Infographic Collection

Hey all!

Time to start collecting information for your infographic. Here's what you will need...

 
1) Pick a topic! This can be an infographic about anything you are interested. Here are some ideas that might help...

- Team
- Performance
- Interest
- Class Project
- Cause

2) Gather pictures. We will need at least 5 pictures to work with.
Most infographics include cutouts. Try and find pictures that are dynamic and start clipping.  

3) Get the facts! You will need facts and information about your topic. Gather...

- 3 facts that deal with numbers
- 3 facts that can be summed up in 1 sentence
- A bullet point list

Infographics

Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system's ability to see patterns and trends.

State Champions Poster

 

https://hollandchristian.smugmug.com/Athletics/Boys/Tennis/Varsity/24-25/Vs-Unity

Walk for Warmth Poster Contest

   

Hey all!

We have a great opportunity to design the Walk For Warmth Poster for Community Action Agency. This will be a fun project for an amazing event! 

 

Logos:

Design Collage Collection

 Design Collage Collection

Pick a topic:

Person, Place, Thing... This is very open ended! Pick something that you are excited about. Where was the last place you went on vacation? What is your favorite national park? Is there an author, artist, performer, or athlete that you look up to? What about where you want to go to college? All can make for a fun design collage...

- Collect at least 5 pictures

    Make at least 1 image a cutout

    Make 2 images black and white

- Get one screen shot (google earth, maps, social media)

- Include a logo 

- Find a texture 

    Wrinkled paper, marble, sand, water...

- Think of one other unique way to represent your topic

    - Playlist, Song lyric, Signature

- Grab a definition that relates to your topic:

 

MOVIE POSTERS

MOVIE POSTERS

Consider...

MOVIES
- Old and New
- Scene/Moment/Fixture

DESIGN
- Graphic
- Flat
- Color/Tone
- Minimal
- Limited Info
- Simple

Looking Ahead: Minimalist Movie Posters

HC Live Logo

 

Team/Event Informational Poster

Collect

- Pictures
- Dates
- Roster or Cast

Resources

- hollandchristian.org
- hollandchristian.org/athletics
- http://hollandchristian.smugmug.com/browse 

Sculptural Typeface Example

Hey all!

Chances are you will need a few more days on your digital and handwritten typefaces, but I wanted to introduce the sculptural typeface. You will have to collect objects to arrange as your letters. It might be a good idea to set this up at home, photograph it, and then upload it to the computers at school. Come prepared to keep working and make good use of your time in class!

Above is a GREAT example of a sculptural typeface created by a student from last year! Using only books and balance, they came up with this amazing number 8!

With concerns to presentation of your sculpture typeface, you might want to consider clipping or cutting. To do this, you would use the lasso tool. Here is a quick tutorial you can watch with headphones on:

Depending on how your photographs turned out, it might give your typeface a cleaner, more professional look.

Digital Typefaces

 

1. https://fontstruct.com/

This is a website that allows you to create your own fonts and typefaces!

2. https://www.1001freefonts.com/

Spend some time exploring this site - search different fonts and find some that you like!

3. Rasterizing Type in Photoshop:

Type a letter in Photoshop. On the type Layer, double click and scroll down to "Rasterize Type".

Rasterizing the type will turn the letter into an object you can edit:

Try the eraser tool, lasso tool, and others to change the letter and make your own version!

ABC123 Handwritten Example

Here's the final product! Below are the images I started with...

After taking these pictures on my phone, I e-mailed/air dropped them to myself and opened them in photoshop. From there, my first step was to desaturate the image. That means it was made completely black and white. To do that, go to:

Image>Adjustments>Desaturate

From here, it is time to make the background white and darken our drawn lines. To do this, go to

Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast

and play around with both the brightness and contrast.

Now it's time to color the image! Use brushes and paintbucket to finish the job!

If you worked on your letters or numbers separately, be sure to copy and paste them all together, in the appropriate order and layout.

And here is my final...

ABC123 Project

Hey all!

For our next project we will be designing our own typefaces! You will be designing a...

- Digital Typeface (think FontStruct or rasterizing type in Photoshop) 

 

- Handwritten Typeface (You will be drawing on paper!)

- Sculptural Typeface (Build it in 3D!)

To start - pick a set of three consecutive letters and three consecutive numbers. Example:

Aa Bb Cc

123

These will be the numbers and letters you design for all three of your approaches. You must do both uppercase and lowercase for your 3 letters. Also, your layout must be letters centered over numbers:

 

 Throughout the project, I will show you different examples and ways to go about designing. This is a big project to take on! Can't wait to see what we come up with!

- Slenk