Assignment 6: Album Cover Design
Technical Requirements
12.375 in. x 12.375 in.
Use sourced imagery of appropriate quality and resolution
Design Requirements
Create a visually interesting design
Achieve visual unity for the entire composition
Use visual emphasis to highlight typographic treatments
Make sure all type is legible and readable
Use a compound color scheme
Skill Requirements
Use a smart object that contains a vector graphic for imagery in each ad
Use the crop tool to non-destructively crop your images
Apply a global adjustment layer on all images
Use only non-destructive image editing techniques: smart objects, smart filters, and adjustment layers
Bonus Requirements
No more and no less than two typefaces (artist/title)
Create a color variant of the album cover another compound scheme
Use a blur filter, opacity, fill adjustment layer, or transparency.
Assignment 4: Book Cover Set Design
Technical Requirements
Submit 3 book covers
Book cover set should have a similar author, genre, or theme
Design Requirements
Each individual book cover should use a monochromatic color scheme
The set should follow analogous, split-complementary, or triadic color scheme.
Include an illustration, posterization, or shape arrangement that conveys conceptual unity across the set.
Create one of the following interactions: contrast, repetition, movement, or proportion
Achieve unity between the attributes and interactions utilized in each cover
Achieve unity between the attributes and interactions utilized across the set
Make sure all type is legible and readable
Skill Requirements
Export the bookcover as a PDF
Bonus Requirements
Achieve a conceptual unity between the attributes and interactions utilized across the set
No more and no less than two typefaces (artist/title)
Use a type of unity, such as similarity, closure, continuity, common fate, or parallelism
Assignment 3: Typographic Poster Design
Technical Requirements
Vector Format/AI. File format
24 x 36 inches
Advertise an event (include a date, event name, and organization)
Design Requirements
Create a visually interesting composition
Achieve visual unity for the entire composition
Use a split-complementary color scheme
Use letterforms as the primary visual element
Use only one type family (available in Adobe Fonts)
Skill Requirements
Include only used colors in the swatches panel
Use a blend command to blend the color of 3 or more objects
Bonus Requirements
Apply transparency to at least one element
Use an alternate blending mode for at least one element
Use numerals, punctuation, ornaments, or other special characters in your design
Assignment 5: Social Media Ads
Technical Requirements
Submit five (5) social ads in one PSD
Use one of the provided templates for each ad
Use one of the supplied images for each ad
Design Requirements
Use a different complementary color scheme for each ad
Typographic treatments must be readable and emphasized by imagery
Use design techniques to apply the same visual style across all ads
Skill Requirements
Use a smart object that contains an embedded vector graphic for imagery in each ad
Use the crop tool to non-destructively crop your images
Apply an adjustment layer or smart filter to every image in order to subdue it.
Use only non-destructive image editing techniques: smart objects, smart filters, and adjustment layers
Bonus Requirements
Name all of your layers so that your document is easily navigated by another designer
Use a gradient map adjustment layer in all added imagery
Use a blur filter, opacity, fill adjustment layer, or transparency in at least one ad.
Assignment 1: Illustrative Poster Design
Technical Requirements
Use a Template
Vector Format
AI File Format
Design Requirements
Achieve unity with 1 or more elements and principles
Use at least three different hues
Use at least three values of each hue
Describe your work objectively
Skill Requirements
Use at least one stroke
Use at least one fill
Use a Shape Tool
Bonus Requirements
Utilize the image trace function to produce a vector artwork from a raster graphic
Utilize a warm, cool or neutral color mood
Use brushes to create vector artwork
