Once you have finished designing your card’s front and back, it’s time to print them out. They are very small so you can fit a bunch of them on a sheet of paper. This part of the assignment is to create the sheet and cut it out, producing 16 tickets.

We will be printing these on 11×17 paper. You DO NOT need a bleed for this file, but a .5 inch margin might help. Create a file in InDesign that is 17 inches wide and 11 inches tall. You do not want or need Facing Pages. Just make one page for now.

Of course, the first thing you should do is to OPEN ONEDRIVE and SAVE your work with an appropriate name:

To create the frames where the tickets will go, use the Rectangle Frame Tool (press F)

Click on your blank page somewhere

Create a frame that is the size of your ticket: 4 inches by 2.5 inches

Put that frame in the top left corner. If you’ve set up your margins correctly, it should be easy to place in the proper spot, but you can (and should) check your Properties panel to make sure that the frame is placed at X: .5 in and Y: .5 in

You should see a frame in the top left corner:

Now switch to the Selection Tool (press V) and click on the Frame

Go to File/Place (Ctrl + D) and find the ticket that you designed. Place the InDesign file!
MAKE SURE you turn on Show Import Options!

When you turn on Show Import Options it will allow you to choose between your two pages (front and back) and will allow you to see the Bleed.

You will import each page separately. Make sure the Pages panel says Previewed Page

and make sure you can see the front (page 1)

You also need to go into the Options box and Crop to: Bleed bounding box

You’ll press OK only when your Place box looks like this:

You should have one ticket properly placed in the top left of the page. If you’ve set everything up correctly, the ticket should fill the frame.

Go back to the Pages panel.

Right click on Page 1 and choose Duplicate Spread

That will make a copy of Page 1

Now you just need to place Page 2 into the Frame. Use File/Place or Ctrl + D and replace page 1/the front with page 2/the back

Now switch to the Selection Tool (press V) and click on the Frame

On your keyboard, hold Alt and Shift, then click on the frame and drag a copy beside it

Click in a blank spot on or just off of your page

Drag out a box to select both of the Frames

On your keyboard, hold Alt and Shift, then click on the frame and drag a copy of both tickets beside the other ones

Now that you’ve got one row filled, you can click in a blank spot and drag a box to select the whole row

On your keyboard, hold Alt and Shift, then click on the frame and drag a copy of both tickets BELOW the other ones.

Do this until your page is filled:

Go back to the other page and do the exact same thing:

Once you’ve got both pages filled, you should be done!

Save your work!

Remember to PACKAGE and hand in

Make sure you have no errors and no missing Links:

Once you have that packaged folder handed in to your OneDrive folder, let me know that it’s time to print your sheet and you’ll get to cut them out!

Recently our school division announced that they would be selling shirts to commemorate pride week, which happens this year May 24th to June 2nd. It looks like this:

My immediate thought was that our talented students could have come up with something a little better than that!

We would like to come up with something different which will be used and sold at our school. You could be the designer and get free stuff!

Your creativity and ideas are welcome. You could use a Westwood logo or the school division logo, which you can get from my website: Westwood logos. Remember that vector logos (.ai, .svg, .eps) will work best.

You might also want a pride flag. There is a good one in the HAND OUT FOLDER

You could look at an organization like Pride Winnipeg for information and ideas.

You can use whatever program you like to design this, but Illustrator is generally the best choice for a logo. Set up your page to be 8.5 inches by 11 inches, and if you’re using Photoshop, make sure the resolution is 300 pixels/inch.

 

The 2024 graduating class needs your help! It’s time to start thinking about buying a ticket for this year’s graduation and we need a new design for those tickets.

Here’s what we had last year:

and here’s what we had the year before that:

You, being the talented designer that you are, could surely come up with something even more interesting!

The first step is to design the actual ticket. Later you’ll put a bunch on a sheet and cut them out.

The setup for one ticket is:

3.5 in by 2 inches, plus a .25 inch bleed

These could be designed in Illustrator or InDesign. If you want to use Photoshop, make sure you are setting up your page to be 4 inches by 2.5 inches, and leaving a margin that is about .5 inches on all sides (.25 inch bleed & .25 inch margin). (if you need help with setting up Photoshop properly, check THIS POST. The size is different, so the measurements will change, but the idea is the same.)

You’ll design the front and the back of the ticket, so make sure you have two pages/artboards! You do not need Facing Pages if you’re using InDesign.

