Art 230 | Typography

Lesson 22

Project

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Grid Book: First Draft

What are we doing?

Design the first draft of the Grid Book.

Why are we doing it?

To continue to develop a functional knowledge of grid base design.

How are we going to do it?

Use your sketches to complete the cover and two spreads for your Grid Book.

Blog Post

Write a 200-word blog post about why it is important to use a grid when designing multiple-page layouts. Include an image of your first draft.

Process Blog Post

After you have completed all of the steps listed above for this lesson, you are ready to complete your process blog post. Blogposts should be structured like a presentation with a beginning, middle and end. Each step will involve it's own process and its own unique challenges and successes. Introduce the assignment, talk about what worked for you and what didn't, explain which of your solutions are working using design principles to back it up. If you have specific questions about how to move forward, you can ask them in the blogpost.

Please include the following in your blog post:

Once the Process Blog Post is complete, submit a link to the post in I-Learn. To submit the link in I-Learn, click P5S3 link in the left navigation and then click on the Open button at the bottom of the I-Learn window.

After you have submitted your assignment in I-Learn, you will need to provide feedback to your team members in WordPress. Your feedback to team members will be on the following areas:

You should list the item, your rating, and any comments you had to help your team member improve. Your feedback on process blog posts will not be used as part of their grade but will help you to teach one another to improve their work.

Reading

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