Graphic Design and Glass
Your Visual Diary
In this unit you will now be expected to complete ongoing reflective and insightful commentary on your work (each task) similar to what the other students have been doing in art, ceramics, photography and glass art. You can use an informal format or otherwise you could use subheadings to organise your responses such as success against project requirements (What you did well), intentions (what you actually tried to do!), What you did not do well and/or had difficulty with, composition, graphics, technique, research, inspirations, evaluation, improvements for next time, etc, etc
Visual Process Diary (VAPD) (A/T): This is a designers book used to collect anything that helps you develop your own work, including all the process stages of your set and elected projects, and an understanding of graphics processes in general. This may include a broad range of visual ideas, development, and understandings related to your own and other graphic design work from a wide variety of sources.
Your VPD is to be used to record ALL your design process work and is to show the following in detail:
• A copy of any design briefs
• Written detail showing your understanding of design brief
• Images from your camera, scanner or web
• Isolated ideas/designs/thumbnail sketches
• Development of selected idea/design
• Copies of work from Photoshop and Illustrator
• Additionally, your VaPD is to feature collected material and research as it relates to each set and elected task. Furthermore, you are to use the VPD to show personal collected material (design examples) sourced in your own time. All work is to be accompanied by written analysis.
Your visual Diary is a major repository for evidence of all aspects of students’ visual and conceptual development, documenting and illustrating:
Observations and reflections, including inspirations, enthusiasms and influences,
• Idea generation and development including brainstorming and mind maps,
• Developing visual literacy,
• Problem-solving, visual analysis, aesthetic responses, and developing evaluation skills.
It is also the prime storage place for documentation, illustration and progress notes for all stages in the production of a variety of exercises
Ideas for Extra Activities in your Visual Diary Look up sites on the Internet
• Revise one and two point Perspective Drawing from term 1 draw squares and rectangles etc. Try drawing frames, houses, dice, buildings, rooms, rubic cube etc, etc
• Practice drawing circles and ellipses. Try drawing balls, cones, torches, glasses, pipes, bunch of grapes, marbles, car wheels, castles, lighthouses, etc etc,
• Do a drawing in black pen and practice drawing different types of shading. Try drawing cross hatching, pointillism (dots), stippling etc etc
• Do a drawing study looking at various textures and surface finishes. Try drawing and representing i.e. potatoes, strawberries, tennis balls, clothing, netting, wood, glass, metal, plastic etc, etc
• Do a colour drawing and try various colour mediums. Try colour pencil, water colour pencil, colour markers, metallic colour pens, paint pens, glitter pens, acrylic paint, dry pastel, make up pencils etc etc
• Do a drawing on colour paper and use the colour of the paper also as the colour of the subject in your drawing. Try representing red tomatoes, green frog/apple tennis ball, childrens toys etc etc
• Do a drawing with lots of shadows and to reinforce the 3D effect of your drawing using shadow. Try objects on the ground, balls in the air, a pile of pick up sticks, a pile of playing cards, etc etc
• Do a drawing with looking at transparency and try to draw/represent some see through objects. Try drawing glass, glass balls, water, drinks, etc etc
• Do a drawing looking at reflections and try to draw/represent some images reflected in glass, chrome, water and mirrors. Try drawing spilt water, a fountain, a reflection, etc etc
• Do a drawing with various texts and try a range of perspective effects and 3D representation. Try drawing your full name wrapped around a pole or flying on a flag
• Design a range of typefaces/alphabets. Try producing 2D ornamental fonts right through to three dimensional lettering.
• Do a set of thumbnail pictures experimenting with various backgrounds and produce a range of effects. Try masking off areas and use toothbrush splatter, or paints or dry pastel and thinners (safely) with cotton wool or swabs to produce a range of background effects.
Across Curriculum Perspectives
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Multicultural, and Environment Education can be researched and included. Look at the culture, philosophies and graphics involved and see if it inspires you to be creative.
Finally
Your Visual Diary/Graphics folder should also include any additional notes and handouts in a useable format.
Your Visual Diary/Graphics folder should also say something about you as a designer or look like the work of a graphic design student.
I would also like to see all/any other drawings, doodles and sketches that you complete during this term in your visual diary
