Illustrator Files:
pattern.ai
face.ai
magiceye.ai
gradient.ai
aligning.ai
sheer.ai
transform.ai
littleguy.ai
typetools.ai
points.ai
pentool.ai
compound.ai
pentool2.ai
golden rectangle for class
The pen tool and the direct selection tool- a field guide
Exercises (in class)
grid_exercise.ai
unity.ai
facial proportions, and the golden section
Design Files (files I show to you in class)
Conceptual Elements (and a smaller
version)
Planes
Relational Elements
Relationship between forms
Grid structures
Super units.
Definitions of Basic Design Terms
Pythagoras and the Golden Section -
how Pythagoras figured it out
The Fibonacci number sequence applied to a rectangle.
How to Draw the Golden Section Rectangle (and
the ellipse, and the isosceles triangle that fits inside)
Pythagoras'
Lute (or
the Lute of Pythagoras)
How to draw a Root 2 Rectangle , 2 ways
Examples of geometric design (folder)
Typography parts of
a font (Illustrator file)
Type Style Examples (html
page)
The 7 Deadly Sins of Type
Color
Schemes (GIF)
Jasper Johns "Afterimage
Experiment"
Adobe Illustrator Tips
Lecture notes
notes #1 -
pos/neg space, unit forms, super-unit forms,repetition,
symmetry
notes #2 - 3 types of comps, formal
comps, grids
notes #3 - informal comps, illusion
of 3-d, unity, balance
Assignment Sheets
Assignment 1- the Masks
Assignment 2- Patterns
Assignment 3- Lines
Assignment 4-Type as Shapes
Quiz Review Sheets
quiz #1
quiz #2
*All Files are in PDF format unless otherwise noted.
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