WEEKLY PLAN For the purpose of ASM marketing, promotional, and recruitment materials, provide a brief synopsis of the full description of the program (use present tense). "We spend almost every waking moment around objects that were conceived and created by someone," the natural world is by design. Project Osmosis: Design Explorers is a multidisciplinary design exploration, introducing students to several design disciplines of study and careers in design. The Project Osmosis philosophy is beautifully expressed in 3 words: dreams, self-expression, and community. An early design education can teach students that there are very few aspects of the material environment that cannot be significantly improved through greater attention being paid to their design. Students have the ability to examine the world how it is They can imagine how it can be changed. Dreams can come true. Selfexpression matters. The community benefits from creativity. The result is a generation of youth who believe. "I can create, I can improve." Exposing students to design is critical to developing new solutions to old and new challenges. The world of business and economics is changing rapidly, the future workforce will need thought leaders with ideas and creativity, "the new currency is creativity". We educate students on the opportunities in design careers while making connections with their everyday life and the classes they take in school such as math, science, language and technology. We will explore five fields of design divided per 10 week period: architecture, interior, fashion, graphic and multimedia. With a final project based on a theme incorporating one or more of the disciplines of students individual design interest. The Weekly Program Plan is an important part of this application. It serves as the road map for implementation of the proposed program. Weekly plans are reflective of the creativity and quality of the program. In addition, ASM program quality staff will reference the plan when conducting site visits to ensure compliance and accountability. A detailed weekly plan needs to articulate the following: • • • • • •
Clear weekly objectives that progress toward attainment of the program goal Activities that support the weekly objectives Progressive content skill development Strategies to foster inclusiveness and teamwork Job readiness skill development Where applicable, Spring weekly plan that reinforces and builds on skills developed during the Fall program cycle.
Note: The following required are also to be included in your weekly plan for each cycle (e.g. summer, fall, spring): • • • • • •
Program orientation (week 1) Final product documentation (last 3 weeks) Teen Surveys (last 2 weeks) Develop resumes/ portfolios (by final week) Complete Instructor Program Report (final week) Complete Instructor Survey (final week)
Copying and pasting responses or entering "See above" or "N/A" will negatively affect your score during evaluation. SCHOOL YEAR WEEKS WEEK 1 Activities Students will be introduced and participate in creative exercises that cover the universal elements and principles of interdisciplinary design, including design process, brainstorming, thinking on paper, problem solving, constructive criticism (warm and cool feedback). Icebreaker: Brainstorm 25 alternate uses for a toothpick, toilet paper, newspaper, paper clip, rubber band etc. Exercise: Identify all the geometric shapes that you can see from where you are. Exercise: Give creative paint names to the colors around you. Objective(s) of the Week
We will introduce student designers to Project Osmosis and provide an overview of Project Explorers mission and six design disciplines and careers. We will introduce students to the works of designers of color. Explore what design has to offer and how it can contribute to society. Students will be provided and introduced to the sketchbook as one of the major tool use to address their thoughts, define their ideas for design exploration process. Ice-breakers and creative exercises will be given to get students excited about learning all design disciplines. Explore design in society. Skills Learned Students will gain an understanding of how the various disciplines connect, intersect and share a similar skill sets and tools. They will also explore the notion that the various disciplines connect and utilize a similar thought process and craft. Students will understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration, presentation skills and communication; Sketching, iterations and the review/revision process and generating solutions. Students will understand the importance of generating many solutions for one problem. WEEK 2 Activities Fashion Icebreaker: All students will participate in a classroom activity that will help each student get to know each other's names and at least one of their likes and dislikes about a fashion related topic. Create Ideal Customer Board: For inspiration each student designers will create an ideal customer board (ICB) for inspiration by using magazine images of the type of customer they imagine purchasing their product. Objective(s) of the Week To give the students a clearer vision of what fashion really is, and to guide them in determining their ideal customer. Once they have identified their target market they will use their ICB (Ideal Customer Board) to come up with a theme. We will discover through conversation the various fashion markets/divisions that exist such as women's wear, menswear, teens/missy, children's, retail