Welcome to week2! Civic engagement will be an underlining theme throughout the semester.

DUE Today

Everyone was supposed to post 5 words to ‘week 1’ of this blog related to the theme of ‘democracy.’

• Research: Voting themes, ‘democracy’- words associations
• Get-out-the-vote campaign: Post five words to my blog that you associate with the definition of a ‘democracy’.

Lecture Topic

What it means to be a designer – Communication Designer continued

• Mind mapping – view examples in class
• Inspiration/ moodboard. See examples here: click here
• Week2 Assignment:COMD1162-week2InspirationBoard

Lesson

Creating a moodboard in Photoshop
-> Resolution 300 dpi vs 72 dpi ( Dots Per Inch = DPI  = Pixel = Raster)
-> Resampling
-> Layers
-> Copy & Paste
-> Selections
-> Scanning

Lab Time

Design Teams: Break off into teams for brainstorming secession – create a mind map.

• Review ‘democracy ‘words – organize into four categories. Create a mind-map for each category. Minimum of 5 new words for each word.
• Moodboards
• Websites that offer permission free and public domain images:
  www.sxc.hu
  www.richardharringtonblog.com/resources/freeimages/

Homework

• Moodboard DUE end of class next week. Should be made in Photoshop – import images into the document from the web, the way I showed in class today. See above for canvas dimensions. (If you have any questions or problems email me)
• Come up with a tagline for your Get Out the Vote poster – construct a question or brief statement that captures the theme of your mood board.
• Here is the list of class presentations that everyone signed up for last week: