Illustrator #4 - Variations

Getting creative

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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    Sometimes it takes a little push to find the perfect design. When working in the Graphic Design industry, your Art Directors (bosses) will always want to see multiple concepts or many variations on a theme. They will want to see 5 carton designs or 6 character designs or 10 spaceship concepts.

    Forcing yourself to work through possible variations within your design will inevitably bring out a better design than your initial idea.

    Images of logo concept designs are shown as an example of how variations are developed to pin down a perfect design.

    A lesson on Color Theory is also included.

    The teacher demonstrates how to use Illustrator's tools to make simple variations. (Pathfinder and Blend tools are used extensively.)
    Video demonstration is available here.

    Students are to use Illustrator to make 9 variations of a simple geometric design. Then duplicate it and change the color scheme.

    Turn in a .jpg or .png file.

    Evaluation:
    1 point for each design based on professionalism, Color use, Progression from previous design, followed directions.
    1 point final presentation 10 Points Total



    Variations by Grace B. below.
    Below is a hand painted design done by a former student, Ambir.