vs. culture, accessories, intimates, evening wear and bridal. Student Designers will identify their ideal customer (women, men, teens or children) what sort of item they want to design. Skills Learned Research, marketing principles, creating design/fashion boards, critical thinking. WEEK 3 Activities Fashion: The student designers will make a list of who they think are their competitors are and discuss what they like about their competition and how their product will be improved or different. Field Trip: Take a field trip to visit one of these stores. Graphic Design Activities: During this session will get a comprehensive overview of the roles and responsibility of a graphic designers. Discuss college preparation and the types of professional opportunities available. Objective(s) of the Week Fashion Design: Student's Will Determine Their Competition Are there any other designers/stores out there designing for your customer? Who are they? Graphic Design: Icebreakers will focus on: keeping journals, sketching visuals images, writing about their experiences and telling stories. Skills Learned Understanding design process: Marketing principles, promotions, critical thinking, assessment, verbal and written communication, research and portfolio development. Students will understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration, presentation skills and communication. Sketching, iterations and the review/ revision process and generating solutions. WEEK 4 Activities Graphic Design: Execution & solving a design problem: Students will be given a series of small problems to solve using the principles of design, this includes; cropping, touching, overlapping, and intersecting of forms,
GarageBand BASICS What is GarageBand? GarageBand is a software that allows you to make your own sound recordings. You can create songs,Recording Your Next Hit with GarageBand ringtones, vocals in GarageBand. For today’s class we are going to create a vocal project by recording our voices in GarageBand with the microphone on the left-side of your apple laptop.
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Let’s begin by opening GarageBand. Click on the GarageBand icon. CREATE A NEW PROJECT To start working in GarageBand, you create a new project. When you open the Project Chooser, the categories appear on the left. When you click a category, templates for that category appear on The next step is to save the project and decide on a few basic details: give a the right. name to your project (just use the song title if you've already thought of one), choose the location to save, and set the song tempo, signature, and key.
To create our project: 1. Open GarageBand, or choose File > New. 2. In the Project Chooser, select the microphone/ Voice picture 3. Click Choose. 4. When the Save As dialog appears, type a name for the project, and browse to the location where you want to save it. For this project save your files to the desktop (in a folder with your name on it.) 5. Click Create.
The next step is to save the project and decide on a few basic details: give a name to your project (just use the song title if you've already thought of one), choose the location to save, and set the song tempo, signature, and key.
Basically, the tempo tells how fast your song is, the signature decides the beat, and the key sets how high/low the song should be sung.
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Let’s review the parts of the GarageBand screen. At the bottom of the screen (in the right column) are the controls we will use for making our recording. Here are the buttons/controls that we need to be familiar with for this lesson. This button is to start or stop a recording.
This button will go to the beginning of the recording.
This button is to start or stop playing the recording.
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Let’s make our first practice recording. 1. Select the track you want to record on: Male or Female. The selected track will be highlighted in aqua blue. 2. Select the record button from your bottom control buttons. 3. Begin reading the text from the Justin Bieber song lyrics on your handout. 4. Select the record button again to stop the recording. 5. Select this button to go to the beginning of the recording. 6. Select the playback button to review your work. 7. Once you have a recording, it will display next to your track name as a purple color block. 8. You can select the purple block and delete it and record again. It’s that simple. Now practice making recordings. Adding Fade Ins and Fade Outs A very common mixing/transition technique is to add a fade in at the beginning of a project, and a fade out at the end of the project. Fade ins make the recording seem to “come out of nowhere,” and fade outs create the feeling that the project continues playing. You can easily add fade ins and fade outs to your projects. To add a fade in: 1. Choose Track > Show Master Track. The master track appears at the bottom of the timeline. 2. From the pop-up menu in the master track’s header, choose Master Volume. The master volume curve appears in the master track. 3. Click the master volume curve at the point you want the fade in to end. 4. Drag the control point at the beginning of the master track down to the volume level at which you want the fade in to start. To start with complete silence, drag it all the way down. Now play the project from the beginning. You’ll hear all the tracks in the project fade in gradually to their final volume level.
