Class#: Day, Date Week

3: Tuesday, May 20 2

Illustrator Continued- preview command, align objects, pathfinder

Read about Pictographs, Ideograms, Icons, and Symbols

Project 1: Road Sign Problem - "Immediate, practical communication is the primary function of a road sign. This project is a vehicle for simplicity and personalization. The intent is to inspire personal expression by giving each sign a unique life of its own. The familiar context suggets a traditional idiom, while the nonsensical topics allow for uninhibited design exploration and the opportunity to play; the parameters offer an opportunity to transcend the road sign's functional aspects through the creation of a personal statement in the name of design exploration." Wilde, Visual Literacy, 1991

Do yours in black and white.

Do one for each, and make up one of your own. Begin by putting the diamonds on the first layer, align them and lock the layer. Put the designs on subsequent layers.

Ant farm, baseball field, chess court, fortune teller, target range, red light district, botanical gardens, kite flying area, nuclear power plant, earthquake fault line, parachute landing, one of your own imagining.

Want to draw an ant? Unless you've studied them intensively, don't draw them from your head. Download an image from the web, and trace it.

1. In the PC lab, right click on the image and "save target as", in the Mac lab, click, hold, then "download image to disc."
2. Once you have the <.jpg> or <.gif> in your documents folder, use the "file" > "place" commands in Illustrator.
3. Put the image on it's own layer and lock that layer so you don't accidentally move it during tracing.