MHCC Integrated Media Program

GD150: 50:50 Type Exploration

Students begin to learn Adobe Illustrator CS3 software as they create a typographic composition that addresses an equal balance or 50:50 ratio of positive/negative for each letter of the alphabet. Solutions were limted to the use of the Garamond typeface.

These were created in the Fall term 2008.

GD150: Playing Card Project

Students used Adobe Illustrator CS3 software to recreate the playing card (king, queen or jack face card.) Then they leveraged the vector artwork to create a customized card, injecting personality and a visual play on words.

These were created in the Fall term 2008.

GD151: Color Layout

Second term students learned the principles of page layout, applied color theory and practiced InDesign software in this project.

They each created an opening spread and then a secondary spread. A six-column grid, paragraph and character level typographic styles were applied to create consistency through the pages.

GD151: Grid-based Alphabet Poster

In this project, students worked in both horizontal and verical formats to arrange alphabet images in a grid formation.

Color, scale, proximity and position were explored. InDesign and Photoshop software.

GD152: Art Historical Calendar

After studying 12 major art historical movements, students applied their understanding of visual themes, composition, color palettes and typography from each period to express twelve months of a calendar. Solutions were duplex printed on single sheets and packaged into a CD case for distribution.

InDesign and Photoshop software.

GD152: Mt. Hood Jazz Festival Project

This third term design class culmintated in a real project for a real client: a new logo, t-shirt graphics and a promotional poster design for the 28th Mt. Hood Jazz Festival. Client art direction was to incorporate a 50s retro/vintage/Vegas Rat Pack feeling into the new logo as well as the 11 x 17 inch promotional poster.

Logo designs

T shirt graphics

11 x 17 promotional poster