To add a fade out: 1. C hoose Track > Show Master Track. The master track appears at the bottom of the timeline. 2. F rom the pop-up menu in the master track’s header, choose Master Volume. The master volume curve appears in the master track. 3. C lick the master volume curve at the point you want the fade out to begin, then click at the point you want the fade out to end. 4. D rag the second control point down to the volume level at which you want the fade out to end. To end with complete silence, drag it all the way down. Now play the project from a point before the fade out begins. You’ll hear all the tracks in the project fade out gradually to their final volume level.
basics of graphic design
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color modes CMYK is color mode used for print products. CMYK is comprised of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
RGB is the color mode used for web or on-screen graphics such as a PowerPoint presentation.
resolution : resolution is the term used to describe the number of dots, or pixels, used to display an image. 300 dpi or ppi is the resolution for print products. 300 dpi images have 300 dots per inch or per pixel. Higher resolutions mean that more pixels are used to create the image, resulting in a crisper, cleaner image.
72 dpi or ppi is the resolution for web or on-screen images. This resolution contains 72 dots per inch or per pixel and is limited by the resolution of monitors which is typically 72 dots per inch.
software Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign
naming & organizing files. Create a folder with your name and the program name on your computer workstation and your USB drive. Create a folder for each project we work on in the program. Save files related to each project in the respective folders. Your files should follow this naming convention:
RJackson_ProjectName.pdf. first Initial/last name_ProjectName. file format
If your last name or the project name is long, you can abbreviate
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selection tools The selection tools allow you to select a portion or a subset of an image to work on. Most of Photoshop’s other tools and filters can then be applied to this selected area, altering its color, shape, texture, position and/or other attributes, while leaving the rest of the image untouched. Photoshop contains three types of selection tools: the Marquee Tools, the Lasso Tools, and the Magic Wand. All of the selection tools may be used individually or in conjunction with each other to select exact areas of images. The Options Bar allows you to choose to add to or subtract from a previous selection: The marquee tools are used to select a specific regularly shaped area. The marquee tools include the Rectangular, Elliptical, Single Row and Single Column Marquees: The lasso tools are used to select an irregular area. These tools include the Lasso Tool, the Polygonal Lasso Tool and the Magnetic Lasso Tool. The Magic Wand is used to select areas of an image based upon color; the Magic Wand does not have additional tools. If you choose New Selection, any currently active selection will go away when you make your new selection. If instead you would like to add to the current selection, or subtract from it, make that choice in the Options Bar. You can even choose to select an area formed by the intersection of your selections.
The marquee tools let you select rectangles, ellipses, and 1-pixel-wide rows and columns. To use the marquee tools: 1) Select a marquee tool: Rectangular (for a rectangular selection), Elliptical (for an elliptically shaped selection), Single Row (for a one-pixel wide row) or Single Column (for a one-pixel wide column). 2) Set the options you want in the Options Bar. 3) Drag over the area you want to select. Hold down the Shift key if you want to constrain the selection to a square or a circle.
To use the Magnetic Lasso Tool: 1) Select the Magnetic Lasso Tool from the Toolbox. 2) Set any desired options in the Options Bar. 3) Click to set the first endpoint of the selection. 4) To draw a freehand segment, move the mouse pointer along the edge you want to trace. (You don’t have to hold down the mouse button, although you can if you like.) 5) As you move the pointer, the selection will automatically snap to the strongest edge in the area around the pointer, based on the Width set in the Options Bar. Periodically, intermediate points are added to the selection border. While tracing the edge, click to add a point if needed. 6) If you want to switch to either the regular Lasso Tool or the Polygonal Lasso Tool, hold down the Alt key. At that point, dragging the mouse will let you draw freehand borders; clicking will let you draw straight line segments. 7) Close the selection border by double-clicking the mouse. The Lasso Tool and Polygonal Lasso Tool let you draw irregular selection borders (both straight-edged and freehand): If you want the selection to be completely or primarily freehand (with a minimum of straight edges) then use the Lasso Tool. To use the Lasso Tool: 1) Select the Lasso Tool from the Toolbox. 2) Set any desired options in the Options Bar. 3) To draw a freehand segment of the selection, simply drag the mouse. 4) To draw a straight-edged segment of the selection, hold down the Alt key and click at the desired beginning and end points of the segment. 5) To close the selection border, let go of the mouse button (without holding down the Alt key).
If you want the selection to be completely or primarily straight edges (with a miminum of freehand edges) then use the Polygonal Lasso Tool. To use the Polygonal Lasso Tool: 1) Select the Polygonal Lasso Tool from the Toolbox. 2) Set any desired options in the Options Bar. 3) To draw a straight-edged segment of the selection, click at the desired beginning and end points of the segment. 4) To draw a freehand segment of the selection, hold down the Alt key and drag the mouse. 5) To close the selection border, double-click the mouse button. With the Magnetic Lasso Tool, you can draw the selection border, and it will automatically snap to a high-contrast edge in the graphic.
