​Background
When you create a logo, you are building an IDENTITY for your brand. Think about Dunkin Donuts for a minute. How many visuals pop into your mind? I'm sure it's a lot! Dunkins has worked hard on their brand and they have been successful. Take a look at the gallery below. Why are these logo successful?

Assignment
​Your assignment is to create a logo for a coffee/tea shop, a sandwich shop, a juice/smoothie bar, or a bakery. 

​Steps

• Complete the drawing packet on Mark Making
  
• Complete the Stylized Logos Drawing pages
  
• Think of a unique and fun name for your business. The more interesting, the easier it will be ​to design.
  
• Sketch out 4 different designs in the 4 sections of your paper for your coffee/tea shop, a sandwich shop, a juice/smoothie bar, bakery or cafe. Use this sketch paper 
  
• Choose your design and refine it.
  
• Design your logo
  
• Hand in your high resolution JPEG file into Google Classroom. 
  

Grading Criteria

• Your logo must include illustration, text, and a shape. All of these must interact to create a dynamic logo.
• See the art rubric

2. Lower the opacity of each layer

Assignment:
Using the brush and paint tools in Photoshop, create an artwork that visually expresses the idea of Growth. It will start as a photo collage of at least three photos, which you will then trace.

Objectives:
Develop your skills with the following tools:

• Brush tool
• Eraser
• Paint bucket
• Layers

Requirements:

• 8.5” x 11” - “Letter” sized document, either horizontal ("landscape" orientation) or vertical ("portrait" orientation)
• Filename: growth yourlastname.psd
• Save to: Google Drive
• Must combine at least three photographs
• Must fill the page
• Must use at least ten different colors
• Must use each of the tools listed above

Steps:

1. FIRST, if you haven't already done so, create a Google Drive folder entitled “Web Design yourlastname”. This is where you'll save all your in-progress work every day.
2. Go to Photoshop 
3. Go to New File
4. Set the proper dimensions (8.5” x 11”), resolution (300 dpi), and click "Create".
5. Save immediately as filename “growth yourlastname.psd”.
6. Collect at least three digital photos to make a photo collage about "growth".
7. File-Open each of the photographs in Photoshop, then Select All, copy and paste each into the "Growth" PSD.
8. Resize, move, and transform the photos in the "growth" file.
9. When you like the placement, lock each of the photograph layers in the Layers palette.
10. Use the brush tool to trace parts of the photographs. Use different paintbrush thicknesses and colors. Make as many closed shapes as possible, so that you can fill in the shapes with the paint bucket tool. 
11. Save regularly (every few minutes) as a PSD. Save over your older version when asked.
12. At the end of every session, place the file in your Google Drive “Web Design yourlastname” folder
13. At the end of every session, turn in a JPG or screenshot of your progress via Google Classroom as an "Exit Ticket"
14. When completed, Save as a PSD and Export the image as a JPG; then share the final PSD file and the JPG in google classroom

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Grading Criteria

• Creativity
• Content (Development and communication of ideas)
• Design
• Technical Quality (“Finished”)
• Studio Work Habits

As the assessment tool, we will be using the Studio Habits of Mind rubric.
Rubric: Art Studio Habits of Mind
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Background:
Many of you have not lived life without the Internet. Much like the telephone, television, radio, and the computer, the invention of the Internet has revolutionized how we view and interact with the world. The Internet is essential to many of our daily activities and is available to us at our fingertips. 

Project Description:
You will be working in a group to create a google slide show presentation explaining and teaching your classmates about how the internet works. 

TOPICS:

• How the Internet works 
• History of the Internet (1969-1986)
• History of the Internet (1987-1998) 
• History of the Internet (1998-present day)
• The Visual History of Web Design
• What is HTML and CSS?
  
  

Specs

• Research the information first
• Plan out the presentation
• Work together to design a cohesive presentation that explains the content and subject

Grading

• Relevancy of Content
• Visual Design
• Technical Quality
• *****includes citing of sources
• Participation (in groups and individually)
• Presentation
• Grading Rubric

Objective:
Use Photoshop to create a caricature of YOU

Process:
Take a high quality photograph of YOU
Import the photo into Photoshop
Set up letter size page
Liquify the photograph
Create a caricature of you