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I need some links to simple assignments or lessons I can give my class. Just some simple lessons to show them how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, and Indesign...Links anyone?
- BonSeff0
Illi:
Have the students layout their favorite poem (or song lyric) in a typographical style, using only three fonts and incorporting repititon, anomoly and whatever other principals you can think of. mix in one illustration using the pen tool. Using cmyk and pantone colors. but make the palette kinda strict.photoshop:
then give them the opportunity to add an image or images to the typographical layout. in the layout they must use a greyscale image, duotone (2 pantone mixes) and a cmyk mix.indesign:
then tell them to put it together in three layout sizes. Like a full page ad size for a mag with a bleed, a 1/3 page ad that's got a 1/4 inch white border, and a tabloid spread or maybe a poster size?just an idea...
that way you get to see whose got an appreciation for typography, and the ability to tweak their design to suit different applications (size constraints).
- quamb0
Hey, even I want to do BonSeff's assignment!!
- resonator0
Great Idea BonSeff. Maybe I could do a circus flyer. Might be interesting also...
Anyone else?
- BonSeff0
yeah, circus flyer. bet they'll love that
- CyBrainX0
I love Bonseff's idea, but that is also a design project. If you just want to get them familiar with the software and not give them design to think about yet, refer to the Classroom in the Book series by Adobe. I always recommend those. They're very well written and you learn fast.
- BonSeff0
sorry resonator, i though it might be a design assignment. but honestly cant understand how someone would want to learn illi, ps and indesign and not care to get design principals involved too. maybe prepress or something
- CyBrainX0
There are advantages to doing it with or without design. Doing it without design, lets them focus their attention on that one part of the brain without designing slow down the process of learning.
On the other hand, applying what you've learned right away might be more rewarding. I've always done it the other way.
- mayo0
something i had to do in an early layout class was we were given a flyer that had a lot of stuff done to the type and had to copy it exactly.
we had to identify the font first (though you can tell them what you use to simplify the assignment). but in laying out the flyer, we found that some of the headers were scaled and loosely tracked, the main header was kerned and the picture had a clipping path and needed to be cleaned up (it was of a tennis shoe. had to take off scuff marks). it's fairly simple, gets them to look at type and apply real-world tasks. don't really have a good idea for Illustrator though. sorry.