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Seashell Packages
Posted in MSP Graphic and Web Design on Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Young Graphic Designers visited the Nautilus Shell Cup in the Art Institute Museum to learn about package design. They were asked to create branding identities for seashells – including logos, wordmarks, tag lines, and package designs – with Adobe Illustrator to create packaging templates.
Branding Design
Posted in MSP Graphic and Web Design on Sunday, November 6th, 2011
After looking at logos and brand treatments of different companies, young graphic designers learned about wordmarks, brandmarks, and taglines. They created logos and taglines for fictional companies using vector shapes and type in Adobe Illustrator.
Type Portraits & Landscapes
Posted in MSP Graphic and Web Design on Saturday, October 29th, 2011
After visiting the “Write Now” Show at the Cultural Center and Islamic Calligraphy at the Islamic Art Gallery of the Art Institute, SAIC young Graphic Designers learned about Type, Font, Vector/Bezier Curves and used text to create portraits and landscapes using Adobe Illustrator and laser cutters.
Write Now!
Posted in MSP Graphic and Web Design on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Young Graphic Designers visited the Chicago Cultural Center to check out the Write Now: Artists and Letterforms exhibition before working with typography themselves in Adobe Illustrator.
