-study Work DUE:

  • Complete Steps 1-4
  • Begin Step 5. Create “mockups” of your final work in Illustrator, Photoshop, or with colored pencils, markers, cut paper, paint. These should communicate your intentions for the color, form, and content of your free-study to the class.
  • YOU WILL BE CONTINUING FREESTUDY WORK NEXT CLASS. Come prepared to work.

Class 25 | Critique & Color Interaction

November 29, 2018

What’s due?

  • All parts of Project #4 should be complete at the start of class.

Critique

  • Present your Swiss Style Poster with your team.

Discussion/Lecture

Visual Perception:

Color Interaction: 

  • Simultaneous Contrast: When two colors come into contact, the contrast intensifies the difference between them.
    • Example #1: When a middle gray is surrounded by dark gray it appears lighter than when surrounded by a lighter gray.
    • Example #2: Yellow-green surrounded by green appears more yellow, but if surrounded by yellow appears more green.
    • Example #3: Complementary hues have the most striking effect– blue is most intense when seen next to orange.
    • Example #4: Gray or white next to a pure hue, like red, will cause the gray to take on its complement, green.
  • Complementary Colors and After Images: After image is an optical effect that is induced from color combinations. If a color and a neutral gray placed side by side the gray will appear tinted with the complement. Due to the influence of afterimage, our brains try to balance the color with its complement.
    • Example: When we see a blue-violet circle on a green square, there is a small ring of red-violet at the intersection of the background and the circle. The reddish afterimage of the green is blended with the blue of the circle to create a red-violet illusion. If the same color is placed on a gray background, the circle appears bluer.
  • Optical Mixing: When a field of color is composed of small, disparate points of color, the mind fuses the colors into a comprehensible whole.
    • Example #1: Four-color printing process uses overlapping dot screens of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black to produce a wide range of hues.
    • Example #2 : Digital imaging on the computer screen uses tiny pixels of color to produce gradations of hue.
    • Example #3: A mosaic or drawing uses tiny pieces of stone or drawn marks to create a field of color.

Josef Albers: The Interaction of Color

  • Josef Albers was a student of the Bauhaus in Germany and color educator at the Black Mountain College and Yale. His experiments in color relationships are used throughout the world in the study of design and color.
  • Classic experiments involved making one color appear as two by placing it within two different background colors.

Simultaneous Contrast References:

Lab 1

Using the iPads distributed in class:

  • Read Section IV & VI and create your own color interaction examples using the Interaction of Color app.
  • Once you have explored the Interaction of Color app, play a few games of Huedoku

Lab 2

Project #5 : Color Interaction Pairings

Goal: Create four groups of paired interaction color studies– making 1 color appear as 2 different colors by changing its surrounding color. Each group consists of 2 pairs. The small square should be the same for each pair.

  • Each PAIR consists of 2 interactions.
    • Group 1-Shifting Value: 2 pairs of achromatic gray studies will explore interactions by shifting value.
    • Group 2-Shifting Value (with color): 2 pairs of color studies will explore interactions by shifting value (with color)
    • Group 3-Shifting Hue, Not Value: 2 pairs of color studies will explore interactions by shifting hue, but not value.
    • Group 4-Shifting Hue and Value: 2 pairs of color studies will explore interactions by shifting hue and value.
    • Extra Credit: 2 pairs of color studies will attempt to make two different colors look as a like as possible.

Limits:

  • Make large squares 2×2″ and small squares 1/2 x 1/2″.
  • The small squares will sit in the middle of the large squares and should be the same for each pair.
  • Two pairing per page, per group.

Process:

Group 1: Shifting Value
2 pairs of studies will explore interactions by shifting value. Using achromatic grays, vary the value of the large square to alter the perceived value of the small square. The small square should be the same value for each pair.

grayscale

Group 2 : Shifting Value in Color
2 pairs of color studies will explore interactions by shifting value (with color).

  • Use this Photoshop file
  • Create (2) color interaction pairs by shifting value in color.
  • Choose one hue as your small, center square color and attempt to make this one color appear as two by varying the surrounding color in the larger square.
    • Make large squares 2×2″ and small squares 1/2 x 1/2″.
    • The small squares will sit in the middle of the large squares and should be the same for each pair.
  • For each pair choose one background hue and adjust the value by adding white or black. Or choose another hue that is of contrasting VALUE (a hue that is lighter or darker).
  • EXAMPLE: The value is altered by adding white to the left square and the complement or black to the right square. The center square appears darker on the left and lighter on the right.

    Blues

    Blues/Violets

  • EXAMPLE:  The slightly muted yellow on the left and the chromatic gray on the right alter the perceived value of the center square.

    Yellows

    Yellows

  • Work with different surrounding hues, altering the perceived value at all levels of saturation (desaturated, muted and fully saturated) until you achieve a perceptual difference between center squares.

Group 3 : Shifting Hue, Not Value
2 pairs of color studies will explore interactions by shifting hue, not value.

  • Use this Photoshop file.
  • Create (2) color interaction pairs by shifting hue, but not value.
  • Choose one hue as your small, center square color and attempt to make this one color appear as two by varying the surrounding color in the larger square.
    • Try to keep the perceived value of both the background square and the center square the same. The shift should only be visible as a shift in color/hue in the center square.
    • For the large background squares choose hues that share similar value, but are a different in hue (ie: complements work well to achieve this type of shift).
    • The background hues will cause the center square to appear as if it’s a different hue. This may be a subtle shift in temperature (warm or cool), but observable.

Example: The center square on the right appears reddish-violet when surrounded by green (complement of red) and the one on the left appears more bluish-violet when surrounded by orange (complement of blue). Notice the value doesn’t change.

hue_interactions

adjustments in hue, not value

hue_interactions_bw

adjustments in hue, not value (seen in grayscale)

Group 4 : Shifting Hue and Value
2 pairs of color studies will explore interactions by shifting hue and value.

  • Use this example photoshop file.
  • Create (2) color interaction pairs by shifting hue and value.
  • Choose one hue as your small, center square color and attempt to make this one color appear as two by varying the surrounding color in the larger square.
    • Make large squares 2×2″ and small squares 1/2 x 1/2″.
    • The small squares will sit in the middle of the large squares and should be the same for each pair.
    • For the large background squares choose hues that are different in value and also quite different in hue. The background hues will cause the center square to appear as if it’s a different hue and also a different value. This may be subtle, but observable.

Example: The center square on the left appears both bluer and darker when surrounded by yellow-orange. The center square on the right appears both lighter and more reddish when surrounded by blue-green.

Hue & Value Interactions

Hue & Value Interactions

Hue & Value Interactions

Hue & Value Interactions (grayscale to show value)

Presentation:

  • Save as PNG.
  • Each group of 2 pairs should be posted to class site in one post (see Project #5 – Phase 2), with captions indicating each Group. Use the Gallery feature to present these 4 images.

    Interaction Pairings

    Group 1 Shifting Value

HOMEWORK

 

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