Assignment 3: Your Signature

You are always signing your life away, either on a check, a contract, or even your homework... Especially THIS homework!

You're are going to create your signature. You can do this on a regular sheet of paper and a pen, construction paper and crayons, on the computer, or any form you want to create your name.

The piece should be 8"x10", or 720px by 576px at 72dpi if you're doing it on the computer.

Here is my submission:

The image was created in Illustrator using Rockwell Condensed, stretching the "11" to appear to merge with the "tt" in my name. The blocks were added to fill in the white space.

To learn how to install a font on a PC system, click here.

To learn how to install a font on a Mac, click here.

Take your time with this. You have until May 12th, at 11:59pm to finish this.

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments section.

Assignment 2: Word It!

UnderConsideration.com had a website where they would come up with a word and asked the followers of their blogs to come up with a design using what the artist imagines what that word means to them.

http://www.underconsideration.com/wordit/

Take your time to visit the site above and see the creativity of the various entries and get an idea on how you would create your piece. Your word to consider is:

Goal

First you need to think about what the word "Goal" means to you. It helps to visit the Dictionary and Wikipedia sites to give you an idea. From there come up with ideas on how you would design your creation. You are allowed to use whatever medium you wish, from scissors, paper, glue, crayons, and pencils (and scanned in) on up to Photoshop, Illustrator, MacPaint, Windows Paint, etc. You are also welcome to create more than one piece, but you will only be graded on one.

The piece needs to be on a 6"x6" sized image. That's 432px by 432px at 72dpi if you are doing it in the computer. I know it looks small, and you are welcome to do a larger piece if you want, but keep it  at that size when posting it on the blog. I want to keep the file sizes down.

Here are my two examples (click to embiggen):

The first one is a cipher. It's the Japanese game "Go" and "Al" from Happy Days. Add them together to get "GoAl". The second is a word cloud generated at Wordle.net and with an arrow created in Illustrator.

Take your time with this. You have until May 12th, at 11:59pm to finish this.

If you have any questions, please ask in the comments section.