InDesign:

Illustrator:

Information to include:

WESTWOOD COLLEGIATE
Graduation Dinner
Thursday, June 27th, 2024
Doors/Reception 5:00 PM, Dinner 6:00 PM
Safe Grad to follow at 10 PM
Victoria Inn & Convention Centre
1808 Wellington Ave.
$75.00 per person (non-refundable)
Table #:

You don’t have a lot of space and there’s a lot of text to include, so don’t add in too much more, but feel free to work a logo in or just use shapes & colours and more interesting fonts to make the ticket look much more appealing!

some samples from previous students (note that the details are not correct for this year!):

 

I know it’s only March and the snow isn’t gone yet, but it’s that time of year when my thoughts start to drift toward summer, my favourite time of year. One of my very favourite things about the summer is that I get to visit a lot of cool music festivals.

I would like you to design a poster like one that would be used to advertise an upcoming music festival. Yours doesn’t have to be a music festival, but it should contain similar information. You could promote whatever type of event you like, or just make a poster like the ones you’d see advertising a new movie.

You could visit my website or the Westwood site if you want to make a poster that we can use to advertise an upcoming event, like FLOTA, our family of schools concert, the junior musical (Lion King Junior), graduation, the graduation pow-wow, or just about anything else!

Make your work CRAP!

By now you should know about the 4 main principles of design (aka CRAP or CARP or PARC), Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity.

If you need a review, this is a  pretty good one (although there are many on YouTube)

 

Here are a few different examples of different types of posters that would work for this assignment:

 

and some examples from previous classes:

 

You should notice that these posters contain a lot of information that is categorized/organized into levels of importance. Use Contrast and different sizes/colours to organize your information and show what information is most important and what could be considered the “fine print”/more minor details.

Event posters generally use appealing photographs/images and bright colours to draw attention.

For your details, think of the 4 of the 5 Ws, (who, what, when, where – you probably don’t need to worry about why or how…)

SIZE:

11 inches by 17 inches (or 17 by 11)

make sure you have a .25 inch bleed and extend your colour/images to that bleed line. We will cut off that part, so don’t put anything important in that area.

Remember to SAVE your file in ONEDRIVE with a good file name (EventPoster.ind would be a good example)

Remember to download HIGH QUALITY images and PLACE them properly

Remember to scale proportionally. Do not enlarge small .jpg files.

Remember to make your poster APPEALING and INTERESTING. A good poster should catch the attention of people walking by. Make it colourful and exciting.

When you think you’re done, SHOW IT TO SOMEONE to get feedback. If that person has no suggestions, ASK SOMEONE ELSE!

When you’re sure your poster is appealing, interesting, and useful, PACKAGE everything together and hand it in for marking!

Sometimes, especially when designing for someone else, your work doesn’t come out perfect the first time and it requires some revision in order to come up with a satisfactory final design.

We’ll practice this by reworking/redesigning the logos that you submitted previously.

You’ve been given the opportunity to comment on each other’s work. Sometimes this feedback is helpful and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes it’s productive and sometimes it’s not. You might not agree with the things that people say about your work. They might not even like it. Your job as a designer is to consider the feedback and figure out what you could do to make your work better.

Your job is to take your original logo and make significant changes that will make it better. You will get marked on how much it changes for the better, so if all you do is correct a spelling mistake or something quick & easy, you won’t get a good mark.

You may love your original design and think that it’s great the way it is. You might be right about that, but you should also consider what it might look like with some revision.

You will submit a new, revised version of your logo as well as a reflection explaining how the feedback helped, what you changed, and what effect the changes had.

 

examples:

Initial designs:

Revisions:

 

 

One of the most valuable things you can do to make your designs as effective as possible is to get feedback and other opinions, then revise your design as necessary. That’s exactly what you’re going to do next.

I’ve compiled all of the logo designs that have been handed in and have given you the same feedback questions/ratings that you were supposed to fill out about your own design.

The more feedback you give, the more helpful you can be. You’ll want to get some good feedback about your design in order to make meaningful revisions, so it’s important that you give as much feedback and advice as you can for other people.

You do not have to fill out every question, but if you have any constructive thoughts, reactions, or advice at all, please provide it in the form. You should have already commented on your own work, so you can skip your work on the form below.

This one should take some time to fill out. You can access the form below or AT THIS LINK.

If you prefer to take your time or do the work locally to avoid running out of time or losing your work, you can download a Word document version HERE. You can also view the logos in that same folder.

Your job here is simple. Make me an advertisement (designed for PRINT – although you do NOT have to print it) for some product/service/band/sports team, etc. that you are interested in.

Although you could do this in Illustrator or Indesign, for this, you should use Photoshop.

The ad needs to have one or more images

The ad needs to have one or more block of text.

