Graphic Design
Setting Up Adobe Illustrator:
Open Illustrator, and a welcome screen will appear. Under Create New, choose Print Document. On the next screen, called New Document, give your document a name. Most of the defaults are fine, but confirm that number of artboards is set to 1 (an ‘artboard’ is a page), and Size is set to Letter. Click OK.
The default workspace that opens, called Essentials (noted at the top right of your screen), features panels on the side that makes sense to certain users. However, we are going to create a customized workspace for our class only.
Using the Window menu at the top to find/locate these panels, we are going to create a "docked"/default layout on the right hand side of our screen.
Reorder your docked panels by clicking and dragging so that you have, from top to bottom, Appearance/Align, Layers,Stroke/Swatches, and Character/Paragraph.
Next, open the Illustrator menu and select Preferences, then Units & Display Performance. Change General from Points to Inches. Click OK.
Under the View menu, select Show Rulers. Under the File menu, set the Document Color Mode to CMYK.
Last, save this layout of panels as your MEDDESIGN12 Workspace: From the Window menu select Workspace and then Save Workspace. Call it MEDDESIGN12. From now on you will always be able to revert to this Workspace whenever you log in and open Illustrator. It will always be listed in the Window menu under Workspace.
Open Illustrator, and a welcome screen will appear. Under Create New, choose Print Document. On the next screen, called New Document, give your document a name. Most of the defaults are fine, but confirm that number of artboards is set to 1 (an ‘artboard’ is a page), and Size is set to Letter. Click OK.
The default workspace that opens, called Essentials (noted at the top right of your screen), features panels on the side that makes sense to certain users. However, we are going to create a customized workspace for our class only.
Using the Window menu at the top to find/locate these panels, we are going to create a "docked"/default layout on the right hand side of our screen.
Reorder your docked panels by clicking and dragging so that you have, from top to bottom, Appearance/Align, Layers,Stroke/Swatches, and Character/Paragraph.
Next, open the Illustrator menu and select Preferences, then Units & Display Performance. Change General from Points to Inches. Click OK.
Under the View menu, select Show Rulers. Under the File menu, set the Document Color Mode to CMYK.
Last, save this layout of panels as your MEDDESIGN12 Workspace: From the Window menu select Workspace and then Save Workspace. Call it MEDDESIGN12. From now on you will always be able to revert to this Workspace whenever you log in and open Illustrator. It will always be listed in the Window menu under Workspace.
Lesson 1: Typography
Art Design: On a Mug
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Lesson 2: Perspective, Raster vs. Vector
Art Design: (TBD)
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**If you are using images online for your design. Please make sure you are using copyright free images /Creative Commons licensed designs.**
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Lesson 3: C.R.A.P. Principles
Art Design: Advertisement Poster
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Guest Presenter and Presentation Courtesy of Graphic Designer Kim Erickson.
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Lesson 4: Brushes & Borders
Art Design: Christmas Ornament AND T-Shirt
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