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Warm-Up Exercise: Arrows

October 29, 2018 concept design

Re: CONCEPT DESIGN class For a warm-up exercise, students were asked to create designs based on the idea of an “arrow”. Using 3″ x 3″

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AI After Dark 2017

February 23, 2017 events

The After Dark event brings in prospective students on a Saturday night, to experience the Art Institute. This year we did a group project. Using

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illuminated letter

February 23, 2017 history of design

Making a subject like history interesting can be challenging. This project had students creating a design with their name in the style of ancient manuscripts.

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magazine article

February 23, 2017 layout

In Intermediate Layout class, students create a magazine article about themselves, consisting of two 2-page spread layouts. All visuals and copy are completely original.

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collage project

February 23, 2017 typography

In the beginning typography course we have the students create a 6″ x 6″ collage using “found” type.

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visual concept

February 23, 2017 image manipulation
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100 sketches project

February 22, 2017 typography

In the 100 sketches project, students explore a single letterform through 100 sketches. These are done in groups of 20, over a four week schedule.

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pangrams

February 22, 2017 typography

A pangram is a sentence that contains all of the letters of the alphabet. In this exercise, students create a design using a pangram of

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100 Word Story Poster

September 5, 2019 typography

The “Short Story, Big Design” project takes source material from the 100 word short story genre. Students select a story to illustrate using only type.

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Allegiant Annual Report

September 5, 2019 layout

The term project for Advanced Layout is to create and produce an annual report. The airline, Alegiant Air, was the subject for this project. Students

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Typeface Design: “Fontstruct”

July 31, 2019 typography

These are typeface designs that students created in the first typography course. The online software is a website, “Fontstruct”, which uses building “bricks”, and a

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The Life/Death Project

October 31, 2018 concept design

Choosing which side to pass a truck can be a matter of life and death. Many trucks have signs on their back end warning cars

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