Basic Graphic Design (Sem 4)

DIPLOMA IN GRAPHIC DESIGN

DSN 2143

BASIC GRAPHIC DESIGN

LECTURER: MR.SUKHAIRI SHUID

PREPARED BY: 

NISHYA BT RAZI-IE

980714-13-6142

DGD3-04/19-00089

nishyaraziie@gmail.com

Introduction

This assignment is intended to help students to understand, identify, and apply basic design elements and principles into their design layout. Students will explore the effective combinations of types and images to support a design concept. Aspects of graphic design that are covered including: steps-by-steps graphic design process, guidelines for creating and organizing design layouts solutions by applying the elements of design (line, shape, texture, space, size, value, and color), the principles of design (balance, rhythm, emphasis, and unity), to capture the readers attention.

Tasks:

Students are required to design and develop a graphic art poster based on the theme given. Throughout the assignment students will go through the process of developing or creating an artwork and demonstrate the understanding of Basic Graphic Design fundamental.

Students need to show and record the process and progress of the artwork from the beginning until the end, from concept, ideation, and sketches, to the making of the artwork. Students need to apply and implement graphic design principles and elements onto artwork.

Assignment: Design Elements & Principles.

Students are requires to do a research about Graphic Design elements and principles and finding examples for each research finding. You are also required to exchanging critical comments and supporting ideas to improve each other’s work.

What you need to do is research and find the examples of the used of design elements and principles on any graphic design artworks (ex: Brochure, poster, packaging, animation, etc) and describe about the design elements or principles on the artworks.

Design Elements:

1. Line
2. Shape
3. Form
4. Colour
5. Texture
6. Space
7. Value

Design Principles:

1. Unity/Harmony
2. Balance
3. Hierarchy
4. Scale/Proportion
5. Dominance/Emphasis
6. Similarity/Contrast
7.  Repetition/Pattern

Upon completion of this exercise, students should be able to:

• Identify the design elements and principles on graphic design artworks.
• Able to describe how the use of design elements and principles contribute to the visual communication.
• Apply the basic principles of graphic design to communicate a message visually to an audience.
• Develop self-analytical judgment by exchanging critical and supporting ideas in a peer group setting. 

My Description
This is the result of my investigation of this work. This task required finding elements & principles of design that I understood based on the pictures I was look for in design elements & principles.

POSTER

Design Elements:

Ø Line

Ø Shape

Ø Form

Ø Colour

Ø Space

Design Principles:

Ø Unity/Harmony

Ø Balance

Ø Scale/Propotion

BROCHURE

Design Elements:

Ø Line

Ø Shape

Ø Form

Ø Colour

Design Principles:

Ø Unity/Harmony

Ø Scale/Propotion

TYPOGRAPHY

 Design Elements:

Ø Colour

Ø Shape

Ø Space

Ø Line

Design Principles:

Ø Scale/Propotion

PACKAGING

 Design Elements:

Ø Line

Ø Shape

Ø Colour

Ø Form

Design Principles:

Ø Unity/Harmony

Ø Repetition

PUBLICATION (BOOK)

Design Elements:

Ø Colour

Ø Line

Design Principles:

Ø Unity/Harmony

LOGO    

Design Elements:

Ø Line

Ø Shape

Ø Form

Ø Colour

Design Principles:

Ø Scale/Propotion

        

ADVERTISING

Design Elements:

Ø Line

Ø Colour

Ø Shape

Ø Texture

Design Principles:

Ø Unity/Harmony

Ø Repetition

Ø Scale/Propotion

Project: Graphic Art Poster. Design Concept And Ideation.

Students will design a graphic art poster based on the theme of your choice. You need to develop and show the design process starting from scratch until it finishes. You need to demonstrate the understanding of graphic design principles and elements by implementing it on your design.

Students need to do a research on the style or design concept that is appropriate to the artwork and also study on the process and skills required to complete the artwork, and also experiment with your creativity with a various ideas and design trend/styles. Based on the finding, you need to come up with the sketches of your ideas. Your artwork should incorporate illustration, photography and typography. 

Upon Completion Of Task 2, Students Need To Show:

• The theme, ideations, design concept brainstorming of your design
• Visual research or references
• And sketches

This Task Will Be Grade Based On:

• The quality and originality of your ideas
• Ideas improvements
•  Design progress

My Description
(Introduction)

In this assignment, I need to do some research on the concept of style or design. In my work, I create images that do not exist or exist in the world, in short they are like our imagination. Here's an image I edited.

My Description

In picture 1, it looks like two different worlds, in the jungle and at the sea. It looks like a man of pictures and background of a flying turtle who wants to enter the forest. And I put butterflies and cars to capture the mood of the forest. The car showed the man coming by car. In this picture there are also elements & principles of design. I'm editing in the Photoshop app.

(IMAGE MANIPULATION 1 - PS) 

My Description
In picture 2, it is like an eagle rescuing a man from being eaten by a shark in the sea and scary with his sharp teeth and a bear rescues himself with a yacht. In this picture there are also elements & principles of design. I'm editing in the Photoshop app.

(IMAGE MANIPULATION 2 - PS)

My Description
In this assignment, I created a vector background using existing forms in the AI ​​application. In this vector background there are also elements & principles of design.

(VECTOR BACKGROUND 1 - Ai)

(VECTOR BACKGROUND 2 - Ai)

(VECTOR BACKGROUND 3 - Ai)

(VECTOR BACKGROUND 4 - Ai)

My Description

In this assignment, I do vector graphics, I edit using the Ai app, there are also elements & principles of design.

(VECTOR GRAPHIC - Ai)

Final Project: Design Development - Final Artwork

During this stage, students will start to develop the design based on the finalized idea from sketches. They need to improvise, modify and finalize the design for the final artwork. Students also need to refine the design and experiment with various compositions of design principles and elements until it come up good for the final output.

The Design Should Demonstrate Of Your:

•  Understanding of basic graphic design elements and principles, and how to             implement it on your design.
•  Use your creativity to enhance the visual appearance of the design.
•  Improvise the ideas and skills from time to time for a better design outcome.
•  Identify the problems and solutions of the design skills that may occur during the     progress of the artwork.

The final design should be print and execute appropriately in a good quality design standard. They need to submit the weekly design progress report as an evident of the originality and efforts that you have put in on the project.

Your Submission Should Be:

•      The final artworks should be in A2.
•      Design progress report/journal
•      The artworks and report/journal in pdf.

My Description

In my final assignment. I created a movie poster of my own creativity to design the poster, In editing this poster too, we can learn how to edit with the right image position, use the appropriate font with the title of the movie poster according to my own movie idea, the right color, the right background, add the appropriate effect to add it as in reality and it looks like an interesting poster. This movie poster was also my own and I edited it using the Photoshop app. There are also elements & principles of design.

(POSTER MOVIE 1 - PS)
(PROCESS)

(POSTER MOVIE 2 - PS)
(PROCESS)

(POSTER MOVIE 3 - PS)
(FINAL)

CLOSING:
In design graphic classes, I learned how to edit pictures properly, appropriate fonts, appropriate colors, and also had to take design elements & principles into editing to supplement our ideas and I learned a lot about editing pictures using different applications Photoshop and Illustrator (Ai).