Due

Poster Development – 2 pencil or ink sketches of your poster based on the tagline you came up with in class.

• One sketch should be a symmetrical layout
• One should be an asymmetrical layout
• Sketches should show your concept (be prepared to present you ideas to class)
• Who is your target audience?
• Sketches must include a hand-drawn border and be a vertical layout (in proportion to the actual poster – just smaller)

In Class – Lecture

• Principals of good poster design (see handout here): comd1162_designprincipals
• Review poster sketches

Lesson in Illustrator
-> Pen tool
-> Review Compound Paths & Compound Shapes
-> Brushes
-> Type tool
-> Creating Outlines
-> Blob tool – Eraser tool
-> Masking

Presentations

• Milton Glaser
• Nicholas Blechman

Labtime
Work on creating three symbols in Illustrator based on the words in Week3’s word-mapping exercise.

Homework
-> Refine Poster sketches based on what was discussed in class today.
-> Refine moodboard -> the moodboard is a collage and must show evidence of historical research (even if you do not end up using what you site in your final poster). It shows that you researched and understand the subject matter you are designing for.
-> Next week we will focus on creating the first draft of your final poster. You can work in both Illustrator and Photoshop – note: type in Illustrator, images in Photoshop