Today’s goal:

• Create at least one graphic by selecting one of our graphic design challenges

 Graphic Design Challenges:

Choose to do one of the following today. If you have time, you can do another graphic for extra credit but one outstanding graphic is far better than two mediocre ones!

• Challenge Choices
  1. Monthly theme graphic (any month you want)- similar to the desktop wallpaper  we look at each month from Smashing Magazine
  2. Graphic for school/city social media (choose one):
     April Vacation (include dates)
     Spring Sports (Go Mustangs)
     Memorial Day
     Summer vacation
     Summer reading
  3. Typography quote
     Pick a quote
     No background image
     Only use color and font to best convey the meaning of the quote
     Example: https://www.medfordpublicschools.org/MHS%20Web%20Design/textquote.html
     You can do this in Pixlr.com OR design as a webpage like above example (if designing webpage, click here for directions  and starter code under Quote Challenge)
  4. Remix a famous logo Re-design a logo for a well-known company; maybe make something totally different or change the letters, colors, graphics, etc.
  5. Create something from a Canva template (poster, book cover, instragram post, etc.- see the list of choices in Canva). You will need to create a free account on Canva.com .
• Challenge Tools
  1. To create these: you can use Pixlr.com (Editor or Express), Microsoft Paint, Canva, or Google (Doc, Slides, or Drawing)
  2. Get your images from the usual places: Pexels, Unsplash, https://pixabay.com/, or Bing.com (do image search, then filter to free to share and use).
  3. Email: Email graphic to agoldsberry@medford.k12.ma.us
  4. Printing: We can’t print from here, so please let me know when you’re done so we can easily save/download the image for my use.

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. You would be very proud to have this hanging on the wall or posted online!
  2. Completed poster or monthly graphic
  3. Images came from sources listed above
  4. Strong, obvious attempt to create an appealing visual theme (colors, text, images)
  5. Images chosen carefully to go along with visual theme and to be as visually appealing as possible
  6. Text (if included) is easy to read
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. You would hang it on the wall but wouldn’t want anyone to know you created it
  2. Completed poster or monthly graphic
  3. Images came from sources listed above
  4. Images somewhat appealing; evidence of some attempt made to create visual theme.
  5. Text (if included) is somewhat hard to read
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. You definitely wouldn’t hang this up
  2. Incomplete graphic
  3. Little effort put into creating visual theme
  4. Images from sources other than those listed
  5. Minimal text that provides little information
  6. Text is hard to read