Week 4: Layout & Photoshop 4
Review: What did I learn?
Let's Learn....
What is Layout?
Home Page Critique Assignment
Find a website for a local business or poster.
Analyze and critique the business's home page in a Word document:
Analyze and critique the business's home page in a Word document:
- Tell me the URL for the home page, magenize, etc..
- Describe the business and its home/poster page briefly.
- Write down your observations to the following:
- Describe the poster/website.
- What is the most important thing(s) on the poster? Is it a word, a picture? How do you know it is important?
- What/who is the audience the poster is designed for?
- What mood does the poster evoke? (What emotions does the poster make you feel?)
- What parts of the poster (color, text, type, graphics) do you think communicate this mood and why?
- Analyze the home page design in terms of how it uses (or fails to use) alignment, proximity, repetition and contrast. Be descriptive, not simply reporting whether or not these principles are utilized.
- Determine whether the layout a) works, b) organizes, and c) attracts. Explain why or why not.
- Then cut and rearrange the home/poster page. Share and discuss why you change it?
GOOD LAYOUT NOTES
Beginning Page Layout Assignment
Before we begin this course, let's see what you already know about design layout. Make a page layout about something that's important to you, using work-every-time layout
Topic
The topic can be yourself, your family, your hobby, an event, a cause, a company, or whatever! It should be something you're passionate about.
Format
You can create a page layout in any of the following methods:
- Paper Thumbnail and Final Comp in Photoshop
Requirements
- Include anything that might be appropriate on a page, (text/images)
- Include seven parts of the work-every-time layout (Margins, Columns, Visual, Cutline, Headline, Copy, Tags/Logo
- Your goal: get other people excited about your topic.
Examples
Homework
- Finish your home/poster layout site and Turn in on your; Class Websites: save in projects. Due by next class.
- http://www.uni.edu/fabos/idc/challenge/workseverytimelayout.html