Illustrator Workshop

Today You are going to continue working on Your Digital Illustrations, Using Illustrator.

If you are ahead, and already finished, then you can start additional illustration or take your first even further with the addition of filters, layer effects, etc.

I will continue trying to get a chance to meet with each of you to check your progress.

THIS DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION PROJECT IS DUE, POSTED ON YOUR BLOG BEFORE CLASS ON APRIL 7th

DIGI-sration (illustrator project)

1. MORE ILLUSTRATOR TECHNIQUES:

http://medical-records.org/Lesson Downloads/mic.ai

http://medical-records.org/Lesson Downloads/samples.ai

http://medical-records.org/Lesson Downloads/teamcanada.ai

Those files are going to be used to help with the following videos:

Editing tools and commands
ie blob brush, eraser, razor, scissor

Manipulating tools and/or Coloring tools


2. CLASS TIME FOR QUESTIONS AND TO WORK ON YOUR DIGI-STRATION. ;0
i'm going to come around the room between 2:30 and 2:45 and try to speak with everyone about your proposed project tentatively due APRIL 7th that's a week from thursday!
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DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION ASSIGNMENT
Your assignment is Using a combination of what you have learned in Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop please create some sort of Visual Component to accompany your Essay Project. This could thought of as (but not limited to) a fictional or new logo design, a narrative illustration, related photographic/textual component of your projects. It may help you to look at magazine articles or blogs that include some sort of imagery accompanying the writing.



some tips!!****
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AN START THIS ILLUSTRATION PLEASE USE THE WEB PRESET IN ILLUSTRATOR.
SAVE WORKS IN PROGRESS AT .AI FILES (ILLUSTRATOR), .PSD FILES (PHOTOSHOP)
SAVE COMPLETED PROJECTS AS .JPGs TO UPLOAD IN BLOG
MAKE A FOLDER FOR YOUR PROJECT ON YOUR FLASH DRIVE, AND SAVE ALL RELATED FILES FOR THE PROJECT IN THAT FOLDER!

ILLUSTRATOR REVIEW - DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION ASSIGNMENT (proposal)

1. Sorry I was sick, I'm going to average in your the ESSAY Portion of your Midterms and POST YOUR MIDTERM GRADES ONLINE / ON YOUR BLOGS BY FRIDAY AT THE LATEST
2. Hi everyone, for today we are going to be using the following files for this Adobe Illustrator Review, please make a folder on you FLASH DRIVE or on youcomputer called "Review" and save the following files in the folder:

http://medical-records.org/Lesson Downloads/mic.ai
http://medical-records.org/Lesson Downloads/samples.ai
http://medical-records.org/Lesson Downloads/teamcanada.ai
Those files are going to be used to help with the following videos:

Pathfinder Commands

pathfinder tutorial

Working with Type

Editing tools and commands

Manipulating tools and/or Coloring tools (depending on time)

3. I would like you to post a proposal for NEXT CLASS

DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION ASSIGNMENT
Your assignment is Using a combination of what you have learned in Adobe Illustrator and/or Photoshop please create some sort of Visual Component to accompany your Essay Project. This could thought of as (but not limited to) a fictional or new logo design, a narrative illustration, related photographic/textual component of your projects. It may help you to look at magazine articles or blogs that include some sort of imagery accompanying the writing.

DUE FOR NEXT CLASS (MON.29TH) PLEASE HAVE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ANSWERED AS A PROPOSAL:

1. Describe what kind of visual component you would like to create to accompany your essay

2. What tools/techniques in Illustrator / Photoshop will you be using?

3. How to you envision your completed digital illustration?


some tips!!****
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AN START THIS ILLUSTRATION PLEASE USE THE WEB PRESET IN ILLUSTRATOR.
SAVE WORKS IN PROGRESS AT .AI FILES (ILLUSTRATOR), .PSD FILES (PHOTOSHOP)
SAVE COMPLETED PROJECTS AS .JPGs TO UPLOAD IN BLOG
MAKE A FOLDER FOR YOUR PROJECT ON YOUR FLASH DRIVE, AND SAVE ALL RELATED FILES FOR THE PROJECT IN THAT FOLDER!

Growing Up Online...las class before Semester Break

1. REMINDER OF UPCOMING DEADLINES:
march 22nd - Essay Portion of your PROJECTS DUE
week of March 22-26
*More Illustrator / Working on the Illustrator portion of your Projects
*Looking at Cult of the Amateur by Keen

****so the rest of the week/weekend, over the break, and next weekend make sure you work on your essays for your projects.
email me with any questions tyler.jacobsen1@marist.edu



2. Today I want to show you another FRONTLINE DOCUMENTARY by Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff (co-creators of Digital Nation / the Persuaders).. I think this may help some of you with your chosen essay topics, and defiantly pertains to the ongoing discussion in our class.

