Digital Foundations
Student Works

Project 1: Perfect Day

For this project you will be designing a poster describing a perfect day in your life using only geometric shapes and type. Pick a day that has some sort of significance and then answer the following questions through text: who, what, when, where and why. For this project you want to focus on how your choice of color, type and shape communicate the emotion of the day.

Formal Focus: Shape, Color and Balance
Requirements: 1 -- 13x19 Color Print trimmed, Illustrator AI file and JPEG uploaded to Blackboard

Project 2: I am Here

For this project you will be designing a map of Skidmore College. You will start by outlining all of the spaces and thoroughfares with the pen tool using either the three dimensional map or the aerial map. Once you have established the physical geography you can add in the mental geography that makes your map a personal map. Use type and illustrations to create a map that charts the spaces, people or paths that are unique to you. For this project you want to focus on how your choice of illustration style, line, pattern and texture describe your journey through Skidmore.

For this project you will be designing a printed piece introducing a visitor to your vision of Skidmore College using the map you created for the last project. You will start by choosing colors, type and shapes that you want to use throughout the brochure. Once you have established the style guidelines you will create the content for the printed piece. For this project you want to focus on how you use grids to create a continuous experience.

Formal Focus: Form, Contrast, Typography
Resources: Aerial Map, 3D Map
Requirements: 1 -- printed and folded book, Illustrator AI file and JPEG uploaded to Blackboard

Project 3: Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Object

For this project you will be photographing an object multiple ways (at least thirteen) and arranging the photographs in a grid structure. It is important that you pick an object that is important in some way and is visually interesting. Think about the relationship of figure and ground when you compose your images. Think about rhythm and balance when you arrange your photographs in a grid.

Formal Focus: Movement, Closure, Tone
Requirements: 1 -- 13x19 Color Print trimmed @300ppi, Photoshop PSD file and JPEG uploaded to Blackboard

Project 4: Timescape

For this project you will be photographing a landscape for one hour. You will take at least one image a minute resulting in at least 60 images. In Photoshop you will combine all the images in one image creating a landscape that is a montage of multiple times. Think about the relationship of the different temporal elements in your image. Choose a time and a landscape that will provide images that are interesting in their juxtaposition or bring your own subjects into an interesting space. Consider whether there are multiple instances of one subject or object.

Formal Focus: Space, Symmetry/Asymmetry, Scale
Requirements: 1 -- 13x19 Color Print trimmed @300ppi, Photoshop PSD file and JPEG uploaded to Blackboard

Project 5: Information Across Time

For this project you will be creating an animated infographic based on work by students in the Remote Sensing geosciences course. You will create images in either Illustrator or Photoshop that tell the story presented by the data. You will bring these images into Aftereffects and use simple animation and keyframing to create a narrative through time. For this project you want to focus on how your choice of illustration or photography, type and proportion create a story that communicates an idea through time.

Formal Focus: Point & Line, Tension, Proportion
Requirements: 1 -- 30-60 second, 23.976fps, 1080p .mov uploaded to Vimeo, .mov file uploaded to Blackboard

Project 6: Serial

For this project you will be examining a rule that you write through a series of images created in any of the software we worked with. Your starting point will be a one sentence rule that begins with I (I see shapes everywhere, I am a double). Using this rule you will create a series of illustrations or photographs organized into a book or your own short film with a book component. As you start to create this project consider carefully the way that your idea will develop over time. Think about the relationships between the images and how different juxtapositions create meaning.

Formal Focus: Texture & Pattern, Frame, Grid
Requirements: 1 printed and bound book, 2-3 photograph from different angles, and zipped files uploaded to Blackboard