Tip: Think of the Lasso Tool and the Polygonal Lasso Tool as opposites of each other. One (the Lasso Tool) usually does freehand selections, but can be forced to make straight lines by holding down the Alt key, while the other (the Polygonal Lasso Tool) does straight line selections, but can be forced to do freehand by holding down the Alt key.
The Magic Wand Tool lets you select areas of an image based on similar shades of color simply by clicking on the desired color. To use the Magic Wand Tool: 1) Select the Magic Wand Tool from the Toolbox. 2) Set the desired options in the Options Bar:
Choose whether to - create a new selection, - add to an existing selection, - subtract from an existing selection, or - intersect with the existing selection. Enter a value from 0 to 255 in the Tolerance box. A low number will let you select colors very similar to the pixel you click; a high number will let you select a broader range of colors. To select only adjacent areas using the same colors, select Contiguous. Otherwise, all pixels using the same colors will be selected. Check or un-check the Contiguous option. If Contiguous is not selected, all pixels that are the same color as the selected pixel will be selected, wherever they occur in the image. Otherwise, only adjacent pixels of the same color will be selected. 3) Click the color you want to select.
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1. Open Photoshop 2. Create a new document. • Go to the File Menu Item and select New. • Name your file: Initial Crest_RJackson.psd (InitialCrest_First Initial Last Name) • Change the dimensions to inches • Change the resolution to 300 dpi.
3. Let’s play around with coloring the background. • Select the paint-bucket icon. • You can select the paint-bucket by holding down the gradient icon. The paint-bucket is in the fly-out menu. • Click on the colored square to see and change your color options. • Click the paint-bucket on the white palette/background.
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Select your other color square and change colors if you like
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Recolor your background with the new color. Go back and get the gradient tool. Drag the gradient tool across the white background. You will see that the gradient colors come from the color swatches you selected.
4. Grab the text tool which is the capitol ‘T.’ • Click on the background. This will automatically create a new layer. • Type your initials. You can use uppercase, lowercase or a combination of both. • With the text tool selected, you can change the font, size, weight (bold) and color of your text. My font is Micro Square, Bold, 175 pt and yellow gold. Make your text a similar shade.
Now we are going to create dimension to our text using Layer Styles. 5. Go to the Layers drop-down menu. Select Layer Styles and click on Bevel and Emboss. • Play with the different settings under Bevel and Emboss. • In order to achieve the metallic gold effect you can copy my effects. • Select Emboss, with Smooth effect. Leave depth and direction at 100% and Up. Make the Size 10 and leave soften at 0% • Select the Gloss Contour option and select the V-shaped curve. Play around and see how the different gloss contour options affect the style of your text. • Save your file.
6. Create a New Layer. • Take the elliptical marquee tool and draw a circle on the canvas. • Fill the circle with the same color as your gradient background. • Save your file.
7. Now we are going to apply layer effects to the layer with the new circle. • Go to the Layers drop-down menu. Select Layer Styles and click on Bevel and Emboss. • Play with the different settings under Bevel and Emboss. • In order to achieve the metallic silver pattern effect you can copy my effects. • Select Inner Bevel, with Smooth effect; depth 590 and direction-up. Make the Size 51 and leave soften at 0% • Select the Gloss Contour option and select the double U-shaped curve, 2nd square on the 2nd row. Play around and see how the different gloss contour options affect the style of your text. • Select the Contour option underneath the Bevel Effect menu.
8. For the contour option, select: the first curve on the second row at 50% range.
This is how your project will look at this point.
9. We are going to apply two more layer effects to the circle to finish. 8. Gradient overlay option: select black to white linear gradient color swatch. 9. Change the Blend Mode to Hard Light,
10. We are going to apply a pattern to give the circle background a metal effect.
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Go to the Pattern Overlay option , Select the Herringbone 2 pattern and click OK.
11. Turn the gradient layer back on and you now have your own personal crest. Feel free to personalize this project more by playing around with the different options for layering effects for your initials as well as the circle layer. Feel free to change the shape also.