In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood.

WATCH GROWING UP ONLINE

more illustrator review

1. I will try to comment on all of your PROJECT PROPOSALS thanks for those!

2. Remember the written portion of your projects is due MONDAY MARCH 22ND, the day we get back from the break... so make sure you are aware of that DUE DATE>>

3. now you are all going to have an illustrator portion of your project. This will be some kind of graphical representation of your project, possibly a logo, or a pictorial illustration or photo-illustration / montage. You can think of this as a graphic that would accompany your essay if it was in an online publication or magazine. This portion will vary from project to project, and won't be due until after you turn in the written portion.
I also DON"T want this to effect or change your essay. I WILL HELP YOU COME UP WITH THE illustrator PORTION OF YOUR PROJECT.
I want you to be aware of it, but i don't want you to change your project because of it.

4. MORE ILLUSTRATOR VIDEOS:
WATCH: WORKING WITH IMAGES IN ILLUSTRATOR
PLACING IMAGES
EDIT ORIGINAL
LIVE TRACE

due wed. 10th
****IN CLASS EXERCISE...USE LIVE TRACE TO "VECTORIZE A BITMAP IMAGE IN ILLUSTRATOR", THEN SAVE THAT FOR THE WEB (TURNING IT BACK INTO A BITMAP AND PUT IT ON YOUR BLOG!!!) FOR NEXT CLASS

MIDTERM PROJECTS ----DUE AFTER BREAK

1. Discussion about MIDTERM GRADING...
SPRING BREAK IS 13-21
MIDTERM GRADES ARE DUE THE 16TH..

We are not going to have a WRITTEN MIDTERM but instead you will have your choice of the following 3 projects that will count as a MIDTERM PROJECT:


PROJECT 1 : FUTURE TECHNIQUES OF PERSUASION

RESEARCH AN EXAMPLE OF A FUTURE PRODUCT, BUSINESS, OR SERVICE THAT EITHER IS NOT YET RELEASED OR NOT YET POPULARIZED

to help you out, some future innovations, mediums, and products can be found here:

http://science.discovery.com/videos/pop-sci-videos/

write a 3-5 page esssay on the techniques and tactics THAT COULD BE used to by marketers to manufacture desire, appeal to our emotions, and create a branded "culture" and sell to us one of these possible futuristic products or services. (as found in Douglas Rushkoff's the Persuaders)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/persuaders/

In your essay include how the following or other new techniques of advertising and marketing could be used to more effectively market these goods or services to us:

• neuromarketing ( psychological )
  
• emotional branding
  
• branding/creating a culture around a brand
  
• narrowcasting
  
• rhetorical marketing
  
• under the radar marketing
  
• across-media marketing
• product placement across media

Show how these (and other similar) tactics of persuasion are being used to communicate with consumers today

Think about what types of new communication techniques the future may hold for these marketers.

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PROJECT 2: MAKING WIKIPEDIA BETTER

FIND 3 WIKIPEDIA ARTICLES That you feel need updating, additional information, or are displaying incorrect information...

Using your own resources and research, submit and change these these articles.

Follow the progress of your changes on your blog.

-if you choose this project make sure that you save both before and after examples of your chosen articles

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PROJECT 3 TRANSPARENCY OR INTENTIONAL AMATEURISM

REMEMBER THE FOLLOWING GROUP QUESTIONS YOU ANSWERED IN CLASS?:

1. Today many TV shows and advertisements try to look amateurish or "homegrown" to emulate what is often seen on the Web. Do you think professional prodution values will continue to drop, or do you think amateur user-generated content will get better over time? WHY??
   
   
2. Why is transparency such an important concept in the Social Media world? Is it MORE or LESS important in the offline world? Why?

CHOOSE ONE OF THESE AS THE TOPIC OF A 3-5 PAGE RESEARCH ESSAY POSTED ON YOUR BLOG.

***AS A BONUS TRY TO CIRCULATE YOUR WRITING ON ONLINE DISCUSSION FORUMS ON APPROPRIATE TOPICS

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CUSTOM PROJECT MAKE UP YOUR OWN RESEARCH / ESSAY PROJECT INVOLVING WEB 2.0, SOCIAL MEDIA, OR ANY TOPICS COVERED PREVIOUSLY IN CLASS

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I AM AM GOING TO LET YOU START TO RESEARCH AND WORK ON YOUR CHOSEN PROJECT TODAY ...

DUE MONDAY THE 8TH - BLOG POSTING DESCRIBING YOUR CHOSEN/ PROPOSED PROJECT.