The ad needs to be creative and interesting.

Other than that, the rest is up to you! Make an advertisement about something you’re interested in. I want the ad to tell me why this thing/person/event means something to you. Get me as interested and excited as you are!

Try to think about an advertisement’s purpose. Where do you see them? What should they do? If I place this ad in a magazine or newspaper, what am I hoping will happen? Those are some thoughts to consider.

You can (and probably should) look at some examples of PRINT advertisements. Online ads can be different, so make sure you are considering that this is designed for print. I have some magazines that you can flip through if you need inspiration, or you could look for some samples online.

Set up your ad to be 8.5″ x 11″ (or 11 x 8.5 if you want to be creative and different.) Resolution needs to be 300 pixels/inch. Since this is designed for print, the colour space should be CMYK.

Make sure you are using HIGH QUALITY images/assets. Use sites like Unsplash, The Noun Project, or perhaps Brands of the World for high quality elements. If you absolutely need to use Google Images, make sure you know how to find LARGE images. This post could help if you need some information/review.

Make sure you know how to PLACE EMBEDDED when you add images to your file. If they aren’t embedded, you will run into problems!

If you need some help getting started with Photoshop, please check out some of the following links:

Photoshop for Beginners

Adobe Learn

Get to Know the App

Get to Know Layers

Get to Know Selections

Add Text and Shapes to a Photo

 

Along with your advertisement file (named FirstAd or ConcertAd, etc. Anything untitled or unnamed won’t be opened!), you will hand in a reflection. I’d recommend creating a Word document and calling it AdReflection, or something like that. If you know InDesign or some other way of doing the reflection, that’s fine. If writing isn’t your thing and you’d rather just talk about your work, come see me at lunch.

Reflection questions:

1. What does a “good” advertisement have/do? How do you know if an ad is “good”?
2. What did you do that is “good”? What do you like about your ad? What are you proud of?
3. What do you think could be improved on your ad? What could you have done better? If you had to do it again, what would you change?

Put some thought into those questions and explain yourself well for full marks! If it’s really short or not in full sentences, you won’t get full marks. This isn’t a writing class, so spelling and grammar and all of that stuff don’t really count, but they always help to make you look more intelligent.

One of the most common jobs for a graphic designer is to come up with a company/organization’s logo. Once a business has a good logo, they can use it to help build their business, and a good logo can go a long way toward building brand recognition and helping to get the word out about a product or service.

But what is a logo and why is it so important?

There are different types of logos as well. Some are more detailed and descriptive, and some are extremely simple.

If you want to see samples of logos for inspiration, I recommend looking at Brands of the World.

If you want more logo design tips, I like this video as well:

If you already know how to use Illustrator, or if you think you can pick it up very quickly, this tutorial is very quick, but might be a good reminder/start: Combine shapes to build a logo.

Here’s another excellent tutorial on how to create a logo

More in-depth instructions for beginners:

WHAT IS ILLUSTRATOR:

For a good overview, click on Help, and go to Illustrator Help…

Click on Discover how Illustrator artwork is unique

There are many more tutorials that will help you to get to know the program. You can access those from the Help menu, then go into Tutorials…

If you’re looking for a good one to help you get started, click the link below:

Get to know Illustrator tutorial

Once you’ve done that, or if you don’t think you need it, you can explore the other tutorials on the left hand side

Here’s your chance to design a semi-permanent part of Westwood Collegiate!

If you ever walk through our front doors, when you walked past this:

I hope you missed this:

Some jerk carved something into the metal. It’s nothing offensive, just annoying and stupid. It bugs us. We need to cover it up.

The panel is 23 inches wide, 10 inches tall.

We need a creative, interesting sticker that we can put in that spot. That’s where you come in!

How would you welcome people into our school? What kinds of words and images would you want there? Is there a quote or message that would fit? The obvious answer would be to put a Westwood logo there or something, but there’s already one on the window right above!

I DON’T KNOW! But hopefully you do!

Use Illustrator to design a sticker that could be cut out and put in that spot! You should probably use our school colours somewhere on there. They are:

Maroon : 9f1c36
Grey : 939598

I asked previous grade 10s, 11s, and 12s to come up with something.

One of them clearly isn’t the right colour:

The other is nice, and the right colour, but not all that interesting:

This one, I like A LOT:

Here’s your chance to prove that you’re more creative the last crop of students who have attempted this! Come up with something that we could use in the front of the school. Remember that it has to look somewhat classy and intelligent. Our whole community can see this. Our administrators have to like it in order for us to put it up.

Come up with a design and your creativity could literally be part of the school for years to come!