Using all four concepts of CRAP, you will create a poster for a school musical production. We’ll be making actual posters for our school musical soon, but this practice can use your own creative ideas. Have some fun with it!
Your poster should include these bits of information:
Date
Name of Play
Brief summary/description
Writer
Music by
Location (address/room)
Director
Cast
Use CRAP principles to organize, prioritize, and make this look appealing!
Here at St. James, we’re pretty proud of how our students use technology to learn and create amazing things. We provide you with high quality tools, give you the best instruction we can, and let you take care of the rest; and you do! Below is a short movie highlighting some of the technology courses offered here, as well as some of the amazing work created by our students.
The St. James Collegiate Open House is coming up on Monday, February 10 at 7pm. If you know anyone in middle school or who might be interested in coming to St. James, please encourage them to join us!
And if you’re currently a student here, we’d love it if you’d consider signing up for one of these courses. Feel free to stop by Room 213 if you have any questions or want to see more!
I would like you to critique some designs. Designs are all around us, so it shouldn’t be hard to locate some to analyze. You can choose an item in the room or one online. You don’t want to spend all of your time searching for something, so here is a good source of lots of logos: brandsoftheworld.com.
I’d like you to choose at least 3 to comment on. You need to provide some detail, not just say “it looks cool.” What looks “cool” about it? What parts are appealing, interesting? USE COMPLETE SENTENCES. This isn’t a writing class, but writing things clearly will really help your explanation (and your mark.)
1 should be a logo that you like. Tell me why you think it is effective/appealing.
1 should be a logo that you don’t like. Tell me why you think it’s NOT effective/appealing.
1 can be one of the above, or just one that you’re not sure about. Sometimes you can’t really make up your mind – it looks good, but something doesn’t quite work as well as it should have.
I need a link to the design you chose (unless it’s something in the room, in which case just make sure that I know what/where it is.)
One of the most common things that graphic designers do is to design logos. They create a representation of the company/product/service/idea and use it to draw attention to it. The logo should be simple and effective – these things are generally glanced at or placed on a product or somewhere on a poster, etc.
You surely recognize a lot of common logos. Most of those work well. Here’s a quick quiz you can try to see how many Canadian brands you can name.
But sometimes the design goes wrong. Very wrong. Here are some samples of logos that don’t exactly work as they’re intended to.
There’s an entire blog devoted to terrible logos, called, wait for it, Your Logo Makes Me Barf!
WHAT IS THAT? I stared at it for a while and all I get is a cow’s head in profile. I’m guessing that breath is NASTY.
An inflatible life ring and a running shower. At least, I think that what those two items are supposed to be. I do know that I’ll probably go elsewhere.
Before we saw this logo, we weren’t really sure where to CONNECT with our freaky dog-octopus, half-a-cat, bottomless fish, human-horse, or whatever that thing in the middle (that kind of looks like a butt) is. Now we know that when we need to connect with the heart and soul of our mutant pets, we should definitely give Angie a call.
While all this might look like a joke, it gets even funnier when you look at the Pepsi Max logo.
Flip it upside down and you’ll get a snail. By the way, TGV is France’s high-speed rail service, and “TGV” is an abbreviation for “Train à Grande Vitesse”, meaning high-speed train in French.
I would really appreciate it if you could provide some information about yourself, so that I can know more about you and help you better! Please be honest and fill out as much as you can!