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A Personal Logo. Grade 10 Visual Arts Portfolio and Logo Design. Specifications:. Create a design that represents your identity. This design is to be placed on a Bristol board sized portfolio and on the cover of your VRJ.
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A Personal Logo Grade 10 Visual Arts Portfolio and Logo Design
Specifications: • Create a design that represents your identity. • This design is to be placed on a Bristol board sized portfolio and on the cover of your VRJ. • Create a Tag for your Portfolio and a Logo for the cover of your VRJ • Media will be your choice (dry media).
Research: • Collect images from various graphic artists, graffiti, logos, monograms, and/or interesting typography. • You must also have at least 4 thumbnails of interesting text-based images.
A special symbol that is associated with the product. Logos take three forms: Monograms (KFC) Visual symbols (Toucan Sam) Abstract symbols (Nike “swoosh”) Logo or Trademarks
Brand Name • A word or group of words that a business uses to distinguish its products. • Brand names should be distinctive, easy to remember, say something about the product, and communicate a positive image.
Infamous Catalogue Promoting a lifestyle Controversy = more attractive Abercrombie & Fitch
Brand names • Sports wear logos • Action, college look, athlete, mountain, elegant (airline)…
Monograms • Calvin Klein monogram
Logos- Visual Symbol • Ambulance • From Biblical story
Logos- Visual Symbol • Ambulance • From Biblical story
Award Winning Logos • Michael Jordan Logo. • Used by Nike to sell sports equipment. • Celebrity endorsement. • Called a “property”.
Car Logo – Abstract Symbol • Pick up some references to speed. • Could there be other references? • Lifestyle; Stability; Propeller; Cultural references… Definition from www.artlex.com
Experimentation and Preliminary sketches: • Experiment with a variety of dry media, stencils, and cut outs. • Create at least 10 thumbnail sketches of possible ideas for your design. • Make sure to include some tags as well as logos.
Award Winning Logos • Acme Locksmith. • The shape of the ‘a’ evokes a combination lock.
Prototype: • Select your three strongest ideas and develop them further (add or erase elements). • With your partner or group, decide on a final design. • Improve your design and create a final drawing of your personal logo. • You may use various types of paper, pastel, pencil crayon and/or pencil.
Subway Logos • Notice how the text reflects the service performed.
Award Winning Logos • Coca Cola Christmas 1938 Spread. • Developed this look • Red, white… • Appeal to nostalgia and lifestyle.
Award Winning Logos • Star Semen. • Angus livestock breeding.
Presentation: • You then create the design on the front flap of your portfolio. • You may use construction paper to cut out your design and adhere it to your portfolio, pastel, oil pastel or a variety of other media.
Presentation: • Also consider trimming the front flap of your portfolio in order to ensure easy access. • You must also create a logo design for the cover of your Visual Resource Journal using oil pastels.
Text Based Logo • Aqua natural • Elegance and bottled water. • Target a lifestyle.
Award Winning Logos • Catholic Church’s Archdiocesan Youth Commission, 1978. • The power of suggestion. • Actually in use until deciphered. • Before widespread allegations of sexual abuse.
Peer Review and Reflection • You will then be given the opportunity to look at and make assessments for learning. • Switch your portfolio with a colleague and make constructive comments for improvement • Examples: • things you would add, change, delete, do differently • things you really like, want to see more of, and wonder about.
Graffiti • Downtown Atlanta from Blue Distortion • “the illegal or unauthorized defacing of a building, wall or other edifice or object by painting or otherwise marking it with words, pictures or symbols.” www.nationaltcc.org/tcc Definition from www.artlex.com
Graffiti • Graffiti Boy- Gas Town, Vancouver Photo by A. Romon
"...any spontaneous or unauthorized writing or drawing on walls, vehicles, and other public places. It is typically obscene or political in character, but a great deal of humor and wisdom can also be found." (Crystal 181)www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/language/slang.htm • Graffiti alley - Toronto
“Tame”, Graffiti from Queen St. Toronto Image from http://krlphotography.typepad.com/photos/architecture/graffiti3.html
Graffiti • Blended lettering – value and form Definition from www.artlex.com
Graffiti • Door, Downtown Toronto • The words or pictures scrawled or scratched in public places, particularly on walls - could be political messages, personal notes, advertising, curses amongst others. • myweb.tiscali.co.uk/temetfutue/glossary/glossaryG.htm Definition from www.artlex.com
Graffiti • Anti-Graffiti poster • Bexley Definition from www.artlex.com
Graffiti • Red Graffiti • http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1218903/2/istockphoto_1218903_red_graffiti.jpg
Graffiti • Lazer Graffiti • Graffiti Research Lab in Holland
Crack is Whack – Harlem, NYC • Keith Haring
Queen St. West (near Bathurst) • Entrance to Graffiti ally
Queen St. West (near Bathurst) • Blending, sharp lines, form
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