For the final step, complete the presentation and documentation for Project 01 | Letterform Composition. Once you have completed the steps for this project see the instructions for making and submitting your process blog post below.
Project 01 Overview | Create an interesting composition with only letterforms/glyphs to demonstrate aesthetic skill and understanding of designing using type as shape. You will also learn to identify the anatomical parts of letterforms.
I love beautiful things. There’s very little in the world that takes my breath away quite like an object that was lovingly crafted, built with care and passion, and presented with the sort of pride that befits a marvelously well-made item. —Richard Glover / Smashing Magazine, January 2010
As designers, we need to be able to present solutions in the best or required format. Craftsmanship has traditionally been a hallmark of great designers. Although in the past craftsmanship has been associated with physical production, there are now many forms of presentation at our disposal. You are expected to attain a professional level of craftsmanship both physically and digitally. The only way to develop the necessary skills is by practicing.
Create a post on Behance—a creative networking community—that includes: Final Helvetica Composition and Final Adobe Garamond Composition. Put a link to your Behance post in your WordPress post.
Create a short slide presentation (1–2 minutes) to present your final design. Create a voice-over presentation and export. The presentation can be uploaded to a video sharing site like Vimeo, YouTube, or Screencast. Embed the video into a post on the class process blog.
The workbook documents the design process that you went through in completing Project 01. You will be creating a PDF file to submit during this lesson. Please note that you will need all of the files at the end of the semester to submit a complete workbook. You are responsible for keeping these files, and we strongly encourage you to make a backup copy. Missing pages and links will decrease your final workbook grade.
To make sure that you have all the workbook pages necessary for Project 01, please check the Workbook section on the Project 01 page.
Once the PDF version of your workbook has been exported and reviewed, submit by clicking Open on the assignment link in I-Learn, attach the pdf of your workbook, and paste the URL from your blog post into the comments box.
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:
You will be graded using the following criteria:
Title your post "Final Project Submission." To submit your project, open the assignment submission page by clicking Open, attach the pdf of your workbook, and paste the URL from your blog post into the comments box.
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.
After you submit the final post for each project, you will be allowed to provide feedback to a member of the class in WordPress. You will complete only one peer review per project in WordPress. For each of your assigned classmates’ final posts, you need to provide feedback using the following rubric:
Think of these peer reviews as opportunities to teach one another by offering suggestions to improve your and others’ work. You should only do peer review once you have submitted your link for the final post of each project. After you have reviewed the assignments, your instructor will also review the work and add comments. Both the instructor and peer comments and ratings will be available for you to see. You can then address this feedback in the next submission.
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