Friday, May 20, 2016

To be successful in Design 2:

1. Put all of your work on a instagram account or pinterest or wix or weebly or behance or another online platform.

2. Share the URL with me in this document so I can view your work 

3. Show your online portfolio to the class during the scheduled exam time. (Wednesday @ 10:45)

4. Discuss how you have grown as a designer from vat to now. (technically, philosophically, formally, and professionally) 


Monday, April 18, 2016

Congrats to Max on winning Equinox art show promotion job. 



Newest Challenge now available in the challenge info tab!

Here is a preview:

Thursday, March 24, 2016

FVC entries and upload your work for quarter 3


Call for CLS artists!
We want to show your work in the Fox Valley Conference Art Show at MCC!!!!

  1. All you need to do is make a 4 x 4 inch document in Photoshop or Illustrator. 
  2. Paste your work into this document
  3. Save as (save for web in illustrator) as a Maximum Quality JPEG. 
  4. Upload it to your Google DRIVE and SHARE it with me zachary wisser so I can print it for you. 
  5. Then join us for the party at MCC on April 15 6-8pm. 

Friday, March 11, 2016

Due dates and new jobs/challenges...

1. Portraits are past due... show me your progress by uploading to the turn in google folder... 


2. Digital Photo Collage is Due by next Friday March 18th...


3. Jobs available now are: 

  • Eagle vs. Wolf tennis shirt 
  • Equinox Art Show Logo/poster 
  • Fun Sticker designs for CLS Art Dept. 



4. Next Assignment: "Collect them all" will be coming soon.

Tuesday, March 1, 2016


  1. TURN IN YOUR PORTRAIT AS IS>>>
  2. Congrats to Max!!!!! Ms. Hatfield chose your design for the school play!!!!!
  3. New stuff: Digital Collage... see the challenge info tab for more. 

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Portrait and between the lines due this Friday...

1. Portrait Illustration (required)
    SEE MORE VECTOR PORTRAITS HERE


HERE ARE MORE... DO YOUR RESEARCH

     










2. Between the lines (job opportunity) See the challenge info tab for more...


Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Congratulations Emilia! She will be working with Mrs. Dobler on the Lil Gator Tshirt design...

1. It's totally tubular tutorial Tuesday today:

  • Photoshop
  • Layers
  • Tablet
  • Brushes

Monday, February 8, 2016

We have a lot going on this week... Please read and see the challenge info tab for more...

1. FVC Proof page Due by Wednesday. Upload to my google folder for credit and a chance to win.

   

2. Illustrator can Illustrate: Research it and lets make one... 



















3. Pre-School Lab shirt job available. (optional)
Roughs due by Wednesday Feb. 10th. Share with mDobler@d155.org

4. Spring Play job available(Optional). Between the lines....  Due Feb 26th Share with sHatfield

Monday, February 1, 2016

Critique FVC LOGOS

What makes a "good" logo?

Contrast







Alignment









Repetition







Proximity





DOES IT VISUALLY COMMUNICATE AS AN ART SHOW LOGO?

Friday, January 29, 2016

FVC Roughs


  1. Finish up and upload your FVC Logo roughs and upload it to the upload folder
  2. We will critique on Monday

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Hand lettering is GREAT!!!!

Try some grid paper, tracing paper, a pencil and a pen. We can scan in your text to be vectored. 


Friday, January 22, 2016

Logos


FVC LOGO ROUGHS: see the challenge page for more info.




Thursday, January 21, 2016

Finish sharing your first challenge "what I learned in Design 1"

Logos are really difficult... Right?
Lets figure this out.... the world is counting on us not to make crappy logos. 

Wednesday, January 20, 2016


Today:
  1. Finish up your day one challenge (what you learned in A&D1)
  2. Save it in your H: as LastName_D1Challenge as a JPEG file
  3. Upload it to the Google Folder that I have shared with you 



Monday, January 18, 2016

Hello, and welcome to Art & Design 2! I hope that you are ready to work on your design skills and apply them to real world applications. I am pumped to get started and I am excited to see you all grow as designers this semester. 

1. Bookmark this BLOG and follow it... you will use it every day. 


2. Hello, I am Mr. Wisser...
CLICK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MR. WISSER

3. Please follow along with me as we read the class Syllabus. This document has important information on it that will help you to understand what is expected of you in this class. 

CLICK HERE FOR SYLLABUS

4. Remember to make a new folder in your H: and your Google Drive for A&D2 

5. Check out your first challenge in the "CHALLENGE" tab.