MHCC Integrated Media Program

GD150: Line Portrait

First term students learn about the various line qualities possible in Adobe Illustrator CS5 while using a pressure-sensitive stylus and a Wacom tablet. They start with a Photobooth picture of a classmate and use it in a template layer in Illustrator. Variations in stroke weight, gesture and line quality are applied.

This is Baylee Brown's series, created in the Fall term 2010.

GD150: Monograms

First term students learn how single letters relate to one another and how to recognize positive and negative shapes as they create personal monograms from their initials. Adobe Illustrator CS5 is used. Students then apply the monogram to a business card.

These are monograms created in Fall term 2010.

GD150: Animal Face Card

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is used to construct an animal-themed face card that employs a stylized animal head and patterned details relevant to the species. Students gain experience with vectors and Illustrator tools such as reflect, blend, scale, step-and-repeat, and pattern fills.

These are details from cards created in the Fall term 2010.

GD150: 50:50 Type Exploration

Students use Adobe Illustrator software to 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 Composition

In this project, students worked in both horizontal and verical formats to arrange images from BibliOdyssey in a grid formation. Required elements were to use a vignette and the Chaparral type family and to choose appropriate colors.

InDesign and Photoshop software. Winter 2011.

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