Sunday, November 6, 2011

Illustrating a quote

Today's assignment will have you marrying typography with graphics to create an interesting layout. Remember, type can be a graphic element as well, so use that to your advantage.

Your new assignment is to pick a quote from a famous person. You can use websites such as: Brainy Quote, Great Quotes, Famous Quotes and Authors, or one of your own choosing.

Once you have your quote, you must create a design for your quote that includes:
• an image of the person you are quoting
• at least one font that helps give your quote the correct feeling (more than one is o.k.)
• some other type(s) of graphic element to add interest.

Make an Adobe Illustrator document that is 11"x8.5" (letter sized - landscape)
Any photoshop elements must be brought into illustrator and vectorized

Remember to be creative with your type! It doesn't all have to be the same font. It doesn't all have to be the same size. You will be learning how to relate text to graphics in this exercise, so experiment! Pick your most important elements and choose how you can present them to make them stand out.

You will have all week to complete this assignment. They will be due at the beginning of class on Monday, November 14th. Save your Illustrator file as a .pdf and save your file with the following name: lastname_quote.pdf

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