Year 10 Design Homework
For homework you need to create 2 design works each term.
Put thought, care and effort to build your skills.
Use the resources below to help you, you can choose a topic more than once.
Put thought, care and effort to build your skills.
Use the resources below to help you, you can choose a topic more than once.
Typography
- Create a design that uses text, this could be a quote, a saying, lyrics to a song, etc.
- Free choice medium such as digital, pens, watercolour, photography, etc.
- Obviously you need to use text for this, but be as creative as you can! This could include turning the letters into images, calligraphy or sign writing, abstracted letters, etc.
- Look through this book (see Daymap) and choose one of the exercises to create your own typography design.
- More inspiration on this site: graphicmama.com/blog/creative-typography-design-ideas/
Gabri Joy Kirkendall, Laura Lavender, Julie Manwaring, Shauna Lynn Panczyszyn, Walter Foster Jr. Creative Team, 2014
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3bmyeTHslP/
Interior Design
Design a room of your current or future house. Start the project by creating a mood board. Read this article to understand why mood boards and useful: www.canva.com/learn/make-a-mood-board/
Design a room of your current or future house. Start the project by creating a mood board. Read this article to understand why mood boards and useful: www.canva.com/learn/make-a-mood-board/
- Collect images that inspire you. These could be photos of furniture, material types, textures and considerations towards a colour scheme.
- Create a mood board. You can use a program such as Photoshop or a web application such as Canva:
www.canva.com/design/play?category=tACZCstt_G4&type=TACQ-lYNs3U
3. Measure the room your are designing for (or make up measurements for future house, you could look at floor plans on realestate websites for ideas)
4. Create a floor plan. You can do this by using a ruler, setting a scale and drawing your floor plan.
Or, you can use this website application. You can create a floor plan from scratch or choose a pre-made bedroom floor plan to adjust: www.cloud.smartdraw.com/
4. Create a floor plan. You can do this by using a ruler, setting a scale and drawing your floor plan.
Or, you can use this website application. You can create a floor plan from scratch or choose a pre-made bedroom floor plan to adjust: www.cloud.smartdraw.com/
Illustrator Skill Development
- Choose a skill to learn from the video (see text below).
- Watch the relevant section on Youtube, pausing the video so that you can follow the steps and learn new skills.
- Download the source files (these are found in the description of the Youtube video)
- More tutorials can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgGbWId6zgaVUW5oKfqg6v-SihBo50dmB
1 Introduction
00:00:00 1.1 Welcome to the Course
00:01:43 1.2 Getting Started
2 How to Draw in Illustrator
00:07:42 2.1 Setting Up Our Document
00:12:10 2.2 Drawing With Shapes and Lines
00:33:30 2.3 Grouping and Arranging
00:46:54 2.4 Drawing With the Shape Builder Tool
01:01:12 2.5 Exercise: Draw a Custom Logo
01:11:31 2.6 How to Use the Curvature Tool in Illustrator
01:29:14 2.7 How to Use the Pen Tool in Illustrator
01:40:58 2.8 How to Use the Pencil Tool in Illustrator
01:51:23 2.9 Using Brushes
3 Colour
01:58:55 3.1 Working With Colour
02:07:04 3.2 How to Use the Gradient Tool in Illustrator
4 Type and Fonts
02:13:39 4.1 How to Use Type and Fonts in Illustrator
5 Effects and Patterns in Illustrator
02:23:47 5.1 Liquifying and Distorting in Illustrator
02:35:05 5.2 Bending and Warping Shapes and Text
02:41:59 5.3 How to Make a Pattern in Illustrator
02:53:44 5.4 How to Vectorize an Image in Illustrator
6 Exporting
03:04:33 6.1 Exporting for Print and Web
7 Conclusion
03:15:39 7.1 What Next?
00:00:00 1.1 Welcome to the Course
00:01:43 1.2 Getting Started
2 How to Draw in Illustrator
00:07:42 2.1 Setting Up Our Document
00:12:10 2.2 Drawing With Shapes and Lines
00:33:30 2.3 Grouping and Arranging
00:46:54 2.4 Drawing With the Shape Builder Tool
01:01:12 2.5 Exercise: Draw a Custom Logo
01:11:31 2.6 How to Use the Curvature Tool in Illustrator
01:29:14 2.7 How to Use the Pen Tool in Illustrator
01:40:58 2.8 How to Use the Pencil Tool in Illustrator
01:51:23 2.9 Using Brushes
3 Colour
01:58:55 3.1 Working With Colour
02:07:04 3.2 How to Use the Gradient Tool in Illustrator
4 Type and Fonts
02:13:39 4.1 How to Use Type and Fonts in Illustrator
5 Effects and Patterns in Illustrator
02:23:47 5.1 Liquifying and Distorting in Illustrator
02:35:05 5.2 Bending and Warping Shapes and Text
02:41:59 5.3 How to Make a Pattern in Illustrator
02:53:44 5.4 How to Vectorize an Image in Illustrator
6 Exporting
03:04:33 6.1 Exporting for Print and Web
7 Conclusion
03:15:39 7.1 What Next?