Teaching Samples
& Activites.
Type Faces - Assignment
Archimbaldo, an Italian 16th-century painter, was noted for creating faces comprised of vegetables. In a similar vein, wouldn't it be fun to create your face comprised of letter forms?
This project was inspired by designer Alan Butella of Circle C Studio in Chicago. He created a wonderful book of type figures and patterns, titled “Lost and found gures”.
Assignment:
Take a picture of YOU. Using letters, numbers, punctuation,
bullets and special characters, recreate yourself using Adobe Illustrator.
Storytelling for Designers - Lecture
Online visuals to accompany Story Telling for Designers Lecture. In this unit, we cover creative writing, technical writing, and script writing. Click the images for link.
Student Portfolio Night
Featuring High School Student's work from the Sioux City Community Schools, and Career Academy.
“The purpose of this college course is to introduce high school students to the field of graphic design and digital imaging,” says Jamie Bell, WITCC Graphic Design Instructor at the Sioux City Career Academy. “The students are exposed to specialized software used in the field and they are given the opportunity to test their skills and creativity.”
The graphic design courses are one out of 30 different college classes offered by WITCC at the Sioux City Career Academy. In 2018, over 3,000 SCCS students enrolled in WITCC classes, earning over 12,000 college credits at no cost to the student.
With the pandemic, we were unable to participate for the last few semesters.
Layer Masks - Assignment
Layer masking is a nondestructive way to hide parts of an image or layer without erasing them. They're great for making image composites, modifying background colors, removing or cutting out objects, and targeting your edits so they affect only certain areas, rather than the entire layer.
Assignment:
Using Adobe Photoshop create a composition using at least 3 separate images using layer masks.
Building a brand via social media
Products are never just products, right?
Coca-Cola is more than a soda. Starbucks is more than a coffee. Ray-Ban is more than a pair of sunglasses.
Glossier is more than a tube of concealer.
Interacting with these products provide experiences, and we buy them with that experience in mind. Better yet,
the companies that create and market them know exactly the experience they want you to have when you make
(or consider) a purchase. That’s why they create a brand.
From the language in their Instagram caption to the color palette on their latest billboard to the material used
in their packaging, companies who create strong brands know that their brand needs to live everywhere. They
know their names extend far beyond the label.
Assignment:
This one part of a larger project. Building and defining a brand and product for that brand. This is an online "infomercial" shot and produced by the student.