www.technology-goddesses.org/april2010 Graphic Communications
Requirement Comments
| Basic useful skill; feeds into other rqts | Go to the Microsoft Design Gallery and find a piece of clipart that you'd like to design around. See if you can find a style family for a webpage. Download to your PC and "liberate" through Powerpoint into individual files | To liberate clipart once it is in your local clipart gallery, insert the clipart into an empty or existing Powerpoint presentation. Then right click and "save as file" - if you want to use if for the web, save it as jpeg or gif. If you want to do things with print media, save it in the original wmf format | ||
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| Basic useful skill; feeds into other rqts | Examine the fonts at http://www.myfonts.com/browse/foundry/larabie/ and find 2 or 3 that you would like to design web and graphic designs around and use them in the below exercises | Demo - downloading fonts.zip, extracting to file, installing font Also Check out picnik.com for their tex effects and other graphic effects. | ||
| Graphic Communications | Skill Builders | Do one of | Look at posters and fliers in your community. Analyze how designers use art, words, fonts, color, and white space -- the area that contains neither art nor text. Design a poster or flier to be used as an announcement or invitation to an event, party, or family gathering. Share your creation with others. | Use either MS Publisher or Word. Consider using the many templates as a starting point |
| Graphic Communications | Skill Builders | these | Look at some food products in a store. What’s printed on the packaging? What color is most dominant on the package? Sharpen your graphic designer’s eye. What colors or typefaces are pleasing? Visit your local market and make a list of five product designs that you like and five that you don’t. What do you or don’t you like about them? Now, design your own package for a favorite food. | Check out some of your favorite food companies websites for their packaging - try www.kraft.com, http://www.hersheys.com/ |
| Graphic Communications | Skill Builders | The logo or trademark of an organization can reflect the mission or purpose of the company. After looking at the logos of several organizations, create two of your own. How well do they reflect the products or services of the organizations you have selected? | Create a couple of logos and chose one for your bath salts | |
| Graphic Communications | Skill Builders | Design your own greeting cards or note paper using a computer or your own photographs or artwork. Present the card to someone on a special occasion. | Use your logo or tailored clipart to make a label for your new bath product | |
| Graphic Communications | Technology | Compare two to three computer graphics programs for use in desktop publishing. To accomplish this, read newspaper or magazine articles that rate or critique the programs; or compare the descriptions on the packages; or try your hand at the programs by asking for a demo at a computer store. Make a list of three skills each program will let you do, three hardware requirements of each program, the cost of each program, and one strength and one weakness of each program. Make a recommendation to your council as to what type of graphics software it should purchase. | Explore what is on your computer - Picasa, MS Paint, for example. | |
| Graphic Communications | Technology | Web page design is a growing field. Look at five different Web sites and identify three specific design components used at each site. Then visit GSUSA’s Web sites (http://www.gsusa.org.) and compare design differences when the audience changes from adults to girls. | ||
| Graphic Communications | Career | What would the web be without graphics? Listen to a web site manager's discussion and ask her questions about her career | in the slide discussion | |
| Graphic Communications | Service Projects | Volunteer to help younger girls record their experiences in Girl Scouting. You can help them illustrate a story, document a special event, or create a graphic depiction of the year. | You will do this as a part of helping Brownies with Computer Smarts | |